For those of you unfamiliar with Oedipus Rex, it is a Greek tragedy (much like my life, hiyo!) telling the tale of Oedipus, who, through the cruel machinations of fate, is led to slay his father and marry his mother. So great is Oedipus’ horror at what he’s done that he puts out his own eyes, blinding himself. After watching Sunday’s Redskins game, I’m beginning to think that Oedipus was onto something, though I’m pretty sure I’d prefer lopping off my dad’s head and going balls deep in mommy to ever witnessing anything like that heartbreaker again.
Papa's Basement is all about sexy. Thus, you get a virile, young Stalin!
A lot of people ask how I can still care about the Redskins at this point in the season, how I can still get worked up when they – gasp – lose a game. The answer (other than I really need to get laid more) is I feel the team has turned a corner. Jason Campbell has finally broken through to that next level as a quarterback, the offensive line has finally come together and Clinton Portis’ worthless ass is sitting on the sideline as multiple new guys run the ball better than he ever did this season. Yes, they’re still losing, but at least two of the last three losses have been due to shockingly bad luck more than any play failure. Not only that, but they’ve been losses to rather strong teams. A loss is still a loss, but I can’t help feeling the Redskins are on some sort of right track at the moment.
From Smoot's website. Though the kid's mouth makes it look like a shot from a Dutch porn.
On the other hand, if most of the players remain, just spend our draft picks on nothing outside of more lineman and a stronger secondary and keep the staff around. My only fear is that the recent moment as of late has me buying into Zorn and a system that, at the start of next year, will tank yet again. If I had to vote one way, I’d say stay with Zorn and just fix the line and secondary via draft. Sean Payton, Tom Coughlin and Walter Matthau in The Bad News Bears all took a while to learn their craft before becoming winners. Maybe the whole Sherman Smith experiment was more successful than any of us thought it would be.
I learned from the best.
Now it’s on to the Raiders. If the Redskins lose this one, I think Zorn’s firing is a lock at the end of the season. Given I’m voting for Zorny at moment, he needs to win. Also, there needs to be one more victory this year so I don’t feel all Cleveland Brownsy about things. Sadly, I can see the final seconds of the game play out in my head already: The Redskins are up by two with 10 seconds left, the Raiders pinned at their own 1-yard line. Just for the hell of it, the Raiders decide to call out Sebastian Janikowski to attempt the 117 yard kick. He puts it up, and an eagle swoops out of the air, mistaking the ball for a delicious turkey, sinking its talons in. It flies through the uprights clutching its lunch in hand and the NFL decides that the kick still counts in what becomes known as the infamous “eagle is legal” play. Kill me now.