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Green Tackle On Dorsett Best Play Ever?

March without a bracket is like peanut butter with jelly. It’s just plain wrong. So to continue to hype the season of brackets, NFL.com is releasing its own version featuring the top 64 plays in league history.

Each game literally has hundreds of plays and you can expect to see a handful of spectacular moments sprinkled throughout every contest.

Maybe its a 100 yard kick return or a quarterback sprinting past hopeless defenders to the end zone (think Robert Griffin III‘s 76 yard scamper as proof of a jaw-dropping moment).

To be one of the 64 greatest plays all-time in the NFL is a special honor in itself and with 80 years of memorable plays to choose from, it’s a given that at least one play will be included in the bracket.

Find out which Redskins play made the cut here:

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Top 32 Draft Classes: Number One Seeds

On Sunday night, we launched a bracket style vote on Facebook for you, the fan, to decide your favorite Redskins draft class of all-time. We seeded each draft class since 1980 (#1-8), divided them into four brackets, and are leaving the rest up to you! And just for participating, we’re selecting one grand prize winner at random to receive a Robert Griffin III autographed jersey!

Of course, we’ll have other prizes along the way at the culmination of each round.

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Is HOFer Green Still NFL’s Fastest Man?

In case you have yet to hear, Northern Iowa wide receiver Terrell Sinkfield is the talk of the town. The small-school receiver from Northern Iowa reportedly ran the 40-yard dash in 4.19 seconds at a pro day held Monday at the University of Minnesota. Read the full story here.

According to the article, Sinkfield, a 6-1 192 pound wideout, was clocked at a blazing 4.27 seconds on his first attempt. His second attempt was faster at 4.19 and, in an attempt to try and prove doubters wrong, ran again but “reportedly stumbled on the third attempt” running a 4.44.

Long story short, the man can run, averaging a 4.3 second 40-yard dash in three attempts. Here’s the video of the reported 4.19 40-yard dash attempt.

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Redskins Historian: Two Legends Honored

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By Mike Richman
The Redskins Historian

(Click here for more about the Redskins and Darrell Green and Art Monk’s Hall Of Fame induction ceremonies)

On Aug. 2, 2008, two legends from the Redskins’ glory period of the 1980s and early 90s, Darrell Green and Art Monk, were inducted into the Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
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Olympics Memories With Darrell Green

With the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics set for tonight in London, I thought it’d be a good opportunity to bring these items out of the Redskins vault.

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Darrell Green’s Son Gives NFL A Shot

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For Redskins fans looking for added incentive to catch the Nov. 4 game against the Carolina Panthers, you might just be in luck.

That’s because an all-time great Redskins’ son could be suited up for the opposing team.

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10 For 80: Bobby Beathard

Note: The Redskins Blog will be profiling several former players, coaches and team officials eligible to be voted by you, the fans, in this year’s Redskins 80th Anniversary celebration. To vote for Bobby Beathard or your 10 other all-timers to join the already-chosen list of the 70 Greatest Redskins, go to http://www.redskins80th.com/

Who could’ve guessed a man with a surfer-boy image would help lead the Redskins to their most successful period in franchise history?

Former Redskins’ general manager Bobby Beathard was one of the chief architects of the Redskins’ three Super Bowl-winning teams of the 1980s and early 1990s.

His drafting prowess — which included the likes of Art Monk, Russ Grimm and Darrell Green — was second to none, including the Redskins’ 1981 draft class that is regarded as one of the greatest ever.

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Darrell Green To D.C. Sports Hall Of Fame

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For his magnificent feats on the football gridiron, Redskins great Darrell Green has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall Of Fame, the College Football Hall Of Fame, the NCAA Division II Hall Of Fame, the Texas Sports Hall Of Fame, the Lone Star Conference Hall Of Honor, and the Javelina Hall Of Fame.

But up until now, one of the greatest athletes to ever take the field in Washington was glaringly omitted from the city’s hall of fame.

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Orakpo Would Re-Draft Higher, Other Links

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On the eve of another pivotal draft for the Redskins, NFL.com has turned a critical eye to the draft classes of the last five years.  Breaking down each year’s Top-10 draft picks, the various writers “re-drafted” the players based on what we know now.

Hindsight is 20/20, after all.

Redskins fans should take comfort in the fact that, given the prospects available, the team made good decisions, selecting quality players to fill areas of need.  Earlier this month I posted on the 2007 draft, and how the Redskins rightfully selected LaRon Landry, independent of the fact that he’s no longer with the team.

It turns out that the Redskins actually got a steal in 2009, as Brian Orakpo should have gone No. 3 overall to the Kansas City Chiefs.  NFL.com’s Jason Smith likes the development of defensive end Tyson Jackson, but Orakpo’s résumé is undeniably better.

And so are his Geico commercials:

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Redskins Hoops Action: Just The Dunks

Last Friday was the celebrity charity basketball game that pitted the Redskins against their geographical Baltimore Ravens rivals.  What amazed most about the game is how much raw athleticism the players had to perform ably in two sports.

I wouldn’t bet on them in a high-stakes ping pong tournament, but there was a comfort level on the court that led to good-natured showboating and high-flying slam dunks.

The pictures from the event were posted on Golden Era Entertainment’s Facebook page mid-week, but with jersey-mania, it was worth waiting until Friday.

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