ASHBURN, Va. (AP) – Chicago native Renaldo Wynn wore his White Sox jacket Monday, hoping to spread some World Series magic dust to the playoff-bound Washington Redskins.

“They won the championship,” the defensive lineman said. “It had been a long time since they won it, so I want to kind of get a little bit of that powder over here.”

Cornerback Carlos Rogers was told how lucky he is to be going to postseason as a rookie since some people in the organization have been waiting a long time for this.

Lemar Marshall spoke of the crazy celebratory flight back from Philadelphia, and the dozens of fans that greeted the team bus at Redskins Park around midnight Sunday after the 31-20 victory that clinched a wild card berth.

“We were really crunked, real excited,” the linebacker said. “It was fun, just knowing we were going to the playoffs.”

It took coach Joe Gibbs coming out of retirement to do what Steve Spurrier, Marty Schottenheimer, Deion Sanders and Bruce Smith couldn’t do – get the franchise in the postseason for the first time since 1999.

“It’s been a long time,” said Wynn, who has endured records of 7-9, 5-11 and 6-10 with the Redskins before this season’s 10-6. “I’m just so happy to see some of these guys that have been in the organization since Marty and before and haven’t had a chance to play in the playoffs. Even just talking to some of the front office people, they’ve never been to a playoff game, so it makes it all worth it, from our secretaries to the front office, everyone that worked so hard in the offseason up until now, it’s just really reaping the benefits.”

The Redskins play Saturday at Tampa Bay, the site of two one-point losses that still burn those in burgundy and gold. Washington’s last playoff game six years ago was a 14-13 loss to the Buccaneers, when a bad snap from the late Dan Turk thwarted a potential game-winning field goal attempt in the final minutes.

And, this season, the Redskins lost 36-35 at Tampa on Nov. 13, when Mike Alstott was ruled to have crossed the goal line on a game-winning 2-point conversion, even though close analysis of the replays showed his elbow likely came down before the ball broke the plane. The Tampa Bay loss started a three-game losing streak that dropped the Redskins to 5-6. A team meeting followed, and every game after was declared a must-win. The Redskins are 5-0 since.

“At 5-6, everyone wrote us off,” said Clinton Portis, who has five 100-yard rushing games to go with the winning streak and set the season franchise record with 1,516 yards. “We started off hot, everyone jumped on the bandwagon. We turn around, we’re 5-6, everyone jumped off the bandwagon. As a team we came together.”

Naturally, much of the credit goes to Gibbs, the Hall of Fame coach who will be in his first playoff game since a 20-13 loss at San Francisco on Jan. 9, 1993.

“It is fun being in, I’ll say that. It’s a thrill to be in the playoffs,” Gibbs said. “I really enjoy that part of it. From that standpoint, it makes the day much easier.”