If "I'm from a football family" can be Allen's excuse for everything

[demnan]

Then what will Bush come up with, "I owned a baseball team?" :shrug:

[Kutjara]

1. I think Allen means...

..."I'm from a football family. We've all had major blows to the head."

Now that really would explain his views.

[TheFriedPiper]

3. He's from a family of footballs

'been kicked around since i was born'

[Virginia Dare]

2. He probably doesn't see the irony in the fact...

that his father coached the Washington "Redskins".

By the way, the original owner of the Redskins, (not when George Allen coached however), George Preston Marshall, was a notorious racist.

[MnFats]

4. I never knew that but you prompted me to find this...

...
Establishment in Boston

The city of Boston was awarded an NFL franchise in 1932, under the ownership of George Preston Marshall. On the heels of Marshall's entry to the National Football League, and evidently influenced by his racial policies, the other NFL teams dropped all black players in 1933 and none signed blacks again until 1946.

While in Boston, the team took the same name as one of the local baseball teams at the time, the Boston Braves. To help differentiate the two teams, Marshall changed the name of the football Braves to the Redskins. Both teams played at Braves Field until the Redskins moved to Fenway Park (home of the Boston Red Sox) in an attempt to boost attendance.

[Virginia Dare]

5. It kind of pokes a hole in the argument...

that "Redskins" is not a racist term. It's been a back and forth argument in this city for some years now. I've been a Redskins fan all my life, but I definitely feel it is past time for this name to go.

[LisaM]

6. *I'm* from a football family!

Please don't blame his antics on the fact that he is from a football family!