Doug Williams 1986 M&N Washington Football HUGE 50th ANNIV Jersey ROF/90 G-SKINS

Description: ...IN THE 1986 SEASON, COACH, JOE GIBBS HAD HIS NEW FRANCHISE STARTER ...THE THIRD YEAR PRO FROM UCLA WAS WORTHY, BUT THE SEACH COMMITTEE WAS OUT FOR AN EXPERIENCED BACKUP IN THE AVAILABLE FREE AGENTS POOL.......GIBBS WAS EXTREMELY FAMILIAR WITH THE CREDINTIALS OF ONE WHO HAD BEEN A FIRST ROUND SELECTION IN THE 1978 NFL DRAFT... THEN OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR FOR THE TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS, HE HAD BEEN THE ONLY SCOUT TO VISIT DOUGLAS LEE WILLIAMS AT GRAMBLING UNIVERSITY...COACH GIBBS WAS SO IMPRESSED WITH THE QUARTERBACK'S SKILLS AND TEAM LEADERSHIP, THAT HE AND THE BUCS WOULD MAKE A GROUNDBREAKING MOVE... ...GOING ON TO BE A THREE-TIME SUPER BOWL WINNING COACH, GIBBS RECOGNIZED QUALITY PERSONNEL AND HE WOULD TAKE WHOEVER HE BELIEVED WAS THE BEST TO IMPROVE HIS LOWLY TEAM...WILLIAMS WANTED TO BE A CHAMPION AND PROBABLY DIDN'T WANT ALL OF THE SIGNIFICANT HOOPLA THAT WOULD ENSUE... HE JUST WANTED TO BE LIKE ANY OTHER FIRST ROUNDER TAKEN THAT YEAR AND YEARS BEFORE HIM, BUT THAT WOULD NOT BE HIS CHOICE......WOW, THE DISTINCTION OF BEING AN AFRICAN AMERICAN QUARTERBACK TAKEN IN ROUND ONE WOULD BE A HISTORICAL FIRST AS THE NFL DRAFT GOES...SUBSEQUENTLY, ONCE ALL OF THE ATTENTION SUBSIDED AND THE LEATHER BUSTING STARTED, IT WOULD PAY OFF TREMENDOUSLY FOR THE BUCCANEERS' EARLY DEVELOPMENT AS A FRANCHISE...... IN 1976, TWO YEARS BEFORE WILLIAMS ARRIVED, THE BUCS HAD BEEN AN EXPANSION FRANCHISE. THEY WERE WINLESS IN THEIR FIRST SEASON, AND WINNING (2) GAMES IN YEAR TWO...UPON THE NEW QBs ARRIVAL IN '78, THE "PIRATES" IN THOSE ORANGE AND WHITE "DREAMSICKLE" UNIFORMS WOULD REACH THE POST SEASON, THREE TIMES IN FIVE YEARS, WINNING (2) DIVISION CROWNS DURING THE QBs TENURE FROM '78-82...THOUGH INFUSING THE UPSTART FRANCHISE WITH SUCCESS AND A WINNING DIRECTION, BUCs OWNERSHIP WAS LESS THAN GRATEFUL AT CONTRACT RENEWAL TIME......HE WOULD BECOME AND REMAIN THE LOWEST PAID STARTER IN THE LEAGUE AND BELOW THAT OF MANY A BACK-UP..."RAIDED" BY HIS OWN PIRATE SHIP, HIS ONLY LEVERAGE CAME WHEN THE FLEDGLING UNITED STATES FOOTBALL LEAGUE AROSE AND MADE BETTER OFFERS...HE WOULD GO ASHORE THEN TAKE TO THE HIGH SEAS WITH THE NEW LEAGUE IN 1984 HOPING FOR A BRIGHTER AND MORE FINANCIALLY PROSPEROUS FUTURE ......HE LED OKLAHOMA, AND THEN THE ARIZONA OUTLAWS FOR THE BRIEF EXISTENCE OF THE USFL, AND THE BUCS WOULD REAP THE SEVERE ERRORS OF THEIR WAYS...IT WOULD BE (17) LONG YEARS BEFORE ANOTHER WINNING SEASON CAME TO TAMPA... ..,MEANWHILE, BACK ON THE POTOMAC, WITH THE '82, SUPER BOWL WINNING JOE THEISMANN GONE, ANOTHER HAD ASSUMED THAT STARTERS ROLE, SO WHEN GIBBS LOOKED ON THE FREE AGENT LIST OF AVAILABLE PLAYERS AND THE USFL HAD FOLDED, HE REMEMBERED BACK IN THE DAY, WHEN HE WAS "SITTIN' ON THE DOCK OF TAMPA BAY, WATCHIN' HIS FAVORED QB ROLL AWAY", TO THE NEW LEAGUE... HE IMMEDIATELY KNEW, IT WAS TIME TO HAVE A REUNION WITH DW......WHETHER DIVINE INTERVENTION OR FATE, THEIR SECOND ENCOUNTER WOULD ALSO WORK, BUT FOR A MUCH MORE MUTUAL BENEFIT...THAT FIRST YEAR IN D.C, WILLIAMS WOULD RIDE THE PINE THE ENTIRE SEASON AS WASHINGTON FINISHED (12-4). THEY WERE SHUT OUT BY THE EVENTUAL SUPER BOWL CHAMPION, NEW YORK GIANTS IN