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Political Venue: The History of RFK Stadium, Part Seven
Home cookingNaming the stadium after Bobby Kennedy was an inside baseball affair, bureaucratic infighting at its best. The name change also signaled a change in the fortunes of a franchise. Curly R's special series on the history of RFK Stadium continues.Part One: Faded GloryPart Two: Government InterventionPart Three: Football and RacePart Four: A Complex RelationshipPart...
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October 13, 2011
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Political Venue: The History of RFK Stadium, Part Six
LBJ Stadium?Team owner George Preston Marshall could hold out no longer, black players were coming to the Redskins, but who expected Ernie Davis and Bobby Mitchell? Curly R's special series on the history of RFK Stadium continues.Part One: Faded GloryPart Two: Government InterventionPart Three: Football and RacePart Four: A Complex RelationshipPart Five: Ernie Davis, Bobby...
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October 12, 2011
Political Venue: The History of RFK Stadium, Part Five
Colored players need not applyAfter deciding to make the Redskins a new home in DC, the government decided to get in George Preston Marshall's business. One way or another, a black player was coming to this team. Curly R's special series on the history of RFK Stadium continues.Part One: Faded GloryPart Two: Government InterventionPart Three: Football and RacePart Four...
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October 11, 2011
Political Venue: The History of RFK Stadium, Part Four
Colored players need not applyAn intractably racist owner, a presidential administration committed to equal rights. The Redskins and the government were on a collision course. Curly R's special series on the history of RFK Stadium continues.Part One: Faded GloryPart Two: Government InterventionPart Three: Football and RacePart Four: A Complex RelationshipPart Five: TuesdayPart...
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October 10, 2011
Political Venue: The History of RFK Stadium, Part Three
Colored players need not applyWith the government already agreeing effectively to bail out the Redskins in the form of a new stadium, all that remained was to work out the details. The absence of black players happened to be one of those details. Curly R's special series on the history of RFK Stadium continues.Part One: Faded GloryPart Two: Government InterventionPart Three...
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October 09, 2011
Political Venue: The History of RFK Stadium, Part Two
Shovel readyBy the 1960 season, the Washington Redskins had long faded from their heights of the 1930s and 40s, attendance was winding down and the city was rapidly falling out of love with NFL football. Who better to rescue the team than the government? Curly R's special series on the history of RFK Stadium continues.Part One: Faded GloryPart Two: Government InterventionPart...
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October 08, 2011
Political Venue: The History of RFK Stadium, Part One
What came beforeRobert F. Kennedy Stadium, former home of the Washington Redskins, celebrated its fiftieth birthday in 2011, on October 1st. Fifteen years gone are the stadium's football days of tailgates, bouncing bleachers, noise and home field advantage. Today RFK sits, an aging memorial to past glory, slowly decaying by the Anacostia River, still looking down East Capitol...
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October 07, 2011
Coming Tomorrow: The History of RFK
Sunday bestLast Saturday, a Washington milestone passed: The fiftieth anniversary of the opening of RFK Stadium. It was precisely fifty years ago, 1 October of 1961, that the Redskins played their first game in what was then known as DC Stadium. The Redskins would play every home game there for the next thirty-six years, through the 1996 season.The stadium, the experience, the emotion...
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October 06, 2011
Curly R: The Year In Exile
Outside looking in*Sigh* I've been downgraded.At first I thought it was just one level, from superfan to fan.Later though I realized I have no idea what is happening with the 2011 Redskins and who plays for them. Barry Cofield is the last addition I remember.Tim Hightower? You mean the guy from Arizona with the fumbling problem? Donte Stallworth? Isn't he the guy that...
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September 08, 2011
Game Journal Prelude: Redskins at Bengals, 12/14/2008
Several years ago a good friend living in Charlottesville Virginia, home to our alma mater the University of Virginia, pulled up stakes and moved to Cincinnati Ohio to follow an opportunity... to stay married. We had been kicking around the idea of my coming out there for a football or baseball game for some time, and when the NFC Beast came round to play the AFC North in the 2008...
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February 20, 2011
Why Does this Keep Happening?
Is he stupid? Or just mean.Every so often in Washington we hear about how the Redskins and owner Dan Snyder are lashing out at the media, or creating their own internet to give unfiltered or grinding axes by firing people or lamenting media coverage of the team by people that just don't know ****. Hell, even I have gotten email from the team challenging my coverage.There is...
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February 02, 2011
Saturday Division Playoffs Open Thread
Grudge matchBest football weekend of the year here kids, time to wallow.Baltimore Ravens at Pittsburgh Steelers, 4:30 pm ET, CBSConsensus point spread: Steelers minus threeCurly R spread pick: RavensCurly R straight up pick: RavensTwo teams that flat just do not get along, I love to see Division matchups in the playoffs, this is the third time these teams have met this year, with...
