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Touchdowns were frustratingly just out of reach for the Redskins against the Rams on Sunday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Redskins 9, Rams 7: First things first: the Redskins won. Rather than rehashing the few highlights that were to be found (see: the fine effort provided by the defense, those of you with Shaun Suisham on your fantasy team), let's address the fact that, apparently, many of the Skins offensive players had their fragile feelings hurt by the sizable boos which rained down from all levels of FedEx Field.
"To the fans: the booing doesn't help...we'd appreciate it if you didn't boo," declared Antwan Randle-El over the airwaves.
Okay, who would like to remind these guys that they are professional athletes? Look, there's a time and a place for booing at different football games. At high school contests, it's never called for; hell, at most intercollegiate events, the threshold for a booable offense is fairly high. But in the National Football League, teams that drop two surefire touchdown passes and run the same repetitive set of plays every time they get into the red zone (hey, Jim Zorn -- the defense knows that you're running Portis on first down every time down there) should get booed, consistently and roundly.
Chris Cooley added after the game that "Washington prides themselves on being the best fans, and I think that they should try to be the best fans."
Perhaps. But in turn, shouldn't the offense that those fans pay good money to watch be able to pride itself on scoring at least one touchdown against one of the two worst teams in the league? Fortunately, the Redskins have the other candidate for the league's worst team in lowly Detroit (losers of 19 in a row!) on the schedule next week; the mind struggles to imagine the offense has not getting in the end zone against the Lions.
Mets 6, Nationals 2: Garrett Mock (3-9) got off to a rough start...again, and the Mets shutout the Nats through eight to win the series.
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Boycott this team. Zorn and JC are confused. This is a joke. It has been a joke for years. Will continue to be a joke.
2 years in a row.. how do we manage to play the Lion and Rams.. the only two teams worser than us. Oh, right, we lost to the Bengals last year too.
Fans are suckers and simps. Keep booing! Stop going. Stop buying Redskins garb. Is it worth it? How is getting the money? The weisel boy Snyder.
"Hail to the Redskins", which I learned in Ms. Durek's 3rd grade music class @ Greenwood Elementary, should not be played until we put up 21 points.
Let's call it for what it is..
chicken feces
What a bunch of f'ing babies! Actually, that's an insult to babies, 'cause babies doesn't cry for no damn reason. Chris Cooley, STFU and catch a meaningful TD already! 4 catches for 39 yards against the Lambs? Randel-El you should be apologizing to the fans and Dan Snyder should christen a Seppuku lounge at FedEx Field.
Hard for me to watch NFL these days. So many crybabies, enormously paid yet arrogant, stupid, and clueless. So much over the top glitz, starting to look like bad pro wrestling. The entire thing has almost become satire of itself.
But that new Cowboys stadium was pretty darn impressive.
So many crybabies... stupid, and clueless. So much over the top glitz, starting to look like bad pro wrestling.
And that's just the fans!
This is actually a central problem of the NFL and NFL fandom. The Redskins -- and now even the players themselves! -- expect us to shell out loads and loads of money on a weekly basis to watch a really mediocre team? Well, okay. We agree. But the one caveat -- the only one, really -- is that we get to boo and criticize and jeer when our team sucks. And the Redskins sucked it up yesterday. I generally think of those two guys (Cooley and Randle-El) as good football players and, as Gibbs would say, "true Redskins." They ought to know better. Give the fans something to cheer about, and we'll cheer. Everything seemed pretty loud when the defense was on the field.