Fed Ex Field=Heinz Field?!

Zach — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:30:15 +0000

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I’m not mad that we got completely dominated in every phase of the game, I’m not mad that Jason Campbell looked god awful and had his first two interceptions of the year, I’m not mad that we got beat by backup quarterback Byron Leftwich. No, I am mad at all of US, the supposed diehard skins fans that attended the game on Monday night. How can we let fans from another team come into our house and take over? This is inexcusable for a primetime game and arguably one of the biggest games of our season. I hate to say it but this type of thing would never happen at the Linc, no one would have the balls to come into their stadium waving a terrible towel. If they did they would immediately be called out, if not thrown out. The MNF crew called us out several times and Kornheiser was making jokes all night about us saying things like “the 80,000 Steeler fans that showed up.” Has it really come to this RedskinS fans? Do we really have a soft fan base? I refuse to accept it, I know of many, many diehard fans that would not let this happen. We as fans need to step back during this bye week and reflect on what just happened. This cannot happen again, and we better be fired up for the Dallas game.

Game Day Chatter Week 2: Saints vs. Skins

guyskins — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:54:47 +0000

Okay, welcome to the first in what I hope to make a regular series. Every home game, I’ll be conducting a very unscientific poll that mostly consists of me pestering people who wander by our tailgating party (this week: Orange lot in the back near A50). I’m hoping to get a better feel for the average fan’s opinions, and to help gauge the mood of our fan base before and during the game.

Last Sunday, I kicked it off with the rather pedestrian question “How will the Redskins do this year?” I hope to come back to this question once or twice more throughout the year so we can track the levels of optimism (and perhaps rampant homerism) present in our fan base. Remember that this question was asked *BEFORE* the miraculous comeback win over the saints.

Everyone questioned (23 people total) said that the Redskins would have a record between 10-6 and 6-10. A full 75 percent of the picks were either 9-7, 8-8, or 7-9 and the data formed a nice bellshaped curve centered around the 8-8 mark. According to the fans on Sunday morning, we are destined to have an 8-8 season.

Given the optimism that most teams have in the early parts of the year (every team still has dreams of winning the superbowl at this stage) and the tendency to overestimate your team’s abilities, I find the results to show that our fans had little faith in our team’s abilities. When our best hope seems to hover around the 8-8 mark, that is a sign that we suspect a long season is ahead of us. Given last week’s Giants-Redskins game along with the obvious success of all the other teams in our division, this is hardly surprising. Fans are noticeably wary and guarded and they’re right to be so.

What will be interesting is to revisit this in a couple of weeks. If we can pull another convincing win against Arizona, will we reassess our position or will we remain skeptical until we can defeat one of the big bad NFC East teams? Stay tuned to find out more.

You can be a part of Game Day Chatter! Let me know what questions you would like to have me ask the fans at the game. Your opinions matter!

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Fed Ex Field=Heinz Field?!

Game Day Chatter Week 2: Saints vs. Skins