Ted I grew up in Washington, DC area. Jurgensen was phenomenal, an incredibly accurate passer. It is still incredible to me that George Allen started Kilmer over him at the end of his career when he could still play. The Redskins teams until the very end of Jurgensen's career were horrible. God only knows how far he could have gone with a decent team. The man could flat out throw. There is a story, probably apocryphal, that he was asked if he could hit a receiver in the eye at 40 yards. He asked, which eye?
PS After Sonny retired, when he was an announcer (a beloved one at that, a fixture of Redskins radio coverage for decades), my Dad had the good fortune of sitting next to him on a cross country flight out of DC. Sonny, shall we say, had a few, and apparently had some very choice things to say about being demoted to second string in favor of Billy Kilmer. I wish I had been there.
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