The Redskins have benched Donovan McNabb for Rex Grossman. No, really.
This means he won't break the all-time Redskins record for passing yards in a season.
Don't even try to tell me the benching and his approaching that record aren't related.
They're as related as Kyle and Coach Tanahan.
If only Mideast peace were so easy to broker.
Cheap Seats Daily has gone all "Seven On Your Side" this week. And now the Mayor of FedExField and the Redskins are lovey dovey again, after a brief separation.
Yesterday in this space, we chronicled the latest travails of The Mayor, the most notorious and diehard fan of [...]
The most notorious fan in Redskins Nation says he's about ready to turn in his "fan card."
The diehard known only as The Mayor of FedEx Field posted an amazing rant on the team-owned message board, ExtremeSkins, yesterday. The Mayor said the final straw came when he was handcuffed and detained by Prince George's County police at [...]
It's the interview of the century, or at least last night.
"All you gotta do is take off the daggone leash," Albert Haynesworth said on WFJK-FM's Kevin and Rock Show last night. "We're not little girls. Nothing wrong with being a girl or anything. But I'm a man... Unleash me and let me go... let me [...]
Any other yardstick and I'm screwed, but if a man's life's work is judged by whether or not he's been asked to write more about Dan Snyder by the regulars at Snyder's message board, ExtremeSkins.com, well, I'm playing with house money from here on.
Time was, any mention of Washington City Paper on that [...]
The oldest team in the NFL looked feeble and future-free in New York. But some local media types plumbed the sewage and found things for Redskins backers to feel good about.
Washington Post columnist Tom Boswell wrote how he made one anonymous Redskins Pro Bowler after another—who knew the Skins roster was so loaded with all-stars?—as [...]
Red Zebra, the radio arm of Dan-Jazeera, has just announced that Steve Czaban has agreed to a two-year contract to stick with Dan Snyder's sportstalk station, WTEM-AM.
Czaban was Snyder's harshest critic among local radio and television types for years before Snyder bought WTEM.
Snyder's previous behaviors indicated Czaban's continued employment at the station would be in [...]
Talk about rags to riches!
As we check out for the holiday, I'd like to confess being thankful to two of the nicest people in D.C. media and personal heroes, Dan Steinberg and Grant Paulsen, for making me aware of the coolest story of the season: This weekend, Macho Harris will make the jump from Fairfax [...]
So much for this new Dan Snyder we keep hearing about.
There's a revolution going on at ExtremeSkins, the Snyder-owned message board. And it's being kickstarted from within Snyder's own ranks. Earlier this evening, a moderator at the site called the team out for its policy of hawking unsold seats as "player ticket returns."
The moderator, who [...]
D.C. Don't Stand for Dodge City: And now, time for more '90s nostalgia, as a new ranking lists the District as the fourth-most dangerous large-ish city in the country, behind only Detroit, Memphis, and Baltimore. (Among all cities, the report puts D.C. 22nd.) The actual value of the report has already been widely called into [...]
If you want to hear a live radio version of Dave McKenna's alphabetical evisceration of Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder, you're in luck. McKenna will appear on The LaVar Arrington Show With Chad Dukes on 106.7, WJFK-FM (known as The Fan these days), at 4 p.m. today.
Listen live here.
Dukes, of course, went on an emotional tirade [...]
In the print edition of this week's Washington City Paper, Dave McKenna provides an encyclopedic tour of the various perfidies of Dan Snyder, who's owned the Washington Redskins for a miserable decade of losses by overpaid veterans. We had actually planned to run that story next week, but after the Philadelphia Eagles demolished the team [...]
Next Stop, Knoxville: The recession may, officially, be over. But consumer spending hasn't returned to normal levels—and if you needed more proof of that, the rapturous greetings with which the news of Megabus' expanded service from D.C. should suffice. The discount bus line will run direct routes from the District to Boston; Buffalo, Charlotte, N.C.; Hampton, [...]
Reuben Charles in Charge: City Paper's Loose Lips columnist's job will be less fun over the next four years; apparently Almost Mayor Vince Gray has decided not to give the chief of staff job to Reuben Charles, who's got a long history of tax liens and default judgements related to failed business ventures. We can [...]
Fear the Sanity: Turns out a crowd equalling about one-third of the District's population showed up on the Mall on Saturday to demonstrate in favor of... well, Comedy Central, and the Roots, and also clumsy metaphors involving the Lincoln Tunnel. CBS News, which estimated the crowd at Glenn Beck's August march at 87,000, used the [...]
