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It was a great Super Bowl and a fitting pick-6 legacy for the highly overrated Peyton Manning, the Capitals beat the Penguins in OT to win their 14th straight game, but the best sports news of the weekend was that Russ Grimm is headed to Canton and the Pro Football Hall Of Fame.
To celebrate Grimm’s long overdue induction, enjoy a few videos, pictures and stories about this legendary Hog.
Russ Grimm was a constant on the Redskins line from 1982-1991, when the team went to four Super Bowls and won three. The first Super Bowl win involved the most iconic running play of the 80′s, if not all time:
The Hot Dog Story
From Shutdown Corner and Dan Steinberg’s D.C. Sports Bog:
We practiced on Wednesday nights. They had a nice little bar in Carlisle, they had chili dogs and stuff like that. So we had [practice] that night and I got in the huddle and it smelled like a brewery. And [Grimm] got a little overheated. And I don’t mean to say throw up…but he threw up, and he threw up a hot dog. It hit the grass.” …
… Grimm “picked that wiener” off the ground. The ball boys got nauseated, and one said “Mr. Grimm, you can’t do that.” And Grimm blew on the hot dog, shook it off, and then popped it back in his mouth.
“Can’t waste a good dog now,” he said.
Like any good reporter, Steinberg’s follow-up was to ask how it was possible for a man to “upchuck” an entire hot dog. Not missing a beat, Bugel stated that it was possible because Grimm swallowed them whole so he could get to the next one on his plate.
Grimm and the rest of the Hogs opened up holes for running backs far less talented than John Riggins. Who still holds the Super Bowl rushing yards record? Timmy Smith in Super Bowl XXII. Smith had just over 600 regular season yards in his entire career.
The Hog Shot Glass
From Mister Irrelevant:
According to Mark May, a teammate both at Pittsburgh and on the Redskins, no one lived up to the “Hog” persona more than Grimm: “He was a blue collar stiff and proud of it.” In his 2005 memoir, May recalled a Christmas party at his house in 1982: “I iced down a keg of beer and stationed it on the landing between the first floor and basement. Russ turned the landing into his headquarters for the evening. He grabbed a chair and a Hog shot glass (a 60-ounce pitcher) and parked his butt on the landing next to the keg.
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