DC = Football Town

It's been a bit of a hiatus from the blog, but...

Thursday the (God sent) Washington Redskins play their first preseason game against the Baltimore Ravens. Thank God. As I previously mentioned, I appreciate/enjoy baseball (except when I'm being accused of being eleven years old), but at this point in the summer DC wakes back up with the growing anticipation of another football season, because DC is a football town.

Obvious, I know. But truly, the Skins are something interesting to consider. The Wizards suck and the Nats suck, but even when the Redskins haven't won a super bowl since '92, we set records for attendence and are the second most valuable franchise in the league. Besides that, there is the complex optimism of the Skins fan, who is eternally optimistic and consistently disappointed in this goddamn Syder era. Seriously, I sometimes feel that that SOB is some kind of spy sent from Dallas to send our franchise to hell (also known as Detroit). Meanwhile, the Caps have the biggest hockey star in the league and are the most talented/successful pro team in a sport people care about in this city, but it just doesn't compare to the Skins fanbase.

Analyzations aside, let the emotional rollercoaster that is the life of a Skins fan in the fall begin.