Our Fanbase

It’s certainly hard to stay patient when we’ve lost as bad as we have the last 10 years. Gibbs gave us optimism our franchise was getting restored when in fact, it went to the lowest it’s ever been after his retirement. Skins have had a lot of bad losses this season, so we all do the, “Yep…here comes the interception…or here comes the Romo to Witten for 30 yards” to prepare ourselves for the worst…I certainly do it in my head.

I kept wondering if he forgot that a CB actually covers WRs.

I don’t understand the hate for Has and Shanny Jr. I thought they called excellent games yesterday.

I also complained on two holds that weren’t called. They were two that would have changed the course of plays and should have been called.

I also admit to saying the Refs had it out for us and called some weak shit. But even the announcers commented on that at least two or three times.

I am passionate about the Skins (especially during Dallas week) and apologize if anything I said offended anyone. I love this team to my core and will be buried in a burgundy and gold coffin some day. Even though my wife says no. I would never call anyone f@ggot or anything of that nature but if I said anything in the heat of the moment I do sincerly apologize.

Its like that on any football thread even college…dont take it too serious. Its all just frustration. ‘’Now, I realize that everyone hates seeing the Redskins lose, especially to Dallas, and that, in the heat of the moment, on a website, you might be liable to write whatever pops into your head at the time.’’ Thats all it is buddy, you hit the nail on the head…

But I think you have to take it in context. I have been a Redskins fan my whole life, and watching them for at least thirty years. I have watched games with many different people. One thing I have never seen is a real fan NOT get upset when things are going bad. It’s called passion. And it’s not just Redskins fans. All fans act this way.
The difference here is that what’s said during the game is not as easily forgotten, because it’s on an internet thread and not part of a living room rant at my grandmothers house while watching us get blown out by the Giants in the NFC title game.

It seems most of us are of the opinion that certain things shouldn’t be tolerated on the game threads. It’s up to the rest of us to call out the offenders. I live pretty far away from fellow Skins fans to watch a game with. That’s why I get on the thread. I think the rest of us need to tell the bad ones to tone it down or to get off the board. If the person continues to be offensive or overly negative then maybe our fearless leaders can take further action.

up until 3 years ago. I was the guy who would scream at the TV, throw items around the house(some even made it to my front yard), and kick the dog when we were losing/lost.

Over the last 3 season I have calmed down quite a bit. There are 4 possible reasons for this:
1) It just took me this long to grow up
2) I realized I have an anger problem, and set out to fix it
3) I had unreal expectations of the team entering the season
4) I became(as a good friend likes to put it), a realist

No group of people anywhere can be judged based on the comments runner at the bottom of a web page.

I like a good argument, but I think you should relax a little. I’m pretty sure that even the comments section on the Harvard Law Review regularly ends with Reductio ad Hitlerum.

Furthermore, people who only say sensible things during a football game add just about zero fun. Come on, do you really have a problem with people for saying “snake-bit” in the heat of the moment, or is this just your coping mechanism?

You know what’s fun? A no-hitter. You know what’s more fun? Resisting talking about the no-hitter until the tension is suffocating because you don’t want to jinx it. This is what you get, man. Your kids get Santa Claus. You get curses, referee conspiracies, and Tony Romo uncannily refusing to do boner things against your team like he does against everyone else.

You get all week to try and make actual sense of things. Game threads are for shouting into the void, or for typing what you can’t say to your buddy next to you because these days you live in f***g Nova Scotia.

People are fed up of losing. There is no excuse for using the word fa**ot in a thread like that. That is just disrespectful; however, you calling out every single post that had any negative connotation became annoying. The team started out 3-1 and got everyone’s hopes higher than expected. They are now 3-7 and before last game were playing the worst football I can remember them playing in a long time. Then you get the Cowboys and actually put up a fight and start scoring points. It is a heated game to begin with, on top of everything else. I see nothing wrong with people speaking their minds during a game. If I am watching a game with friends I say a lot worse than what was posted. Living in New England and being a Sports Radio fan, I can attest to the fact that even Patriots fans can get very negative and pissed off, including the media. It is only natural to show some emotion when you have such passion for a team like the fans of the Redskins have. Even the Redskins players are pissed and sick of losing. Again, I understand what you are saying, but get off your high horse. Nobody was hurting you in any way. No fans from around the league from other teams are going to get up in arms and be in shock of things that were said on our boards. Until this team starts winning, my guess is it will be like this. And when we do start winning, there will still be those that are unhappy.

I felt the same way about the Washington media last year. This year seems a bit better. I told myself that I was going to temper expectations this year, and I have for the most part. That quick start, however, led me to temptation and of course I got my hopes up. I really hope we see an improvement next year though because the losing is starting to get to me. I have never been embarrassed to be a Redskins fan, but I think I am there now. It’s a crummy feeling, especially when your best friend is a Giants fan and you live in Patriots country.