It is too easy for me to hate the Redskins

[ehren]

Hating Danny Snyder for suing season ticket holders who lose their jobs and can't afford to pay for them, Jim Zorn, blacking out Redskins Nation on Comcast Sportsnet Mid-Atlantic and the last straw I tried to watch Redskins Kick-Off this morning on the same channels AND THAT IS BLACKED OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!

F*** everything about this franchise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only reason my father and I were fans is back when Vince Lombardi was a member of the team and I followed all teams my father liked as a kid.

 

[riffjim4069]

I used to like the Redskins before I was stationed in the DC area starting in the early-to-mid 80s when Joe Gibbs has several outstanding teams.

1. I started to dislike them when I couldn't get tickets to the game...any game for that matter...unless I killed a season ticket holder. It was never a problem getting tickets on the game day to watch the Lions play.

2. I really started to dislike the team whenever I heard that wretched, "Hail to the Redskins" song. What NFL team actually has a song?

3. I hated them after seeing grown men dress-up like Hogs each week. Go Cowbows!

Of course, the Cowboys aren't too far behind the Redskins on my dislike list.

 

[AntAltMike]

About two hours before gametime, the Redskins announced that fans could now bring signs to the games. I wonder how many Danny Sucks signs will appear before that policy gets changed again.

As far as the, "suing the little old bag lady who lives out of her shopping cart" story is concerned, yeah, Snyder took a lot of heat for that, but it wasn't as bad as it sounds. Holders of premium tickets are allowed to contract to ten-year subscriptions at a fixed price that will be below the likely market price if the team even goes .500. The woman in question had retired, bought a ten-year pair of tickets for something like $5,000 to $6,000 a year, found that she was living beyond her means and went back to the career she had retired from as a real estate agent, but then her part time real estate agent job stopped making money for her when real estate tanked. In other words, she had been living beyond her (and my) means before the real estate debacle. Snyder is forced to sue those people to make it worth his while to continue to sell tickets for ten year committments. Otherwise, the speculators will sell them at a big markup when ticket prices go up while bailing on them when ticket prices go down.

Danny used to be a customer of mine. I might have posted about the time I was called out on a Sunday afternoon to get his C-band downlink operational in time for a Dallas/Pittsburgh preseason game that was only televised locally in those markets.

 

[Ramy]

It is never too late. They won today which was a surprise.

 

[salsadancer7]

It is never too late. They won today which was a surprise.

The Redskins have a very good defense...and as EVERYONE said, the Broncos were living on borrowed time.