Fabulous thread from the entertaining putzes at Dan Snyder's fan forum, ExtremeSkins.com. What started out as yet another rant against Larry Michael, the team's play-by-play announcer, turned into message board magic.
The member known as MWCRedskins got things going by posting "Larry Michael Must Go!" a tirade against Michael, who has long been Public Enemy No. [...]

Looks like 1.8 million folks attended Barack Obama's first swearing-in.
At least, that's the figure that seems to be winning the estimating game so far. The number comes from Mayor Adrian Fenty's people.
This marks the first time any DC mayor has taken the lead in announcing an inaugural crowd estimate.
The National Park Service used to handle [...]

ABC News, at least, has gone on record saying that "more than" 1.4 million people came to the mall for the speech.
The previous record was held by Lyndon Johnson's 1965 swearing-in.
"But this isn't official, of course," said ABC anchor Charles Gibson announced.
Wait a minute! The record's not official? How come?
Oh, right.

For City Paper's current issue I wrote about Butch Street, the National Park Service analyst who used to provide the media with an official crowd estimate at inaugurations and other large events on the Mall.
Congress kicked Street and his agency out of the estimating business for DC events after the controversy over the size of [...]

Nobody trusts government numbers anymore. Not even the government.
In doing a story about inauguration crowd sizes for this week's issue, I spoke with Butch Street, an analyst with the National Park Service.
Street used to be the guy to estimate crowds for big D.C. shindigs, such as inaugurations. He stopped doing that when Congress cut off [...]