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“The past is never dead. It's not even past.” William Faulker's famous quote on the intertemporality of experience came to mind as I was reading Dave McKenna's post regarding yesterday's win on Defector earlier today. McKenna, as many of you may remember, was a very vocal and righteous critic of Dan Snyder's at the Washington City Paper many years ago and had the good fortune to be sued in thanks.
I'm not in the local DC media market but apparently the local media has been making hay of the recent meagre playoff record that many of us are painfully aware of.
Nothing like celebrating a victory by shaming you for your former ineptitude!
Here at BGO too the legacies (hangovers?) of eras past are present - the whole concept of norvousness(!), one which I'd mercifully forgotten until I returned a couple days ago to WFT-dom.
Norv Turner hasn't been the coach for nearly a quarter-century, but don't we all still have a visceral reaction to the concept that's brewing in our guts in the second half of games. That feeling of deep-seeded precariousness - almost of the verge of pre-accepted doom on its way. That's Norvousness. You know it. I know it. It's the basis for higher heart rates, antiacids and probably even Jim Zorn.
What will it take to throw off the yoke of an era that started with Raljohn, MD & JKC Jr.'s departure and mercifully ended in 2023. Do we have to let go of Joe Gibbs II and Sean Taylor to bury the shame of Deion Sanders and Bruce Smith?
For some of us (or maybe just me), these last years haven't been kind to our interest in the team. The more recent legal scandals capped off an era that felt like perpetual vindictive meddling. And I'd had enough. I admire those of you who had the wherewithal to transcend it and maintain your interest as I expect the good "doink" from last night after all the dark days made this weekend all the more special.
I don't know if this year's run is different. I've been too far away for too long to assess whether a page has finally turned.
But it sure feels like it. The vibe feels different from my distance. Daniels feels like the real deal. Something I just don't think the team has really had in a really long time. Is he the missing piece to do what RGIII couldn't or was lamed by negligent doctors and prevented from doing? Is it Dan Quinn? Is it just good timing? Or just good luck that all these things coming together at the same time.
Whatever it is, we'd all love to finally shake that Norvousness. And for those of us who've been stuck in the mire of a bygone era might finally be able to let the Snyder era die and return to to a different past: the one that had provided so much joy. Or so I certainly hope.
I'm not in the local DC media market but apparently the local media has been making hay of the recent meagre playoff record that many of us are painfully aware of.
Nothing like celebrating a victory by shaming you for your former ineptitude!
Here at BGO too the legacies (hangovers?) of eras past are present - the whole concept of norvousness(!), one which I'd mercifully forgotten until I returned a couple days ago to WFT-dom.
Norv Turner hasn't been the coach for nearly a quarter-century, but don't we all still have a visceral reaction to the concept that's brewing in our guts in the second half of games. That feeling of deep-seeded precariousness - almost of the verge of pre-accepted doom on its way. That's Norvousness. You know it. I know it. It's the basis for higher heart rates, antiacids and probably even Jim Zorn.
What will it take to throw off the yoke of an era that started with Raljohn, MD & JKC Jr.'s departure and mercifully ended in 2023. Do we have to let go of Joe Gibbs II and Sean Taylor to bury the shame of Deion Sanders and Bruce Smith?
For some of us (or maybe just me), these last years haven't been kind to our interest in the team. The more recent legal scandals capped off an era that felt like perpetual vindictive meddling. And I'd had enough. I admire those of you who had the wherewithal to transcend it and maintain your interest as I expect the good "doink" from last night after all the dark days made this weekend all the more special.
I don't know if this year's run is different. I've been too far away for too long to assess whether a page has finally turned.
But it sure feels like it. The vibe feels different from my distance. Daniels feels like the real deal. Something I just don't think the team has really had in a really long time. Is he the missing piece to do what RGIII couldn't or was lamed by negligent doctors and prevented from doing? Is it Dan Quinn? Is it just good timing? Or just good luck that all these things coming together at the same time.
Whatever it is, we'd all love to finally shake that Norvousness. And for those of us who've been stuck in the mire of a bygone era might finally be able to let the Snyder era die and return to to a different past: the one that had provided so much joy. Or so I certainly hope.
