In the 1980s the Giants and Redskins clashed as both struggled against each other for division titles and even Super Bowl Championships.

San Diego suffered losing seasons in the 1980s until former Washington Redskins General Manager Bobby Beathard joined the team in 1990.

Beathard decided to rebuild the Chargers using the same model that he used to build the Redskins into Super Bowl contenders during the 1980s – a powerful running game built around big lineman, a passing game that helped sustain extremely long drives, and a bending but steady defense.

Among them were Ray Pinney of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers, Cedrick Hardman of the 1970s San Francisco 49ers and early 1980s Oakland Raiders, Anthony Carter ( Minnesota Vikings, Detroit Lions ), Arthur Whittington ( Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills ), Bobby Hebert ( New Orleans Saints, Atlanta Falcons ), Gary Plummer ( San Diego Chargers, San Francisco 49ers ), Raymond Chester ( Oakland Raiders, Baltimore Colts ), Albert Bentley ( Indianapolis Colts, Pittsburgh Steelers ), Dave Browning ( Oakland Raiders, Los Angeles Raiders, New England Patriots ), Ray Bentley ( Buffalo Bills, Cincinnati Bengals ), Dale Markham ( St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, Green Bay Packers ) and Derek Holloway ( Washington Redskins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers ).

The 49ers bought back uniforms from the 1984 era as a tribute to the 1980s teams for the last game of the 2008 season on December 28 versus the Washington Redskins, some players also grew early 1980s mustaches for the game to finish the look.

* " The Smurfs ," a nickname for Gary Clark, Alvin Garrett, and Charlie Brown, three wide receivers of the Washington Redskins NFL team in the 1980s.

Redskins were a 1980s English band, notable for their left-wing politics and catchy, danceable songs.

The Al Saunders variant is heavily influenced by Coryell and Saunder's former boss, former Coryell assistant and 2 time Redskins coach Joe Gibbs, who's Ace formation ( single back, 2 WRs, 1 TE, and 1 H back ) was immensely effective in the 1980s.

Prior to 1994, WTTG aired the Redskins preseason games and training camp scrimmages during the majority of the 1980s into the early 1990s.

* 1986: A version by English punk band The Redskins on their 1986 album Neither Washington Nor Moscow

In addition, the Redskins set new NFL records with 541 points ( since broken by the 1998 Minnesota Vikings and 2007 New England Patriots ), a givaway / takaway ratio of + 43, and had the top rated rush – defense.

The Redskins ' five appearances are tied with the San Francisco 49ers, Green Bay Packers, Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders, New York Giants, and Miami Dolphins.

The Redskins ' three wins are tied with the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders, and New England Patriots.

* Most fumbles recovered, game: 10, Denver Broncos ( 5 own, 5 opponents ) vs. Buffalo Bills, December 13, 1964 ; Pittsburgh Steelers ( 5 / 5 ) vs. Houston Oilers, December 9, 1973 ; Washington Redskins ( 2 / 8 ) vs. St. Louis Cardinals, October 25, 1976

The Washington Redskins football stadium is just to the east of Capitol Heights, near the Capital Beltway ( I-95 / 495 ) and Hampton Mall shopping center which has a new hotel and eateries.

* Mark Murphy Safety for Washington Redskins ( 1977 – 1984 ); CEO / President for Green Bay Packers ( 2007 – present )

However, due to the two-year period of dormancy, the Redskins and the NFL consider the Boston / Washington franchise as a separate organization dating to 1932, and not as a continuation of the Kelleys / Eskimos line.

Marshall openly refused to have black athletes on his Boston Braves / Washington Redskins team, and reportedly pressured the rest of the league to follow suit.

Boston / Washington Redskins owner George Preston Marshall is credited with significant innovations by the NFL.

* 1972 ( NFL )-Super Bowl VII-1 / 14 / 73 AFC Miami Dolphins 14, NFC Washington Redskins 7

* 1982 ( NFL )-Super Bowl XVII-1 / 30 / 83 NFC Washington Redskins 27, AFC Miami Dolphins 17

* 1983 ( NFL )-Super Bowl XVIII-1 / 22 / 84 AFC Los Angeles Raiders 38, NFC Washington Redskins 9

* 1987 ( NFL )-Super Bowl XXII-1 / 31 / 88 NFC Washington Redskins 42, AFC Denver Broncos 10

* 1991 ( NFL )-Super Bowl XXVI-1 / 26 / 92 NFC Washington Redskins 37, AFC Buffalo Bills 24

Past events have included trains for Western Maryland residents to attend sporting events in the Baltimore / Washington Area, such as Baltimore Orioles or Washington Redskins games, or for Baltimore / Washington residents to attend Railfest in Cumberland and enjoy the scenic mountains and fall foliage of Western Maryland.

