Remember, remember the 18th of November.
That’s what Washington fans will be muttering for the next few decades now that starting quarterback Alex Smith has been ruled out for the ruled out for the rest of the season after an ugly broken leg, suffered at the hands of the Houston Texans defense. The injury includes multiple bone fractures. It alone is gruesome, but there’s a bit more eerie familiarity with all of this.
On the 18th of November in 1985 (33 years to the date of Smith’s injury), Joe Theismann was tackled by Lawrence Taylor, suffering the exact same injury.