The firing of Ron Rivera as the head coach of the Washington Commanders may have been expected, but team owner Josh Harris has a long way to go to restore a tradition of winning football to the nation’s capital.
I was 8 years old when I moved to the D.C. area and adopted the Washington Redskins as my hometown team. Since then, I have watched a franchise repeatedly embarrass itself off the field with workplace culture issues and deranged ownership and embarrass itself on the field with abysmal and inconsistent play.
To make matters worse, amid its culture of losing, the team abandoned its iconic and historic moniker amid the 2020 race riots, severing its legacy ties to the great teams of the 1980s that brought Super Bowl championships to the nation’s capital.
I never saw those teams play. Great players of the era such as Joe Theismann, John Riggins, Doug Williams, and Art Monk…