Other NFL veterans who signed with the Stallions included former Kansas City Chief RB Earl Gant ( 2 years, 20 games with the Chiefs ), RB Ken Talton ( 1 year, 2 games with the Lions ), WR / KR Kevin Miller ( 3 years, 20 games with the Vikings ), TE Steve Stephens ( 1 year, 16 games with the Jets ), OT Robert Woods ( 8 years, 99 games with the Jets and Saints ), OG Buddy Aydelette ( 1 year, 9 games with the Packers ), DE Mike Raines ( 7 years, 104 games with the CFL Ottawa Rough Riders ), DE Reggie Lewis ( 2 years, 22 games with the Buccaneers ), LB Dallas Hickman ( 6 years, 91 games with the Redskins ), CB Mike Thomas ( 6 years, 77 games with the Redskins and Chargers ) and SS Billy Cesare ( 5 years, 46 games with the Buccaneers, Dolphins and Lions ),

Marshall had a falling out with the Redskins band leader Barnee Breeskin.

The Redskins were the first team in the NFL with an official marching band and also the first team to have a fight song, " Hail to the Redskins "

The Redskins marching band is currently only one of two officially sanctioned by any NFL team.

The Redskins are one of only three NFL teams to have a marching band.

The music composed by the Redskins team band leader, Barnee Breeskin, and the lyrics were written by Corinne Griffith, the wife of Redskins founder and owner George Preston Marshall.

The Washington Redskins have featured a marching band since 1938, and the Baltimore Ravens have featured a marching band since its 1996 inception ; however, Baltimore's Marching Ravens dating to the All-American Football Conference ( a league which merged with the NFL ) team in Baltimore, MD, featured a marching band when it began in 1947, went through many years with the Colts, and continued operations after being abandoned by the Irsay family when the team moved to Indianapolis in 1984.

This is similar to the English decade names ( 1980s, meaning the years 1980 – 1989 ).

The rivalry between the clubs intensified during the 1960s, after Manchester United became the first English team to win the European Cup in 1968, an achievement surpassed by Liverpool's four European Cup victories in the 1970s and 1980s.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the most visible presence of martial arts films was the hundreds of English dubbed kung fu and ninja films produced by the Shaw Brothers, Godfrey Ho, Joseph Lai, and other Hong Kong producers.

The spelling of the name in English was officially changed to this form by the Saudi government in the 1980s, but is not universally known or used worldwide.

For example, during the 1980s, a group calling themselves " Meibion Glyndŵr " claimed responsibility for the burning of English holiday homes in Wales.

Music historians typically divide the history of ska into three periods: the original Jamaican scene of the 1960s ( First Wave ), the English 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s ( Second Wave ) and the third wave ska movement, which started in the 1980s ( Third Wave ) and rose to popularity in the US in the 1990s.

" Sedevacantism " as a term in English appears to date from the 1980s, though the movement itself is older.

The influence is also visible in very modern work: Brian Friel's Translations ( a play written in the 1980s, set during the English colonization of Ireland ), makes references to the classics throughout and ends with a passage from the Aeneid:

Despite New Zealand's immigration liberalisation in the 1980s, Britons are still the largest group of migrants to New Zealand, due in part to recent immigration law changes which privilege fluent speakers of English.

In the United States, the National Captioning Institute noted that English as a foreign or second language ( ESL ) learners were the largest group buying decoders in the late 1980s and early 1990s before built-in decoders became a standard feature of US television sets.

In the 1980s, English National Opera staged the opera freely translated into English by Snoo Wilson with David Pountney.

Sir Clive Marles Sinclair ( born 30 July 1940 ) is an English entrepreneur and inventor, most commonly known for his work in consumer electronics in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

During the early 1980s, English anarchist Larry Law produced the Spectacular Times pocket-books series, which aimed to make Situationist ideas more easily assimilated into the anarchist movement.

English singer Julia Gilbert adopted the name of the film's main character when recording for the London-based él record label in the late 1980s.

By the 1980s large-scale lexical resources, such as the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English ( OALD ), became available: hand-coding was replaced with knowledge automatically extracted from these resources, but disambiguation was still knowledge-based or dictionary-based.

By the late 1980s allegations began to appear throughout the world ( including Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, the Netherlands and Scandinavia ), in part enabled by English as a common international language and in at least the United Kingdom assisted by Gould's list of indicators.

Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, CBE ( 5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001 ) was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister.

In Britain, the tradition that theatre directors emerge from degree courses ( usually in English literature ) at the Oxbridge universities has meant that for a long time, professional vocational training did not take place at drama schools or performing arts colleges, although an increase in training programmes for theatre directors can be witnessed since the 1970s and 1980s.

However despite this steady progress throughout the 1970s and 1980s, organisations such as English Heritage criticise the newly named British Waterways for failing to provide " adequate training or access to professional advice British Waterways officers on the conservation of historic structures ".

Nearly all books and articles ( in English ) from videotex's heyday ( the late 1970s and early 1980s ) seem to reflect a common assumption that in any given videotex system, there would be a single company that would build and operate the network.

It never fully recovered from the fragmentation of Mulroney's broad coalition in the late 1980s resulting from English Canada's failure to ratify the Meech Lake Accord.

In Māori usage the term applies much more broadly than the English concept of legal property, and since the 1980s courts have found that the term can encompass intangible things such as language and culture.

In the 1980s, some English winemakers started to grow the grape varieties as used in Champagne – Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier – and in the ensuing decades availability of English sparkling wines made from these varieties increased.