Washington Commanders' Daniels could become the first rookie quarterback to play the Super Bowl. Williams, who led the team to a Super Bowl win, says talented Black QBs are finally getting their due.
Griese and the Don Shula-coached Miami Dolphins ran into a buzzsaw when they pushed to Super Bowl VI at the end of the 1971 season, getting pummeled 24-3 by Roger Staubach, Tom Landry, and the Dallas Cowboys. That hardly deterred them.
When Jayden Daniels showed up for his first preseason game with the Washington Commanders, he wore a Doug Williams no. 17 throwback jersey. That’s when his team should have known it had something special in its rookie quarterback.
Yet, that was not Washington's first Super Bowl victory. In 1983, the team pulled off a shocking upset as Gibbs and quarterback Joe Theismann defeated Don Shula and the Miami Dolphins 27-17. Down 17-10 at halftime, Washington held Miami to 176 total yards and zero second-half points.
Washington Commanders fans aren’t dreaming, and they haven’t been magically transported back to 1992, when Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” and Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” dominated the airwaves.
The Philadelphia Eagles host the Washington Commanders in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday at 3:00 p.m. ET. The Eagles will be aiming to reach the Super Bowl for the second time in three seasons.
The Jacksonville Jaguars need a new head coach after ditching Doug Pederson ... Francisco 49ers despite reaching at least the NFC Championship Game in his first three seasons, including a Super ...
Doug Greenberg: ESPN BET listed Saquon Barkley ... All of those bets cashed in the Philadelphia Eagles' 55-23 NFC Championship Game win over the Washington Commanders on Sunday.
There was a tiny, tiny chance at a comeback if the Lions could have recovered an onside kick after Jameson Williams scored ... ever with a win in the NFC championship game. It is a true David ...
An Eagles position coach who achieved something nobody else has in over 50 years. The Jeff Stoutland legacy just grows and grows and grows. And a vivid memory of an Eagles playoff game in New Orleans a long time ago.
If you were watching the AFC Championship game on CBS over the weekend, then give yourself a pat on the back, because you were part of television history.  The game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills had an average audience of 57.