Skins history in Boston & World Series

[SmootSmack]

Why should he even mention the Skins vs. Pats game? It's not on tonight

[freddyg12]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Why should he even mention the Skins vs. Pats game? It's not on tonight

It isn't that he needed to mention it, but as a footnote to Boston sports history it certainly is worth mentioning.

Actually Boston College's footballl team this year is almost a dead on parallel to the Skins in Boston between 1932-6. The team was doing well yet nobody in Boston noticed just like BC is now as the writer points out. ESPN also did a story recently where they walked around Boston & asked people about BC; who's the qb, coach? etc.

Most people had no idea they were ranked in the top 10.

[SouperMeister]

Boston has always been, and will always be a baseball town. In the last Patriots Super Bowl vs. Philly, Eagles fans outnumbered Pats fans in Jacksonville by 4 or 5 to one. I just laugh when friends from Boston try to say that theirs is a better pro football town than Washington.

[70Chip]

The problem for Marshall was that Pro Football was generally viewed as a 2nd rate sport all over the country in the 1930s - not just up there. At that time the college game was where it was at.

I think that he would have had similar troubles in Washington were it not for the emergence of Sammy Baugh as the biggest star in the entire NFL. I think it was Baugh that saved the franchise more so than the move to D.C.

[SouperMeister]

Originally Posted by 70Chip

The problem for Marshall was that Pro Football was generally viewed as a 2nd rate sport all over the country in the 1930s - not just up there. At that time the college game was where it was at.

I think that he would have had similar troubles in Washington were it not for the emergence of Sammy Baugh as the biggest star in the entire NFL. I think it was Baugh that saved the franchise more so than the move to D.C.

Baugh did for the early Redskins teams, what Sonny Jurgensen did for later day Redskins - both led exciting passing attacks that made for exciting games, win or lose. I'm hopeful that Jason Campbell will be among the Redskin QB greats someday.