THE NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME.......IN "87, DURING THE REGULAR SEASON, WILLIAMS FAIRED BETTER IN RELIEF, SUBSTITUTING ON THREE OCCASIONS AND BRINGING HOME THE VICTORY IN EACH, COMPARED TO TWO STARTING LOSSES...IT WOULD BE A STRIKE SHORTED SEASON WITH WEEK (3) CANCELLED, WHILE "REPLACEMENTS" CROSSED THE PICKET LINE FOR WEEKS (4-6)....THE "SUBS" WOULD NOTCH A PERFECT (3-0) AND TOGETHER BROUGHT THE DIVISION CROWN TO THE "CAPITAL TOWN" AT (11-4). WILLIAMS WAS A WELL-RESPECTED FIELD GENERAL AND STATISTICALLY POSTED BETTER AVERAGES... WITH SOME CONTROVERSY, IT APPEARED HE WAS FAVORED BY THE VETS TO LEAD, AND WAS NAMED THE POST-SEASON STARTER BY "COACH JOE".....THEY WOULD GO AWAY FROM HOME TO SOLDIER FIELD IN CHICAGO, THE CINDERELLA STORY OF DLW AND THE SPECTACULAR 'SKINS SEASON WOULD BEGIN IN OMINOUS FASHION... WASHINGTON WAS.DOWN BY (14) POINTS IN THE DIVISIONAL PLAYOFFS WHEN WILLIAMS ENGINEERED TWO DRIVES TO TIE THE GAME...DARREL GREEN'S PUNT RETURN FOR A SCORE SEALED A (21-17) COMEBACK VICTORY WITH (3) UNCONTESTED TOUCHDOWNS AND STRONG DEFENSE TO ELIMINATE THE "MONSTAS" AT THE MIDWAY......LED BY RUNNING BACK PHENOM, WALTER PAYTON, IT WOULD BE THE FINAL GAME OF HIS ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER FOR THE CHICAGO BEARS... HE WOULD LATER BE ENSHRINED IN THE PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME AND BECOME AN NFL 100 LEGEND IN 2019......THE DRAMA CONTINUED TO MOUNT WHEN THOSE "PURPLE PEOPLE EATERS" FROM MINNESOTA INVADED RFK STADIUM FOR THE NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME...THE VIKINGS HAD RUN A STRING OF UPSETS, BUT DC HAD BEATEN THE VIKES IN OVERTIME IN THE REGULAR SEASON FINAL...THE "NORSEMEN" HAD THEIR SIGHTS ON ANOTHER UPSET IN THE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP......THIS CONTEST WOULD PROVE MUCH OF A DEFENSIVE STRUGGLE WITH WILLIAMS TOSSING BOOKEND TD PASSES IN THE FIRST AND FINAL QUARTERS... A (45) YARDER TO KELVIN BRYANT TO OPEN THE GAMES SCORING AND A (43) YARDER TO GARY CLARK WAS THE LAST, THAT SANDWICHED A FIELD GOAL BY ALI HAJI-SHEIKH ... A (17-10) CONQUEST WOULD SEND THE VIKINGS TO VALHALLA, WHILE BUGUNDY AND GOLD BACKERS ALL AROUND THE BELTWAY WERE MAKING RESERVATIONS FOR SB22 AT "THE MURPH"...…JANUARY 31, 1988, WAS A DAY FORECAST FOR A R***KIN SLAUGHTER IN SAN DIEGO, AS UNBRIDLED BRONCOS WERE STAMPEDING INTO JACK MURPHY STADIUM AND CONSIDERED ROWDY AND UNSTOPPABLE... "BACK-UP" QUARTERBACK WILLIAMS WOULD FACE IMINENT HOF, JOHN ELWAY IN A SHOWDOWN IN WHICH THE PSYCHICs AND ODDSMAKERS WOULD HAVE ADVISED WILLIAMS TO STAY IN WASHINGTON... IT WAS THAT LOPSIDED!...WILLIAMS HAD FOUGHT AND OVERCOME ODDS HIS ENTIRE LIFE, AND LEST THEY FORGET, SAAVY SKIPPER JOE...HE HAD ONE LOMBARDI ON HIS MANTLE, HAD BEEN TO A COUPLE OF SHOWDOWNS BEFORE, AND WOULD HAVE HIS "WARRIORS" READY...HE BUILT WINNERS WITH A TEAM CONCEPT AND WILLIAMS WOULD HAVE SUPPORT WITHIN THE RANKS...HTTR! ...NOT SO ACKNOWLEDGED IN THE WEST, IT WAS WELL KNOWN BY R***KIN FAITHFUL, THE BURGUNDY AND GOLD REPRESENTED THEIR OWN KIND OF "SWAG". THEY HELD A TRADITION THAT AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER FEATURED; A DEFENSE OF "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT" THAT INFLICTED THE MAXIMUM PENALTY...A PEN OF "HOGS" FORMING AN