Published 11/19/2008
by Cindy Boren
at Redskins Insider
You know how you were surprised when Donovan McNabb didn't know an NFL game could end in a tie? Turns out he isn't alone. Dan Steinberg polled some of the Redskins about that rule and others and found out that, gasp, football players don't really watch games on their days off and that not all of them really need to know all the rules. "I think most quarterbacks probably know," Shaun Alexander, who was familiar...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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