the guy who wrote this ESPN article is a DUMBASS



--- In dallascowboyfanclub@yahoogroups.com, stephenjn <no_reply@y...>
wrote:
> By Tom Friend
> ESPN The Magazine
>
> I can't wait for Redskins-Cowboys again.
>
> I can't wait for Joe Gibbs' rematch with Bill Parcells
> -- without Lawrence Taylor!
>
> What, this isn't big news to you? The Redskins rehiring
> Joe Gibbs? If it's not, the hell with you then. This
> would be the equivalent of Casey Stengel returning to
> mange the Yankees. Or Vince Lombardi returning to coach
> the Packers. This is a Hall of Fame coach coming back
> to where he belongs. This isn't Parcells selling his soul
> to Jerry Jones. Joe Gibbs turned down NFL jobs for 11
> years, and I'll tell you why -- because he's a better man
> than Parcells. You think Gibbs would've come out of
> retirement to coach the Panthers? Or the Falcons? Or the,
> gulp, Cowboys? Never. Never in a million years. He's no
> Parcells. He's no sell-out. He was a Redskin in '81, and
> it looks like he's a Redskin again. And I promise you'll
> never hear another peep out of Dan Snyder.
>
> With the Redskins on the brink of becoming the Arizona
> Cardinals, Snyder has done what he had to do: he's gone
> retro. Dan Snyder is conniving, and Dan Snyder is
> impatient, but the one person he'll never interfere
> with is Joseph Gibbs.
>
> Do you know who Dan Snyder is? He's a kid from Charles W. Woodward
> High School in Rockville, Md. who grew up during the Redskin golden
> years. He grew up at a time Edward Bennett Williams was hiring
Vince
> Lombardi and then George Allen to save the franchise. You think
Steve
> Spurrier was a big name? Hah! Lombardi, now that's a name. Allen,
> that's a name. Dan Snyder grew up in an era where, from 1971-92,
the
> Redskins had exactly two losing seasons, a 6-10 in 1980 and a 7-9
> in '88. Other than that, it was five Super Bowl appearances and
three
> titles, all courtesy of Joe Gibbs. It was Sonny and Billy and
> Hanburger in the 70s, and it was Gibbs and Riggo and Joey T. and
Monk
> in the 80s. It was Sunday night celebrations at Duke Zieberts, it
was
> Carter and Reagan in the owner's box and it was RFK Stadium
> throbbing, throbbing.
>
> Did little Dan Snyder get spoiled by it all? Of course he did. I
went
> to a high school down the street from Snyder's, Wootton, and I got
> spoiled, too. From 1969-92, the team had three Hall of Fame head
> coaches. From 1971-85, they had just three celebrity quarterbacks --

> Jurgensen, Kilmer and Theismann. And after that, you could've
handed
> Gibbs anybody (even someone named Danny Wuerffel), and he'd have
won
> with him. I mean, Gibbs won Super Bowls with Theismann, Doug
Williams
> and Mark Rypien. He made the last two guys Super Bowl MVPs. It was
> football nirvana, and a young Dan Snyder even sat in the stands for
> the last game Gibbs ever coached, a playoff game in San Francisco
in
> 1992. He sat in the stands and cheered. Lost his voice.
>
> So there you have it. Now you know why Dan Snyder is nuts for the
> Redskins. Now you know why he overpaid Spurrier and why, after that
> mistake, he's reaching out to Gibbs. Now you know why he wants a
> celebrity coach, why he wishes he could walk into ol' Duke Zieberts
> and get standing ovations, the way Edward Bennett Williams used to,
> the way George Allen used to, the way every Redskin used to.
>
> He could've hired Jim Fassel -- and if Gibbs falls through, he
still
> might. But getting Joe Gibbs is bigger than big. I don't care if
he's
> 63, and I don't care if he can only hold up until he's 65. This
> franchise needed credibility and it needed an old friend. And when
> Dan Snyder reintroduces Joe Gibbs as head coach, he will be able to
> just put his feet up and watch.
>
> You think the game's passed him by? Please. Take a look at Vermeil,
> Parcells. They're just as ancient, and look what they did this
year.
> I'm guessing Gibbs will bring old buddy Joe Bugel back as his
> assistant head coach, and I bet he'll bring Russ Grimm back from
> Pittsburgh and groom him to be his successor. He'll have to get
used
> to free agency and instant replay, but don't think for a minute
he'll
> tolerate the cell phones and the eccentricities of today's young
> players. When I covered the Redskins for the Washington Post in the
> 80s, Joe Gibbs had his hand in everything. He was a control freak
who
> slept at the office and who wanted lunch pail, work ethic players.
> Giant Week was as bad as Cowboy Week. Whereas Spurrier sent seven
> receivers out on a pattern, Gibbs would sometimes send only one
> receiver out -- if that's what it took to block Lawrence Taylor.
>
> He's more of disciplinarian than you'll ever know. He'll run three-
> hour practices in pads. Free agent Champ Bailey will want to stay
> now. LaVar Arrington will stop freelancing. If Patrick Ramsey
thought
> Steve Spurrier knew quarterbacking, wait until he gets a load of
> Gibbs.
>
> Gibbs is also the master of adjustment. At halftime, he'd always
come
> up with some new wrinkle, and he'll adjust to the new NFL, too. I
> found it amusing how people say that Spurrier came to the NFL to
see
> if his Fun N' Gun would work and then quit when he realized it
> wouldn't. What a loser! Gibbs came to the Redskins in 1981 with the
> same reputation as a gun-slinging coach, straight from the Air
> Coryell Chargers. But after an 0-5 start, he looked at his roster
and
> adjusted, became a run-first offense behind Riggins. He didn't
quit,
> he didn't run off to play golf. It took guts to do what he did, but
> Joe Gibbs is no dummy.
>
> And he'll do it again. It won't be easy to win, not without a
> defensive line, but Gibbs won't quit until he has his Redskins, his
> one and only Redskins, back in contention. The only coach who
seemed
> to have his number in the old days was Parcells, but now he'll get
> another shot at the Tuna -- twice a year! I only wish Spurrier
hadn't
> gutted his backfield, hadn't run Stephen Davis out of town. Because
> that would've been something to see … Stephen Davis running 50-gut.
>
> But that's okay. Joe Gibbs won with a scat back named Joe
Washington,
> and he'll win with a scatback named Trung Canidate.
>
> Can we play at RFK?