Make no mistake, I am a die-hard RedskinsÆfan. The first quarterback I cheeredùand booedùwas a fellow by the name of Norm Snead, the player traded to the Philadelphia Eagles for the beloved Sonny Jurgensen in 1964.
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I was elated when Vice Lombardi came to Washington and devastated when he died after just one season in the big chair. I watched as George Allen made the franchise a winner and saw Joe Gibbs make a winner a champion.
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So yeah, IÆve got a RedskinsÆpedigree.
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But I also lived in Seattle in the late 1970s and early 1980s and watched a moribund, rag-tag team of castoffs try to reach respectability behind a short, quick-footed lefty quarterback from Cal Poly Pamona.
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His name was Jim Zorn.
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He led ...
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