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John Riggins Will Never Work For Dan Snyder Again
October 13, 2009 by
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Not after this....Wow. Just wow.
Somebody Save Me From Daniel Snyder
October 07, 2009 by
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The Redskins beat Tampa Bay, but not by enough.A win is a win, as Chris Samuels tweeted, but the Bucs lost the game as much as anything. They booted place kicker Mike Nugent from the team Monday after his two missed kicks cost them the win.Samuels' attitude isn't good enough...
Life Is A Circle And It Revolves Around Detroit
September 28, 2009 by
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I hate the Detroit Lions, not from yesterday's game when the Lions beat the Redskins to make fans the laughingstock of the football world.When you lose to the worst team in football, you take their monkey from their back to yours.My dislike of the Lions dates back to the 'Seventies...
Redskins Explode for Two-Point Win Over Rams
September 21, 2009 by
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Well, not really. But words can change attitudes, so lets call Washington's 9-7 escape over St. Louis a really good thing.The best game summary by a blogger comes courtesy of DC Pro Sports Report who penned No Problem With Booing In Week 2. Spense compliments Albert Haynesworth...
Something to Cheer For: Redskins 17, Steelers 13
August 23, 2009 by
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When the Washington Redskins win, I am a better person. Problems evaporate. The sun is brighter. Life is good, even with a preseason game.It's a misstatement that preseason games are meaningless. Scores don't count in preseason, but scoring does. Fans want to see evidence of...
What To Do With the Washington Redskins Tickets
August 21, 2009 by
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Times are tough. I have to let the Washington Redskins season tickets go.Long time season ticket holders are anguished when it comes to this moment. My tickets have been a constant for me and my family from the Great Society through the Reagan Revolution up to the Age of Obama.How...
Plaxico
August 20, 2009 by
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I am a Spartan, though I attended Michigan State long before Plaxico Burress played football there.So I am sorry for Plaxico, sorry to hear that he has been sentenced to two years in prison for possession of a weapon in New York.Burress was the only one harmed when his gun accidentally...
Football and Fantasy
August 20, 2009 by
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August! Ah, yes.Football season, pro, college, high school, and fantasy is close at hand.ESPN980's promo picture for the fantasy football convention caught my, uh, attention. Looking at fantasy players is about all I do these days.I'm a retired fantasy baller these days, preferring...
Michael Vick Still Draws Traffic
June 04, 2009 by
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A quick check of my traffic count shows that Michael Vick is still a draw.Fifteen of the last 20 referrals to this site were clicks to the story Why Michael Vick is Worried posted August 14, 2007.So now Running Redskins is a Michael Vick referral site?I'll make it easy for you...
The Football World is All A-Twitter
June 02, 2009 by
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These new technologies start out on the fringe as solutions looking for problems. Then they sneak up on you.Twitter crossed that bar from the province of teen-agers and the empty headed, not necessarily the same people, who post vain and vapid microblogs of their action at a given...
Jon Jansen's Loss Could Be Fred Davis' Gain
June 02, 2009 by
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The Washington Redskins said good-bye to veteran tackle Jon Jansen today. Though not surprising, the news still hits with a shock.Stephon Heyer looks to be the man with Jansen gone. But just last January it was a given that Heyer was not starter material. While we count on Heyer'...
Jason Campbell and the Beastly Quarterbacks
June 02, 2009 by
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The only certainty about the Washington Redskins' upcoming season is that Daniel Snyder is disenchanted with his quarterback, Jason Campbell.Campbell finished the 2008 season ranked 19th in passing yards, sandwiched between Carolina’s Jake Delhomme and Jacksonville’s David...
Shaun Alexander or Marcus Mason
June 02, 2009 by
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Free-agent RB Shaun Alexander (Redskins) said during a radio interview with KNBR in San Francisco that he would like to return to play for the Washington Redskins this season...more on Redskins Hog HeavenI don't know what to call this, wishful thinking or abject denial.
Get Off Daniel Snyder's Back
June 02, 2009 by
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When you see one of those rankings of NFL organizations, you learn to look from the bottom up for Washington's ranking.These things always turn into a bash-Daniel Snyder thing.I understand that Snyder got that reputation the hard way; he earned it. I get that. But it's tiresome...
The Redskins Have a Ticketing Deal Just for Me
June 02, 2009 by
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A suspicion is abroad that Washington Redskin season ticket sales face challenges in this most challenging of economic seasons.More evidence arrived in my email box this morning. Here's the note under the heading Extra Lower Level Season Tickets:Due to a Redskins Sponsor seat relocation...
No Kentucky Derby Post Time for Me
May 06, 2009 by
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Well, that was a dud.No, not the 135th running of th Kentucky Derby won by 50-1 long-shot Mine That Bird. The horse ran the race you'd expect to see in the movies; National Velvet without Liz Taylor.No, I'm referring to my post If the NFL Ran the Kentucky Derby that ran on...
Redskins Schedule Set
April 15, 2009 by
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This year's bill has a high soap opera factor. Here's some of the drama.Redskins @ New York Giants, Sun., Sept. 13, 4:15 p.m. ET, FOXOooohhh nooooo, Mr. Bill. Not another home opener against the Jersey Gints. Those guys put the "beat" in Beast.St. Louis Rams @ Redskins...
US Navy To The Rescue
April 13, 2009 by
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When you are a history buff like me, you see parallels to the past to the past in current events. Everything that's happened has happened before.So I marvel at, but am not surprised by, the rescue of American merchant captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates by the United...
In sports blogging, the name is the game
April 12, 2009 by
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Tre Wells has an interesting premise in his Bleacher Report story How The NFL Is Destroying rivalries."Over the years the NFL has promoted its players over its teams. A marketing strategy of selling the stars of the game, over the cities of the teams, makes a lot of money in jersey...
We live to write. We write to be read.
April 09, 2009 by
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OK, so my whole initiative to become an Internet marketing magnate is off to a slow start. Daniel Snyder I am not.The payoffs for most bloggers are hits and linkbacks. Like writers of every media, bloggers write to be read.Writing For The WebAfter writing for blogs, starting with this...
How would you feel if you were Jason Campbell?
April 07, 2009 by
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Frank over at dc.metblogs.com tries some analogies for how Jason Campbell must feel after being told that he was "the guy" at quarterback for the Washington Redskins.Is he a guy who got fired only to have the company call him back and say whoops-we wanted to fire you, but...
Jay Cutler To The Redskins; Nevermind
April 02, 2009 by
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"The Chicago Bears pulled the big upset Thursday afternoon by acquiring Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler." ~~ John Clayton, espn.com.So the Broncos and Da Bears made April Fools of Snyder and Cerrato.
Of Jay Cutler and Jason Campbell
April 02, 2009 by
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If you only read one analysis of the Jay Cutler to the Redskins storyline, go take a look at Jay Brinson's story Jay Cutler Is in Redskins' Wheelhouse on nfl.fanhouse.com.Brinson doesn't stop with a head-to-head comparison of Jay Cutler's and Jason Campbell's stats...
Change Has Come to GM
March 31, 2009 by
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"In a startling departure, the Obama administration has decided that the price of failure in America should be failure." ~~ Roger Simon, politico.comRegardless of the writings of Adam Smith, the markets are emotional, not rational. President Obama decided Friday that General...
Master4Caster Is Back
March 31, 2009 by
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The author of this blog (me) delivers content to Hog Heaven on the Most Valuable Network of sports blogs as the primary outlet.Yet Running Redskins continues to get hits, about 40 per day, from interested readers. Thank you. That humbles me. It also inspires me.So, Running Redskins...
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