Hail Old Dixie

Man I used to really hate the Redskins. I mean really hate them. The level of hatred I had reserved for them was so deep it made my burning intense hatred of a million suns of rap metal look venial in comparison.

My level of the Skins hatred has succeeded in recent years basically because I don't really care anymore. Sure I will watch a game on Sunday or Monday or Tuesday as long as it is a decent game between two good teams; you won't find me watching the Lions and Browns play each other. I just find it stupid to associate the level of your overall happiness in life to a sports team based on geographic location alone.

Though I do not hate the Skins anymore I really hate their fan base probably because I have been surrounded by them my entire life. And I say fan even though they usually have no discernible knowledge about anything in regards to sports but that doesn't stop them from calling talk radio and giving unsolicited advice to the team; like their ideas will finally get the Skins back into the Superbowl.

Like anytime there is a Skins story in the news that is all this low rent city talks about. Today it is the fact that the Skins front office sells tickets directly to brokers who then sells it to the consumer at an inflated price. Well guess what why not it has been going on for years. And what do you fans expect your stadium holds more people that Britanny Spears vagina and your teams spends tens of millions of dollars on horrible players like Brendon Lloyd. And you guys keep going to the games no matter how bad they are. I think you lost your right to bitch about this a long time ago.

Of course you get mad about this but again don't get mad about the ineffective play calling or anything remotely resembling why your team really sucks. And of course you don't get mad at the horrible racist name your team has.

I always hear the fans say it is not a racist name (one guy even told me their original coach was an Indian and they named the team this to honor him which would be the same if New York's first coach was Jewish so they named the team the kikes). Maybe you don't find it racist and maybe the four native Americans that we have not wiped out don't care or never heard of the team because we gave them land that doesn't have a good service provider. Their name not being racist would be believable if it weren't for the history of the team.

You see, Marshall, their original owner was a horrible racist. HE did not like black people. Well maybe he didn't hate them but just thought white people were superior; whatever I don't know but I think we can agree that he was a dick. Anyways when he moved his team to DC he decided that he was only going to draft players from southern schools so the Redskins could be the team of the south. And guess what. The Skins were the last team in the league to have a black guy on it and only because the federal government said if they don't integrate they would deny them federal funds for their stadium. Whats worse is that stupid fight song they play on the rare occasion they actually score a touchdown that makes me want to tear out my eardrums and stuff them down my eye sockets so I don't have to see that fucking old guy dressed up like the Indian used to say fight for old Dixie instead of fight for victory.

I find most Skin fans are oblivious to this. Sad.

But yeah thinking about it I think I still hate the Skins. F them. Luckily they usually lose in spectacular fashion and I don't think this year will be any different.