Why are YOU a Redskins fan?
 

Figured we could start a cool thread, lets be real we are all true fans of this team that hasn't been good in YEARS so what made you a skins fan?

I've been a Diehard skins fan since age 6, ('91) I can remember my mom going and getting me a skins jacket after the super bowl and growing up with Dallas fans in my family only made me an even bigger fan. Originally from the Gulf Coast it was either Saints or Cowboys so of course I wasn't interested LOL. Some folks were Packers fans for Favre but I stayed loyal to my skins. If you gave me a dollar for every time I have been asked "Why the Redskins" I'd be rich. Haven't missed a game in probably 10 years, I just treat this team like a family member. I'm so loyal that I have turned down Xmas gifts of other NFL teams apparel and I had the chance to walk through the Cowboys stadium and Locker room about 8 years ago or so with my now Father In Law ONLY if I didn't wear any skins gear, so I said NO THANKS! I've been to 2 Redskins games (@TB) and @N.O Both were when I was really young.. Had the chance at Skins- Cowboys Tix this year but decided not too. Anyways Tell your stories

Why the Skins?

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10th grade (2005...rogers/campbell rookie year, moss's first year) I tore my acl, my mcl, and my medial meniscus. I had a shitty recovery and had nothing to do on the weekends so I picked up watching football. I just started watching every redskins game, and got hooked. After that I just learned to love the game of football, everything about it from the gameplay to coaching to the business side of things; and for better or for worse (unfortunately my case) stayed a loyal/die hard redskins fan.

I never for one second have second guessed my loyalty for the skins for no apparent reason.
I probably should get my brain checked.
Getting upset year after year isn't a healthy way of living.

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[quote=skinster;862542]10th grade (2005...rogers/campbell rookie year, moss's first year) I tore my acl, my mcl, and my medial meniscus. I had a shitty recovery and had nothing to do on the weekends so I picked up watching football. I just started watching every redskins game, and got hooked. After that I just learned to love the game of football, everything about it from the gameplay to coaching to the business side of things; and for better or for worse (unfortunately my case) stayed a loyal/die hard redskins fan.

I never for one second have second guessed my loyalty for the skins for no apparent reason.
I probably should get my brain checked.
Getting upset year after year isn't a healthy way of living.[/quote]



Lol man we all ask ourselves that Q.. One day it will pay off I HOPE.
Thats a ROUGH injury what position?

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Hometown team. My whole family has been fans, since... As long as I can remember. They're a football family. When the Skins used to play the Cowboys on Thanksgiving we'd all huddle around the TV and cheer like crazy.

I really got into the Skins right around 2005, when I started college. When I was in high school, I'd watch here and there but it wasn't an every Sunday thing. But right around 2007-2008 I started watching every Sunday. I have no idea what possessed me to start following the Skins so closely but I have ever since.

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Ah, I always considered myself a fan, but didn't really start watching until I moved back into the the DC suburbs. It took me a while to figure out FOX had the games(I was a kid). Oh, I still remember Frerotte's headbutt, Hostetler, and Trent Green. Somehow, that 2000 loss also sticks in my mind. I took a hiatus from football after Spurrier, since that's when my Yu-gi-oh fandom dominated my time from 2004-2008.


I found the Norv Turner show funny.

And also, my renewal started on Week 4 in 2008 against those Cowboys. One of the few things I'll thank JC for.


I probably followed them since they were the local team. My family never cared about football. My dad was dead and my mom was an immigrant from the 80s

I definitely remember Henry Ellard and Terry Allen playing, so I must have started my first rabid binge in '97

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Family thing as well. I'm all DC-everything sports wise, and football wasn't even my first love. Basketball came first, then football, then hockey, and finally baseball. But yeah anyways my dad is a Redskins fan, or should I say was, considering he watches Nascar more than the Redskins nowadays, but way back right about 2000 (12 years old) was the time I started understanding the game, and I claimed the Redskins until about 2004, and then 2004 I just got really into it for some reason and started watching every Sunday. Nowadays the only reason I miss a game is if I have to work, which has happened multiple times this season but won't be happening anymore with my new job.

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The loss to TB still HURTS bad! I really thought we were going to win the SB that year

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[quote=skinsfaninok;862544]Lol man we all ask ourselves that Q.. One day it will pay off I HOPE.
Thats a ROUGH injury what position?[/quote]

Lol, don't jump to conclusions too fast. Sweeper. The day I got bumped up to varsity it happened, and then we went to go on to win states. Haven't played soccer since.

