the cranky fan's guide to YOUR 2011 WASHINGTON REDSKINS because nobody else cares

it all began in september 2009, after a loss to detroit, as snyder drunk dials shanahan..

“A lot of calls, a lot of booze that night,” one participant said. “We were just like four college roommates drowning their sorrows with alcohol after our team lost. The difference was, one of our college buddies was the owner of the team. And he called an ex-coach to make him feel better.”

this is one of my fav annual threads

anyway HAIL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecCbkxyhKwQ

also from the "how snyder got shanahan" piece in the wash post, flashback to 2008 final regular season game. PORTIS' POCKETS STRAIGHT

Zorn and Portis had exchanged words in practice that week when Portis refused Zorn’s request that the running back take his hands out of his pocket during a drill.

That night, the eve of the Redskins’ final game of 2008, Cerrato summoned Zorn to a ballroom used by the team at the San Francisco Four Seasons hotel. Zorn brought Sherman Smith, his offensive coordinator and only genuine confidant on his staff. “Vinny kept telling Jim to apologize,” Smith said in a telephone interview. “And Jim was like: ‘For what? I just wanted him to take his hands out of his pocket.’ ”

man, zorn

at least cerrato ended up getting canned too

UH

I dunno if the Pentagon police can help this game plan

QB of The Future REX. GROSSMAN.

damn

A win is a win but ugh now we have our hopes up

cooooooley must have been bored with the mini shorts, because now they have tight end tights wednesday

When asked how macho tights are on the gridiron, Cooley replied, “It takes a real man to wear tights.”
Fred Davis added, “Peter Pan wore tights.”

A win is a win but ugh now we have our hopes up

this is like the truest display of fandom ever <3

it's only a matter of time before BAD REX shows up and braeks hearts of the redskins nation

How is that local talk sports guy holding up after his complete melt down last year?

That was pretty classic.

guys from dc's own MAMBO SAUCE with this week's redskins song which is p good imo

gold pants!

"and rex was actually lucky that ball wasn't picked off"

yeah seen 2 of these already on the first series of the game

throws, and it's INTERCEPTED

"good rex, bad rex?"
"that's the train rex, right there"

lol

REDSKINS win two in a row! what is this?!

end times?

twitteronia: Trends, United States ->

Redskins 2-0
WE WANT DALLAS

skins postgame show, the return of SMOOT

Banks said coaches have a bit more swag, too, although Fred Smoot then interrupted, saying "when you’re over 30, you can’t have swag. You have what we call panache."

haha otm

dungy sez he's on the redskins bandwagon

costas and harrison are like "lol, you might hurt yourself jumping off"

Redskins Game Plan: Throw It Deep

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that is never not funny

DALLAS WEEK

“It’s like ketchup on a burger, man, that’s all it is,” (Orakpo) said of Landry going. ”We excited if he’s ready to go, we excited if he’s not. We all about food.”

i think i've seen this redskins-rams game before. several times

rex just needs to "let it rip and stop thinking about it"

F*** IT HE'S GOIN DEEP

annual wash post column about how the team needs to change their name

they definitely do

i wonder if the league will have to step in to make it happen, because there sure doesn't seem to be much push for it to happen around here

good on that guy for finding a semi-unique angle for that column

Would love for the Post to just step up and say "We will no longer use the team name in our coverage", that annual op-ed is feeling like a token gesture otherwise.

i'm not sure if he's the only columnist who writes that piece every year, there may be a few, but this one was more interesting than usual

i really do think they need to change the name. you hear that name every day as if it isn't racist at all, because this is a football town and generally people don't think about it.

they've been my team since i was a kid but i can't bring myself to buy any of their gear for this reason. been thinking about picking up a chicago bears hoodie because i like the colors. i tried wearing a pats t-shirt but it seemed like a lot of random people were inexplicably rude to me that day, for real

that might make a difference if the post did that. their columnists were pretty strongly influential in getting the team to integrate in the first place b/c of course the racist owner refused for so long

what replacement name would you vote for?

