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  1. thebluefood
    Hooboy I'm glad I stayed away from everything having to do with this team this afternoon because I knew seeing them screw this up would make me upset all over again.
  2. thebluefood
    Dallas is gonna run away with the division and I'm gonna have to pull for the Tom Brady led Bucs to beat them in the playoffs, aren't I? What an absolutely wretched timeline this is.
  3. thebluefood
    [Game isn't carried on the radio up here] [Takes nap] [Wakes up] [Sees the score] Just another Sunday in the autumn.
  4. thebluefood
    "Listen, Bruce, we've been getting a lot of complaints from customers and staff and we gotta let you go. You're just not Safeway material." "DO YOU KNOW WHO MY DAD IS?!"
  5. thebluefood
    Something that caught my eye about this: how often and effectively Washington would punt. There were a few quick kicks on 2nd and even 1st down that turned the field around and put the Lions in a real jam. One in the first quarter - Baugh sent one a good 70 yards or so and Detroit couldn't make anything happen.
  6. thebluefood
    When the Snyders reach it, they'll grab their pick axes and break that ground.
  7. thebluefood
    I've been saying: cut our loses for this franchise and give us an expansion team. Start new.
  8. thebluefood
    Good point - though we'd later learn that wasn't necessarily so. The Expansion Senators were poorly run, seldom gave fans anything to cheer for, and was ultimately bought by a guy who had a history of moving franchises (Bob Short sold his own home state out moving the Lakers from Minneapolis to LA). And of course, Calvin Griffith moving the original Senators to the Twin Cities because it...shall we say, "got too dark, too early" in D.C. for his liking. Anyway, it was just something that crossed my mind. JKC seemed to have a mind that was always moving, for better for worse, and I reckon this crossed it a time or two.
  9. thebluefood
    Actually, speaking of ownership: something crosses my mind today and I wanted to know if any of you might have any insight into this. The Expansion Seantors left town in 1971, right as the football team is on the upswing. They play at a dual-purpose stadium but it only houses a football team until they leave for Landover in 1997. I wonder if JKC played any role in keeping baseball out of Washington for as long as it was. He didn't have to share RFK with a baseball team throughout his time as majority owner, which I'm sure made the turf better to play on than the stadiums that did host both. Furthermore, the 'Skins were the only show *in town* during that era. The Caps wouldn't exist for a few years yet and the Bullets were still in Baltimore. And when they did both come to this market, they played all the way out in Landover. That really put the franchise front and center. There had been campaigns to get baseball back in D.C. - Padres almost came from San Diego and I think there was a big push in 1987 or thereabout. I don't recall hearing JKC's name tied to any of those and I could see how keeping a team out would work to his advantage. Anyway, just spitballin'.
  10. thebluefood
    I surely wouldn't want his job. Being the head coach of this particular franchise has never been easy - its been owned by some real characters (to put it mildly) with outsized egos even for the NFL - but this one in particular must be horrible to work for.
  11. thebluefood
    Made the mistake of watching the "A Football Life" about Sean Taylor toward the end of my working day and I'll be damned if I wasn't fighting back tears. I knew becoming a father really changed his life but I didn't know it was like that. I've been avoiding it for years because I knew it would make me an emotional mess and it absolutely did.
  12. thebluefood
    Honestly, there's not much else on my mind about this team. Everything actually happening on the field, outside of a few bright spots, is either mediocre or otherwise deeply disappointing. I've only watched two games in full this season - at Buffalo and against New Orelans and I wasn't terribly impressed with either. The Bills are in a totally different class from this team and showed it and the Saints were absolutely beatable but they got by with a W. Same stuff I've been seeing my whole life.
