Foes. Change the mason mascot leaders pointed to several journalists who spoke out against the name. Now on the other side, the majority of the area residents believe the redskins should keep their name. A usa today poll found 70 of redskins fans are against a name change. You mr. Be able to see the superbowl right here on wusa9 and we are one month away from the gig game. Thats right. The washington road to superbowl 50 starts this weekend at fedex field. Our kristin berset joins us live from the park where they spent the day preps for the packers. Reporter yeah, just a couple of days away from the first game against the packers on sunday. The practice is getting more intense as the week goes on. The guys getting excited. Really starting to feel it. But the coach said despite that, nothing in terms of preparation has changed this week from the regular season. Just another week. Another game. Another opponent. But, if the redskins are going to knock off green bay in the playoffs on sunday, what is the one thing they must do . Frank may have your answer. Frank . Reporter all right at this hour, most players have gone home to get rested up for green bay sunday. The Coaching Staff is still here going over tape of the packers but sometimes a key to winning a Football Game really comes down to the basics. Up front, we have to do a good job of getting guys around rogers. Get him on the ground. Keeping him in the pocket. A guy that athletic with that kind of throwing ability, you dont wanted him have the ball in his hands too long. You dont want to allow his receiver to go deep. We have to win one on one matchups. That is number one, and we have to give kirk time. I think, you know, as an offense f we do that, then we have a big chance. Really just take care of the ball. Do what we have been doing. Not turn the ball over. Feed off of our home crowd advantage. And you know. Really just try to get ahead as early as possible. And you heard about the one on one matchups. They have aaron rogers. The redskins cannot allow him to single handedly beat the skins sunday. Back to you. Thank you very much frank. Redskins last practice this week, our coverage is far from over. We hope you join us sunday morning at 11 30. We are geting the band back together. Daryl, dexter, kristin will join frank, dante, and me for a special hour long pregame edition of game on. Sunday morning at 11 30 and frank with a very special interview tomorrow with terrance knighton. You will want to join us on that. Coming up, dante will join us later in sports. Guys back to you in the studio. Looking forward to it. It has been a fun week meeting burgundy and gold fans. They all have their own story about why they love this team. Diane introduces us to one of the oldest redskins fans who has a special bond with the team. Reporter absolutely. We first met Melva Jacobson during the 2014 training camp. She spent her 90th birthday watching and meeting her favorite team. Now that she has met them, the playoff game has more meaning. She first became a fan when fdr was president. She always loved her team and more so since her 90th birthday visit to training camp. We will get a bunch of player to come by. Reporter ever since shark has had a special relationship with the team and the owner. There is me and dan. Your buddy. That is my friend. She seem to feel like they are her family, you know. And dan snyder has been really so good to her about making that feeling come about. Reporter after meeting her at training camp, the mother of four, grandmother of 15 and great grandmother of 13 tickets to the last two dallas games at fedex field. She thinks of the players as her kids too. I think kirk is my favorite. What do you like about kirk cousins . He is just a sweet guy. Give some advice to kirk cousins there . Yeah. Yeah. He took it. Look what she doing. Reporter she keeping up with the Injury Report and has a good feeling about sunday. If they can play anything like they played last week, we are going to win and they are getting their center back. I am more excited about the game. I love her. You herd young say he would take melv out on dates. She says she is still waiting and will hold him to it. If the team makes it to the superbowl, she is going to call dan looking for tickets. They have a special bond. I really love that picture of them. That is a side of dan you dont see very often. She is a big fan. He better not stand her up. I talked to darryl grant. He was a picture back in the 1980s. He played in three superbowl and won two of them. A great accomplishment but those good old days came with a price. How much did you make your first year . 35,000. That was it. You were a draft pick . I was. 35,000. That was the time you had to have a job in the off season. Absolutely. Everybody had a second job. Reporter how many concussions did you suffer . Too many to even count. I couldnt count them. Back then, you could suffer one and go back in. Oh i went back in but i deny remember the game until i watched it. Who does darryl grant like this weekend . You know the answer to that . The burgundy and gold. I cant believe three superbowls he went to. A superbowl his second year in the league. A family is so hog wild about the redskins, they take their pigs to every home game. Mrs. Charlotte is 1,000 pounds at her peak and every ounce of her was devoted to the redskins. We are going to talk to rich about where his pig now and his love for the team. Cant wait to hear that one. You can watch more super fan stories and everything you need to know about the wild card game on wusa9. Com and the free wusa9 app. And just because it wont be raining during sundays game doesnt mean weather wont affect the outcome. Chief meteorologist topper shutt is tracking other factors that could influence the game. Top . We are getting lucky in terms of having the rain stop. But that said, overnight, saturday night, we are looking at a half an inch of rain that could affect the footing. It is a natural turf field. Falling temperatures 50s to 40s. Not crazy. But will require some adjustment. The biggest factor will be the wind. Winds southwest at 10 to 20 and gusty. That could affect a long field goal attempt. That is something to watch out for. But struggled forecast looks good. Partly cloudy. Windy, chilly. Fall into the low to mid 40s before the game is over. And there are your winds southwest at 10 to 20. As long as you dont tailgate too early you will be okay. Should be dry to get there. 10 00, 11 00 in the morning it will still be raining. Right now, president barack obama is on the move making his way to the campus of george mason university. That is where he will take mart in a televised town hall focused entirely on guns. This will be the president s first opportunity to talk extensively about his new executive orders on gun control. The crowd of george mason has already gathered including opponents of the president s plan. They are also there. Garrett haake will have a full report tonight at 11 00. The areas Biggest School system fights for a bigger budget. We will talk about what is inside the plan that could make a lot of teachers and parents happy. This just in. Cold play will not be the only band taking the stage at superbowl 50. We will tell you the big name singer who just might kneel the spotlight. Later on wusa9, only on your local news, how the burgundy and gold can exploit the packers. But first, as we head into break, a little throwback thursday. Burgundy and gold style. This fan tweeted a photo of himself rocking the doug williams. Tweet find your sweet spot today with dunkins chicken apple sausage sandwich. 