is the Washington Hogs out of the question?

i don't know what would be a good replacement name. not hogs. it's difficult because you try to think of something that's really DC.. and what's really DC is that everyone roots for the redskins.

whoever named the washington nationals and set up their branding etc did a good job, get them to take a shot at it? nats have a nice font, nice hats, etc.

washington unrepresented taxpayers
washington minor threats
washington ducks
maryland couriers

washington minor threats

<3

actually we should just let ian svenonius name the team

washington monorchids

never more true with hitler in the white house

would put even money on the Svenonius name being the Washington Histrionic Revolutionary Peoples

the helmet/uniform design will be amazing no doubt

vintage uniforms / white belts

i was going to say! white belts for everyone

NFL's not gonna be too happy about the old school leather helmets BUT HEY.

color commentators will be way into it

Washington Sniksder

Did locals make a stink about the Bullets -> Wizards namechange, or do people just not give a shit about pro basketball there?

i think the 50 people who follow that franchise were pretty upset

far more bullets than native americans in washington; bigger lobbying organization.

coooooley talks to the local sports radio guys who had a meltdown last year. about tony romo.

It's amazing, AMAZING to watch him choke like that... I'm just saying, I'm up 24 points in the third quarter, if I'm the head coach, I feel like I could probably just take a knee for the rest of the game, punt it away and there's no way that Detroit's gonna drive on you that many times. The only way you're gonna give up that many points is turnovers, right? It's hilarious to watch him throw pick sixes, too, back-to-back. I loved it.

cooley going HAM

Cooley wants to beat Romo himself, but not just on the football field. He said he would relish getting into a cage with him.

"For me to beat Tony? I'm gonna be honest, I don't know what kind of cage fighting skills he has," Cooley told the radio station. "I would probably try to incorporate my wrestling ability, like when I was in high school. Obviously it's been awhile, but I didn't like to beat people fast. I like to embarrass 'em a little bit. Like, take a 24-point lead, and then just play with it a little bit."

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WASHINGTON HISTRIONIC REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLES #1 IN NFC EAST

BYE WEEK CHAMPS

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Showdown: JFK and the Integration of the Washington Redskins, by Thomas G. Smith

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/nov/10/racist-redskins

"Even in (Davis')will (he died in 1969) stipulated that the Redskins Foundation that was to be created with most of his estate not direct a single dollar toward “any purpose which supports or employs the principle of racial integration in any form.”"

class act there

wash post did a few articles about this very recently - the refusal of the team to integrate in the 60s does, in fact, explain why there is a significant percentage of dallas cowboys fans (esp older folks) in the DC area

the song used to be "fight for old dixie" instead of "fight for old DC"

on the one hand this is so hard to imagine because back when i started rooting for them, the next season QB doug williams won the super bowl. on the other hand they're still named the redskins and most people never even stop and think about that

someone up thread mentioned that a newspaper boycott of the term would likely change some tides; I like that idea

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merriweather finally taking a better line to his man

hmm I was going to start another annual thread but without the actual name of the team which needs to be changed

i hope they have a great season so that shit gets addressed

your washington pigskins/minor threats/revolutionary histrionic peoples are in fact wearing vintage style uniforms with old school "leather" helmets today

need some white belts tho

i wonder if, once the madness passes and washington change their name, they will ever drag out the racist throwback unis.

I actually like these throwbacks.

washington's cheerleaders wearing 60s style catsuits with white belts today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij1ap-TKWw0

i like the throwbacks too! just remove the shoulder patches and they are good to go with keeping this look, once they change the name of the team

just saying, given that the team officials have clearly been reading this thread what with the leather helmet throwbacks and white belts

CHANGE THE NAME

bill simmons referred to them as the washington dc's today

peter king will no longer use the nickname

and at some point d. snyder is going to realize that changing the name will require all these fans to buy new apparel