Alex Smith was badly injured in the third quarter of the Redskins’ game against the Texans. Alex Brandon/Associated Press
LANDOVER, Md. — Joe Theismann was driving to the Washington Redskins game from his home in Northern Virginia on Sunday when he realized what day it was.
“I turned to my wife and said: ‘Robin, it was 33 years ago today,’” Theismann, the former Washington quarterback, said late Sunday afternoon, standing in a hallway beneath the grandstand at FedEx Field.
In Theismann’s eventful life, there is still only one “it” moment. It was one of the most unforgettable, gruesome episodes in N.