Purchase Mark May's Tales of the Washington Redskins

The 1980s seemed like a "return to Camelot" for our nation’s capital-at least for pro football fans.

Read excerpts from the book.

Following the 1982 NFL season, the Washington Redskins returned to the Super Bowl for the first time in a decade. Their victory in Super Bowl XVII returned the NFL championship to Washington for the first time in 40 years.

Over the next 10 years, the Redskins earned three more trips to the Super Bowl, capturing two more Lombardi trophies as the champions of pro football.

The Redskins are the real "America’s Team." They not only won championships, they did it with style-the glitzy, billionaire owner; the Sunday-school teaching, Hall of Fame coach; the brash veteran quarterback; the quirky, bruising fullback; and a collection of colorful units, including The Smurfs, The Fun Bunch, The Wrecking Crew, and The Hogs, who were the most celebrated offensive line in pro football history. Reaganomics might have rescued the country from an economic recession, but Riggo-nomics fueled the Redskin Nation.

In his Tales from the Washington Redskins, Mark May takes you onto the playing field and inside the huddle. You’ll hear behind-the-scenes stories including May’s experiences against opposing players such as Lawrence Taylor, Reggie White, and Mike Singletary. You’ll also get May’s first-person account of the Redskins’ extra curricular activities.

Tales from the Washington Redskins also includes May’s person reflections on the people behind the Redskins’ success-Jack Kent Cooke, Joe Gibbs, Bobby Beathard, Joe Theismann, John Riggins, The Hogs, and the Washington Redskins’ loyal and devoted followers-the "Greatest Fans in the National Football League."

May also offers his insight to the new Washington regime under club owner Danny Snyder and why the Redskins’ hopes for a return to glory may be nothing more than a pipedream.