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\"hailredskinsbook\"<\/a>A new book titled “Hail to the Redskins: Gibbs, the Diesel, the Hogs and the Glory Days of D.C.’s Football Dynasty” comes out in September but you can pre-order your copy for more than 50 percent off the regular price.<\/p>\n

During the 1980s and early 1990s, North Carolina residents watched the Redskins each Sunday as NC-native Joe Gibbs led them to four championship games.<\/p>\n

It’s called “a rollicking chronicle that takes fans behind the scenes of the legendary Super Bowl-champion Washington Redskins teams of the Joe Gibbs\u2019 era and offers a revealing portrait of the NFL during the 1980s and early 1990s.”<\/p>\n

Based on more than 75 original interviews, here is the inside story of the glory days of the famed Washington Redskins teams of the Joe Gibbs\u2019 era\u2014one of the most remarkable and unique runs in NFL history. From 1981 to 1992, Gibbs coached the franchise to three Super Bowl victories, making the team the toast of the nation\u2019s capital, both among the political elite and the city\u2019s majority African-American population.<\/p>\n

Veteran sportswriter Adam Lazarus charts the team\u2019s rise from mediocrity (the franchise had never won a Super Bowl and Gibbs\u2019s first year as head coach started with a five-game losing streak that almost cost him his job) to its stretch of four championship games in ten years. What makes the run of sustained success all the more remarkable is that, unlike Joe Montana\u2019s 49ers or Tom Brady\u2019s Patriots, each of Gibbs\u2019s Super Bowl victories featured a different quarterback\u2014a testament to the genius of the team\u2019s head coach, who proved himself one of the most adaptable and creative minds in NFL history.<\/p>\n

Hail to the Redskins<\/em> features an epic cast of characters: hard-drinking halfback John Riggins; the dominant, blue-collar offensive linemen known as \u201cthe Hogs\u201d who became a cultural phenomenon; quarterbacks Doug Williams, the first African-American QB to win a Super Bowl, and Joe Theismann, a model-handsome pitchman whose leg was brutally broken by Lawrence Taylor on Monday Night Football; gregarious defensive end Dexter Manley, who would be banned from the league for cocaine abuse; and others including Darrell Green, Art Monk, Mark Rypien, owner Jack Kent Cooke, and more.<\/p>\n

Building on Lazarus\u2019s interviews with key inside sources, including Redskin players, personalities, and journalists, Hail to the Redskins<\/em> paints a colorful picture of one of the most compelling teams in football history. Order your copy by linking below or on the ad on the right side of the page.<\/p>\n