Help with old Redskins newspapers... please!

[voicekiller]

If it means that much to you to get an original post copy do what the guy said above and buy it from the Post...but thats a hefty price to pay

[MD.C RedskinsFan]

Wow and abundance of help far beyond and above what I was expecting. Thank you everybody.

I have both times we beat Dallas in 2005

And we got both types of victories, the heartbreaker and the beatdown.

I have the Post from after SB26 and the Washington Times after SB22.

I also have the Washington Post sports section from the day of SB18 January 22, 1984.

The Skins were being crowned as one of the greatest teams of all time, all they had to do is beat those friggin Raiders.

It seems like quite a few of you Extremeskins have these historic newspapers. I'll have my day eventually. And in my helpless Redskins heart the Redskins are the greatest team of all time.

Check E-Bay. Put in "Redskins newspaper" There is a Maryland paper for sale right now. You can check from time to time as someone may be selling a copy of the post eventually.

BTW; the books Season of Respect, The Impossible Dream, Redskins: Team of the 80s and That Super Season all reprint articles from the Super Bowl seasons. I can't remember if they show a picture of the actual paper for the Super Bowl win though. They may not exactly what you are looking for but they are interesting. You can often find them in www.bn.com under used books.

Another great idea, I saw the Maryland paper and thanks for the link. I'll take a look. When the Redskins win again I might just have to buy a whole bunch of different newspapers

Bill Clinton is not a maggot. I am not following my own advice here but keep your political opinons out of the stadium please.

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I have newspaper articles from the day after both the 88 and 92 Super Bowl wins. I think I have at least one Washington Post and some local papers from the area I grew up.

The coolest memoribilia, however, is my collection of unopened Wheaties Boxes with Doug Williams and the offense.

Thats great, everyone here is so good and I'm sure those Wheaties will never get eaten ever. And by your location I'm not quite sure but does the translated version equate to born in Maryland?

It will be hard to find the originals but what you could do is go to the library and look in the archived microfiche and print out a colored photo copy

Thanks, Yeah when I wrote this thread I was fully prepared for it to be impossible but people here have really opened my eyes.

THe Washington Post for prior to 1987 or so is available online. Go to the Washington Post and look under archives. After 1987 it's available as text only so you won't see the original paper. One thing though is sometimes the older articles won't show the picture [it'll say blocked due to copyright] Sometimes it will show the picture. You do have to pay per each article you want to download but you could get copies of the WP articles from the '83 SB win this way.

also you can buy full copies of a front page from the WP of any historical date, but it is expensive. At least $45, depending on how big you want the reprint. I'd stick with buying from the archive or copying from the library or searching ebay myself.

Thanks for the ideas. The Washington Post website is a lot more extensive than I previously thought. And yeah $45 is a tad bit expensive but at least I know that the service is available now.

If it means that much to you to get an original post copy do what the guy said above and buy it from the Post...but thats a hefty price to pay

Yeah its crazy the way the vaule of things increases with time. Back in the day you could probably find several Washington newspapers on the ground and getting blown around by the wind. Back then to many they weren't worth much to many people but can you imagine if you went outside and you saw $45 on the ground and flying around?

Thanks again everybody.

[dinkymark67]

also you can buy full copies of a front page from the WP of any historical date, but it is expensive. At least $45, depending on how big you want the reprint. I'd stick with buying from the archive or copying from the library or searching ebay myself.

I should clarify, it's this expensive to get a copy of the full front of the paper that they'll mail to you. You can get the individual articles via download much cheaper. Both services are under archives at the Washington Post website. Hopefully I'm making some sense...

[dinkymark67]

one more thing...i checked www.bn.com and both the Season of Respect [which accumulated articles from the 1982 Super Bowl season and Team of the Eighties [the 1987 season] are both available for about $12.00 each. Both are really great and worth it in my opinion. They just reprint articles [and pictures]...so you follow the season as it was written about as it happened, not what someone wrote about in retrospect...so you see how little respect the Redskins got in the 1982 preseason.

