Washington Redskins Super Bowl XVII Poster
date: label: date made
content: 1983
name: label: referenced
content: Washington Redskins
label: referenced
content: Miami Dolphins
notes: label: Description
content: Football poster is yellow with red printing and a red line drawing of a Native American frying a dolphin in a frying pan. The text reads: "Skin the Fish Super Bowl XVII." The poster represents the Washington Redskins and Miami Dolphins, who were to meet in Super Bowl XVII, held on January of 1983 at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California. The Dolphins were favored coming into the game due to their "Killer Bees" defense which had recorded 12 interceptions in their first three playoff games. However, the Redskins won the game, 27-17 despite being down 17-10 at halftime. The Redskins would score 17 unanswered points in the second half to win the game. The Redskins were quarterbacked by Joe Theismann and the game's MVP was Redskins running back John Riggins who had 38 carries for 166 yards with 1 TD and 1 catch for 15 yards.
label: Description
content: The 1982 NFL football season is also known for being a particularly short season. Due to a 57 day long strike by players, the season was shortened from 16 games to nine games. This was also the first season that the NFL started to keep sacks as an official statistic.
label: Description
content: The poster was produced by The Washington Times. The Washington Times is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Washington, D.C. The Times was founded in 1982 by Sun Myung Moon who also founded the Unification Church. News World Media Development currently owns the paper.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: name of sport
content: Football
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: Subject
content: Super Bowl
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0551.10
label: accession number
content: 1984.0551
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0551.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: poster, football
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 10 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 26.67 cm