The “Get a new one!” fallacy

Weaknesses on a football team are the bane of any fan’s existence. Come Sunday, you simply hope that Ade Jimoh isn’t in there on a big 3rd down play, or that the game won’t come down to a last-second 50+ yard field goal when Hall is out with an injury. You hope that we won’t … Read more

Twelve Down, Twenty-Two to Go

The Redskins made their first round of cuts today with the NFL’s deadline for getting rosters down to seventy five players coming on Tuesday. There were a couple of small surprises, but for the most part, none of these football players were expected to be a Washington Redskin this year. Perhaps the biggest surprise on … Read more

Message to Joe Gibbs and the Washington Redskins

Message to Joe Gibbs and the Washington Redskins There can be absolutely no way of sugar-coating the obvious: Joe Gibbs’ Washington Redskins played their worst game of the 2006 preseason against Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots yesterday, August 26. Gibbs’ team played so bad that he said at the press conference held at the end … Read more

Flag Football World Championships

This last week, the NFL held the Flag Football World Championships (FFWC) in Cologne, Germany. Ten teams from around the world were represented by young athletes between the ages of 12 and 14, who competed for the world title. I had the opportunity to do up a couple of articles on the event for various … Read more

Q and A with Kerry Carter

Last Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals, Kerry Carter’s knee gave out while making a cut in the backfield, and his 2006 football season with the Washington Redskins was over before it had seemingly begun. But after talking to the young Canadian, it was obvious that this wasn’t a journey that had just begun, and it … Read more

Good News

I have been moping about recently and I think you all know why. The Redskins lost the Super Bowl to the Bengals last Sunday night and it was painful. I was saying as much to a friend of mine, and he had a puzzled look on his face: Friend: Um, dude, why are you so … Read more

My Bad

Despite my fear of being castigated, I will openly admit it: Clinton Portis’ injury is my fault. I know, I know, it sounds a bit odd that I, a Redskins fan living 600 miles away from Redskins Park could have been the cause of his misfortune, but it’s true. You see, Boss puts a tremendous … Read more

Carter, Clemons Receive Injury Settlements

With one of two Canadians sidelined with an injury for the Bengals game, it meant the other Canadian was going to get a chance to really make a splash at making the 2006 Washington Redskins. But for Kerry Carter, it just wasn’t mean to be this year, eh? Kerry Carter suffered a season ending knee … Read more

The Sky IS NOT falling

Seems like a lot of fans had a bad day today, after watching a night of Redskin Football. Sorry, the wife is a Packer fan and if I start whining she’ll breakout the cheeseheads and lay them throughout the house. So I got with Tcwest10, who was offering to loan out his spare pair of … Read more

Why am I a poster at THN website?

Why am I a poster at THN website? Let’s face it: I have not sent several thousand messages to any members of my family, friends or anybody else in my life. I have not sent more than a few hundred messages to any of the very few other specialised professional boards to which I am … Read more