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“I didn’t have a good tailor in my day, so I always had this little roll in front of me,” Jurgensen once told me. “People could sit at home and say, ‘I want to watch football, and the wife would say you’re just sitting around drinking beer.
Sonny Jurgensen and an honor long overdue →
"I am very humbled by this recognition, it is an honor of a lifetime to have my jersey retired with a franchise I spent 55 years," Jurgensen said in a statement. "Thank you to Dan and Tanya [Snyder] for this honor and for supporting me and my family during our time in Washington. From hanging up my cleats to hanging up my clipboard and headset a few decades later, my time spent in Washington meant the world to me."
