Cranky fan cannot believe the Washington football team would do their fans like this.

If Washington’s professional football team ever gets with the times and decides to adopt a more sensible name, it might do well to consider something along the line of Treecutters or Lumberjacks.

The Capitals opened their shortened 2013 training camp on Sunday afternoon. Here’s a round-up of Caps-related news from the past couple of days.

Robert Griffin III is officially a “Washington” Redskin. The rookie quarterback announced this morning that he has reached a deal with the team for a four-year contract that will pay him $21 million.

It appears as if attendance at Washington Redskins training camp has declined measurably so far this summer. (You know things are bad when Dan Snyder starts offering free admission.)

Football’s here! By which, I mean lots of rain and rapid-fire updates about whether or not a disgruntled defensive lineman — who’s still making truckloads of cash — was in shape to complete a physical examination which may or may not have just been a subtle way for his new head coach to punish him for holding out on offseason workouts are here. Whoooooo! I’m counting down the minutes until the meaningless preseason starts,…

New head coach Mike Shanahan obviously wants to break down the secretive wall that his predecessors had erected around Redskins Park: according to this report, the new boss will welcome fans to a whopping 15 practice sessions during this summer’s training camp in Ashburn, Virginia. Camp opens on July 29, and ends on August 19. The transparency is a reversal in policy from previous Redskins coaches, who limited the public’s access to training camp (last…

Mike Knuble, Tom Poti, and Alexander Ovechkin make the rounds on the first day of Caps training camp. Photo by photopete. There was no lack of big names on the ice for the start of Capitals training camp Sunday, but everyone was talking about the one guy who wasn’t skating — veteran center Tomas Fleischmann, who spent all last season with the Capitals after yo-yoing on and off their roster for the previous three….

Get the recliner ready, start clearing off the Sunday schedule, and make sure that your refrigerator is prepared to hold an appropriate amount of beer: football is officially on the horizon, with today’s opening of Redskins training camp. Hot topics from the first morning of camp include head coach Jim Zorn’s new dress policy, what color the practice uniforms are, how many pounds offensive lineman Mike Williams lost over the summer (best guess: around…