1991: Atlanta Falcons vs Washington Redskins Remastered NFL Highlights

Jerry Glanville sauntered into town with his new-attitude ’91 Atlanta Falcons in their new-look all-black unis, brimming with swagger and ready to give the 9-0 Redskins a fight. Glanville’s Falcons landed few punches on this day, and instead spent most of the afternoon being extras in a Mark Rypien highlight reel. Rypien and the Redskins’ offense rolled the Falcons in a game so lopsided, three of the Redskins’ seven offensive touchdowns were scored despite Atlanta committing penalties on those same plays. Ryp had a red-letter day - 442 yards and six touchdown passes (to Monk (2), Clark (3) and Terry Orr (1)), plus a rushing touchdown to cap off a seven-touchdown joyride.
As for the eighth Redskins touchdown of the day? You’ll have to ask Brett Favre about that!
Not even His Royal Smugness Randy Cross could spoil this perfect day at RFK.
Remastered from VHS to digital with apologies for the sound issues (did my best to remove some serious hiss-noise on the original recording). Also had to contend with late game rain, which always makes digital clean-up a bit more of a chore - all worth it to bring our RetroSkins Community this vintage Redskins gem!
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[@Koolazzmike]

Even though they were up in age, this was the best Redskins team I've ever seen!

[@richardhaynes1127]

Agree. I loved the 83 team as well but the 91 club was dominant.

[@MnyMar]

This was the greatest team in NFL History actually

[@raphaelbellinger3047]

RFK was the opposing team's burial site.. Ryp was literally the Cinderella of the NFL.. Gary Clark was a cheat code.. The defense was merciless and this was the greatest team EVER.

[@johnmccann3964]

Not a single person on a phone; how peaceful to watch!

[@pretorious700]

WORD

[@cappster]

Gary Clark should be in the HOF.

[@countstacks216]

FACTZ!!!

[@jimmieleepatterson]

I think his career was cut a bit short

[@glenardensfinest]

Na he should be in

[@MaximusWolfe]

@@jimmieleepatterson Well think again.

[@johnmassoud930]

💯

[@philchroniger7839]

Farve's first career INT was vs the Redskins. The INT he threw that set the all time "most career INTs thrown" mark...was vs the Redskins.

[@GuitarMatt]

I was at the game with my Dad and I had no idea who that this future HALL OF FAMER, Falcon #4, was then when he came into the game later as a NOBODY** then. Yet I sure learned later when he got his MVP just a few years afterwards basically*! HTTR forever!! *kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYObkoeqobFoerMsi=dqMfORorJwFdUQdI **"Nowhere Man"; kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmmZaIOvgbloircsi=LKyCr6l0wXoyXXHd

[@roses2155]

I was there. It was a phenomenal game for the Redskin fans. We were hoarse from yelling and tired from standing the entire game. Amazing experience!

[@redmustangredmustang]

I wasn't there in fact I couldn't even watch the game. I was with my cousins and aunt touring the Capitol Building that day. It was miserable outside. I got back too late to catch any part of the game. Hell I didn't even get to see any of the highlights until years later when people finally put this up on KZbin.

[@tomb9420]

😢😢

[@jpsix9939]

I watched this as a child... This was a clinical beating

[@ronin120]

The good ole days. How were our wideouts so wide open on so many plays? This team was so complete!

[@pretorious700]

Falcons pass defense was pitiful.

[@denniseverett1904]

Noone had a clue who #4(wearing Falcons gear) was in '91. This Redskins team simply had it ALL going. The whole was greater than the sum of it's parts.

[@Maggot-ml3vz]

Tom Jackson on NFL Primtime called him “Brett Favors” in the highlights of the game 😂

[@bryansolis3139]

I was born a couple years shy to have been rooting for my future football team

[@jsdad48]

Was at this game with a friend, Brett farve was a rookie he came in in the 4th.

[@chrisuncleahmad]

This was the only 6 touchdown game by any QB in the 1990s

[@rjam1974]

Wow I did not know that. Considering who the qbs were of that period very stunning especially the Vikings 1998 team and those powerful Bronco teams, The run and shoot teams (Detroit and Warren Moon Houston teams)

[@thechillestofthemall6947]

He had a rushing touchdown also (7 total in the game)

[@johnwilliams4541]

Last season that we saw glory. Redskins had an amazing team that year. Mark never got the respect he deserved. One of the best deep ball throwers ever

[@Royston1996]

Thank you for the uploads. As a young skins fan this is all I have.

[@RetroSkins]

And you will have more to come!

[@MaximusWolfe]

Sorry you missed the glory years. Gone for good but never forgotten.

[@claudecrump5518]

I've been a Redskins fan practically my whole life and seeing these highlights from the glory days, I sadly wasn't alive for, is amazing. I wish that the Commanders understood why this name means so much to us fans. In my lifetime I've only seen the Redskins win 1 playoff game back in 2005. I hope and pray they change the name back to Redskins, as remote a possibility as that is, because the name, the logo, and the history mean a lot to the fans. Thank you for posting these videos!

[@countstacks216]

HTTR!! This is what I live to see. Blow em out!!!

[@daveygivens735]

You can have the '85 Bears. Top to bottom this was the greatest team the NFL ever produced.

[@Tone22845]

89 49ers

[@hangmandavis496]

They won’t beat the 93 cowboys

[@mloftus8618]

@@hangmandavis496 - yes they could, and likely would.

[@MaximusWolfe]

Yup, the best ever. Absolute powerhouse in every way.

[@MaximusWolfe]

@@Tone22845 That’s a good argument but the Redskins had a better defense than the 89 Niners.

