It's been ten years this May since Dan Snyder took over as the Redskins team owner. A lot of lessons learned.

I hadn't seen these videos before, but it's quite comical interesting to watch them since it highlights the aggressive manner the Redskins have for doing whatever it takes to win. Anyone who says Dan Snyder only cares about money, well, these videos put that to rest. Some highlights:

Dan Snyder: I love the Redskins. I went to my first game in 1971. This is my life-long passion. I'm fulfilling my dream.

Wally Bruckner: Dan Rooney [Steelers owner] said of you to me, "for a young guy he has the old school mentality of what an owner is."

Dan Snyder:  I understand the tradition. For the Redskins, that's winning. I respect that. I'm a team player. I want to propel the Redskins back to where they belong.

Wally: You met with your head coach and general manager. Are you going to rely on their expertise?

Dan Snyder: We're active. We're not individuals that site idle. We're action takers and persistent. That's what has led us here. I had a great, productive meeting with Norv and Charley, and if we can pick up on that winning momentum of the last 8 games last season we'll be in great shape.

Wally: What type of owner are you going to be? You've been low-profile.

Snyder: I keep a low-profile. It's my way. We're very persistent individuals of the process...to dot the i's and cross the t's and get it done. Now we just need to get it done on the field. I understand what it's like to lose and feel that. That is our priority...turn that into wins. We're going to do everything we can to get us in the playoffs    

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Jack Kent Cooke was an extremely private owner as well. An interview with him after the jump where he talks about selling encyclopedias and working his way up buying minor league baseball teams and the LA Kings. 

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I came across this video on the NFL Network from the pre-season game at Fedex when the Redskins hosted the Ravens on August 25, 2007. The footage is all of McNair, but one thing will stand out heavily when you watch this film.....#21. At the 1:15 mark Sean Taylor came flying through out of nowhere and nearly destroyed McNair. Landry has a nice tackle on Heap as well. 

Link to video....

Since it was raining cats and dogs due to issues with the stadium lights, the game was called early in the 3rd quarter. McNair, who played every series but one up to that point, finished 14-for-19 for 98 yards with a TD pass to Derrick Mason. Todd Collins started in this game and had a nice 40-yard pass to Santana. The rain and lights dimming was the real story.

"You go out there in the second half, and the lights went out and you get the thunder in the background," Baltimore receiver Derrick Mason said. 

"Football isn't played like this," Washington coach Joe Gibbs said, "going in and out and in and out."

"It's hard to turn the muscles on and off, on and off, on and off," Redskins cornerback Fred Smoot said. "I'm just happy both teams got out of here with no serious injuries. That's one thing we can't control, is Mother Nature."

The Redskins Insider has two nice posts from the effects McNair's death is having on Jason Campbell and the effect on Gregg Williams - specifically the flash-backs to the death of Sean.

I feel like I speak for a lot of people when I say McNair was one of those QBs that was a lot of fun to watch. He always seemed to find a way to make something out of nothing, and it's nearly impossible to belittle a player that battled through so many injuries. His pass to Kevin Dyson in Super Bowl XXXIV where Dyson was stopped at the 1-yard still goes down as one of the most exciting NFL plays I've ever seen. RIP Steve.

I came across this great 4 minute clip on redskinsrule.com of the 1982 Championship game when the Redskins beat the Cowboys 31-17 . It's a tough one to forget with Dexter Manley knocking Danny White out of the game and Darryl Grant sprinting, darting, chugging for a TD after intercepting a pass tipped by Dexter Manley. The video is in great quality, and certainly brings back memories of Jack Kent Cooke's greatness when Dave Butz gives him the game ball. 

Take, for instance, a Hawaii vs. Washington College Football game:

Which could help to explain why Redskins Nation has so quickly taken to Colt Brennan.

Last week my love of football and personal life collided in an unusual manner and I didn't even notice. Through much of the summer I've been watching I Love Money with my girlfriend. For those of you who don't know the show, it's basically people who have lost at various VH1 matchmaker shows (the ones with Bret Michaels, William Jonathon Drayton, Jr., and that drag queen dude from I Love New York, uhhh, I think his name is Tiffany Pollard) competing, not for love, but money. Wackiness ensues, much belly laughing and knee slapping etc. Honestly I loathe these kinds of shows but this one has grown on me like a parasite because there are just enough likeable characters not to make me want to sepukku my own culture just for creating this kind of thing.

Anyways, to my credit I watch the show so apparently uninterested that I didn't even notice a Sean Taylor shirt staring back at me at an elimination ceremony I know I witnessed. You can't get anything past Chris Mottram, though:

My lady friend turned on some show called "I Love Money" today after I made the horrible mistake of handing her the remote. Apparently, this show brings together the most whorish of whores from "Flavor of Love" and the douchiest of douchebags from "I Love New York" and puts them in a house to get drunk and spread disease, or something like that. Whatever, I don’t watch these programs. I’m a reality show snob, which means I stick to Bravo, strictly.

