Two weeks many of us wish we could have. That had to be exciting

I wish someday i can get into the nfl

Why did they go to those God awful yellow helmets? The solid burgundy with the spear was boss, to add insult to injury "Commanders"

@@aarondigby5054 I agree. Name should have been Washington Foot Ball Club.

You were to do for two weeks what hundreds and even thousands college football players could never have the opportunity. You are blessed

Count me in, too, Michael!

No way I'm going to sing Hail to the Commies

I mean that was their name at the time so….

The franchises "turnaround" began with Vince Lombardi.

@@davidcobb2693 That’s like saying Allen is responsible for Gibbs success. Allen brought in so many new players all the credit goes to him

@@mikepainter3111 You're right, genius, Lombardi sucked! FYI, Edward Bennett Williams was the man who hired George Allen.

​@@davidcobb2693, LOMBARDI SUCKED.. That one and I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY SAY BECAUSE I KNOW THE WORLD IS FLAT..come from the same ignorant impulse. Pay attention, Einstein. LOMBARDI took a GBAY PACKER TEAM THAT WAS 1-10-1, AND WENT 7-5-0, AND THEN 8-4 and into the CHAMPIONSHIP GAME, losing his only playoff game by 4 pts on the road before winning 5 NFL TITLES(INCL. FIRST TWO SUPER BOWLS' PRO CROWNS= 7 CROWNS) IN THE NEXT SEVEN SEASONS..never losing an NFL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME OR THE TWO SBOWLS. Washington had not had a winning record in 12 years, but in VINCE's first season, they went 7-5-2.. LOMBARDI according to qback SONNY JURGENSEN was the best head coach the REDSKINS ever had to that point in '69, or that JURGY had ever played under including BUCK SHAW who won a title in 1960 with PHILLY. You need to sit down and read how LOMBARDI turned that '68 typical crap season into almost making the four-team NFL playoffs in 1969. If LOMBARDI who was the one who championed LARRY BROWN as a rookie starter, had been able to live and head coach, he would've had better results than ALLEN ever had as a head coach WITH WDC. They would not have struggled in 1970 because LOMBARDI would not have allowed it. And, he would've developed that team, building off the momentum from 1969.. You know how I know that? He did it with GBAY. That's how. He did it with GBAY before..BEFORE REVENUE SHARING, doing it with fundamentals and flawless, for the most part, execution, and motivating a team that had not had a winning season in a decade before he arrived, playing an unknown qback from the 17th. round of the NFL DRAFT, someone few teams wanted.. HIS NAME WAS BART STARR. You simply do not know what you are talking about. Name one big game that ALLEN as head coach won before 1973 and after it, while using veteran stars who wanted too much money from their previous teams, signed after being traded from teams that ALLEN head coached, or that previously played on winning teams, signed in the non-salary cap era. Don't tell me that LOMBARDI turning around a smallest market team with fewer resources, and mostly sticking to the team's draft in the present and future, trades acquiring unknowns like WILLIE DAVIS, HENRY JORDAN, and young vets from losing PACKER squads left behind when LISLE BLACKBOURNE AND RAY MCLEAN the last two head coaches at GB before LOMBARDI arrived, were canned, just don't say he was crap. ALLEN did no such thing. The only big gamble he took was getting qback BILLY KILMER from NEW ORLEANS..who won 3 playoff games in 7 tries.. There is no comparison.. none.

*72 not '73..

it's a nice slice of live of DC in 1971

He was head coach of LA from 1966-1970

@@Fireyninjadog they were forced in reinstate him, and he finished out his contract.

Ironically 10 years later they walked out on him in LA

Nobody had VHS machines in 1971 and it's credited "NFL Films Video Library."

For much of the history of NFL Films, its greatest narrator and voice was John Facenda. The films of the Redskins during the 1960s were helmed by former broadcaster Jim Gibbons. Ives made one mistake in this video; he said the team was in the Capitol Division. Washington was in the NFC East in 1971, along with Dallas, Philadelphia, the New York Giants and the then St. Louis Cardinals. The Redskins were in the Capitol Division of the Eastern Conference from 1967-69 during the "Four C's" era.

Wow??

Jurgensen was hurt quite often in the Allen years

True fact. Between 1946-70, the Redskins had only four winning seasons during that span.

never came back to bite the team. even after allen, pardee and gibbs stayed very successful.

Coach Allen finally got Larry Smith...in 1974, which would be his final season. He was hardly a factor by then.

Vince Lombardi's never had one. Mike Tomlin never had one

John Madden never had a losing season.

He was the Chicago Bears Defensive Coordinator in 1964, the 5-9-0 Bears.

​@David Cobb He was the DC from 1959 -65 the Bears won the NFL championship in 1963

Tomlin will get one very soon.

Sonny was dinged up.

@@habbadabbado5765 I disagree, Allen tried to put a wedge between those two. Plus he damn near pushed Sonny out the door. Got tired of I want SONNY

@@strothermartin5368 Sonny had numerous injuries during this time, including a torn Achilles and separated shoulder.

I am not arguing.

The lamest name ever.

A game they could've easily won, I was hoping Allen would open up the offense, he coached to conservative. They should've easily beat the 'Phins

​@@aarondigby5054WRONG!

You got it right the first time enough of PC

@@michaelleroy9281 Yes, but physics professors are never right the first time and maybe not ever in the PC-classroom.