For some, Super Bowl XLVI last night was a glorious culmination of a month-long climb back from seeming mediocrity. The New York Giants, finishing the regular season at 9-7 and just eking themselves into the playoffs, completed their improbable run through a series of teams nearly everyone considered superior. Having felled the Atlanta Falcons, Green Bay Packers and San Francisco 49ers en route to the big game in Indianapolis last night, the Giants were left only with the New England Patriots, in a rematch of another unlikely Super Bowl victory four years ago.

By night’s end, the scoreboard flashed Giants 21, Patriots 17, and an oft-ragged-upon quarterback had dismissed questions about his legitimacy, the Empire State Building shone a blue glow and Tom Brady sulked in a most uncharacteristically unglamorous way.

Yet in all the pride felt by Giants fans today, locally, at least, one fact we’ll likely never be allowed to forget about the 2011 NFL season is that two of their seven losses came at the hands of the Redskins. Yes, it was another disappointing season for the team, filled with quarterback controversies and ever-present cranky fandom.

Last night, watching yet another Super Bowl featuring a dreaded NFC East rival, one of those fans did not spare the Redskins his volubility. Councilmember Marion Barry (D-Ward 8), who was D.C.’s mayor at the time of each of the Redskins’ three Super Bowl victories, took to Twitter to lament the current geographic location and on-field reputation of his hometown squad. Offering his own withering criticism and answering other users’ questions, Barry was scathing: