The Jim Zorn That I Knew

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Published: January 4, 2010

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... first quarterback I cheered—and booed—was a fellow by the name of Norm Snead, the player traded to the Philadelphia Eagles for the beloved Sonny Jurgensen in 1964.

 

I was elated when Vice Lombardi came to Washington and devastated when he died after just one season in the big chair. I watched as George Allen made the franchise a winner and saw Joe Gibbs make a winner a champion.

 

So yeah, I’ve got a Redskins’ pedigree.

 

But I also lived in Seattle in the late 1970s and early 1980s and watched a moribund, rag-tag team of castoffs try to reach respectability behind a short, quick-footed lefty quarterback from Cal Poly Pamona.


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