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On Sundays, the Griffins would all pile into the parents’ bed — “Everyone had their assigned spot on the bed,” Rodney Griffin said — to watch football on the only working TV in the house. They were all Saints fans, of course, but in those days the Saints were so bad, everyone had a secondary team they rooted for.

Irene Griffin’s team was the Redskins.

“There was something about the way they were called the ‘Over the Hill Gang’ that I liked,” she said.

This March, when the Redskins traded four draft picks to the St. Louis Rams for the rights to the No. 2 overall pick in the April draft — with the intent of picking Robert Griffin III — Shane Griffin called his mom and said, “Guess who might get drafted by your team?”

“She said, ‘I remember when Vince Lombardi coached that team,’ ” Shane Griffin said. “And I said, ‘Vince Lombardi? He never coached the Redskins.’ So I Googled it, and sure enough the last year he coached was with the Redskins.”