You Stay Classy Brandon Lloyd

Back at you dude Thanks to lifetime Eagles fan, season ticket holder and Curly R reader/lurker Wilbert Montgomery for the tip: As current Broncos and former Redskins receiver Brandon Lloyd heads off to the Pro Bowl, his team's lone representative, he has a message for his three old clubs, the 49ers, Redskins and Bears:Fuck you.Gee who could ever have seen that coming.Brandon Lloyd: Getty Images from here....

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Game 15: Redskins (5-9) at Jaguars (8-6)

at May Take in 60 Words or Less: The notion that Donovan McNabb's agent could go on the attack and not be representing his client is total bullshit. Donovan is simply trying to avoid confrontation so he lied to Kyle Shanahan. Simple as that.NFL helmets from he...

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Season's Greetings from The Curly R

From all of us at The Curly R, best wishes for this holiday season, and I hope Father Christmas brings you some special gifts too.-Ben FolsomOther Curly R season's greetings: 2006 :: 2007 :: 2008 :: 2009Lantern Waste from here via here....

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Game 14: Redskins (5-8) at Cowboys (4-9)

at My Take in 60 Words or Less: For the first time since 2003 I am taking the opponent to win. That's right, I switched both my pool picks to Cowbo...

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Talk About Rapid Response

OuchGo Skins dot Org, the great abstract cartoonist of the Redskins, already has artistic reaction up, Albert Haynesworth and Donovan McNabb just chilling together on the bench. Go check the rest out here.The Benching is now a national news story, not sure what Mike Shanahan was going for here, he sure looks like an asshole right about now.Albert Haynesworth and Donovan McNabb on the bench together: A GoSkins.org cartoon from here via here....

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I Hope this Guy Is Still Around

Bringing down the wrath of Redskins fansIf you are the guy running the Fire Mike Shanahan blog and you have not posted since September and you are still there and want some traffic, I would suggest you check the headlines.http://fireshanahan.blogspot.com/Mike Shanahan: AP Photo from he...

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Let Me Be Clear

I'll speak slowly for the trolls and nitwits and the head coachThere are three reasons putting Rex Grossman in the game, even for a play, is a bad idea:1. There is a better quarterback on the roster. His name is Donovan McNabb.2. The better quarterback is healthy.3. The better quarterback is under contract for 2011.These reasons notably do not include any discussion of Rex Grossman's ability or standing, nor of the price paid in trade for Donovan...

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BULL FUCKING SHIT

Are you fucking kidding meWhat the fuck is this fucking shit, I sit here minding my own business eating my lunch when I see a headline pop into Redskins Insider:Rex Grossman to start over Donovan McNabb SundayThat would be this Sunday, at Dallas, bitter NFC Beast Division rival Dallas, a team the Redskins can still sweep in the season series.And Mike Shanahan is going to bench Donovan in favor of Rex Grossman.This is really over the line, I have...

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Looking Back On When Donovan McNabb / Was A Nappy Headed Little Boy

Serioiusly who has my activatorWorking on a midday post about butthurt Eagles fans pissed that Donovan McNabb is not in the running for the Pro Bowl following the 2010 season because for him to have done so would have meant Philadelphia's 2011 draft pick from the trade that brought Dono here would have accelerated from a fourth rounder to a third.In the meantime, check out that 'do. No gauge on the year, Dono has hosted five NFC Championship Game...

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Come On Washington Post, Get It Together

Like the Redskins: Great idea, poor executionBack in September, just a couple of games into the 2010 season, the Washington Post launched an iPhone app called Football Insider, a brilliant play designed to bolster the flow of eyeballs to what is already consistently the most popular topic of coverage for the paper, the Washington Redskins.A great appliance app in concept and basic design, Football Insider pipes Redskins related content in three categories:...

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A Picture of Dorian McNabb

Less than a year and look how much it has agedRight now I am a depressed and confused Redskins fan, depressed because we are hurtling toward yet another postseason in which I watch lots of football yet none of it includes my beloved team and confused because I am getting lots of mixed signals about quarterback Donovan McNabb:Donovan McNabb having his worst season since his rookie year in 1999? Donovan was a rookie out of Syracuse that year, coming...

