Sludgy, drudgy and booooooooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrring.

As someone who was born and raised in NorCal on the Niners and then moved to WI with Favre/Ron Wolf era Packers and now living in DC - thank GOD, FOR HIS WILL in getting Gibbs out of here. All due respect to his coaching abilities and the Championships but the man was stuck in the past with the present rules favoring aggressive, LIBERAL offensive schemes.

But I still root for the Red Sox, in spite of Curt Schilling politicking for Bush in 2004.

... given McCain's love for Hail Mary plays.

how fitting.

Having grown up in DC, I'm part of that other group of football enthusiasts. The Redskins never should have fired Unlce Duke anyway.

By the way, didn't NASCAR just catch Gibbs' racing team cheating? Sounds like a true Republican to me.

Dude,

Obama's from Chicago. Da Bears, man!!!!

...doesn't remember, but everyone in the bar I was at suddenly said in unison, "you can't call consecutive timeouts!" Geez, you can create the universe in six days, but you can't remember that?

And, God sure does get blamed for a lot of human fuck ups. Wars and Bush presidencies come to mind.

Gibbs won back when there was no salary cap and his team was steroid nation. When he came back to play under a level playing field, where intelligence was key, he was 6-10 at best. He left the league a beaten man. Total fraud, complete clown.

As bald eagles fly past the green screen rendition of 911.

Let me be clear - I am NOT related to this guy !!

All of this hockey mom, sports stars (who are Washington insiders), the disparaging of the opposition, and more, just demonstrates what the Republicans have been doing for years; turning this into an "us or them" sports contest, where you aren't looking for who might be able to address the serious issues that our country and the world are facing, but rather looking at "how do I beat the other team, who are inhuman scum because they ARE the other team? GO RED TEAM!!!"

I'd like to see Obama stand up and say that he's in this to support and defend the Constitution, as the oath of office requires; an area that he is an expert in as a Constitutional scholar, and then point to the ways that the current administration (and possible McCain administration) has eroded this.

As for the allegation that Obama would like to have the terrorists to have their rights read to them, he should stand up and say "Yes, I would. These rights are enshrined in the Constitution, they are the law of the land, and I intend to follow them, rather than cutting corners due to expediency and fearmongering. As an example to the rest of the world, we can do no less, or we become them."

but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of Obama voters suddenly discover a newfound affection for the Giants

Why would Obama voters become partisans of the Giants? The last home game before the election (November 4th) is November 3rd when the Redskins host the Steelers on Monday Night Football.

It has a nice synchronicity to it, as you could help get those western PA voters that love Steely McBeam.

...than Richard Nixon belonged in football (remember a play he designed for George Allen?).

Gibbs is probably a decent guy, given a lot of the community work he has done for area youth. But when the party whose candidate he supports sneers at the community work done by the other party's candidate, you have to wonder.

Anyway, with the loathesome Dan Snyder running the Redskins and trying to control the media by buying the local sports talk radio station and turning it into a 24/7 mouthpiece for his team, I've lost interest in pro football. Give me the Nationals, as dreadful as they currently are, or the Capitals, who have the D.C.'s area most exciting athlete in Alex Ovechkin. (I realize the preceding sentence makes me a pariah in many quarters of the Washington area where I reside, but to borrow a political cliche, I approve this message.)

Although it saddens me, as a lifelong 'Skins fan that Coach Joe is speaking at the Repub convention (though it doesn't suprise me, given his Bible thumpin' history), I must disagree with your analysis of the team's performance the past few years. Though not as good as the Gibbs teams of the '80's, they've definitely been better than 6-10. The past two years they made the playoffs (granted, barely), and even in the NFC these days, you have to win more than 6 games in a season to do that.