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The Washington Commanders are a professional American football franchise based in the Washington metropolitan area. They are members of the East division in the National Football Conference (NFC) of the National Football League (NFL). The Commanders were founded in 1932 as the Boston Braves, named after the local baseball franchise. [1]
The 1950 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 19th season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 7th in Washington, D.C. The team failed to improve on their 4–7–1 record from 1949 and finished 3–9.
The 1944 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 13th season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 7th in Washington, D.C. The team matched on their 6–3–1 record from 1943, when they made it to the Championship game but missed the playoffs.
It was the first time that National Football League games were televised live, coast-to-coast, in prime time, for the entire season. This predated Monday Night Football on ABC by 17 years. [ 4 ] Several of the games in 1953 and 1954 originated in New York ( Giants ), Pittsburgh ( Steelers ), or Washington ( Redskins ).
The team played as the Washington Football Team for two seasons before rebranding as the Commanders in 2022. Washington won the 1937 and 1942 NFL championship games and Super Bowls XVII, XXII, and XXVI. Washington has finished a season as league runner-up six times, losing the 1936, 1940, 1943, and 1945 title games and Super Bowls VII and XVIII.
The 1963 Washington Redskins season was the franchise's 32nd season in the National Football League (NFL) and their 27th in Washington, D.C. The team tried to improve on their 5–7–2 record from 1962 but failed and finished 3–11.
The 1971 Washington Redskins season was the team's 40th in the National Football League, and its 35th in Washington, D.C. The Redskins were led by first-year head coach George Allen , who had been the head coach of the Los Angeles Rams for the previous five seasons.
The Colts and Redskins had some sort of co-op arrangement for 1962. In this instance, for the Week 1 game between Los Angeles-Baltimore game was seen throughout the vast Redskins network that extended all the way to the Florida Keys. Meanwhile, the Washington-Dallas game was seen only on Channel 9 in the DC viewing area.