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Shattered

2011 offseason starts nowA complete humilation today against the Giants, I am embarrassed right now to be a Redskins fan.We knew there would be growing pains, we knew Mike Shanahan and his system would not turn the Redskins into a Super Bowl team in one season. We knew all this and expected to see the team struggle at times.What we did not expect was an organization unable to field a basic NFL team. The struggles we imagined were oh man that was...

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Game 12: Redskins (5-6) at Giants (7-4)

vs. My Take in 60 Words or Less: Are you there god? It's me Ben, if you have to give us a demoralizing blowout where the Redskins are the child being fed live to the giant python, at least please don't let have Donovan McNabb get hurt.In other news, Santana Moss, Albert Haynesworth, LaRon Landry and Carlos Rogers are all inactive. Great. (Ed. note, looks like Santana was a go after all, mot making much of a difference through one quarter. -B...

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What Should I Do?

Jamie Lee Curtis?Comedian slash Redskins fan slash radio host Danny Rouhier is out with his week twelve video that I first thought was supposed to represent Danny's internal dialogue then I see in the video description that it is a parody of a LeBron James commercial, not only do I not know this commercial, I am not even sure I could pick LeBron James out of a lineup because you see I AM A FOOTBALL FAN.YouTube from he...

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The Folsom Point 11/30/2010: Beginning of the End

It's a blog. NOT FUCKING TWITTER!Wherein we discuss the end of meaningful Redskins football in 2010.Image by me with apologies to Advice D...

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Game 11: Redskins (5-5) vs. Vikings (3-7)

at My Take in 60 Words or Less: I have no idea how to call this game, I have no idea who is going to show up for either team, I really hope the Redskins do not roll over and give the Vikings their one game new coach bump win on the ro...

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GOD DAMMIT

Was it us?Do you have any idea how fucking pissed off I am? Check that stat line in the image above, that is Brandon Lloyd, Broncos receiver, leading the league in receiving yards with 1046 yards in ten games, TEN GAMES THE DUDE HAS CAUGHT 54 PASSES FOR ALMOST A TWENTY YARD AVERAGE IN TEN FREAKING GAMES!Brandon was traded to Washington from San Francisco in the 2006 offseason on the first day of free agency, the Redskins gave up two picks, a 2006...

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Thanksgiving Football Thread

GrilledA Happy Thanksgiving to you and all your family and hangers on from us here at The Curly R, this year we are back in Dumfries at the home of the Folsom parental units, grilled turkey and football all day. And now on to the timeline:0230 Realize neighbor and cable TV holdout Tony Almeida and I have been talking about his project to distribute media into all rooms of his house and drinking whiskey for way too long, depart, corn chips and a...

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Allistair Spotswoolingtonworth

This season McNabb has fallen over several timesComedian slash Redskins fan slash radio host Danny Rouhier is out with his week eleven video, a sober introspection on how the fuck Donovan McNabb keeps tripping on his center's feet at the snap. If you thought it was Casey Rabach's size eleventeen sneakers that were getting in the way, the Titans game with all its injuries provides useful insight: DONOVAN TRIPPED OVER WILL MONTGOMERY'S FEET TOO. WHAT THE HELL IS UP WITH THIS?Get on over to Danny's YouTube channel and give some loves.YouTube from...

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The Folsom Point 11/23/2010: Dono Darko

Got a mean comment? HAHAHA I LOL'ED!Wherein we discuss a breach in the Primary Football Universe.Image by me with apologies to Advice D...

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Game 10: Redskins (4-5) at Titans (5-4)

vs.Because no one gives a fuck and the Redskins are going to get killed.NFL helmets from he...

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Twenty-five Years Ago

Their paths diverged from hereThursday night was an important night for former Redskins quarterback Joe Theismann. It was his second game as color analyst for the NFL Network's Thursday games, Joe had been out of the game game since getting shitcanned by ESPN after the 2006 season in favor of Ron Jaworski on Monday Night Football. Up to that moment Joe Theismann had been a color commentator for NFL games dating back to 1988, an eighteen year streak...

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"We rob them of their dreams"

FallenIn pitch perfect style Redskins fan slash comedian slash radio host Danny Rouhier goes Behind the Music with the Redskins for his week ten video, ever notice how you cannot get on BtM unless you made a bunch of money then lost it all or got hooked on drugs or lost a limb or something? Yeah the Redskins are like that.YouTube from he...