OFFENSIVE LINE THAT SQUEALED "CHAMPIONS" WHEN TRAMPLING AND POUNDING OPPONENTS... THEY ALSO HAD A "FUN BUNCH" THAT MADE A COLLECTIVE "HIGH FIVE" IN THEIR PAYDIRT CEREMONY, A "DIESEL" THAT PLOWED BEHIND THOSE PORKERS ON A VICTORY TOUR, AND A "POSSE" THAT JUST RODE SIDE-SADDLE AND CLAIMED THEIR BEVY OF BOUNTY...THEY WERE ABSOLUTELY NOT INTIMIDATED!...AFTER FOURTEEN DAYS OF REDUNDANT MEDIA FRENZY WHICH ANTICIPATED A D.C. DEMISE, SUPERBOWL 22 COMMENCED AND EARLY RESULTS WENT ACCORDING TO PUNDIT EXPECTATIONS... THE UNDERDOGS HAD SUFFERED A (14) POINT TRAMPLING IN PERIOD ONE AND THE DOPPLER FORECAST MORE RAIN ON THE R***KIN PARADE. AT THAT POINT IN SUPER BOWL MATCHES, HISTORICALLY, NO TEAM HAD EVER OVERCOME (10) POINTS OR MORE TO WIN A SUPER BOWL AND THE CLOUDY ATMOSPHERE IN "THE MURPH" SENSED A MASSACRE IN THE MAKING.......TO THIS DAY, NO ONE REALLY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN QUARTERS, WHETHER COACH GIBBS GAVE THE MOST UPLIFTING SIDELINE SERMON, EVER, OR THE SAINTLY FAIRY GODFATHER SPRINKLED HIS MYSTICAL FAIRY DUST OVER ANYTHING BURGUNDY... WHATEVER HAPPENED, THE GLOOM CLOUDS DRIFTED AWAY AND WHEN THE "CINDERFELLAS" TOOK THE FIELD, THERE WOULD COME THE MOST MIRACULOUS FIFTEEN MINUTES IN THE HISTORY OF PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL......'SKINS FANS WOULD FEEL AS THOUGH THEY WERE ACTUALLY IN NEARBY DISNEYLAND WHEN "CAPTAIN DOUG" LIT UP THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SKYLINE WITH FIREWORKS OF MAGICAL FOOTBALLS... A THIRTY-FIVE POINT, UNANSWERED BARRAGE PROVIDED MORE ENERGY THAN SDG&E... FOUR TD STRIKES AND (340) PASSING YARDS IN A SINGLE QUARTER STUNNED THE STADIUM CROWD AND SENT SHOCK WAVES TO THE BRONCO SIDELINE, AND THROUGH THE OUTER REACHES OF COLORADO...PARYLIZED AND UNABLE TO RECOVER, THOSE FIRST QUARTER POINTS WERE ALL THE BRONCS WOULD MUSTER... ...AND THE BAND PLAYED ON, HTTR...IT WAS (42-10) WHEN THE GUN SOUNDED AND HISTORY WAS MADE... DOUG WOULD PROBABLY HAVE WANTED TO BE JUST LIKE ANY OTHER WINNER. HOWEVER, IT WAS BEYOND HIS CONTROL AND THE MEDIA WOULD ACKNOWLEDGE HIS FIRSTS AS MILESTONES. THE FIRST, FIRST ROUND AA QB, BECAME THE FIRST AA QB TO WIN A SUPER BOWL AND THE FIRST TO WIN THE SBMVP AND BRING IT ALL BACK TO OLE DC...MAYBE IT WAS FITTING THAT THE FIRST WOULD COME OUT OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL...AND THE BAND PLAYED ON!...HISTORY WILL RECORD THAT WILLIAMS HELD NUMEROUS POST-RETIREMENT POSITIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS AND IS CURRENTLY A BURGUDY AND GOLD FAITHFUL, AS WASHINGTON COMMANDERS, SENIOR ADVISOR... MAYBE HIS GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN OUR CIVILIZATION, IS A FIGUREHEAD FOR PROGRESS! HERE'S A BURGUNDY AND GOLD WASHINGTON JERSEY OF HISTORY MAKING DOUG WILLIAMS. IT IS HUGE AND IS A MITCHELL AND NESS BRAND WITH STITCHED/SEWN NUMERALS AND LETTERS. IT IS LABELED AS AN ADULT 58. IT MEASURES 31 INCHES FROM ARMPIT TO ARMPIT, 41 INCHES FROM SHOULDER TO HEM NEVER BEEN WORN/EXCELLENT TO MINT /THE BIGGEST AND BEST IN THE MARKET ALL GARMENTS ARE SOLD AS-IS AS DESCRIBED MANUFACTURERS CUTS VARY, THEREFORE TO ASSURE PROPER FIT, PLEASE MEASURE GARMENT. NO RETURNS 31 INCHES FROM ARMPIT TO ARMPIT, 41 INCHES FROM SHOULDER TO HEM NO RETURNS

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