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http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d81c2bfc1/article/a-yearly-ritual-redskins-embarrass-themselves-in-primetime?module=HP_headlines

In case we all didn't feel bad enough today. Here's some salt. :doh:

WASHINGTON -- The Washington Redskins sure know how to embarrass themselves in primetime.

Take the Monday night game two years ago, when many thousands of Pittsburgh Steelers fans waving Terrible Towels ruled the roost in the lower bowl of FedEx Field to root their team to a 23-6 victory. Redskins owner Dan Snyder was so humiliated that he ordered 50,000 "Redskins Rally Rags" to be distributed at the next home game in an effort to restore the home-field advantage.

Or last year, when soon-to-be-fired coach Jim Zorn tried one of the silliest Monday night plays ever, the high school fake-field goal play known as the "swinging gate" or "picket fence" or "wash bucket." It had a new name -- "failure" -- after the New York Giants intercepted the trick pass on the way to a 45-12 rout.

The Redskins might have topped them all this week. Their return to the Monday night spotlight turned in a 59-28 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, a game that was 35-0 early in the second quarter and sent booing fans home by halftime. It spoiled the news, announced a few hours before kickoff, that Donovan McNabb had signed a contract extension, and an ugly pregame skirmish only served to fire up the Eagles even more.

The Redskins shut their doors to the media Tuesday -- coach Mike Shanahan didn't even hold the customary day-after news conference -- but players found ways to vent their dismay on Twitter and on their weekly radio appearances.

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Gotta love the official NFL site clowning one of it's oldest teams.

Respect must be earned, even among the people who benefit the most from their teams being respected, it seems.

~Bang

I have never seen a team in any sport so mercilessly ridiculed in the press. I really don't understand it. Where did this come from? Do these people despise Snyder that much? Do they despise us because us because of the "Redskins" name? Do they despise us because for about 11 years a generation ago the Redskins pretty much owned most of the rest the NFL? I don't get it. Everybody else always gets the benefit of the doubt. Not the Redskins.

The stadium thing really does bug me though, and it has for years. We do not have a fan base that will support a 91,000 seat stadium. A more intimate, RFK type of stadium in D.C. would have been best. Oh well, can't change that now.

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I have never seen a team in any sport so mercilessly ridiculed in the press. I really don't understand it. Where did this come from? Do these people despise Snyder that much? Do they despise us because us because of the "Redskins" name? Do they despise us because for about 11 years a generation ago the Redskins pretty much owned most of the rest the NFL? I don't get it. Everybody else always gets the benefit of the doubt. Not the Redskins.

The stadium thing really does bug me though, and it has for years. We do not have a fan base that will support a 91,000 seat stadium. A more intimate, RFK type of stadium in D.C. would have been best. Oh well, can't change that now.

Maybe 10 years of all talk and no walk is why they're laying it on. After all, Buffalo may suck, but they aren't hyping themselves for the Super Bowl like we always have.

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I have never seen a team in any sport so mercilessly ridiculed in the press. I really don't understand it. Where did this come from? Do these people despise Snyder that much? Do they despise us because us because of the "Redskins" name? Do they despise us because for about 11 years a generation ago the Redskins pretty much owned most of the rest the NFL? I don't get it. Everybody else always gets the benefit of the doubt. Not the Redskins.

have been best. Oh well, can't change that now.

I think it may be a little bit of everything you just mentioned Painkiller, I'd also add the way in which Zorn was treated last year, and the whole Sherm Lewis Bingo fiasco.

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I have never seen a team in any sport so mercilessly ridiculed in the press. I really don't understand it. Where did this come from? Do these people despise Snyder that much? Do they despise us because us because of the "Redskins" name? Do they despise us because for about 11 years a generation ago the Redskins pretty much owned most of the rest the NFL? I don't get it. Everybody else always gets the benefit of the doubt. Not the Redskins.

The stadium thing really does bug me though, and it has for years. We do not have a fan base that will support a 91,000 seat stadium. A more intimate, RFK type of stadium in D.C. would have been best. Oh well, can't change that now.

Not trying to be rude, but you really don't get it? Deion, Bruce, Haynesworth, hiring Zorn, firing Schotty, etc....

This team isn't a team where the draft picks just haven't worked out like the Browns or Lions. This team is full of so much stupidity that it's really easy for the media to pick on us.

