Capital's Assets

OCT. 10 >> BALTIMORE RAVENS AT WASHINGTON REDSKINS >> 8:30 P.M. EST

[1] WHITE HOUSE Where Clinton, Kennedy and Roosevelt (Teddy) played football on the lawn and Reagan made the Super Bowl XIX coin toss. [2] SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Now showing: "Sports: Breaking Records, Breaking Barriers," a display of mementos from athletes who left their mark on society. Ogle Jordan's jerseys, Ali's robe and the Babe's home run balls. [3] RFK STADIUM Next spring, baseball returns after 34 years. In '71, with one out left in the Senators' last game in D.C., fans stormed field and took bases and turf. [4] CHANDELIER ROOM, SHERATON-CARLTON HOTEL Vince Lombardi held his first press conference as Skins coach here in '69, saying, "I can't walk across the Potomac, not even when it's frozen." After going 7-5-2 in one season, Lombardi succumbed to cancer. [5] ARLINGTON HOSPITAL Hospital where Joe Theismann got a call the day after Lawrence Taylor broke his leg on Monday Night Football in 1985. It was LT. "I don't do things halfway," he explained. [6] TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH CEMETERY ( Upperville, Va.) In '97 owner Jack Kent Cooke's ashes were buried in the town John Updike wrote of in his poem Upon Learning That a Town Exists Called Upperville. [7] PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE Thrice-traveled Super Bowl parade route. [8] SWEETWATER TAVERN QB Patrick Ramsey says the grilled fish is "almost" as good as back home in Ruston, La. [9] WASHINGTON TELEVISION CENTER Home of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives--and the same building where elite ranters (and Washington Post columnists) Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon tape Pardon the Interruption. [10] GOLD'S GYM In off-season wideout James Thrash, certified by the National Strength Professionals Association, worked here as a conditioning specialist. [11] MAYFLOWER HOTEL Where LB Sam Huff roomed with aptly named running back Joe Don Looney in the '60s. The team gave Huff $1,500 annually to keep Looney out of trouble. One year Huff lost the money when the two brawled at a practice. [12] WASHINGTON SHERATON At the '85 White House Press Club dinner, John Riggins passed out after urging Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor to "Loosen up, Sandy baby." -- Adam Duerson