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January 15, 2011
Sunday Wildcard Playoffs Open Thread
Road trip!Two great games last night, two more good ones today, in the traditional NFL playoff timeslots, belly up and let's watch some football!Baltimore Ravens at Kansas City Chiefs, 1:00 pm ET, CBSConsensus point spread: Chiefs plus threeCurly R spread pick: RavensCurly R straight up pick: RavensThe Ravens are a serious Super Bowl contender, maybe the team with the best...
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January 09, 2011
You Stay Classy Brandon Lloyd
Back at you dude Thanks to lifetime Eagles fan, season ticket holder and Curly R reader/lurker Wilbert Montgomery for the tip: As current Broncos and former Redskins receiver Brandon Lloyd heads off to the Pro Bowl, his team's lone representative, he has a message for his three old clubs, the 49ers, Redskins and Bears:**** you.Gee who could ever have seen that coming.Brandon...
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December 29, 2010
Season's Greetings from The Curly R
From all of us at The Curly R, best wishes for this holiday season, and I hope Father Christmas brings you some special gifts too.-Ben FolsomOther Curly R season's greetings: 2006 :: 2007 :: 2008 :: 2009Lantern Waste from here via here.
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December 25, 2010
Game 14: Redskins (5-8) at Cowboys (4-9)
at My Take in 60 Words or Less: For the first time since 2003 I am taking the opponent to win. That's right, I switched both my pool picks to Cowboys.
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December 19, 2010
Talk About Rapid Response
OuchGo Skins dot Org, the great abstract cartoonist of the Redskins, already has artistic reaction up, Albert Haynesworth and Donovan McNabb just chilling together on the bench. Go check the rest out here.The Benching is now a national news story, not sure what Mike Shanahan was going for here, he sure looks like an asshole right about now.Albert Haynesworth and Donovan McNabb on...
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December 17, 2010
BULL ******* ****
Are you ******* kidding meWhat the **** is this ******* ****, I sit here minding my own business eating my lunch when I see a headline pop into Redskins Insider:Rex Grossman to start over Donovan McNabb SundayThat would be this Sunday, at Dallas, bitter NFC Beast Division rival Dallas, a team the Redskins can still sweep in the season series.And Mike Shanahan is going to bench Donovan...
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December 17, 2010
Shattered
2011 offseason starts nowA complete humilation today against the Giants, I am embarrassed right now to be a Redskins fan.We knew there would be growing pains, we knew Mike Shanahan and his system would not turn the Redskins into a Super Bowl team in one season. We knew all this and expected to see the team struggle at times.What we did not expect was an organization unable to field...
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December 05, 2010
What Should I Do?
Jamie Lee Curtis?Comedian slash Redskins fan slash radio host Danny Rouhier is out with his week twelve video that I first thought was supposed to represent Danny's internal dialogue then I see in the video description that it is a parody of a LeBron James commercial, not only do I not know this commercial, I am not even sure I could pick LeBron James out of a lineup because...
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December 02, 2010
GOD DAMMIT
Was it us?Do you have any idea how ******* pissed off I am? Check that stat line in the image above, that is Brandon Lloyd, Broncos receiver, leading the league in receiving yards with 1046 yards in ten games, TEN GAMES THE DUDE HAS CAUGHT 54 PASSES FOR ALMOST A TWENTY YARD AVERAGE IN TEN FREAKING GAMES!Brandon was traded to Washington from San Francisco in the 2006 offseason on...
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November 27, 2010
Game 9: Redskins (4-5) at Titans (5-4)
vs.Because no one gives a **** and the Redskins are going to get killed.NFL helmets from here.
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November 21, 2010
The Folsom Point 11/16/2010: No Air
Wife excusing me from inlaws to blog? VICTORY IS MINE!Wherein we discuss a trainwreck game of epic proportions.Image by me with apologies to Advice Dog.
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November 17, 2010
Game 9: Redskins (4-4) vs. Eagles (5-3)
vs. Out of the Box: The rematch, on Monday Night Football no less, as the new quarterback plays his old team in the stadium where he won ten times in eleven years, it's the Eagles in primetime at Redskins Stadium, 8:30pm on ESPN.=====Quick jump toThe Story So Far :: Curly R Aside :: Oppo Research :: Trainer's Table Gameplan :: My Take in 60 Words or Less :: Preview Generalia...
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November 15, 2010
Piling On
BrilliantAt some point this week I need to turn back to the Redskins, for now I am still wallowing in the midseason firing of Dallas head coach Wade Phillips and the Cowboys' smile inducing 1-7 record.So imagine the pleasantness of my surprise when I open my weekly copy of The Onion on Metro this morning and see the Cowboys covered in Sports. Money quote:According to a recent...
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November 12, 2010
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