Need to Know: Joe Gibbs? five NFC title games | Rich Tandler's Real Redskins
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Here is a look at Joe Gibbs’ five appearances in the NFC championship game:
1982 (season) vs. Cowboys—I don’t care how loud they say it’s going to get today in Seattle, it won’t be louder than it was in RFK Stadium after Darryl Grant high-stepped into the end zone after he gathered in a Gary Hogeboom pass that Dexter Manley had tipped into the air. That play clinched the home team’s 31-17 win and sent the Redskins to Pasadena, where they won their first Super Bowl.