Redskins: Kindly Keep the Fun To a Minimum

He hasn't learned his limits of his business skills from 6 Flags going bankrupt, and his team sucking? I'm a Redskins fan for life, but it looks like I'll be watching this season from my couch.

Dear Redskins Season Ticket Holder,

In an effort to reduce water and sewage costs and provide the best possible football experience, the bathrooms will be locked after the second quarter. Official Commemorative Washington Redskins Milkjug Urinals are available from the concession stand (Price $24.95 or five months' imprisonment). Management would also like to remind you that if you shake it more than twice, you're playing with yourself. Thank you and enjoy your Washington Redskins!

My impression of Dan Snyder is not great and my first reaction is that he's trying to make up the money he's lost on Six Flags . . . one can never have too many hundreds millions of dollars.

Wow, unbelievable.

I admit they can get annoying. One of my friends who is a Redskins fan seems to always wear a shirt of the color of that games opposition and many of them yell at him. He does not seem to understand that he should get a Redskins hat and be done with it.

We'll have to see how those last few rows are really enforced.

Also, it makes absolutely no sense to put more vehicles in those lots. It's already a CF to get out of there post game. Add a few dozen more cars, and you've created a bigger CF.

This is ridiculous.... I've usually defended Snyder's antics as being well-intentioned despite the usually poor outcome. This isn't well intentioned, this is screwing the fans out of the one bargain at Fedex field. I spend $80 on a ticket $20+ on food inside the stadium for 3 hours of football, but i also like to $20 on beer and brats for three hours outside the stadium hanging out with friends and other fans.

As one of the few defenders of Snyder, I am throwing in the towel. Dan is a douche.

In honor of this bold management decision, I'm naming my limited-edition run of custom frangible dildos "The Steely Dan Snyder."

They cost $500 each to shove up your a$$, but $1,000 if you want to get them out again in one piece. The dildos are also cursed.

I don't get all the animosity. The Skins are one of the few sports teams in this area with a respectable fan base, but whining about its ownership sounds like a favorite subject for some of its fans.

.A pro sports owner treating its loyal customers like walking ATMs? Please find a single example of a pro football team (or pro sports team for that matter) that doesn't. You've got an owner who is clueless and extortionist but at least tries. Lots of teams have owners who are clueless, extortionist, and dirt cheap (sound familiar local baseball fans).

I have been to a few games in the FEDEX era and each time I go I marvel at the over-the-top drunkiness. It's embarrassing. I have been on more than my fair share of late night benders and am nort some ne'er-do-bad, but I cannot believe how seemingly accepted it is to act like an idiot at these games.

I don't know if this limitation on tailgaiting will have any effect, and I appreciate there nothing else to do out there and no better way to deal w/ the traffic/parking situation than to get drunk it the parking lot. But I am big fan of trying to minimize the drunkiness. The situation is comical, but when that wears off, it's annoying.

Chris B, I agree. I too like a few beers around a game but FedEx is reduculous. The well behaved, family fan base has been bowing out continously since the move from RFK. Game days are now left to the yahoos willing to spend hundreds of dollars and want to get as plowed as possible to justify the expense (and other NFC East fans who can easily get tix). It's the Mardi Gras-ification of the pro sports experience - over hyped, over served.. It's a business plan doomed for failure, even though profits are high in the short term.