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To add to this - what reason has this current ownership group given any of us to play them honest? On or off the field, what reason have the Snyders given us to say we should give them the benefit of a doubt? The on-field results have been consistently dismal and the off-field results have been starkly and unusually wretched. What reason should we play this ownership honest?

I wish I had your kind of optimism about this organization because I 100% smell a rat. It's not that close to his Death Date and it's falling on the 14th anniversary of his death. That's not exactly a "milestone" year. All that, plus the short notice announcment *and* with the billowing, suffocating, toxic, PR smoke coming out of Ashburn - yeah, I dunno about this one.

Yeah, I knew the quick kick was a more common part of the game back then but it was interesting seeing it in action. And it makes sense. Moving the ball was much more difficult back then and field position made all the difference.

This is, I believe, the famous game where Sammy Baugh intercepts four passes and throws for four TDs in a single game. His reputation as an accurate, intermediate passer and dangerous punter is on full display here. Additionally, I am amazed by the high quality of this color footage from the team's original home in D.C.

Was at the game Sunday and yeah - can confirm it was like being at a neutral site. I ran into Saints fans throughout my trip - from the train from Baltimore to the Metro and definitely at the gates. Most of them sat behind the visitor's bench but they were scattered throughout. And as others have mentioned, I seriously doubt things will change at wherever the new place will be. I think having it be Metro accessible might help (that mile long walk to and from the Morgan Boulevard station *sucked*) but the tickets will almost certainly still price many die hard fans out and if the play on the field and conduct off the field doesn't improve, it'll surely be a cozy place for the visiting team and their supporters. I hate this. This place was a pro football town before "pro football towns" existed (outside of Green Bay) - but this is what the Snyder family deserves, outside of the money they'll still rake in no matter what.

I don't have any memories from that season - I was just an infant that year - but they pitched three shutouts in their first three home games (one against a team they'd face in the NFC Championship), started the season 11-0, and absolutely crushed a stacked Buffalo Bills team in Super Bowl XXVI. And to be sure, this was a great *team*. The storyline about the 1991 team was about how lowkey and obscure most of them were. This was not a star-studded outfit but they played so well as a unit that they steamrolled over the competition throughout the season.

There's no way this touches the Snyder family. Team owners protect their own (class solidarity of sorts) in part because they know if they go after one, that makes the rest of them vulnerable. God only knows what kind of radioactive skeletons these wretched, old ghouls have hiding in their closet. The last thing they want is someone snooping around their digs. Donald Sterling situations are extremely rare. What Gruden did and said was horrible and I'm not sorry to see this happen to him but the Snyders will be a-okay. They always will be.

Edit: made a mistake editing a post - sorry about that.

Yeah, naw, this team isn't going anywhere. This is a major league market and this franchise has been here since the FDR Administration. The only time I could even begin to consider them leaving is if Snyder cannot find a place to go as the lease at FedEx Field ends but, by hook or by crook, they will find a location for a new, shiny stadium that none of us can actually afford to go to. That's either gonna be on the RFK site, against the (legitimate) wishes of the residents nearby or somewhere out in the Virigina exurbs that's *barely* part of the area but they will find it and we will be stuck with Snyder & Co. for decades to come. Honestly, I'd be fine with this, too. In retrospect, I kinda wish that deal George Preston Marshall made with Clint Murchison went through in the 1950s and we could have started anew with an AFL Franchise or something in this town.

