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Snow At Redskins Park

Those of you who don’t live in the greater D.C. metro area may have gathered that we had a little snow around here. (I’m assuming that those of you who do live in the area noticed.) Well, one of my favorite pastimes on snowy days around here is watching the local news frantically cover the snowstorm.

There’s not really much for them to say: it snowed. Driving is dumb. People are digging out. And yet they say it over and over and over again, and even send people out into the snow for the sole purposes of saying, “Yep, it snowed.” And I sit, and I watch them, and I rhetorically ask exactly what is gained by sending reporters outside, and then I feel smug.

Today I got my karmic reward for mocking those people: Larry Michael suggested that I go out with a Redskins Broadcast Network camera and “cover” the snow at Redskins Park. So here I am, pointing out that it snowed, that driving was difficult, and that the hard-working grounds crew at Redskins Park is digging out. So much for feeling smug.

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If you’re in the area and completely fascinated, you can see a bit more of this on Redskins Nation tonight on Comcast SportsNet at 6:00 and 10:30.

Thanks to Jordan Beane of RBN for camerawork, production, and most of the good ideas in this thing. Read more »

The Final Parts Of The Legacy

The last two segments of Redskins Broacast Network’s excellent “The Legacy” video.

Part four, featuring George Allen, Ken Houston, Joe Gibbs, and John Riggins:

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After the jump, part five, featuring the most recent Redskins Hall of Famers (although just for the moment, I hope): Darrell Green and Art Monk. Read more »

More Legacy From Redskins Broadcast Network

A number of people emailed to let me know that they enjoyed my posting of the first segment of RBN’s “The Legacy” documentary, and wondering if I would put up future segments. To which I say “Sure, why not.”

Here’s part two, which pairs controversial owner George Preston Marshall with Bobby Mitchell, the first African American player on the Redskins. Part three, Sam Huff and Charley Taylor, is after the jump, and you can find all the segments in one place at the dedicated Legacy page on Redskins.com.

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Redskins Broadcast Network: The Legacy

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I know there are a lot of people reading this who aren’t in the D.C. area, or who don’t know when and where to find the Redskins Broadcast Network programs that are produced here at Redskins Park. For example: this week on Redskins Nation the RBN documentary “The Legacy” is being aired in segments, but that doesn’t do some of you much good.

So we’re posting it on the web as well. You can see the first segment — a look at Sammy Baugh and Sonny Jurgensen — above, and one segment a day will be added to this page at Redskins.com.

Now, you may be asking, what is “The Legacy”?

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Thursday, October 1: Todd Yoder Loves Small Furry Mammals

One of Larry Weisman’s many responsibilities since joining the Redskins (in addition to his articles for Redskins.com and his blog at Redskins Rule) is co-hosting The Jim Zorn Show alongside Dan Hellie. The show, which airs in the DC area at 7:30 Saturday nights on NBC-4, is taped earlier in the week, which is how Weisman came to mention to me yesterday that Todd Yoder names some of the Redskins plays.

Here’s the snippet, from this upcoming Saturday’s show.

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And, for those of you who are terrified of moving pictures, here’s what Zorn has to say when Hellie asks if he has any interesting tidbits about Yoder: “About Todd? Well, he would be our resident linguist. I would have to add [Chris] Cooley to this, because they’re kind of partners in crime. But Todd is very good about creating words for formations, blocking schemes. Like, weasel, squirrel, things like that. So we have some of that on our football team just based on what Todd Yoder has to say about it.”

So I talked to Yoder yesterday about his role as developer of team nomenclature, and about facing his former team. Read more »

Friday, September 18: Mike Sellers Inspires Fear In Malcolm Kelly

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Mike Sellers is a big dude, bigger even than his listed 6-foot-3, 273 pounds. Part of this is because, well, he’s enormous; another part is probably his elaborate goatee; and the final part is his outsized personality. Which, in fact, is often misunderstood.

In his tongue-in-cheek guide to football fandom, author Michael Tunison classifies Sellers using words like snarling, intimidating, naturally terrifying, and oozing quiet intensity [while] coated in an enemy’s blood, and all of that — with the possible exception of the blood coating — is an easy conclusion to reach. That’s why Sellers now has his own segment on NBC-4′s Inside The Redskins show Saturday mornings: not to intimidate and terrify, but, Sellers explains, “For me to be me. I get to let people know who I am and how I am and the type of dude I am on this team.” Read more »

Inside Redskins Broadcast Network: Redskins Late Night Explained

If it’s Tuesday, it means that I’m heading out to the taping of Redskins Late Night at the Gordon Biersch restaurant in Tysons Corner. Tonight’s guest is Rocky McIntosh, and anyone in the area should feel free to drop on by.

I’ve been mentioning this just about every week, but I’m beginning to gather that not everyone automatically knows exactly what I’m talking about. So I went to Megan Imbert, who’s producing the show for the Redskins Broadcast Network, and she gave me lots more specifics.

True to its name, Redskins Late Night airs late at night, specifcally on Saturdays — or, more accurately, early on Sunday mornings. Basically it’s at 1:30 a.m. on NBC-4, shortly after Saturday Night Live. And it’s a little different from most of the other RBN programming. Read more »

The Name-My-Segment Poll Lumbers On

Yes, as you might’ve seen on today’s Redskins Nation, Larry Michael is determined to keep this name-my-segment thing going a little bit longer, in the desperate hope that Terls Gone Wild will somehow overcome a seemingly-insurmountable deficit. Personally, I think that the left-field late-in-the-game suggestion of “Terl Interrupted” more accurately describes my role on the show, but whatever.

(Also, please note: the vote is to name my twice-weekly segment on the show, not to rename the blog. Just so that’s clear.)

So go ahead and vote, just not for Terls Gone Wild. One way or another, this whole thing ends Friday.

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Tuesday, September 1: Former Skins Fan Roger Goodell On Redskins Nation

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is in Redskins Park today. He addressed the team — which presumably made it a fairly exciting birthday for Clinton Portis — and, afterward, taped an appearance for this evening’s Redskins Nation, airing on Comcast SportsNet at 6:00 and 10:30, which presumably made a fairly exciting birthday for host Larry Michael as well.

(I was able to meet Commissioner Goodell very briefly, and my impressions are pretty straightforward: very charismatic guy, as you’d expect, with an unbelievably firm handshake. In fact, his handshake teetered just on the border of competitively firm. I found Peter King’s description of Adrian Peterson’s handshake unspeakably boring, so I will go no further on this subject, but if Goodell goes to Vikings camp and shakes Peterson’s hand, I imagine the resulting pressure would create a small black hole into which the state of Minnesota would vanish. Not Brett Favre, though; he’d somehow survive to dominate yet another offseason.)

Anyhow, Michael’s interview of Goodell covers much of what you’d expect: the upcoming season, the NFL’s Twitter policy, the reports local TV blackouts in more markets this year, and the ongoing labor negotiations.

Oh, and the fact that the commissioner used to be a Redskins fan.
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Your Redskins TV This Weekend, Plus A Poll

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Those of you in the DMV know you know you can find the Redskins playing the Steelers on TV Saturday night — in HD on Comcast SportsNet and in glorious standard definition on NBC-4! — but there’s plenty of other Redskins programming as well, and it starts bright and early on Saturday morning. (UPDATE: If you’re out-of-market, it looks like tomorrow night’s game will be airing live on NFL Network. Doesn’t help you with the rest of this programming, but at least you can see the game.)

Watch this weekend’s Redskins Broadcast Net trailer above or see the whole schedule after the jump. Also, after the jump, the poll to vote on the name of my segment on Redskins Nation on Comcast SportsNet. Read more »