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The Folsom Point 11/16/2010: No Air

Wife excusing me from inlaws to blog? VICTORY IS MINE!Wherein we discuss a trainwreck game of epic proportions.Image by me with apologies to Advice D...

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Game 9: Redskins (4-4) vs. Eagles (5-3)

vs. Out of the Box: The rematch, on Monday Night Football no less, as the new quarterback plays his old team in the stadium where he won ten times in eleven years, it's the Eagles in primetime at Redskins Stadium, 8:30pm on ESPN.=====Quick jump toThe Story So Far :: Curly R Aside :: Oppo Research :: Trainer's Table Gameplan :: My Take in 60 Words or Less :: Preview Generalia=====The Story So Far: Well here's some shit. Quarterback Donovan McNabb...

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Ready to Go

Game onEverything is in place, Monday cannot get here fast enough, got my tickets and my parking pass for tomorrow night's Eagles at Redskins game. Accompanying me this year will be two Swarthmore Drive neighbors, an college friend slash opportunist, political writer, radio host and former editor of Redskins Examiner Mark Newgent and lifetime Eagles fan, season ticket holder and Curly R reader/lurker Wilbert Montgomery.For Wilbert Montgomery and...

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Piling On

BrilliantAt some point this week I need to turn back to the Redskins, for now I am still wallowing in the midseason firing of Dallas head coach Wade Phillips and the Cowboys' smile inducing 1-7 record.So imagine the pleasantness of my surprise when I open my weekly copy of The Onion on Metro this morning and see the Cowboys covered in Sports. Money quote:According to a recent USA Today poll... Thirty-two percent [of the country] said that the season...

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Wade Phillips: Buh-Bye

Don't worry Wade, it wasn't youSomething that has never happened since Jerral W. Jones bought the Cowboys in 1989 happened yesterday, Jerry fired his head coach midseason, terminating Wade Phillips after an embarrassing 45-7 loss to the Packers on Sunday, dropping the Cowboys to an awesome 1-7 in the 2010 NFL season. Offensive coordinator and one time head coach in waiting Jason Garrett assumes the reins for the rest of the season.I am sure all of...

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Handy Accessory

Let me get that for youQuick Saturday bye week post to show off my latest piece of Redskins gear, a coworker was kind enough to gift me this Redskins keychain bottle opener and as it happens I have an immediate and relevant use for it, lifetime Eagles fan, season ticket holder and Curly R reader/lurker Wilbert Montgomery has invited me to join him tomorrow for the Colts at Eagles game in Philadelphia and I think we may want to open a beer or two...

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You Tell Him I Will Straight Up Bench His Ass

Donovan's like so fatDanny Rouhier is out with his week eight video on the Lions debacle, among his best work yet. For just a second this season I thought the Redskins were going to be good and we would not need Danny.WRONG AGAIN BENYouTube from he...

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We've really hit rock bottom here. The Redskins tried out JaMarcus Russell today, I will laugh if the Redskins wound up trading Jason Campbell for JaMarc...

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Game 8: Redskins (4-3) at Lions (1-5)

at Out of the Box: Vuja de all over again as the Redskins travel for the second year in a row to play a struggling Lions team, may this time be better than the last, 1:00 pm ET on FOX, unless you live in the Detroit market.=====Quick jump toThe Story So Far :: Curly R Aside :: Oppo Research :: Trainer's Table Gameplan :: My Take in 60 Words or Less :: Preview Generalia=====The Story So Far: Normally the last time the teams played is later in this...

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Which Five Games Was that Again?

That DeMarcus Ware?Browsing the week's games with neighbors last night I came across the NFL preview for the Jacksonville at Dallas game, check that last section, the Did you know:...Cowboys linebacker DeMarcus Ware has a touchdown in five consecutive games.Say what? He has who what? A touchdown. In five consecutive games.We decided to try and proof this postulation and were unable to. Here is what we did find:* DeMarcus Ware has two touchdowns......

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Think I Found My Halloween Costume

SchadenfreudeI have three slings left over from the bicycle crash that left me with a separated right shoulder in April, and the two subsequent surgeries. Problem is I refuse to spend a dime on Cowboys regalia, even the cheap ass Walmart shit.Jay Leno Thursday night: "For Halloween you can stick a fork in yourself and go as the Dallas Cowboys!"Enjoy your weekend.Image screencapped from NFL.com homepage, linked to this sto...

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