Clearest sign that it's about time to crank out the Countdown to Cowher™: Jim Zorn's post-game interview with Sonny Jurgensen, heard on Dan Snyder's WTEM.
Here's the opening:
Sonny Jurgensen: You had one offensive touchdown...
Jim Zorn: Thank you.
Sonny Jurgensen: You've got to get into the end zone...
Jim Zorn: Yes.
Uh oh.
Dan Snyder and Jurgensen are cigar smoking buddies. [...]
Lost in the Stephen Strasburg hub-bub: Jeff Ruland is back in town.
The onetime Bruise Brother was named head coach of the University of the District of Columbia. Ruland gets the UDC job after getting canned as an assistant by new '76ers coach Eddie Jordan.
Ruland played the moody lug to Rick Mahorn's gregarious lug when the [...]
All last season, Dan Snyder defenders said that the lack of big names signed by the Redskins — coaches and free agents — during the offseason showed the owner had learned from past mistakes.
Snyder's unsuccessful attempt to convince everybody but Jim Zorn to coach the team, the acquisition of Jason "2 1/2 Sacks" Taylor, and [...]
Today on his irregular radio show on Dan Snyder's sports station, WTEM, Vinny Cerrato was asked point blank if he wanted Redskins head coach Jim Zorn to come back next season.
"Um, yes," Cerrato responded, before the Redskins top personnel man and major market radio host blamed the media for making Zorn's return an issue.
At [...]
Craigslist has posted more than 1,000 ads for Redskins tickets in its local tickets section since Sunday.
Nearly all the ads, as far as I can tell, are for sales of pairs or groups of tickets to this Sunday's Skins/Eagles game.
Steve Czaban, the voice of the fan on Dan Snyder's sports station, WTEM, called on fans [...]
Portis/Zorn isn't the only rivalry to heat up around here lately: For Sidwell Friends/Maret, it's on.
On Saturday, Maret's basketball boys were leading Sidwell Friends on the road when the home crowd taunted the visitors with a chant ripped from the headlines:
"The Sidwell kids started yelling 'O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!' at us," a Maret parent who attended [...]
