"The last time the Washington Redskins drafted the Heisman Trophy winner — Desmond Howard 20 years ago — he held out and missed all of training camp. Howard's agent, Leigh Steinberg, thought his client deserved to be paid a little more than the typical fourth selection because of his marketability and name recognition. The Redskins resisted this notion, and the stalemate dragged on through August. We all got a big chuckle out of Steinberg's fantasy that Howard was going to put fannies in the seats. In 1992, you see, the Redskins didn't have any seats to put fannies in. They were still playing at cozy RFK Stadium, where they had been sold out forever, and their season-ticket waiting list stretched from here to Richmond. They also were coming off their third Super Bowl win in the Joe Gibbs era and didn't feel like they needed anybody, even a receiver-return man who had scored 23 touchdowns as a college senior. It's one of the things that has set the Redskins apart from so many franchises. They might sign a free agent such as John Riggins, and he might help them win more games, but his box office value was negligible because the stadium already was filled. About the only place you could find a ticket back then, usually at a ridiculously inflated price, was on the secondary market." Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/25/daly-heisman-winner-comes-long-at-a-crucial-time-f/
