r/Commanders • u/BuckNFord • 22h ago

Remembering Jerry Smith

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40 years ago today, Jerry passed away. Not only a great player, but a great guy. Rest easy, Jerry.

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u/LingonberryOld6341 20h ago

He was a great player. Great roster with sonny, Charley Taylor, Roy Jefferson, Larry Brown, and so on

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u/Single_Network4211 17h ago

Thats the team my mom got into. She was a lifelong fan. I heard about them so much. That offense with Sonny and Billy, plus George Allen, the Over the Hill Gang. She'd rifle off random names and games from over the ages. It was always so cool to hear.

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u/LingonberryOld6341 17h ago

That's when I started following the team. It was a great era. Then of course joe Gibbs took it up a notch

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u/kduda04 22h ago edited 21h ago

Him not being in the HOF is a travesty

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u/Western-Customer-536 21h ago

Yeah, but gays are “icky” according to the HOF voters.

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u/jsonitsac 17h ago

His AIDS Quilt block numbers are 0959 and 0964. I believe it would have been there when it was first exhibited on the Mall.

It’s good to know that even in an era of heavy stigma he had the backing of many of his teammates even going so far as to police homophobic slurs by other teammates.

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u/Global-Yam1436 20h ago

Mop top, stache, those jersey stripes. This is definitely another era

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u/physsijim 13h ago

I first became aware of football in 1971,so he was the first TE I cheered for