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Because that's the number of Super Bowls the Redskins have won. They have played in 5 Super Bowls, winning XVII, XXII, and XXVI and losing VII and XVIII.
No NFL team, through Super Bowl XLII, has won exactlyfour Super Bowl Games. Those teams winning 5 total Super Bowls: * San Francisco * Dallas * PittsburghThose teams winning 3 total Super Bowls: * Green Bay * New England * N.Y. Giants * L.A./Oakland Raiders * Washington
The San Fransisco 49ers won 5 Super Bowls in 5 appearances.
No team has ever lost 5 Super Bowls. The Buffalo Bill lost 4 consecutive Super Bowls from 1991 - 1994.
As of the 2008 season, Dallas has won 5 Super Bowls and Washington has won 3 Super Bowls.
There haven't even been 5 Super Bowls since 2008.
They won 4 or 5 super bowls
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Never cause they suck ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This answer is wrong: The Redskins have been to 5 superbowl, winning only 3 of them( Super Bowls XVII, XXII, and XXVI.)
As of Super Bowl XLII, there has never been a player to actually play in five consecutive Super Bowls, however, there has been one player, backup quarterback Gale Gilbert, who was on the roster of the Buffalo Bills that went to Super Bowls XXV-XXVIII and then was on the roster of the San Diego Chargers who went to Super Bowl XXIX.
5 Super bowls in, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1982, 1984
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