It’s OK to kick me. I’m a Redskin fan. Bumps and bruises come with the territory. We have to have a good memory to remember our Super Bowl victories. The last was the 1991 season. But, having a good memory just makes it that much worse to suffer through the Danny Snyder era.
Snyder bought the team in 1999 and has made lots of money off the team. But, marketing the team to make lots of money isn’t the best way to build a winning team. Signing a big name player, like Donovan McNabb in 2010 may be great for selling jerseys, but the team was six and ten that year. McNabb played 12 games and threw 14 touchdowns and 15 interceptions. He was a Viking the next season (his last). While Mike Shanahan was the coach with final authority on all football matters, no one will deny that it was Snyder who caused McNabb to come to Washington.
My frustration is that I don’t think we will ever have a successful team as long as Dan Snyder is the owner and I can’t see him selling the team. He’s like a kid with a gigantic Tinker Toy set. He can build whatever he wants and then tear it up just for the hell of it. We have seen him do time after time.
Now that Mike Shanahan has been fired (24 & 40), Bruce Allen, our invisible General Manager, steps forward and states that he will interview and select our next coach. Does anybody believe that? First of all, I accept that the owner has the right to select his coach. The coach is one of his Tinker Toys. But why have Allen step forward and announce that he is going to make the selection? More smoke and mirrors.
I am not going to relive some of the stupid, idiotic things that Snyder has done. Let’s leave it that in 15 years we have won 104 games, while losing 136, and we are now looking for our eighth head coach during the Snyder follies.
Maybe I should find a new team to cheer for. That’s tough when I have been a Redskin fan for so many years and I live in the Greater DC area. Maybe I should move to someplace like Jacksonville or Oakland. I picked those places to encourage me to stay. Our daughter, Missy, lives in Jacksonville and we felt sorry for her cheering for the Jaguars. But it turned out that they won more games than the Redskins! When you have a really miserable year, you then are rewarded with a high draft choice for the next year. But our first round draft choice belongs to the St. Louis Rams, just as it did last year and will also in 2015! We should at least get a thank you card.
Maybe it’s the indian curse because of our name. Maybe it is a conspiracy between Obama and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Then I realized that they are both way to screwed up to come up with a successful plan. And, of course, the dissenting indians were beating their drums outside the stadiums while the Redskins were inside winning Super Bowls.
I think the answer is for me to buy the Redskins. I will need a lot of money. Please send me a lot of money. If I am unsuccessful, I will notify you from my villa in the Bahamas.
Written by PJ Rice at www.ricequips.com
Amen Brother (but I am not sending you money).
Del
Well, if I can’t get any money out of Daddy Warbucks, I guess I can forget about the villa