[@redmustangredmustang]

The Redskins just went out and had everything clicking. Deion was hurt, Chris Miller was hurt. They were going with a backup and the Redskins teed off. The secondary were using backups so Rypien had a field day. Everything clicked that day. Sadly for 7 year old me, I didn't see the game. My family and my cousin's family went to the Capitol Building that day. We toured it and the only thing I saw was about 10 seconds of the game from the security check in and out that was on the little personal grey TV. I didn't get to see game footage until people uploaded the game on KZbin years later.

[@thomaseggle8886]

most dominant Redskins team Ive seen in my 47 years.

[@hailskinz1991]

The pinnacle of…..The Hogs, The Posse, and The Ripper

[@moorecamping5503]

What a huge difference in atmosphere being the Redskins and the fight song and between RFK and Fed Ex Field.

[@billyz5088]

RFK was like a 12th man on the field for the Skins - FedEx was never the same - and after a few years with Snyder running things into the ground - FedEx became more like home field advantage for the visiting teams ..

[@fantasticvoyage262]

The bootleg was so good at 5:45 even the camera man was fooled.

[@jer0051]

Not one weakness in the 91 Redskins definitely one of the best teams ever.

[@EW-jo9ko]

Sundays in Dc back then was a ghost town!! The streets were empty like the walking dead

[@NoBullsh_t]

Favre in relief at the end lol...

[@sludge8506]

Two interceptions. 🤪🤪🤪

[@brianbachmeier34]

Hail to the Redskins

[@nickcurran3105]

I remember watching this game in a girl's dorm room in college. Just me and her. I was like "football or..." I went with football and blew my chance. No regrets though. I got to watch Ryp throw, what, five or six TDs?

[@RetroSkins]

I hope these highlight make up for what you missed out on. No… they won’t.

[@user-zf8qv2ne1v]

was at the freezing cold playoff game same year v Falcons, Jerry Glanville had the bright idea to hold up a Redskins Helmet on Falcons sidelines, as players slapped it AT RFK!!! Dumbest coaching move if ever seen--- knew the game was over right then--- Joe Gibbs, Bill Parcells & Walsh won just about every Super Bowl in the 80s.... smart Coaches with Good Players..

[@KevinBYee]

Man I love Gary Clark but why did he do that guy like that at 15:54

[@gregharmon3797]

I was at the seat cushion game with my son, that was crazy.

[@tomb9420]

I never could understand what jerry glanville saw in billy joe tolliver !

[@evancortez2]

Atlanta put in their 3rd string QB at the end of the game, some guy named Bret Favre - I wonder whatever happened to that guy?

[@RetroSkins]

Never heard of him…

[@evancortez2]

@@RetroSkins I guess just a foot note in NFL history

[@NoBullsh_t]

He ended up on welfare...

[@antoniohoward981]

@@NoBullsh_t😅😅😅😅😅

[@gregpaspatis9425]

@RetroSkins my younger brother and I both concur this is all so bittersweet to look at but it's all we have left now, those 85 seasons from pre-2022. We have some requests if you can access these items: NFL 75th anniv. VHS tape of greatest moments in Redskins history sold at Safeway stores originally; Redskins 75th anniv. DVD narrated by Bernard Shaw offered free w/purchase at Burger King (sometime around 2007); in addition would like to know so any movie theater newsreels from late '30s to 1960s contain features of Redskins at Occidental College training camp or 1960s-1970s TV news clips of welcome home luncheons or other off-field community TV news footage of Redskins at charity events from past decades??? Will be patiently waiting for future RetroSkins uploads. Thanks a million!!!

[@RetroSkins]

The RetroSkins library (ie crates of old VHS home recordings) doesn’t include this material. Too retro for RetroSkins!

[@Fireyninjadog]

Rypien was only 16 of 31, but he threw for 442 yards and 6 tds. That's how bad the Falcons secondary was, without deion sanders

[@chrisuncleahmad]

The week before this game, Atlanta beat the 49ers on a Hail Mary The week after this game, Atlanta beat 9-2 New Orleans at the Superdome in OT

[@rjam1974]

Which is why the Skins of 1991 have to be the greatest team of all time . The teams they beat were strong teams

[@jsdad48]

Best game I know of for skins....EVER.

[@christopherestep9334]

The previous season - 1990 - was forgettable - Rypien - himself - plain and simply was awful. (His words.) This game - without question, was Rypien's best regular-season game.

[@sludge8506]

I forgot that the skins wore white at home for a couple of years.

[@mrob8982]

Yea all through the 80s 90s 2000s until 2012

[@anthonybrooks5040]

​@@mrob8982they should wear white exclusively at home again like before! Washington identified with Joe Gibbs and championship football during that period!

[@thomaseggle8886]

I truly believe...someday....they are going to wake up.... remember the proud history of this once beast of a franchise and eliminate that putrid name that they surrendered to and find someone who isn't a weak, spineless stooge to bring back the name that forever belongs to this team and it's fans. Hail to the Redskins.... especially now......and forever!!

[@gregharmon3797]

Too legit too legit but boy did they quit

[@sterlin1m]

No Deion Sanders?🤔

[@fantasticvoyage262]

I guess he was hurt.

[@robertsheetz6067]

Poor Tim McKyrer got beaten like drum all day.... Art Monk ran circles around him ...

[@duanegipson6939]

Where Prime?

[@AstralShine]

He was injured and didn't play in this one. But he did play in the playoff rematch where the Falcons were dominated again.

[@speedyeagle2.25]

12:57 17:15

[@archdelux26]

The Falcons pass D has been pure trash since I’ve been a fan! Still is 🗑 today.

[@cratedog64]

Deon wouldn't have made much of a difference in this game, maybe a TD - 10 pt. difference. The Redskins were unstoppable in 91', it was a blast being a Skins fan back then, wore my colors every day!