I was also at the game Sunday - first one since I saw Darrell Green for the first and only time in person in his last season. I looked around the stadium and was amazed by how many Saints fans there were. Hell, the guy who sold me his ticket on Seat Geek is a Saints fan (nice fella though). And honestly - I wanted to go to the game because, on top of my genuine love of live sporting events, I realized I hadn't been to see them since I was a boy and figured I ought to. It was almost like going to visit a relative who you used to admire based on all the great stories your dad would tell you about them but they had long since burnt out. I got into football as a kid because this town didn't have a baseball team. Baseball was, and is, my first love but this franchise is a civic institution - interwoven into its DNA in ways people from outside of the area can't seem to comprehend (though they seem to about the Cubs in Chicago and Red Sox in Boston - Washingtonians, apparently, aren't capable of having such close ties). I like football but I loved this team feverishly. But then the Nats came to town and immediately filled my heart. Then I got into hockey in time to learn what some folks around here have known for decades: that they'll punch you in the gut in new and exciting ways, year after year. And by the time I experienced the greatest catharsis of my life by attending the Nationals victory parade in 2019, I realized how little this football team meant to me, at least compared to how much they meant to me when I was 8 or 9-years-old. They used to be my pride and joy, in winning and losing. Now? They're like an estranged relative who, over time, I've come to realize has given me few moments of joy vs. many moments of grief. And a fun little postscript about my day: I took the train from Baltimore to New Carrolton, caught the Orange Line into the city, the transferred onto the Blue Line to go to Morgan Blvd and walk to the stadium. Guess what's in full, clear view to and from the stadium. If you said "the rotting, hollowed out carcass of RFK Stadium," you'd be 100% correct! And it seemed oh so appropriate.

Finally got a chance to come by after *years* of being part of this message board. The jambalaya was excellent. Thank you so much for doing this!

See, I dunno about this. Radio is a different medium but some of the best play-by-play folks in the business are on radio at least part time. Kevin Harlan and Kurt Warner are, by far, better than the Monday Night Football crews ESPN has offered since Tirico left for NBC. And I hate to admit it but living up here in Pennsylvania has really made me appreciate Merrill Reese and his ability to call games after more than 40 years.

Secret Base has some of the best videos on the platform right now. The Seattle Mariners one made a baseball fan out of my partner and we had a ball watching the Falcons one. They're doing what I've been spending a lifetime trying to do: making sports relevant to non-sports fans.

Following this thread because I'm thinking of bringing my little pocket radio with me to FedEx next week but the reviews don't sound good so far. To think we had an all-time great in Frank Herzog and while, it's my understanding, he was not as sharp toward the end of his run, this organization did him all kinds of dirty.

I'm just glad we got the W, ugly as it may be, but truly - there is no suffering like Atlanta Falcons suffering. I used to wallow in self-pity but after I learned more about the Falcons and their history it's just...

Girlfriend watched the game with me today and I put on quite a show for her as I swiftly went from mild excitement to numb resignation to lying face down on the floor while her cat sniffed my hair. The game sucked but at least she got an amusing show out of it!

Dan Marino's birthday was recently and it reminded me: how did the '85 Patriots manage to get past them, the LA Raiders, and the New York Sack Exchange Jets to go to the Super Bowl in '85. That team had one of the sadder QB controversies in NFL history with Steve Grogan vs. Tony Eason but they went on the road and beat three really good AFC teams only to get their **** rocked by the '85 Bears. Furthermore, we could have had a really good Super Bowl that year with the Dolphins meeting Chicago for a rematch of the one game the latter lost that season. But no...we got the Patriots.

Exactly. This team has been mediocre-to-atrocious since the Clinton Administration so what's even to get upset about anymore?

Hey, quick question: what the hell?!

Good decision - can't mask up if you're playing a wind instrument and this pandemic is far from over. I'm guessing they're going to field a drum line only this year?

Think I'm gonna go to the Saints game on Oct. 10 and I'd like to sit near the marching band. I'm not sure what section they sit in, though - any advice in that regard?

Well, despite myself - and for the first time in years - I'm actually feeling kinda excited about the start of the season. I haven't been keeping up with the team much but Rivera built one hell of a defense and in retrospect, this team put on an impressive show against the eventual League champions. All that plus a division that is hilariously up for grabs - yeah, sure, why not get a little bit hype - as a treat.

Got a new print in the mail!

Any new info on the RFK Stadium razing? Last I heard it was supposed to be sometime this year but there didn't seem to be a definite date. I never got to go there but I still wanna attend - kinda like going to a distant relative's funeral.

The old man was gonna fire Gibbs and rehire George Allen. Mercifully, John stepped in to stop that from happening but oh my God, can you imagine George Allen 2.0 in the early 1980s?