I would say you are a smarter fan for doing that then the idiots who still go to games and pay for $12 miller lites. No chance in hell I will support this franchise financially until there is major change. I was hoping the Salute to Service hoodie this year was a nice design and was going to buy one, but now I hope it sucks so that I won’t feel bad about not buying one.
I wear a Redskins lanyard at work and I’m thinking of going back to my Capitals one already. But I kind of also want to keep it on because if people ask me about it, I can tell them the disgust I have with the front office and where my fandom lies right now.
I don’t know if I will rock my current Salute to Service hoodie this winter, and I already put duct tape over the Redskins logo on my only hat. Yesterday was the first time in probably a decade that I did not wear a jersey on game day. Hell the lady at Safeway when I went grocery shopping in the AM even asked me if there was a game on yesterday, because I didn’t have my jersey on. I then went on to tell her about the current status of the team…
I’m actually going to the Vikings Skins game in Minnesota in a few weeks. I joked with my friends about having my Portis jersey on under my Cousins jersey, just in case
I think you’re doing it right with the duct tape, though. And if I still lived in VA it might be different for me. I still pull for the Caps and the Natinals (sic).
Yeah I am just a homer in general. I’m not a big baseball fan at all and find it mostly boring, but I have the game on right now. I’d say Capitals are my 2nd sport, Wizards my 3rd (although they are going to suck as bad as the Redskins for a while), and then the Nats.
And I hope your spelling of the Nats was intentional lol.
my FB feed was one of pure laughter yesterday. After the Cowboys lost to Green Bay, man it was filled with people fucking salty as shit that “their team” lost. One of my friends from college even posted this “gem”:
My co-worker is a Jets fan. Dude has spent his life rooting for a trash team. He’d been a Jet fan for damn near 20 years when Rypien won our last Super Bowl. Between him and my Browns fan co-worker, they have never had it good. I have had the far better experience. Not gonna be a fair weather fan. I won’t buy official Skins gear. I’ll stick to unlicensed Smack Talk Tee’s and get by just laughing at the ludicrous incompetence.
I do not buy NFL licensed Redskins gear and I don’t go to games. I went home for my bro’s birthday last month. I could have went to a game for cheap but fuck Snyder so I didn’t go. Snyder gets no cash from me fam.
I never understood the fair weather fan or bandwagoning especially in the NFL.
Its been 10 years since the Bucs were in the playoffs and it doesn’t change the way I think of them. I know one day they will be good and that is part of being a real fan. Hell the Rams were the bottom feeders of the NFL with the Browns, Bucs and Bills for many many years and now they are a top 5 team for 3 straight years. I know a Rams fan and even he said he almost forgets how bad they were. Very few teams stay consistently good outside the Pats.
I get that, which is why I said I’m cool with everyone thinking I’m a cop-out for the Skins. But for me it’s not just about them not playing well. I can’t stand what Snyder has done to the team, to the fans (lawsuits, etc.), and the disrespect for individual players. That’s why I decided to abandon ship.
Yep have been that way for a few years now. Even last year when the team was 6-3 fan support was meh. People have been beaten down so much, we were waiting for the bottom to fall out. Unfortunately last year it came from Alex Smith getting Theismann’d. Alex Smith is nice dude and seems to have the worst luck.
Their 6-3 last year was a fluke 6-3 and it was never sustainable how they were winning, regardless of Smith’s injury. I mean the Bucs had like 500+ yards on them and scored I think 3 points because of some fluky turnovers.
I am kinda hoping the fire my teams’ coach. (Falcons). Our defense has been atrocious especially considering our head coach is the defensive coordinator.