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Cheap Seats Daily: Dan Marino Says the Redskins Won’t Land Anybody Like Bill Cowher?
The Washington Nationals took out a full-page advertisement in Sunday’s Washington Post.
Sure, the Nats season ended a while ago. But it makes sense that the Lerners would reach out while local sports fans are planning their sports ticket budgets and deleting Dan Snyder and Redskins.
But this Nationals ad is horrible.
After an all-glowing recap of the 2009 season — two of these three made the cut: Zimmerman/Dunn had big homer totals, Stephen Stasburg signed, and the Nats had THE WORST RECORD IN ALL OF BASEBALL — the ad copy climaxes with “[W]e can all see why Washington, DC is truly becoming the home of the National Pastime in the Nation’s Capital.”
Washington, DC is the home of baseball in the Nation’s Capital? Who knew?
And who wrote that?
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WUSA is also kicking the Redskins when they’re down. Advertisements for the local CBS affiliate that ran during the Ravens game yesterday urged Skins fans to “sound off ” about the team.
“We won’t throw away your signs!” said the voiceover.
Ouchie wouchie! Didn’t you WUSA guys used to be covert “partners” with Snyder and help him out with all his infomercials? Guess the contract’s up.
(AFTER THE JUMP: Reebok boasts of its butt-enhancement powers? Shannon Sharpe goes after the Redskins? Dan Marino goes after the Redskins? 66 percent of CBS viewers go after the Redskins? Dan Marino says Bill Cowher ain’t gonna go for the Redskins? Heath Shuler has MVP award taken away from him by Politico? Ethics panel still gunning for Shuler? Chest bumping on the sidelines can get you suspended?)
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Cheap Seats Daily: How Come Sports Journalists Ain’t Journalists?
During the Redskins Broadcasting Network’s telecast from Baltimore, Lindsay Czarniak asked Albert Haynesworth, in street clothes, if it was enjoyable watching his teammates play the Ravens.
“Nah, it ain’t enjoyable,” Haynesworth said.
Which means one thing: Big Al didn’t bet the Cheap Seats Daily Double™!
Because had he followed Cheap Seats Daily’s Tout #1 and bet this month’s mortgage on the Ravens, laying three points, he would have won. And if he’d have followed Cheap Seats Daily’s Tout #2 and bet next month’s mortgage on the under (31 1/2), he’d have won that, too.
Haynesworth would be rich!
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Lindsay Czarniak showed up during the game broadcast and the post-game show wearing a licensed Redskins shirt, logo and all. That makes sense, since she was working for the Redskins Broadcasting Network, owned by Dan Snyder.
But Czarniak was carrying a WRC microphone. She took off the Redskins costume and put on a blue fluffy top for her 11 o’clock news segment from Baltimore, so clearly her superiors have some inkling about the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Why is this dual role allowed? Czarniak works for the news department of an NBC affiliate. But she works for Dan Snyder, too. For the ethics police, other than the import of the subject matter, what’s the difference between Czarniak’s Redskins deal and Armstrong Williams taking money from the Bush White House?
(AFTER THE JUMP: Why not have Redskins salons? Joe Theismann, musicologist? Will Ladell Bettis ever get over it? What’s Cora Masters Barry trying to get away with now? Karl Swanson writes in? The Tom Boswell Curse lives on?)
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Cheap Seats Daily: Dan Snyder’s Sneaky Parking Charge Nets Him Millions?
For the Titanic platform (or maybe not!) of the latest City Paper, I wrote about Dan Snyder’s newest parking scheme.
Snyder now adds a parking surcharge to the cost of every ticket sold at non-football events at FedExField. All other venues around town put parking charges, if there are any, in the advertised price of the ticket.
Snyder doesn’t. He throws it at the consumer at the point of purchase, as a line item on the invoice that can’t be turned down by the buyer. For Paul McCartney, where around 60,000 folks attended and there was a $10 per ticket parking charge, whether they intended to use FedEx parking services or not, that added an additional $600,000 to Snyder’s bank account.
For U2’s upcoming show at FedEx, the forced charge is $8 per ticket; if that show sells out, the add-on charge will mean more than $700,000 sneaky dollars for Snyder. And this is with zero overhead, unless you count the cost to his reputation, which really can’t be harmed around here at this point.
Snyder’s the king of parking schemes, as outlined in the story, and a godfather of the sneaky surcharge: He’s the guy, remember, who after buying the Redskins took a ticket price that had historically included state and local taxes, and then added a new charge equal to the state and local taxes onto the old ticket price, but left the old price as the face value of Skins tickets — just so he could act like he wasn’t really raising the price of tickets!
So where’s the outrage?
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Betting Football season begins tonight!
(AFTER THE JUMP: Cheap Seats Daily gives you tonight’s winner? “Biggest Loser” back in play? Which pregame show are you going to listen to? What’s the meanest sport? Is there a Curse of Tom Boswell?)
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The Redskins Anti-Curse™ Holding Strong
As predicted in this space last week, the Cardinals and Eagles benefitted from the Anti-Curse of the Redskins.
Turns out that since Dan Snyder started calling the shots around here, letting the Redskins beat you has become a surer way to get your hands on a Lombardi Trophy than having Tom Brady as your quarterback.
Snyder took control of the team in the summer of 1999, too late to have any influence until the millennium.
The Redskins have had only two winning seasons in this century.
Yet five times since 2000, a team the Skins beat went on to win the Big Game® that season. (Brady, who came into the league the same year, only has brought Bill Belichick three Lombardis.)
Before winning Super Bowl XXXV in 2000, for example, the Baltimore Ravens were shamed by the Skins, 10-3.
The Giants Should’ve Let the Redskins Win One
Bet the mortgage on the Eagles and/or Cardinals this weekend.
Both these squads got beat by the Redskins this year — the Cardinals in Week 3 and the Eagles in Weeks 5 & 16.
In recent seasons, there aren’t many harbingers of Super Bowl success as trusty as taking a whupping from the lowly Skins.
You can look it up.
In 2000, the Redskins beat the Baltimore Ravens, 10-3 during the regular season. The Ravens went on to beat the Giants in Super Bowl XXXV.
