Redskins Players Address Pro Bowl Gate
Pro bowler, Pro Bowler, nah, Pro Bowler. (By John McDonnell - TWP)
Whether you call it a mockery of justice or a triumph of participatory democracy–and I’ve done both–the fact that the Redskins are ahead in the fan voting on 21 of 26 Pro Bowl spots is unquestionably noteworthy. Skins fans have been accused of ballot-stuffing from Shutdown Corner to the New York Daily News, although I’ll admit that maybe this story is already played out. But I still figured it was worth asking some of the surprising vote leaders what they thought about their surprising leads.
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Morning Look: The Faces of 1-8
(By John Amis - AP)
This is a true story. Last night, I was watching the Wizards in delayed time on TiVo, maybe 10 or 15 minutes behind the live action. With about a minute left in their game against the Hawks, DeShawn Stevenson hit an awful fading away jumper to give the Wiz a four-point lead, then couldn’t feel the heck out of his face. I paused the TiVo machine, and got ready to take some television photography.
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Holmgren on Zorn and Zorn’s Bike
Zorn’s mentor. (By Lynne Sladky - AP)
Mike Holmgren just addressed the D.C. media. He told us that Zorn used to ride his bicycle to games while he was the quarterbacks coach in Seattle. That’s normal. First, the boring quotes:
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Skins: Underdogs to Ravens?
Now looking like they’ll be favored over the Skins. (By Mark Finkenstaedt - TWP)
My weeks-long question–would the Washington Redskins end the season as the point-spread favorites in their final 11 games–was decisively answered last week, when the Redskins were home underdogs to the Cowboys, and couldn’t cover the spread.
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Redskins Fans Gloriously Vote Their Team Colors
Awesomely leading the Pro Bowl voting. (By John McDonnell - TWP)
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Skins Discuss Those Seattle Fans
(By Preston Keres - TWP)
It’s hard to remember now, but nine months ago Seahawks fans were extremely excited about their football team, and were showing that excitement by posting angry, grammatically suspect comments on Washington Post blogs.
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Redskins Successfully Make Mockery of Pro Bowl
I’m not privy to the thinking behind the Redskins’ elaborate campaign urging fans to Vote the Redskins Ticket. As I’ve repeatedly mentioned, the thing ranges from thousands of yard signs to extensive Web videos to pins and bumper stickers to radio ads to an enslaved blogger to thick media packets to, presumably, an illegal slush fund, hidden recording devices and some plumbers.
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Behold the Faces of Jim Zorn
There are a lot of reasons the local media pack seems in the tank for Jim Zorn–for example, the fact that he’ll spend more time answering reporters’ questions after practice than virtually any high school coach I’ve ever covered, whether those questions are about the West Coast Offense or skinning coyotes.
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Gilbert’s Actual Thoughts on Obama
(By Carlos Osorio - AP)
After all his Presidential goofiness in recent weeks–the cracks at Biden and Palin, the pledge not to vote, the actual Obama tattoo–Gilbert finally cut through the goofiness and offered his actual thoughts on the election over the weekend. Apparently, he voted after all. And predictably, when he stopped being Gilbert and started being real, it became somewhat less entertaining than previous installments in this series.
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Redskins Fans Seem to Have Sobered Up
It’s Year One of the NFL Fan Code of Conduct policy, which I was reminded of Sunday night as I walked past this gutter–sorry, Hog Trough–meant to assist Redskins fans as they sip, don’t guzzle their non-alcoholic beverages. Really, you haven’t lived until you’ve sipped cranberry spritzers out of a funnel tube attached to a gutter. Goes great with Camembert served out of a cement mixer.
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