Hail to Danny Snyder

We wake up this morning for the first time in (months?) not really having to think about World War 1990: The Final Storm. For the moment we feel liberated. Tweaking must needs be done. But not today. 

We watched a couple of videos yesterday on Falkland and Vietnam war air battles, just to brush up on our aerial combat writing skills. It's another NATO counterattack on Tromso week here at Stroock's Books. We had hoped to use French Super Etenards, but it looks to us like Tormso Sound is too confined for Exocets to work properly. 

We are sore once again after taking the girls to the pool. We are beginning to wonder, is something wrong. We had hoped to hit the gym two or three times this week before the beach, but now are wondering if we need to remain idle all week to get healthy. How does a man who was doing four + hours of cardio a week break down so suddenly. Fatigue? We are wondering, and do note we don't always think clearly when we're sore and achy, should we just walk and swim? 

Do you hate the Washington...whatever they're calling themselves these days; formerly the Redskins? Of course you do. Decent people who disagree on much can come together in loathing the Redskins.  To that end, enjoy this half hour retrospective of the Redskins under now former owner Daniel Snyder. It's glorious. We're going to watch the video again later. 

We lived in Northern Virginia for six years 1995-2001. We quickly learned Red Skin fans are obnoxious, self-satisfied, unrealistic and believe themselves to the culmination of some sort of mystic football singularity- the home of true football fandom. Washington football was special, these people told themselves. Screw them. 

These delusional fans boast the Redskins won three Super Bowls. Untrue. The Redskins only won a single Super Bowl, 1991. The 1982 and 1987 wins come with an asterisk as these were strike shortened seasons and don't really count. For Christ's sake the 1982 NFL MVP was the Redskin's kicker, Mark Moseley.

We're not sure what we liked more about the 2000 NFL season, the Giants going to the Super Bowl, or the Redskins, whose fans thought the team was destined to win it all, imploding late in the season. They were knocked out late in the year by...our own Giants. See game highlights here.  After the game Snyder fired head coach Norv Turner, himself an excellent example of the NFL old boys club and coach carousal.

We are sad to see Danny go, as we've loved every last moment of his terrible, no good ownership.  Closing thought: I hate the Redskins. Oh, yes I do. And Danny Snyder. Go to hell, fuck you.

The Post Millennial is offering a reward: 'On Saturday, Tim Pool offered to add $5,000 as a reward offer to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest and conviction of an arsonist in Raleigh, North Carolina, who set fire to a "Trump Won" yard sign.'  Click on over, this guy looks like a complete douche. That crap pisses us off no end. It's not enough to steal the sigh. No, this toy Klansmen had to torch the sign. That's terrorism. We flew a Trump flag for months here in Chindia. No one messed with the flag, no one said a damn thing about the flag. We love our neighbors. 

2003 and Me + Monday Metal. Yesterday was Robert Plant's birthday. We were stunned to learn he's only 75. Twenty years ago right now we're listening to a tonne of Led Zeppelin. The summer is ending, we're wrapping up our summer graduate classes (Soldiers of the American Revolution and The Southern Campaign of the American Revolution). We're actually turning in our final coursework a week early so as to clear the decks for our teaching gig which starts the same day as the semester ends. We think we got things taken care of. We laugh...we laugh.