Completely Fed Up

I took a long time to write that last entry. Part of the reason is I've spent the last two hours being absolutely furious with The Redskins. I am not a fan of bandwagons, jumping on or jumping off. I try to make an effort to avoid such things. But goddammit, they were down 17 to 0 at one point in the first half. To Cincinnati. Cincinnati who has won once. Frankly I can deal with losses to the Ravens or the Steelers. Struggling against the horrid Lions didn't turn me off enough to stop watching, but this has been too much. And now they've had a touchdown called back, which turned into a touchback for the Bengals. GOD. DAMMIT. You really don't want to give up on your team! You don't want to be the person that turns your back when they get their face ground into the dirt. But I do think that at some point who have to tell the team that you won't put up with it, you won't reward them with your attention, and certainly not your money, if they'll give you nothing in return. That's the bottom line for Dan Snyder. If he has your money, he feels no need to change things. He'll still do stupid things in the draft, go out and get names to get attention (Jason Taylor? He's done nothing for us. Nothing. But he gets name recognition), and seemingly do whatever he can to avoid substantially improving the team. We had some success early in the season (and I'll admit, I let myself get crazy excited about it), but apparently that was only because we were doing something new. Apparently had nothing to do with hidden talents being brought to the fore like we wanted to believe. Because now, we did the new stuff for a while, other teams figured it out, got ready for it, and apparently we have NOTHING ELSE to fall back on. So, they've been fucking around for several years now, the last several weeks have been absolutely abysmal, and yet, via the Big O and Dukes show, I hear that they're still the highest valued franchise in sport. Amazing. I think the best thing for the team right now is some unbought seats at FedEx. Lord knows they're not being filled with Skins fans anyway. Make them feel it a little. This entry disgusts me a little bit too, because I don't like to consider myself one of those people who speaks of "we" when I speak of the team, but apparently I am. But I sure as hell have other ways I can spend my three hours every Sunday.