Former Washington General Manager Charley Casserly was a guest on “The Al Galdi Podcast” Wednesday, celebrating the 30-Year Anniversary of Washington’s last NFL championship.
Washington fans ages 30 and younger simply have difficulty realizing just how strong this Washington Football Team franchise was in the Joe Gibbs era (1981-1992). They were the Washington Redskins in those days. 10 of those years Washington won at least 10 games. eight of those years Washington was in the playoffs. Washington played in five NFC Championship games.
Is this sinking in for you, yet? There were four NFC Championships and thus four Super Bowl games and three Super Bowl Championships. Yes, I am actually describing the same NFL franchise.
Al Galdi celebrated the 30-year anniversary of the last Washington Super Bowl championship (Super Bowl XXVI) over the Buffalo Bills.
Galdi and Casserly provided numerous nuggets of fascinating info/data of that dominant Washington team. Space only permits I mention a few. Galdi did a splendid job giving tribute to the 1991 Redskins.
“It was a dominant team. We had three shutouts, said Casserly. “When USA TODAY ranked the 49 Super Bowl champs a few years ago, we were ranked number 1.”
“Mark Rypien threw 421 passes and he was sacked seven times. That is one sack for every 60 passes for a non-mobile quarterback,” emphasized Casserly.
“The last preseason game that year we played Buffalo and we stunk. It was tense on the plane ride home. There was an uncertainty of where we were at that time.”
“There was a famous article in the Washingtonian saying that perhaps we had gotten too soft as a team. Perhaps we had too many Christians on the team. Which was absurd and certainly proven that way.”
Once the season started “it kept getting better and better. It just flowed then through the whole year. You get on a roll, and everything is going right, and that is what happened.”
Galdi interjected, “It was incredible. The 1991 team had a regular-season point differential of +261, which is just absurd.”