For a guy who allegedly sticks to Bravo he seems to know a whole bunch about this show. Speaking from experience, I happen to know that having a girlfriend who loves these kinds of shows tends to make you an expert on them whether you want that or not, and Chris knows damn more about the content than he is displaying. There is no distancing yourself, Chris. As a society we're all guilty, you're complicit through association with the lady friend. Similarly plighted, let me just say that I understand, dude. When it comes to VH1 celebreality TV viz a viz one's girlfriend, I put the pathetic in sympathetic. By the way isn't The Entertainer like totally wild? OMGoose! What was 12-pack thinking! Fall on your sword, Chris, you know what I'm talking about.

Matter at hand, one of the I Love Money characters went to the elimination ceremony sporting a Sean Taylor shirt and showing much love to number 21. Whatever else I hate about this show in particular and the genre generally, anything and everything displaying in memory of Meast gets a solid vote of support from me.

via i.tsn.com

Although I can't read it because my vision blows, I'm told the shirt reads:

Sean Taylor

21

The Good Die Young

And he was.

Usually when I find a nice YouTube gem I just post it on fanshots and then promote to the front page so as not to put you all to sleep with my extended commentary on why a video is entertaining, usually using erudite descriptives such as "awesome" and "really" and "I mean, seriously." But I mean, seriously, please enjoy this really awesome video of Chris Samuels seducing the world all smooth-like:

He appears shirtless, strike one ladies, and then proceeds to introduce himself with a booming voice that would inspire the faithless:

Chris Samuels: Chris Samuels, number sixty, University of Alabama, Roooooll Tide.

At this point, I've converted to the University of Alabama.  (Naw, not really.)

On his boat, which is in Washington, D.C.: "It's actually in Virginia Beach." Silly question may get the inquirer smited later.

Does the team know where you're at, Chris: "No they don't. They might not want to pay me if I get hurt." Laughter follows: they'll pay you, because your contract is approaching 100% guaranteed money with each passing year. Hah hah hah hah!

The entire video is populated with Super Nintendo era music and Chris Samuels just being ridiculously cool. I might kill someone to have a voice as deep as his. I'm convinced he has magical powers like Michael Clarke Duncan in The Green Mile. (Magical powers Magical powere Magical powers!)

It's not clear from the video that, while tubing, Samuels is actually moving fast but I guess that's why 300 pound linemen go their entire lives without tubing; it's not as fun if you're pulling the boat. (Admittedly, later in the video he does get some speed.)

Video is close to being unmatchable in sheer grace and wonder and then... Mike Sellers shows up tenderly hugging a tube next to Samuels, immediately graduating it to youtubery Hall of Fame status. Fade out: Mike Sellers, stranded in the water, cackling like a crazy person. Well played, Boating Life Magazine. Your move, Marine Engine Digest.

This is extremely lazy of me but I can't find anything news worthy to note (maybe I'm not looking very hard). Consider this prime time to get diaries promoted as I'm jonesing for content but incapable of producing any. In the interim, you can enjoy any one of three videos:

1. Todd Yoder reenacting a Chris Cooley zit pop. There is some hyperbole in there, as I simply do not believe zit puss can travel across an entire lockerroom, but a great story nonetheless.
2. That said, Chris Cooley has some serious distance:
   

3. Chipmunks sing Crank Dat Redskins Boy. Might be the most annoying thing that's happened in the 21st century:

I'm not a good blogger today.

So I was just cruisng around THE GREATEST WEBSITE IN HISTORY when I stumbled upon an ESPN Magazine video of Clinton Portis vs. Christy Ogilvie (Chris Cooley's fiancee, pronounced fy-ants) in a game of who knows Cooley best where he reveals:

1. He is awesome at drawing naked women (both Christy and Portis are awarded points)
   
2. Clinton Portis thinks Chris Cooley's favorite food is fried snails.
   
3. Clinton Portis thinks Name That Tune is Chris Cooley's favorite game show, which hasn't aired since like 1960 and has failed no fewer than three times in being revived.
   
4. Cooley would play Deal or No Deal, and his strategy, predictably genius and sound, would be to keep the hottest women around to give him his $1 million. Even though I don't think anyone has ever won, Chris Cooley would definitely win.
   
5. Clinton Portis sleeps during meetings; Cooley draws pictures of naked women. This is why we made the playoffs.

AOL Fanhouse, Redskins' Chris Cooley Is Awesome at Drawing Naked Women

Part of the Sammy Baugh fan club series and complete with tacky music.