Back in January 1973, the perfect Dolphins beat Washington in the Super Bowl. The final score was 14-7 and everybody remembers how Garo Yepremian missed that field goal that would have made it 17-0, or exactly Miami’s record that year. As my mother used to say, “no nay nada garantizado en este mundo.” Well, an easy Yepremian field goal was not in the cards that day.
Back in January 1983, Miami met Washington again but the guys formerly known as “pieles rojas” took home the trophy winning by the score of 27-17.
What are we going to tell our kids the next time we are talking about Dolphins and two of their Super Bowl appearances?
Talk about messed-up priorities. Apparently, Washington, one of the legendary NFL franchises, will retire the name “Redskins” to please people who get angry about stuff like that.
Seriously, have you ever met anyone who got that worked up about a team mascot?
I will miss thinking of Billy Kilmer and that quarterback controversy with Sonny Jergusen. Or John Riggings running that long TD and that cool helmet design.
Put me down as someone who does not watch NFL games to find something wrong with the team names. By the way, the Cowboys vs “whatever the new name” rivalry won’t be the same. Yes, there was something about Cowboys and Redskins going at it on the football field. It won’t be the same.
Maybe Black Lives Matter and all of those white college students will celebrate the Redskins’ name change by painting a street or vandalizing another statue. For sure, none of them will march this week in Chicago, or anywhere else, calling on people to stop shooting each other.
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