It’s been a tough but mercifully short week for Redskins fans.

The only blessing in an agonizing MNF loss to a lesser team (and make no mistake, Dallas is the lesser team) is fewer days before the opportunity to cleanse our fan palates. Sunday, and the chance to rid our collective mouths of the bitter, acid after-taste of unjustifiable defeat, can’t get here soon enough.

It’s one thing to lose, another thing altogether to watch your beloved team literally give one away....

To quote my late great Aunt Leo…

Bless our little hearts.

Redskins fans worry. We worry a lot. We worry about disastrous drafts. We worry our front office will throw away draft picks on washed up former stars. We worry about injuries to key players. We worry we’ll give away the next Tom Brady or David Akers before we even know we’ve got a future star on the roster. We worry about the 3-4, and the 4-3, special teams, and the offense. We worry about which one of our two...

In the child-like imaginations of Washington Redskins fans, there are monsters and behemoths out there. Gargantuan, menacing, all-powerful – the NFL is full of goliaths we have rarely been able to bruise, much less bring down, on Sunday.

We’ve certainly enjoyed photoshopping drunken pictures of Eli Manning, but it’s the New York Giants who’ve enjoyed our matchups. No other arch rival has dominated their nemesis as completely as the Giants have owned the Redskins. On the road, at...

It was 1965. 3 years old and I was already faced with my first life dilemma.

Quisp or Quake? Both irresistibly sugary breakfast cereals, equal parts corn syrup and red dye #2, neither particularly good for you. We didn’t care. It was 1965 and our mothers smoked, drank, and fed us things that were really bad for us while we sat incredibly close to the TV and watched cartoons all day. This period is now referred to as the ‘Golden Age’.

Fast forward to 2011.The Washington...

I’ve taken to calling John Beck ‘Keyser Soze’.

Up until last night, everyone had a story about him, but I couldn’t find anyone who’d actually ever seen him.

Beck made his burgundy and gold debut last night in Indianapolis. So what did we learn about the dark, mysterious stranger that emerged from the shadows into the bright lights of Lucas Oil Stadium?

We learned plenty. And not enough.

Beck was more than serviceable in his first NFL ‘start’...