30 Years Since Washington's Last Lombardi

The Kevin Sheehan Show

Kevin Sheehan, Blue Wire

Sports, Football

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🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Kevin with a journey back 30 years ago today when the Washington Redskins beat the Buffalo Bills to win Super Bowl 26 in Minneapolis. He recapped the 37-24 win over the Bills using the actual calls from Pat Summerall and John Madden on CBS. MVP Runner-Up safety Brad Edwards and Skins' great Joe Jacoby joined Kevin with their memories of that season, week, and the big game. Aaron Schatz/Football Outsiders joined the show to discuss why Football Outsiders ranks the '91 Redskins as the greatest NFL team of all-time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You don't want it. You don't need it, but you're going to get it anyway. The Kevin Sheehan Show. Here's Kevin.
0:10.8	The Buffalo Bills, again the AFC's best team, make their second straight Super Bowl appearance, loaded with all sorts of offensive weaponry.
0:20.7	The hogs are the heart and soul of the Washington Redskins,
0:23.6	paving the way for football's highest scoring team.
0:31.6	It's a dream matchup, the two best teams in football,
0:34.6	on a day made for dreams. The
0:57.0	The Live at the Metro Dome in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, the Washington Redskins, the Buffalo Bills, Super Bowl number 26.
1:25.6	I'm Pat Summerall here with John Madden,
1:28.1	in spite of all you've heard and read and everything that's been said,
1:33.0	these two teams remain to each other at least somewhat of a mystery,
1:36.7	and I think that's pretty good, don't you?
1:38.2	I think it's very good.
1:40.0	I like the purity of it.
1:41.2	You know, that all year you could see this match coming, like a collision course. The Buffalo Bills were the best team in the AFC. They had the best record. They were the best all year. The Washington Redskins were the best team in the NFC. You know, I kind of like the fact that they didn't play each other. The way you can say, well, just a month ago, this happened, so I think this is going to happen.
2:01.5	They didn't play each other.
2:05.3	And, you know, we don't know, the fans don't know, the press doesn't know.
2:28.0	The players and coaches don't even know. As Joe Gibbs said yesterday, he said, we could kill them. They could kill us or it could be a tight one. 30 years ago today, that's how it sounded on CBS's coverage of Super Bowl 26, Pat Sumerall and John Madden from the Metro Dome in Minneapolis as Washington, the NFC champion, got ready to face Buffalo.
2:42.8	Redskins' Bills, Super Bowl 26, 30 years ago today, will be 95% of this show today on this Wednesday, January 26th, 2020.
2:52.5	Joining me on the show today will be Brad Edwards, Brad, of course, the starting free safety on the 91 team, the runner-up MVP of that game to Mark Rippen in 1991. Joe Jacoby will be a guest on the show with me today.
3:03.4	And then Aaron Schatz will finish it up with us today.
3:07.5	Aaron is the creator of the DVOA metric that I refer to often from football outsiders.
3:15.1	He's the founder of football outsiders.
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