1986 RetroSkins Highlights: St. Louis Cardinals vs Washington Redskins

In salute to the opening day victory for DC football this season, we go back and revisit the last time Washington won it’s 9th straight home game vs the Cardinals. It was 1986, so back we go to RFK Stadium for Joe Gibbs and his overachieving ’86 squad against Gene Stallings’ hard-luck Cardinals.
The Redskins (5-1) were cruising to an easy win over the Cardinals (1-5) before pesky penalties, whoopsie turnovers and shoddy kicking let the Cards back into the game as a 21-point runaway turned out to be a last second nail-biter (the kind we like!). George Rogers rumbled to a 100-yard+ day, while the Icarus-like Jay Schroeder with help from Gary Clark, Art Monk and Clint Didier, had a fine day. Didier’s catches were particularly stellar in this one. Kudos to the Cards, who didn’t give up and aaaaaalmost ended their RFK jinx - that would have to wait a while longer as the Redskins would go on to extend that home winning streak vs the Redbirds to 15 (!!) games through the 1992 season.
This one has a tinge of melancholy to it, being the first game without fan-favorite Mark Mosley, their long-time kicker who was let go in early weeks of the ’86 season. In his place came the highly unreliable Max Zendejas, booed in the fourth quarter for a key miss on his first field goal attempt as a Redskin (get used to it, kid).
Tim Ryan and a highly caffeinated Terry Bradshaw from a sunny day at RFK for #9 of 15 straight home wins vs the poor, poor Cardinals. This one is little on the rougher side in terms of picture quality, but it was 1986 after all.
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[@GeorgeWashingtonX]

I miss the ol' NFC East.. I used to always look forward to the two Skins-Cards games every season.
Cardinals' red uniforms were the best of that era (my opinion).

[@chrisuncleahmad]

Gene Stallings would end up having coaching success after leaving the Cardinals for college football
Won a national title at Alabama in January 1993 (which was 1 day before Washington’s playoff rout of the Vikings)

[@Will008]

MONK!

[@chrismadison80]

Neil lomax was low key pretty tough

[@Tapout924]

Remember my Dad saying .. Schroeder better play great this week... Can't believe he's making 1 million dollars.. My 16 year old mind said WOW that's crazy he's making that much..😂😂.Httr

[@bretttoombs2465]

Tell your Dad, Schroeder went to the Pro Bowl in 1986.....

[@user-kb3ze1sd9l]

Nice! Two close wins over the Cards that year 😬 Skins would finish 14-5 overall that season (0-3 against the Giants, 14-2 against the rest of the league) 🏈