We deserve it. It's so easy for them because this team is 18 years worth of stupid decisions. From the Pettibone hiring to allowing Norv that many years to fail. Spurrier? I mean really. How can you not just sit back and laugh at how stupid this franchise is. We really are the laughing stock of professional sports. Not because of losing. Lots of teams do that. But because we spend millions to do it and we always seem to do it in prime time and big games.

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Not trying to be rude, but you really don't get it? Deion, Bruce, Haynesworth, hiring Zorn, firing Schotty, etc....

This team isn't a team where the draft picks just haven't worked out like the Browns or Lions. This team is full of so much stupidity that it's really easy for the media to pick on us.

We deserve it. It's so easy for them because this team is 18 years worth of stupid decisions. From the Pettibone hiring to allowing Norv that many years to fail. Spurrier? I mean really. How can you not just sit back and laugh at how stupid this franchise is. We really are the laughing stock of professional sports. Not because of losing. Lots of teams do that. But because we spend millions to do it and we always seem to do it in prime time and big games.

I get all that, but I'm looking at the big picture of the article. What does the Steelers invasion of 2008 have to do with right here right now? It's not like we have the only stadium in the NFL where the Steelers and Cowboys band wagon fans invade in great numbers. They are going above and beyond to try to pour on, and they have been doing this since the Haynesworth thing in the off-season. No respect when we win. Tons of disrespect when we lose, and every single decision is mocked.

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I get all that, but I'm looking at the big picture of the article. What does the Steelers invasion of 2008 have to do with right here right now? It's not like we have the only stadium in the NFL where the Steelers and Cowboys band wagon fans invade in great numbers. They are going above and beyond to try to pour on, and they have been doing this since the Haynesworth thing in the off-season. No respect when we win. Tons of disrespect when we lose, and every single decision is mocked.

Our record on Monday Night Football is 1-10. They are just highlighting the correlation between our recent Monday Night Football performances. Very unnerving to say the very least. After all, it was the Pittsburgh game that started the disastrous end to 2008, and it sure looks like history is going to repeat itself.

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Leave Dan's name out of it, everybody believed he did the right thing in hiring Shanahan and Allen. I don't fault Dan and at this point he's been a good owner this season.

You're right. He has been fine this year.

The problem, is that he ruined this franchise years ago. It's to the point that players will avoid this place like the plague. He caused us to loose Williams for Zorn. He did the Sherm thing last year. He IS the reason that this team is as bad as it is today.

So no, I won't leave his name out until every move that he makes is erased or he sells the team. He is a cancer to this franchise. He will NEVER hoist a SB trophy. Ever.

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Brian Billick in 2000 put a ban on the use of the word "playoffs" until after the Ravens secured a playoff berth.

His explanation? "Until you are a playoff team, you're not a playoff team".

Same could be said about the Redskins primetime efforts over the last 11 seasons.

Until they become a primetime team, they are not one.

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I get all that, but I'm looking at the big picture of the article. What does the Steelers invasion of 2008 have to do with right here right now? It's not like we have the only stadium in the NFL where the Steelers and Cowboys band wagon fans invade in great numbers. They are going above and beyond to try to pour on, and they have been doing this since the Haynesworth thing in the off-season. No respect when we win. Tons of disrespect when we lose, and every single decision is mocked.

True. I guess it was just how the Redskins were supposed to be good that year and the Steelers ended our season when we were 6-2. I don't know, but you're right with what you just said.

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I have never seen a team in any sport so mercilessly ridiculed in the press. I really don't understand it. Where did this come from? Do these people despise Snyder that much? Do they despise us because us because of the "Redskins" name? Do they despise us because for about 11 years a generation ago the Redskins pretty much owned most of the rest the NFL? I don't get it. Everybody else always gets the benefit of the doubt. Not the Redskins.

The stadium thing really does bug me though, and it has for years. We do not have a fan base that will support a 91,000 seat stadium. A more intimate, RFK type of stadium in D.C. would have been best. Oh well, can't change that now.

heh, come on now, teams like the LA Clippers get literally laughed at by media guys. It was actually funny last night, Stewart Scott was trying to talk up the Skins a bit, about their resiliency, and how they at least answered with 4 tds. Steve Young literally interrupted him to talk more about how amazing Michael Vick is. Some of those guys were literally giddy talking about him. This media sized man crush on Vick is going to be really really annoying.

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