[throwback37]

I've got all 3 Washington Post editions that came out after each superbowl victory. Also have the Post from Darrell Green's last game. Unfortunately, the 82 Post is showing it's age. I'll get you pics if you'd like to see them.

[psh]

Sorry for the bump but does anybody remember the page on Darrell Green when he retired? It was a full newspaper page and I believe it was in the Washington Post but I can't remember if it was Darrell Green who set up the page to thank the fans or if it was Dan Snyder thanking Darrell Green for his years as a Redskin.

Reason I'm asking is because my wife recently ran into Darrell Green at her work and she had no idea who he was and ended up texting me if I knew a Redskins HOF named "Daryl." She grew up in Brazil so she has no interest in football but over the past three years, I've been slowly converting her into a skins fan. I've been showing her highlights of Darrell Green and how he was a role model on and off the field and she said she could tell by the way he handled himself when she met him. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

[redskindan07]

My Grandmother saved me a copy of the Washington Post prior to the 87 Broncos Super Bowl. Still pretty cool to look at.

[PatFischer37]

I have the post after the '82 victory and the sporting news from the '87 victory

[Timmy Smith]

I had the front pages of the Washington Post framed, for the editions of the day after our Super Bowl 22 and 26 wins. Had them on my bedroom wall as a teenager, and still remember them:

"Williams Delivers a Super Bowl Triumph" (black and white pic of Williams leaving the field, head bowed, with Redskins helmet held aloft)

"Redskins Win Super Bowl, 37-24" (color pic of one of our RBs (Riggs?) diving into the end zone)

...always kinda thought the SB 26 headline was a little boring, but hey, I'll take it

[Darth Tater]

The coolest thing I've got is some WP sports articles from before the first Eagles game in 1982. "too many question marks"

[ILikeBilly]

I am not sure what you all will think, but I think I have you all beat. After the '91 Super Bowl, the Washington Post did a reprint off all of the Bandwagon articles, put them into a little magazine type format and sold if for a few bucks. You had to order it by mail from WashPost. I have it stored away, and haven't looked at it in awhile.

The reason it is so cool is that the Bandwagon articles started week 1 that year when we beat the lions 45-0. After that there was a new Bandwagon article once a week thru the entire season and playoffs. Each article included a little black and white sketch. The writer was (I think) Tony Kornheiser from Pardon the Interruption. He called it so early that season. I have always liked him since then. That was when he was a real fan of the 'Skins.

If I can find it, I will try to scan the cover and place it in here. I am sure there are copy right laws keeping me from posting the entire thing.

[Kosher Ham]

I got 'em all. I used to work for WP. I have the Times papers too. I won't sell them, to me they are priceless. When I die my wife can sell them but I doubt it would ever happen.

[greenspandan]

I have the Washington Post from the following day after our '91 SB victory.

I have this too. I keep it inside the redskins wheaties box from the same period

[MarkB452]

I am not sure what you all will think, but I think I have you all beat. After the '91 Super Bowl, the Washington Post did a reprint off all of the Bandwagon articles, put them into a little magazine type format and sold if for a few bucks. You had to order it by mail from WashPost. I have it stored away, and haven't looked at it in awhile.

The reason it is so cool is that the Bandwagon articles started week 1 that year when we beat the lions 45-0. After that there was a new Bandwagon article once a week thru the entire season and playoffs. Each article included a little black and white sketch. The writer was (I think) Tony Kornheiser from Pardon the Interruption. He called it so early that season. I have always liked him since then. That was when he was a real fan of the 'Skins.

If I can find it, I will try to scan the cover and place it in here. I am sure there are copy right laws keeping me from posting the entire thing.

>> I have that collection too (it is somewhere, I have moved 3x since 1992). Those articles are available here, but they lack the drawings of the Bandwagon that appeared each week alongside the column.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv...n/wagnfrnt.htm

---------- Post added October-5th-2012 at 11:52 PM ----------

Link on the Washington Post with articles about all the Super Bowls. ....Just read the one for SB VII.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...skins/history/

[bowhunter]

This is hanging in my gameroom. Richmond Times-Disgrace Feb.1,