We are actually in the midst of the Great Revolution. No longer dreaming about it, no longer longing for it, but actually living it. The very revolution that seemed ludicrous merely to postulate a mere 12 months ago (and when I did, a few of my readers let me know so). The best part is that you don't need me telling you it's happening for you to know it's happening.You just need to look around. "Everywhere I go I see [Caps'] hats," Alexander Ovechkin observed on media day. Ballcaps are merely one manifestation of the metamorphosis.I paid particular attention to select print opinion pieces published over the weekend, two of them from the Washington Times' Thom Loverro ('Redskins could learn plenty from Leonsis' and 'Passion for the Capitals already at fever pitch'). "It is hard not to write about Capitals fans when you are writing about
the Capitals on the ice, because the two are so connected," Loverro claims. "Three year...
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