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[quote=mooby;862549]Family thing as well. I'm all DC-everything sports wise, and football wasn't even my first love. Basketball came first, then football, then hockey, and finally baseball. But yeah anyways my dad is a Redskins fan, or should I say was, considering he watches Nascar more than the Redskins nowadays, but way back right about 2000 (12 years old) was the time I started understanding the game, and I claimed the Redskins until about 2004, and then 2004 I just got really into it for some reason and started watching every Sunday. Nowadays the only reason I miss a game is if I have to work, which has happened multiple times this season but won't be happening anymore with my new job.[/quote]


I work 4 am - 12 Pm just so I never miss a game so I feel ya

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My brother and his friends were, and I wanted to be like him. First game I saw was the NFC championship against the Cowboys where RFK was rockin. Though actually I listened to it on the radio, didn't watch it on tv

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[quote=SmootSmack;862560]My brother and his friends were, and I wanted to be like him. First game I saw was the NFC championship against the Cowboys where RFK was rockin. Though actually I listened to it on the radio, didn't watch it on tv[/quote]


Is he still a fan? LMAO

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Of course, not as fanatical though. New priorities in life

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I had been a fan as a kid back in 91 when my parents bought me a Mark Rypien Halloween uniform. Saw the Redskins win the Super Bowl and followed them loosely seeing as how I was 6 and 7 years old. Went through a baseball and basketball phase during the 90's then decided to play football in 9th grade and reconnected with the sport. Been a die hard ever since.

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I'm such a homer.

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[quote=Dirtbag59;862563]I had been a fan as a kid back in 91 when my parents bought me a Mark Rypien Halloween uniform. Saw the Redskins win the Super Bowl and followed them loosely seeing as how I was 6 and 7 years old. Went through a baseball and basketball phase during the 90's then decided to play football in 9th grade and reconnected with the sport. Been a die hard ever since.[/quote]

Dude I had the same Uniform! LOL No name on the back for mine though but helmet and pants ;)

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I came to the states in 1990 when I was 11 yrs. old and learned about football by watching the Skins. I believe the year before they won the SB Mark Rypien visited my school and I got to met him, he was very cool to all of us.

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[quote=Ruhskins;862566]I came to the states in 1990 when I was 11 yrs. old and learned about football by watching the Skins. I believe the year before they won the SB Mark Rypien visited my school and I got to met him, he was very cool to all of us.[/quote]

where u from?

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[quote=skinsfaninok;862565]Dude I had the same Uniform! LOL No name on the back for mine though but helmet and pants ;)[/quote]

Lol, I was just looking for a picture of so people would have an idea what the hell I'm talking about. Did you have the helmet that was basically a kickers facemask with two bars?

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LMAO yes I did! WOW My bro had a Dolphins one the same year

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I'll have to find a pic

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[quote=skinsfaninok;862569]LMAO yes I did! WOW My bro had a Dolphins one the same year[/quote]

Oh man, good times.

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[quote=skinsfaninok;862567]where u from?[/quote]

I'm originally from Ecuador.

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Because I have a mental illness

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[quote=Ruhskins;862573]I'm originally from Ecuador.[/quote]

And you have such impeccable spelling? Kudos to you sir.

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[quote=mooby;862576]And you have such impeccable spelling? Kudos to you sir.[/quote]

Well after living here for 21 years her I would hope so. LOL! Actually at this point my Spanish grammar and spelling is probably not the best.

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[quote=mooby;862576]And you have such impeccable spelling? Kudos to you sir.[/quote]

He came here pretty young, so it would not have been as difficult for him compared to an adult Ecuadorian.

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[quote=Ruhskins;862573]I'm originally from Ecuador.[/quote]


nice

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I grew up in Rockville rooting for the Redskins, have been a LOYAL Redskins fan since 1971, I might have missed a total of 3 games since then, even though I've lived in the SF Bay area since 1982. I watch every minute of every game win or lose, I will love this team till death. I've been through the good times, bad times, good times and bad times again. I have faith that we will see good times soon and look forwards to those days. I appreciate what Jack Kent Cooke, Joe Gibbs and Bobby Beathard gave us in the 80's and early 90's and hold that in memory that we will see those years again which keeps me going.