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And in southern california, record breaking rainstorms are flooding roads and homes and triggering mud slides. Here is one good thing. All the rain is refilling the states depleted reservoirs. You know, when you live in the desert, it is feast or famine. As i try to explain to my sisters who lives out there. A live look outside. Down to 42. Humidity 85 . Most of us will hold above freezing. Clouds will hang tough. A little fog, a little drizzle. The 20s will be primarily along i81 and points west. Drier air located and a little less cloud cover. Cool tomorrow, some showers primarily in the afternoon. Saturday night, that is the wet night. If you have plans. We are talking big time rains and showers and a thunderstorm early on sunday morning. But, the game once again will be windy but dry and really not that cold. So, 10 00 tonight, temperature ins the 30s. Above freezing. 39 downtown. Probably 35 in silver springs. 36 fairfax. By morning, we are still pretty much above freezing in and around the beltway. 34 in buoy. And we are looking at 33 in laplata. A lot of clouds. No shortage of clouds. Not going to go away any time soon. 9 00, people are in the 30s. A couple of sprinkles showing up. For the most part, i think most of the activity rolls in Late Afternoon and early evening. 12 30, 40s ,41 gathersburg. 40 in manassas. Showers back to cumberland with temperatures in the upper 30s so not a super big system rolling through. But just kind of another dreary day tomorrow. By midnight. Into saturday, we get temperatures Still Holding in the upper 30s. To low 40s. Not that cold tomorrow night. So the day planner 30s to start. Clouds across the board. 43 by 1 00 p. M. Next three days, saturday is okay. A fair amount of clouds during the day. But most of the showers and rain saturday night. 52. Look at the low. Only 46 saturday night. That may actually be a little bit low. 58 on sunday. 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Another step on the journey. Will you be ready when growth presents itself . Realize your buying power at open. Com welcome back. We are live at redskins park. We talked about the challenge the redskins defense has at stopping aaron rogers. Well, the offense has a big challenge of their own sunday. Linebacker Clay Matthews is and has been one of the most dominant pass rushers since he was drafted. He is the anchor and the leader of this green bay defense. Just like aaron rogers is for the offense. He is very good man. He is good. He is a problem. He has to find out where he is all the time. You have to adjust your protections and they put him on the edge. Lift him off the a and b gaps. They get him matched up on running backs sometimes. He is obviously their quarterback on defense. He is their aaron rogers. He is the guy we have to be aware of at all times. He is their aaron rogers on defense. Joining me now, former nfl receiver dante, what kind of challenge does Clay Matthews bring . First of all, capers is a good defensive coordinator. He likes to move the guys around. I talked to cory earlier. The one thing he said was with Clay Matthews moving to the inside linebacker, that has given him more possibilities to open up and attack the quarterback and the thing he stressed was that they need to find him before every single snap. They need to id him and make sure they know where he is before he snap the ball. The first person to look for as soon as they line up. Now, this team, this Redskins Team relatively young. Relatively little playoff experience. They do have some veterans kind of leafing the pack. You spoke with one of them today. I did. I had a chance to speak to Desean Jackson. He is an explosive player. He was excited to get back on the field. But you know with everything th has come this season with the expectations that no one really had but themselves, i had a clans to ask him a couple of questions about playoff, but also this interesting interview that he gave them earlier. Here it is. What is your mind set coming into this game . What do you feel like you guys can take some advantage of . The defense. You know. They do some great things over on their side. They have a couple of great players. Guys that have a lot of respect for me. You know. So, it is really, we dont want to talk about what we want to do. We just want to get to the game and just do it. But i think the game thing is just awesome. Some great things to give us opportunities to make plays on the field. Not only me, it is other guys on the team. Jordan reed has been playing hats off. You know, so, we are just all wanting to get out there. But im thinking if everybody takes care of what we need to take care of as a whole, we should get that one in. A lot of us remember the interview with just Desean Jackson at the beginning of the season, but you talked to him and he said pretty much, he, like everybody else just didnt know what to expect from this team. Yeah, they didnt. That was one thing. And, the interview, they described how he paused and basically, didnt know what no say. And saidly have to get back to you. So i wanted to ask him how he felt about that now. Well obviously, having him back has been big for this offense. Why is that . Well number one, it is because he can get down the field. When you have a guy that can get down the field, that is going to help them out you have seen the explosions and really the good continuity between reed and cousins. That has really been explosive for this team all season. It has been his secret weapon. This team surprised the doubters and some of their own players in a good way. That will do it for us. Back to you guys in the studio. All right. Desean jackson, he will be huge. No doubt about that. We will see. But, just no turnovers. No mistakes in the very beginning. They seem to collapse after that. Scored early too. And often. And often. Okay . Thats all for our news at 7 00. Great advice. We will be back here at 11 00. Make it a great night everybody. We need one more point. One more point. Exactly. Yeah. There you go. Were about to show you an incredibly low fare. Like all our fares, you get two free bags and zero change fees. Because whats the point of an incredibly low fare if youre just going to stack fees on top of it . Low fares. Nothing to hide. Thats transfarency. Sfx clap, clap, ding its around my neck. Charlie sheen, his new at home interview after his hiv revelation. And the peoples Choice Awards arrest. What the talk ladies told me backstage after a man stormed the stage. Were like a motley crew. No. I was a little scared. I didnt understand what was. Sharon k cheryl enraged. Security dont mess with us. 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