Skins vs. Cowboys Wrap-Up

What a tremendous effort from the Washington Redskins in defeating the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday at Texas Stadium. In what was the Skins last ever trip to Texas Stadium, they scratched out a 26-24 victory to stun the Dallas crowd and seemingly ‘football experts’ everywhere. Here are some links to help you relive it all again today:

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Hognostications: Week 4

Congratulations to BigRedskinDaddy for going 14-2 in last week’s hognostications.  There were many close games in which several games weren’t decided until the clock reached zero. 

What happened to the Pats?  Colts?  Da Bears?

It looks like anything can happen this season so choose wisely.  That said, below are my picks for week 4.

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Ken Houston Wallpaper – Retro Style!

New to THN this year, we will be periodically releasing retro wallpapers of some of the Greatest Redskins.  This week, we are proud to introduce a new Ken Houston Wallpaper. Check out more Redskins Wallpapers . Ken Houston Career Houston is regarded as one of the best safeties in NFL history. His contributions to the … Read more

Redskins Haikus

Over the years, we’ve had a lot of fun doing Redskins Haikus. If you’re not familiar with what a Haiku is, its a poem with three lines, that has five, seven, and five syllables in the lines. You can read all about it at Wikipedia.

Here are a couple of examples – a couple of these rhyme, but they don’t have to:

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Know Your Opponent: Arizona Cardinals

So, I took a little heat last week for simply hurling schoolyard insults at the Saints in “Know Your Opponent: New Orleans”Not as much heat as the Saints took in FedEx, but I digress.

I intend to still hurl my schoolyard insults this week because, c’mon, it’s the Cardinals, are we really afraid of a team that has named itself after a perching songbird?

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Lucky Underwear 1, Saints 0

Okay, so I know what happened here.  I wrote about how Durant Brooks did so well last week, taking that shot to the groin and all, he read it, got all cocky, and went out and had a bad week.  My fault.  However, it’s a good thing I was wearing my lucky underwear to help the Redskins pull out the win.  I forgot to wear my lucky underwear last week, and look what happened.  So far, my lucky underwear is 1-0 versus the spread.

And just a quick note to my friends at DirecTV.  I pay you two hundred fifty some-odd dollars for my Sunday Ticket subscription.  I pay you ten some-odd dollars  a month for my HD service.  And now you want me to pay ANOTHER one hundred some-odd dollars to get my Sunday Ticket games in HD with your ‘SuperFan’ offering?!?  Have you gone mad?!?  How many ways can you possibly screw me out of more of my hard-earned some-odd dollars?!?

And now back to our regular programming (which is probably slighty more random than usual, given that I was irrate and distracted for most of the first half, after learning that I could not watch my game in HD)….

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