Charley Casserly is playing tourist nowadays. The Spy Museum was fun. The Corcoran Gallery and Stephen Decatur House were interesting. Casserly even bought Washington Nationals partial season tickets.
Life between jobs isn’t a bad deal for the former Washington Redskins general manager. After 23 years in the area before spending the last six as Houston’s general manager, Casserly is finally seeing some of the local sights.
“We’ve been working on our house fixing things up, seeing the sights,” he said. “It’s like being on a mini-vacation. This is just a great place to live.”
Casserly is awaiting word on whether he’ll become the NFL’s vice president of football operations in New York in coming weeks. For now, he’s enjoying his first extended break in 44 years since becoming a teenager.
Washington will be the Casserlys’ eventual retirement home. Bev is a local while Charley arrived in 1977 as an unpaid intern who lived at the YMCA and ensured George Allen and coaches received their ice cream from a custard stand that bordered the training camp field.
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