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Apparently no longer content just with racism and gouging its fans,
the NFL's most despicable franchise announced today that it intends to
supplement its reprehensible behavior with a new disgusting tactic:
theft. The Washington Post's DC Sports Bog [sic] has all the shameful details.
I understand the ***skins' dilemma. Really, I do. Like most of the population of the nation's capital, their fanbase is transient and fleeting. That rare life-long ***skin fan you may meet believes the Dallas Cowboys to be his mortal enemy, while the Cowboy fanbase (as it were) offers a collective shrug. So you got your less dedicated selling their tickets to the fans of your biggest "rival" who are more pre-occupied with whether the Longhorns will beat the Sooners and don't give two shits about football on Sunday.... I can see why that would be tough to swallow. And I can see why a team might choose under those circumstances to steal ideas from one of the most beloved and successful franchises of all time. Like I said, I understand. But it's still really goddamn lame.Yeah, in a move startling both for its timeliness and its originality, 50,000 burgundy ESPN980 towels will be handed out on Sunday night, 50,000 apparently being the estimated number of Redskins fans who will be on hand.
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The NFL 2008 attendance records?
Well I should check to see just how crappy the Redskins are (since you said it, it must be true).
Oh dear.
There the Redskins are at #1, nearly 100,000 fans above the second closest (the reigning Super Bowl champ Giants).
Well, Pittsburgh, with its legions of fake loyalists who only show up after recent successes, must be pretty high on the list.
What's that?
Oh, I see -- they're number #21 of 32.
But you know, whatever, don't let facts get in the way of a good argument. I'm sure they're first in something. Sausage consumption maybe?
Well yeah. That makes perfect sense. The republican party has good work for guys like you who can stick to a messaging point with tired anecdotes and pathetic rationalizations, even after they've been proved conclusively wrong by hard data.
You have a talent.
Oh and hey 21. Nice.
I was just refuting your insipid, unfounded declaration (I realize in your case, I should just save time, and call it a "declaration").
As a fan, I have no sway over wins and losses. I can only control my own level of dedication.
Unlike fake Steelers fans, most of whom chose to follow them because they happened to be the team that won all the time on TV when they were kids, Redskins fans are legitimate and loyal, and have proven to be the best by the measure that matters most in this country - money.
If you're the biggest drawing team, you have the best real fan base, period. Every team, in every real city, draws fans of opposing teams. It's a consistent, and therefore statistically insignificant phenomenon. The number is the number, and the Redskins number is consistently the best number.
The fact that Steelers fans show up in disproportionate numbers outside of Pittsburgh (only when the Steelers are winning of course) further proves that most of their "fans" have probably never even smelled Pittsburgh. The Steelers are a popular choice among the sort of insubsantial dilletants who "follow" the Lakers and the Red Sox.
"Please, pretty please, don't sell your tickets!" Yeah, ownership making "repeated pleas" (I call it "begging") to get people to come to the game is one of the clearest indicators of a solid fanbase.