How old are these Capitals, Grampa?

[SaucyJack]

…pretty old, Sunny Boy, pretty dad-gummed old.

 

WaPo sports had a fun article today, listing the 13 athletes on Washington Metro Area (WMA) teams who had the longest tenures.  (So baseball, football, men’s and women’s basketball, hockey, men’s and women’s soccer.  7 teams.)

 

The Capitals have 6 of the 13 longest tenures amongst the seven franchises.  LOL.

 

1 - Ovechkin 18 yrs

2 - Backstrom 16 yrs

3 - Carlson 14 yrs

6 - Wilson 10 yrs

7 - Kuznetsov 10 yrs

11 - Oshie 8 yrs

 

Of course, this Age Gauge reading must be tempered by the fact that most WMA sports franchises have recently displayed dismaying levels of Suckiferousness, and tend not to keep many veterans around.  Caps have been the most stable of them all.  
 

Grampa, read me another Caps story, pleeeez?  (In due course, Laddie Boy…)

[JR Ewing]

@SaucyJackHmm... Was the author purposely leaving out anybody who played for the Senators? They missed

 

Walter Johnson - 21 years

Sam Rice - 19 years

Joe Judge - 18 years

Ossie Bluege - 18 years

Clyde Milan - 16 years

Mickey Vernon - 14 years

Firpo Marberry - 14 years

Eddie Yost - 14 years

Goose Goslin - 12 years

Walt Masterson - 11 years

Sid Hudson - 10 years

Dutch Leonard - 9 years

Tom Hughes - 9 years

Jim Shaw - 9 years

Tom Zachary - 9 years

 

I guess it was only meant to represent teams that are still in Washington, but The Big Train never played a game in Minnesota.

 

Edited June 27, 2023 by JR Ewing

[SaucyJack]

13 hours ago, JR Ewing said:

Was the author purposely leaving out anybody who played for the Senators?

Yesterday’s article only covered the tenures of current athletes.  
 

So, in addition to the illustrious history of those other (non-Ottawanian) Senators, a more comprehensive list would have included some famous, um, Redsk!ns (uh oh, I risk cancellation now) from their glory days of the 80’s, and probably some from Sunny Jurgensen’s time, a few Bullets (now Wizards, best to just say Buzzards) from their 70’s Wes Unseld era, and a few DC United guys as they dominated the first years of MLS in the 90’s.

 

In contrast to today’s aging Caps, I read that the current Wizards have nobody with a tenure greater than 3 years after the recent off-loading of vet Bradley Beal.