Article: Redskins Play the Heavy; On Offensive Line, `Bigger Is Better' Trend Grows

An offensive line that averages 300 pounds per man would be something to behold on a football field. A Joe Jacoby on one end, a Wally Kleine on the other. In between, a Mark May, or two or three.

It would be so big and burly that it would look almost unnatural, a line of five men who weigh three-quarters of a ton. But it's coming to the National Football League, and it's coming to RFK Stadium. And it's coming soon.

"That's no joke," said Washington Redskins assistant head coach/offense Joe Bugel. "That's going to happen one of these days."

When the Redskins plucked Jacoby, May and Russ Grimm out of college in 1981, they became leaders in the "bigger is better"

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