{"id":115,"date":"2008-08-27T21:56:18","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T21:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehogs.net\/blogs\/?p=115"},"modified":"2008-08-27T22:38:41","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T22:38:41","slug":"what-happens-when-the-sky-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2008\/08\/27\/what-happens-when-the-sky-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens when the Sky Falls?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"postbody\">After the first game of the pre-season (well, technically the Hall of Fame game) the sky was the limit. After the last game with Carolina, many fans\u2019 feelings have changed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\">I can imagine the news coverage starting with the weather\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cWe have a warm front coming in from the south, and as you can see here on the Doppler radar there seems to be a hole in the clouds over Landover, where it appears that the sky has fallen\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cThanks Jim, we now go live to Landover, Maryland where our own Jane Doe is on the scene. How\u2019s it looking out there Jane?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cThanks Tom, I\u2019m standing here live at Fed-Ex Field where it appears that a very strong vacuum has sucked the sky right down to the ground. The source of this vacuum seems to be the result of the Redskins\u2019 horrific performance versus the Carolina Panthers this past Saturday. I\u2019m going to try and get some local reactions\u2026excuse me, sir? Did you witness the game this past weekend?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cYou mean the Redskins\u2019 game? Yeah they sucked.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cThere you have it Tom, \u2018the Redskins sucked.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cThanks Jane. We go now to Biff Bifferson, our roving sports reporter who is standing by with Vinny Cerrato, who does something with the Redskins but nobody seems to know what. Biff?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cThanks Tom. Vinny, in light of the recent environmental disaster the Redskins have plagued upon the residents of Landover, what is the team going to do to get the sky back where it belongs?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cI couldn\u2019t help but notice that the parking lot here at Fed-Ex was full of birds forced to walk in the absence of sky, what is the teams official response and do you expect any fall-out from PETA?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cThose are just Gulls, they are always here.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cSo is the team\u2019s official response that there was, in fact, no sky to begin with?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cNo, it\u2019s just\u2026they\u2019re scavenger birds. They are always here. If you run up on them they\u2019ll fly away.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cSo is it the team\u2019s official position that the birds of Landover don\u2019t deserve a sky to fly in due to their bottom-feeder status?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cWhat? No. Were you going to ask me questions about football?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cCertainly, what do you have to say about the accusations that it was due to the Redskins\u2019 sucking in their game at Carolina that caused the sky to fall?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cThe sky didn\u2019t fall! Look, it\u2019s still up there! See all of that blue stuff?! That\u2019s the sky!\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cBut what about the Redskins sucking\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cLook, it was just a pre-season game, it didn\u2019t mean anything! Sure we didn\u2019t look good but it\u2019s not the end of the world!\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cSo, is it your position that Dan Snyder has plans to bring about the end of the world?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cThis interview is over\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\"><em>\u201cWell, there you have it, Tom. First; the sky. Next: the world. Live from Redskins park, I\u2019m Biff Bifferson.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"postbody\">\u00a0\ud83d\ude1b<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the first game of the pre-season (well, technically the Hall of Fame game) the sky was the limit. 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