  13. thebluefood
    Regarding gameday atmosphere: winning consistently absolutely plays the biggest role but also accessibility to the stadium and a seat therein. I remember finding a ticket stub online from 1987 - lower bowl seats at RFK. The price was much lower than a ticket today but I figured it was just a matter of inflation. Ran it through the inflation calculator, though, and it was still *far less expensive* than a comparable seat at FedEx Field. And to be sure, this was not a scab game. This was after the strike ended, for a team that was constantly in the hunt for the Super Bowl and would go on to win one that season. Regular, work-a-day folks could afford to go to RFK Stadium when the franchise was at their best. Maybe it's because the land was on federal government property and there was a cap on what they charge but they were accessible. And on top of that, RFK is Metro accessible - get off your train, go up the escalator, walk around the corner at the armory, cross the street and you're there. Meanwhile, the walk from Morgan Boulevard is wretched. That may not be a huge factor on the surface but for folks who can't afford parking or ride shares (or otherwise don't want to) that's no small consideration. Makes a big difference between seeing this team vs. the Nats, Caps, and Wizards. Working class fans of the NFL - maybe even throughout big league sports in North America - are getting priced out of stadiums. I dunno how this franchise compares to others but I have to imagine it's one of the more dire situations. Edit: not the stub I found - this is for the Mezzanine section. But it's still less than $80 in today's money. And for a division match-up against the defending Super Bowl Champions. https://images.app.goo.gl/z4DtmZf3Zh7FXBFr8
  14. thebluefood
    I mean, this is no different than what George Preston Marshall was doing the last 25 years or so he oversaw the franchise. After Ray Flaherty left to go fight in the war, he hired a slew of Yes Men to manage the team. They were able to ger along fine the first few years since Sammy Baugh had a war time exemption and the team had a lot talent elsewhere but after Baugh started getting up there in age and Marshall refused to integrate the team, the play seriously declined and the team's attendance and finances slipped. He almost sold the franchise in the late 50s. Flaherty was one of the few men who could tell Marshall "no" and after he left, he made sure to hire folks who couldn't. That mean retreads and ex-jocks like Curly Lambeau and Otto Graham. We're seeing something very similar here.
  15. thebluefood
    I wanted to laugh and cry react to this.
  16. thebluefood
    I can't speak for other folks who became fans after the glory years but this franchise is basically like a family relative. I'm a Washingtonian (albeit born just over the state line in Silver Spring), my father's a Washingtonian, my grandparents are/were Washingtonians and depending on which strain of the family we're talking about, I've had folks in the city since it was established. I'm no different, in that way at least, than those generational Red Sox fans in Boston or Cubs fans in Chicago. This team is - or at least was - a civic institution. It's woven in the DNA of Washingtonians in a way I don't think a lot of people understand. In a city where you have to share everything with the country - it's the "national" this or the "federal" that - our pro sports teams are *ours* and that's especially for this football team. They've been here the longest and have had the longest streaks of success. This franchise is like a relative but they've become an estranged relative and one that's become increasingly embarrassing to be associated with. You want them to get their **** together because you know they can be better but they just won't do it and as an individual, there's nothing you can really do to make them better. So all you can do for your own sake is distance yourself from them.
  17. thebluefood
    When the Oilers missed that field goal, Jurgy said "just remember one thing, God has the Redskins in a pool." Always cracks me up.
  18. thebluefood
    This cannot be emphasized enough. We must get it through our heads, once and for all, that they do not care and unless there is something so brazen, outlandish, and horrifying that comes to light that actually would affect the league's money supply (i.e. the networks & sponsors). But considering the high tolerance major capital, the NFL, and the general population has for dehumanization and explotation, Dan Snyder should be set for life.
  19. thebluefood
    That's pretty much where I am - was born the year of the last Super Bowl win so all I have are bittersweet memories (at best). It would be one thing if this organization was just permabad but was otherwise a standard NFL organization but they just can't help but make total fools of themselves and us.
  20. thebluefood
    At this point, anyone caping for the Snyders is either -A member of the family -A friend of the family -A member of the front office -A rube
  21. thebluefood
    I can buy into the honoring of Taylor being in the works for awhile (though I reckon this was also a stunt from Ashburn since the heat's turned up considerably since last summer) but this number retirement is 100% cooked up to delfect from the latest round of bad PR to come from the franchise. Nothing adds up to anything but and even if it was sheer incompetence, it really doesn't matter at this point. The kind of good will this franchise has to do to get back in good graces is going to take decades and will almost certainly include the Snyders selling it (which they have no material reason to).
  22. thebluefood
    I don't usually get this upset for this long about stuff anymore - been learning to take things in stride. But this and everything else coming out of Ashburn has overtaken my brain completely and it's genuinely pissing me off. I feel like I've learned to process my emotions pretty well and I've even managed to make peace with the truly stark and horrific future that's in store for us on the grand scale but my God, this one really threw me for a loop and I'm teeming with rage.
  23. thebluefood
    Always. They all got skeletons in the closet and if they throw one under the bus, they're all going with 'em. This game is rigged and they always win.
  24. thebluefood
    To think George Preston Marshall almost sold the team to Clint Murchison in the '50s. Imagine if we lived in the timeline where that happened. -No nickname controversy -No association with Marshall, wretched bigot that he was -New start with a new team - maybe an AFL franchise -Maybe we don't have to deal with the Snyders at all That timeline sounds awesome.
  25. thebluefood
    I feel like I've been stewing in this all day long and I'm getting madder and madder. This isn't even about the football - we've gone beyond football here. This is just basic human decency and ability to read the room. This is on brand for this franchise but even this is some next level ghoulishness.
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