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The original was posted on /r/nfl by /u/bilbobiggers on 2025-01-14 21:20:23+00:00.
I already knew Washington was on a very long playoff drought, but this is a fun wrinkle.
Before Sunday, the Washington franchise had played 15 road playoff games since the end of World War II and won 5 of them - all 5 with Joe Gibbs as head coach, over two separate tenures. Those aside, they went 0-4 with George Allen (before Gibbs) and 0-1 with Norv Turner (between Gibbs’ stints).
Before that, they had two road wins in playoff-ish games, but they weren’t strictly “playoff wins” because the NFL didn’t even have playoffs then: they beat the Giants in a tiebreaker game in 1943 and they beat the Bears in the 1937 NFL Championship Game (held in Chicago because the Bears had the best regular season record).
So I guess you could even say Sunday was Washington’s first Joe Gibbs-less road playoff win ever.