John Riggins is doing yoga; Ashtanga yoga to be exact. Which means that, right now, he’s working his way through the sun salutation: bending over to touch his toes, kicking his legs back into a ...

Joe Gibbs looked back at when John Riggins outmaneuvered him when the legendary Washington coach tried to get him back on the ...

John Riggins’ Super Bowl XVII MVP performance featured one of the most iconic moments in Super Bowl history: With Washington trailing the Miami Dolphins 17-13 in the fourth quarter, Riggins took ...

For whatever reason, some Super Bowl champions are remembered more than others. Teams like the 1966 Packers, 1978 Steelers, 1972 Dolphins, 1985 Bears, and 1999 Rams continue to be celebrated and ...

Pro Football Hall of Fame running John Riggins is one of the most iconic players in Washington's over 90-year history. "Riggo," or "Diesel," whatever your preferred nickname for Riggins, enjoyed a ...

If it hadn’t turned into the John Riggins Bowl, Super Bowl XVII may have been called the Jimmy Cefalo Bowl. Riggins led Washington to a 27-17 victory over Cefalo’s Dolphins. But the Dolphins ...

That allowed Washington, the eventual Super Bowl winner, to play four postseason games. And John Riggins totaled 610 rushing yards in those four games, a record that still stands as the most rushing ...

Riggins’s 43-yard touchdown run on a fourth-down play called 70-Chip to give Washington the lead for good in its first Super Bowl win could be among the topics of conversation when Posnanski ...

A former Super Bowl MVP came to mind for Bill Belichick while analyzing film of Patriots’ running back Rhamondre Stevenson during a recent episode of his show “Coach with Bill Belichick ...

This weekend, the NFL Divisional Playoff round will be played. 40 years ago, the 1982 Washington Redskins became the first team in franchise history to win a Super Bowl. How did that team fare in ...

Former Redskins runningback John "The Diesel" Riggins, the MVP of that team's 1983 Super Bowl win, stood on top of the Nationals' dugout just before Max Scherzer's first pitch and delivered a ...