Looking Back At A Monday Night Game To Forget

On September 16, 2002, I was at graduate school at the University of Colorado in Boulder. I didn't have NFL Sunday Ticket yet, so it still felt like a pretty big deal to have the Redskins on national TV for the Monday Night Game. It was the beginning of the Steve Spurrier era -- I'm not sure if two seasons constitutes an era, but that's what we thought at the time -- and the possibilities seemed limitless. We hosted some of my fellow grad students at our place for the game, and I mainly remember talking pregame trash with an Eagles fan by the unlikely name of Starlet. If you didn't know anything about the game and you were to look at the picture of Jacquez Green above, you might think that I was able to keep jawing throughout the game. That would not be precisely correct; Green's second-quarter punt return touchdown represented the only Redskins points for the night. By halftime, with the Redskins trailing 23-7, I wasn't talking any more trash, and by the m...