For Gibbs, it's a risk worth taking.(NFL)(Joe Gibbs)

It's as if Redskins fans have just won a fourth Super Bowl. Here is old gent Joe Gibbs, the prodigal son of Washington football, emerging from a cocoon at a time when the franchise was disintegrating to depths it hadn't mucked since the early 1960s. Here is Gibbs, all smiles and laughs and cautious promises, vigorous at 63 and eager to once again test himself, to see if he can resurrect a team and a fan base that have been slumbering since his retirement.

There is something about comebacks by these elderly gentlemen, with bulging wallets and unsatisfied egos, these grandpas who still need the quenching of a thirst for competition that at once is their devil and ...