I love this picture. It looks like the three men are falling out of the sky -- in Superman-in-flight poses, no less -- and the others just happen to be there at the right time, to catch them. Not exactly a brilliant observation on my part I realize, but there you have it. It made me chuckle audibly, and I looked up all three of the airborne ones, to learn more about their lives, so there's that.

Our airborne players have assumed different mid-air poses. Left-to-right, they are: making an awkward dive into the swimming pool, flying through the air on his way to fight crime, and skydiver. This he-man exercise looks like a 1937 version of what we now call a trust fall. I wonder if the spectators were making bet on who couldn't be trusted?

Based on watching my kids in competitive cheer, the guys on the right have the best form. Given the height, those guys released their flyer well, and they're all ready to execute a secure cradle catch.

In the ultimately-unsuccessful effort to retain the team name, former Redskins owner Dan Snyder reportedly claimed that four members of the inaugural (1933) Washington team were Native Americans. Members of Indian tribes had played in the NFL, notably future Hall of Famers Jim Thorpe and Joe Guyon, though neither for Washington.

There is another, also conflicted, connection. The team that moved to Washington in 1933 were the Boston Redskins, so named to associate them with the Boston Braves baseball team. The coach of the Boston team was William Henry 'Lone Star' Dietz, who identified as Native American. His heritage had been disputed, however, even resulting in two trials in 1919. Although Dietz did not move with the team to Washington, in 1988 the National Congress of American Indians sought to raise the Dietz issue with the Redskins, but the then-owner declined to meet with them.