Most notable was Washington football legend Doug Williams, the Grambling State product and Super Bowl XXII MVP, now working in the team’s front office, who began the proceedings with some video narration and then walked out from behind the stage.
“There was a time when we judged football players by the color of their skin, before the content of their character,” he said above a short video package that introduced the significance of his and his peers’ achievements. “As my coach Eddie Robinson said, ‘This is America, we can be anything we want to be.’”
Indeed, Williams lived up to his coach’s words, notching several firsts during the Redskins’ second Super Bowl run and victory.