Do you guys remember how miserable you would feel on Mondays after a Skins loss?
Do you remember how you didn't even want to watch SportsCenter or talk about football?
Do you remember how you didn't even begin to come out of your funk until around Wednesday?
Remember how devastating it was to lose going into a bye and having to sit on that loss for two weeks?
Fast forward to today. Think how you felt yesterday after one of the most embarrassing losses of the season.
If you are like me you were almost hoping we had got beaten even worse, in the small hope that the more embarrassing the loss the greater chance it would have to affect real change.
Sportster and jy...........there is a real shot this city could move on from this team. I hear what you were trying to tell me a couple of weeks ago.
If Dan brings Bruce back after 1-15, he'll lose the city.
I've never had the Monday blues following a loss by this team. While it might seem typical for a lot of fans here, as the oldest poster on the board I can fully attest to three things being true in Washington professional sports and they are:
1. First in War, first in peace and last in the American league! (Senators)
2. The Washington Generals were the doormat upon which the Harlem Globetrotters wiped their feet. (No pro team)
3. Break even or winning seasons for the football team, were as rare as a live diamond encrusted Dodo bird.
So, what does it all mean? I grew up expecting annual losses, it was "normal," and something to be proud of because we all seemed to live by the motto, "bless their hearts, they tried!" The interesting thing about them is, the history is nothing if not long spans of perpetual losses with the outlier(s) being 1936 - 1945, 1971 -1976, and 1982 - 1992 when consistent losing seasons were replaced by some years of title contending football. (I wasn't around during the 1936-1945 seasons)
Sunday's loss was no different, it was expected, yet weirdly welcomed, because like many of their predecessors, they were ill equipped to win and "bless their hearts, they tried!"
BTW: Bruce will be back simply because he's done nothing in his life to merit the job beyond being a hired friend, and unless someone can convince me otherwise, he's done nothing to hurt that relationship.