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i'm from new england, have no connection to the Skins or VA....but i've always hated the Cowboys and one sweet night in '05 when Brunell through those bombs to Moss, i said, "i like this team!", I also like the overall tradition of the Skins. only thing that sucks, is being surrounded by loud mouth Pats fans..... not so fun

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My fathers heathen cowboys season ticket holder mother remarried an attorney on Capital Hill and moved the old man to Maryland where he became a Redskins fan as a child. I followed suit at age 8 when John Elway started that Super Bowl off with a TD and then the mighty Doug Williams proceeded to mop the floor with Elway for the next 59 minutes and 30 seconds. I'm happy to say that my extended family still owns a Box at Cowboys stadium and I have never and will never watch a game from their seats. Cowboys can suck it.

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I grew up in a household full of Redskin fans so it's natural that I became one. I've been watching the Redskins play since 1976 or 1977 so I've been a fan since the George Allen era all the way through the glory years of Gibbs I up until now. I'll always be a fan.

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Gary Clark mainly, and The Posse as a whole are my first memories of being a Redskins fan. Gary Clark is still one of my favorite football players of all times.

A non-redskin who I use to love was Sterling Sharpe, I wish he never had that neck injury.

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Moved to the DC area when I was 6 in 1969 (Is that right CRed? - I was pretty sure I went to 1st grade in Camp Springs). The first football game I remember was the 1972 Super Bowl with Miami. Grew up in a house where we always rooted for the Skins and sort of followed them. My bedroom wall had pictures of all the 1970's guys that I would cut out of the Newspaper (the Washington Star and the Post) - Dave Butz, Mike Thomas, Hanburger, Jake Scott, Joe Lavender, Ken Houston. Just naming them all brings back warm memories. Larry Brown, Billy Kilmer, Rusty Tilman, Pete Wysocki (what a great name!), Mark Mosely, Brad Dusek ....

When I went to college, Joe Gibbs came to town and throughout my college and law school days they were a team that was easy to root for when out with my friends.

The last 20 years or so have been tough but I guess I just can't remember a time when I didn't root for the Skins.

BTW - good stories one and all.

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Live in CT. My whole family were Giants fans.....so I was leaning towards liking them.... Then diesel had "the run" against the phins and I never looked back..... I was 5....I just don't like this team.... Im obsessed.

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Grew up in DC then Arlington in the late 70's. I used to go to Dulles when the team's plane would come in. Watched George Micheal every night and most Sundays would turn off the sound and listen to Frank, Sonny and Sam (before senility kicked in). Went to four Super Bowl parades (including the Raiders loss where we had a bigger turnout than the winning Raiders). I've always loved football even though my father never watched and my mother really loved the team but didn't understand football. The whole city loved the team. When I came to NC the biggest culture shock was the lack of NFL fanaticism in general. Here it's ACC basketball and NASCAR (though the Hurricanes are becoming pretty popular). I cried when Diesel broke his infamous dive in SB XVII and when JKC and ST died. To me, the Redskins are family. I can point out their horrendous mistakes and cuss them, but I'll punch anyone else who does (unless another Skin family member of course). And just like my sisters, no mater how screwed up they become, I'm there. I've missed two games since I was seven years old and been to dozens though mostly at other team's stadiums.

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Because my parents are JERKS!!!!

For serious though - I was born in DC and grew up In MoCo where my parents and family were all rabid Skins fans. It helps that I was born a few months before Riggo's run in the Super Bowl.
I still remember being a Redskin for Halloween '87, and although I was only 5 I can still remember how crazy my family went during SBXXII.
As I mentioned here before I was luck enough to go to Art Monk's football camp the summers before and after SBXXVI. I got to meet Art, Darrell Green, Charles Mann, and a ton of other awesome players from the glory days.
I kind of feel off in the mid to late 90's before I went totally die hard during my sophomore year of college.
Ten years and MANY losses later, I'm still obsessed regardless of how much pain they cause me.

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Great stories guys I'm enjoying reading them all.. Seems like most of you were born into a redskins family.. Pretty cool

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I am a Boston fan for everything else as my father did not give me much of a choice but he was not that big of a football fan and I lived in Bowie when I first realized what football was (think I was five or so) so I latched on then a have been hooked ever since!