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Hail To The Redskins

Episode Number: 16 Season Num: 3 First Aired: Wednesday January 2, 2002 Prod Code: 99282

The listless waters of Washington sports were stirred up in 1971 as George Allen took over as coach of the Washington Redskins. His trades for familiar players and spending large sums for a first-rate training complex, were part of a true rebuilding program. The result: Washington made the playoffs for the first time since 1945. In shooting an hour-long film called Three Cheers for the Redskins, NFL Films was with George Allen every step of the rebuilding. Now, after 30 years, members of the 1971 Redskins are interviewed for this program. Steve Sabol chips in, explaining that some of George Allen's habits–labeling the trees just outside the Redskins' camp, for example–rubbed off on him. There was a certain eccentricity to Allen that Steve Sabol thinks about all the time.

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Director:	Tom Potterfield

Star:	Steve Sabol (Host)

Recurring Role:	Ed Sabol (Himself)

Guest Star:	Ray Schoenke (Interviewee), Tommy McVean (Interviewee), Chris Hanburger (Interviewee), Ron McDole (Interviewee), Brig Owens (Interviewee), Candie Jefferson (Interviewee), Joe Sullivan (Himself [1971 footage]), Richard Nielsen (Himself [1971 footage]), Mike Fanucci (Interviewee), Marv Levy (Himself [1971 footage]), Roy Jefferson (Interviewee), John Wilbur (Interviewee), Diron Talbert (Interviewee), Billy Kilmer (Interviewee), George Allen (Himself [1971 footage]), Burl Ives (Narrator of Three Cheers for the Redskins)

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For all that splendor of the original film, documented in a Lost Treasures episode broadcast constatntly on NFL Network, ESPN Classic has aired the original Three Cheers for the Redskins (60-minute highlights of the 1971 Washington season) in an unmolested format exactly once: 700 A.M. EDT April 19, 2002.
Some of us NFL Films afficionados would love to see the whole original Three Cheers for the Redskins broadcast in its unmolested originality, and it seems the only way we can do it is to compose a deal with public television. Anyone who reads this, should send the recommendation to Howard University Television (in Washington itself) or the MHz Networks in Falls Church, Virginia. (edit)