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I'm just curious...
What motivates you to continue supporting this team and franchise?
By 'support', I'm not just talking about going to games (be it season tickets or just a game or two a year), but also emotionally - rooting for them game in and game out regardless of talent, record, or promise? I'm talking about hanging out on a Redskins fan community. Talking about the Redskins promise, challenges, and successes?
This used to be a question that didn't need to be asked.
But I'm asking it.
I'm usually a 'roll with the punches' kind of a guy. I've weathered a lot of disappointment over the years, as has any Redskins fan. While I often can't sustain my hope and optimism in a given year once it becomes clear things are going off the rails. But I've always entered every offseason and new regular season believing things can be better and hopeful that they will be.
But I feel like I have nothing left in the tank.
Gruden needed to go. And he's gone. But today left me about as angry and frustrated as I've ever been as a Redskins fan. Listening to that vacuous pompous empty suit telling me that the fatal 5 car wreck I'm looking at is really nothing more than a fender bender, all the while refusing to even take the bulk of responsibility for causing it - it was just more than I could take.
Dan Snyder is a coward - plain and simple. In the face of the worst fan morale and most hopeless Redskins season in 20 years (and that's saying something), he doesn't even have the balls to stand up there, take questions, and at least try to provide some answers about where all of this is going and what he's going to do to make it better. Instead, he trots out his smug, intellectually dishonest sycophant to mutter meaningless platitudes and provide non-answers to some of the toughest media questions I've ever heard asked. I'm embarrassed to be a fan of this team, and my hostility towards Allen and Snyder is unhealthy bordering on words I don't like to use in regards to my fellow man.
I really have to ask - why subject oneself to it?
What possible reason is there to be a Redskins fan?
If anyone thinks they can talk me off the ledge, go ahead and give it your best shot. But I'm not sure it's possible.
I'm very close to being done with this team for good.
What motivates you to continue supporting this team and franchise?
By 'support', I'm not just talking about going to games (be it season tickets or just a game or two a year), but also emotionally - rooting for them game in and game out regardless of talent, record, or promise? I'm talking about hanging out on a Redskins fan community. Talking about the Redskins promise, challenges, and successes?
This used to be a question that didn't need to be asked.
But I'm asking it.
I'm usually a 'roll with the punches' kind of a guy. I've weathered a lot of disappointment over the years, as has any Redskins fan. While I often can't sustain my hope and optimism in a given year once it becomes clear things are going off the rails. But I've always entered every offseason and new regular season believing things can be better and hopeful that they will be.
But I feel like I have nothing left in the tank.
Gruden needed to go. And he's gone. But today left me about as angry and frustrated as I've ever been as a Redskins fan. Listening to that vacuous pompous empty suit telling me that the fatal 5 car wreck I'm looking at is really nothing more than a fender bender, all the while refusing to even take the bulk of responsibility for causing it - it was just more than I could take.
Dan Snyder is a coward - plain and simple. In the face of the worst fan morale and most hopeless Redskins season in 20 years (and that's saying something), he doesn't even have the balls to stand up there, take questions, and at least try to provide some answers about where all of this is going and what he's going to do to make it better. Instead, he trots out his smug, intellectually dishonest sycophant to mutter meaningless platitudes and provide non-answers to some of the toughest media questions I've ever heard asked. I'm embarrassed to be a fan of this team, and my hostility towards Allen and Snyder is unhealthy bordering on words I don't like to use in regards to my fellow man.
I really have to ask - why subject oneself to it?
What possible reason is there to be a Redskins fan?
If anyone thinks they can talk me off the ledge, go ahead and give it your best shot. But I'm not sure it's possible.
I'm very close to being done with this team for good.