Ask any of the Redskins alumni on hand Saturday morning and afternoon in Oxon Hill, Md., about growing up with a playground, and they’ll quickly explain that nothing they had could quite match what they just helped build.
For many, the spaces in which they played involved cement yards, a few open fields, maybe a rusty swing set, the kind that squeaked on every push, and, if you were as lucky as former linebacker London Fletcher, some monkey bars and a basketball court.
Nothing came close to what more than 50 of them, along with 150 other local volunteers, helped erect over the course of several hours in an empty lot at Southern Marketplace.