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  1. What to Watch for Against the Ravens

    So the nerd side of me got a hold of the blog, sorry in advance for all of you looking forward to my pop culture witticisms. <crickets> Yes. Well. Here we go. I was playing around on Football Outsiders this morning and came across our team defense rankings from last year. I figured that...

  2. What Just Happened?

    About 7-8 years ago, I brought home a gift for my wife. I rented a movie I thought she might enjoy (gather round children, and I'll tell you tale of movie rentals!): Love Actually. I had gone on a string of picking movies before then and had chosen such virtuoso performances as XMen 2...

  3. Momentum

    "Momentum is easier to steer than it is to create." I don't know who actually said this, so I will ascribe it to the one person I hear say it weekly, my boss. On the off chance he reads this (very minute, though I do post links to this on Facebook and a couple of co-workers read these from...

  4. Dallas Week

    Ah, Dallas Week. It's here, the first of two times in 2011. I always find it amusing when talking heads talk about sport's greatest rivalries and don't include the Cowboys/Redskins in their list. It's kind of like they are trying to be cool by listing some obscure rivalry that no one...

  5. Two Things

    Yeah, I know. It's been a while. But let's be honest: the last two years haven't been much fun for Redskins fans. 2012 was ah-mazing; I've already started to repress 2013 and 14. Anyhow, it's the start of the 2015 season, and I'm sure this will get lost in the shuffle of our first gameday of...

  6. Hunger

    I've been fascinated by the LeBron story over the past two weeks, during the NBA Finals. I grew up with Larry, Magic and Michael in the NBA, and with Riggo and Rypien in the NFL, clearly all the antithesis (antithesi: plural(?)) of what we saw from LeBron. 50 Gut wouldn't have worked so well...

  7. The Good Ole Days

    Two hours ago, I just finished When the Game was Ours by Jackie McMullen with the help of Larry Bird and Magic Johnson. I read it in two days, in between photographing 18 families yesterday, and couldn't wait to get back to it while working with those families. Terrific read. The book is...

  8. Julia Doesn't Always Fit

    So I bought Charlie Wilson's War the other day. Why you might ask? It was $5 on Amazon; that, and I like the movie. Phillip Seymour Hoffman is one of the more underrated actors today, in my opinion, and is terrifically funny in the movie. Plus, it was written by Aaron Sorkin who is pretty...

  9. Solution

    No one likes a complainer. We all know them. Everyone needs to vent when they are frustrated, but eventually if you aren't offering solutions to the problems, you're just bitching. And no one likes that. I vented on the BGO forums yesterday. If I offended anyone, I apologize. I am still...

  10. Holding Up Over Time?

    You ever watch a movie for the first time and absolutely love it? Then you watch it a couple of years later, or even a decade later and can't figure out what the hell you liked about it so much? Movies that get worse with subsequent viewing? Twenty years later, you watch and think, "What was...

  11. Lord of the Buys

    Get it? Come on. I have an English degree (and Art History). I get to use it once a year, if that. Lord of the Flies is a classic novel by William Goldman about a group of boys who try to govern themselves on a deserted island. Fabulous commentary on our evolutionary history, nature vs...

  12. Big Shot Bob

    Remember Robert Horry? Dude won like 20 titles (all numbers approximate) in the NBA with the Lakers and Spurs, and always seemed to hit a key three or two during a playoff run.Horry had a knack for being in the right place at the right time, and being able to step up and deliver when it...

  13. Goodspeed Revisited

    "The Rock" came on a movie channel the other day. As always, I felt compelled to watch. I love that movie, saw it three times in the theater (ah, to be young and have discretionary income again...), and watch it anytime it comes on TV now. "Welcome to the Rock." OK, that actually works...

  14. Friday Night Redskins

    Some movies make a ton of money because they have star power. Jack Reacher will end up doing fine at the box office because Tom Cruise is a crazy SOB, but he still draws. Big time. Other movies try to tell us that someone is a star, and bank on the audience not being able to figure out that...

  15. The "Oh Yeah" game

    A few weeks ago, I wrote this blog about Griff vs Luck, and the burgeoning rivalry they may have. It's possible I was off a little. Maybe it's Griffin and Russell Wilson? How great would it be to have a rivavlry in the same conference, with these two teams playing multiple times in the...

  16. Preseason Love? It's Justified

    You know what the difference between this Preseason and the last 20-ish is? The Skins are good. And I'm not anticipating the Preseason (and by extension the start of the regular season) just because I'm football-starved. I'm anticipating the start of the Redskins' season because we're good...

  17. Don't Call It a Comeback

    90% of my readers' minds went here, upon reading this title. (side note: my Dad clicked the link. Guaranteed. Has no idea what I'm talking about, and is now listening to the song a bit confused that I listened to that, and probably a bit amused as well) Yep, Mama Said Knock You Out came out...

  18. Time to Wake Up

    I had the weirdest dream the other day. The Skins were just... bad. Really, really bad. Painful at times to watch. Fumbles, turnovers, couldn't sustain drives, Griffin sloppy and ineffective. Bad, bad dream. I mean, we lost to this gimmick college offense one game, and it was awful...

  19. The Crazies

    As has been noted here before, huge Tim Olyphaunt fan here. I want to be Raylan Givens when I grow up. One of the better horror movie remakes lately was the Crazies in 2010 with Timmy starring. A really fun zombie-esque thriller I enjoyed. (Do I need to do a Spoiler Alert for a three year...

  20. An Open Letter to DeSean

    Dear DeSean, You'll have to forgive some of us. For every one Redskins fan excitedly jumping up and down this morning upon hearing the news of your signing, there is another fan, like myself, huddled in the fetal position in the corner. We've been hurt before, you see. In fact, I was at the Y...
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