Another Redskins game that ain't a sellout. Another Redskins game that won't be blacked out.

The graphic above is from the latest installment of the now regular email blasts that precede every home game.

But no matter what your head tells you, remember: Dan Snyder says the Redskins have a waiting list of "over 200,000" names of folks who want tickets but can't get them.

And remember this, as your watching the Skins/Eagles game on local TV and see a sea of empty seats: The NFL has a blackout policy!

What's going on around here is sorta amazing, ain't it? A "Monday Night Football" game against the hated Eagles -- a rematch of the Body Bag Game opponents! -- and Skins management feels it has to lie ("visiting team returns," "limited number," etc.) to try to get folks to take tickets?

How low has Snyder taken the operation? Well, if the Redskins were a dance, you could lay the limbo pole on the floor and Snyder could still sneak his franchise under it.

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Vinny Cerrato opened his radio station on Dan Snyder's sportstalker, WTEM, declaring he wanted to be "perfectly clear" about some things: Jim Zorn is the Skins head coach for the rest of the season "and hopefully into the future." Sure, "perfectly clear" is a Nixon tag line. And Cerrato sounded crazy while he delivered it.

(AFTER THE JUMP: Snyder doesn't talk to the media? Did anybody tell the New York Times? Snyder tells Brian Mitchell he's sorry? Brian Mitchell believes it? Debbie Yow wants you to call her Dr. Yow? She's a doctor? Really? Charlie Brotman can tell stories? Ron Jaworski doesn't blame Jim Zorn, either? Why do races get such scary names?)

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Here's how powerful the legend of the Redskins season ticket waiting list really is: Yesterday the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer ran a long column about how a Charlotte lawyer's lifetime dream of having Skins tickets is about to become a reality.

The lede:

In 1989, when he was a 9-year-old from Virginia Beach, Norris Adams had a feverish love for the Washington Redskins.

At a Redskins home game that season, he persuaded his parents to put him on the waiting list to buy season tickets.

Twenty years later, Adams is a 29-year-old lawyer in Charlotte. He recently received a burgundy envelope with the word "CONGRATULATIONS" in golden type.

Adams had made it to the top of the Redskins' list. According to the team, more than 200,000 people are behind him.

According to the story, Adams talked his wife into letting him buy the tickets by telling her "this season ticket opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime thing and it's going to change our lives forever."

In the Carolinas in 2009, getting Skins tickets is not only newsworthy, but a life-changer?

So the legend of the waiting list still has clout 400 miles away from Raljon.

Up here, not so much.

Mr. Adams apparently hasn't heard that in the DC area the Redskins are so short of customers they're sending offers to buy season tickets to folks who never signed up for any waiting list.

Yet by the end of the story, we learn that even Adams, despite all his burgundy and gold delirium, can kinda sense desperation in the Redskins ticket operation.

The kicker:

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Robin Ficker, who sued to get Redskins seasons tickets 20 years but turned them back into the team a few weeks ago, isn't going into hibernation.

As Fickerphiles know, making a scene at sporting events ain't his only fetish: So is running for political office.

As Ficker, a ruthless and tireless campaigner who has run for every public office from dog catcher to U.S. Senator since the 1980s, was dumping his Skins seats, he was also competing for a seat of another sort.

Last month he won the Republican primary in the race to fill the Montgomery County Council slot left empty since Don Praisner's death in January.

The special election will be held May 19.

Running runs in the family. When I asked him how he's going to fill all the time he used to spend on Redskins games, Ficker told me his big pastime these days is traveling around the globe to watch his daughter. Desiree Ficker, who grew up in Potomac and trained with her father as a kid when he wasn't screaming at Charles Barkley, is a world class triathlete.

She's finished second in the Ironman Kailua-Kona in Hawaii.

And, oh, yeah, she was also named Hottest Triathlete 2008.

Who knew?

Vinny Cerrato got creative with his team's fifth-round pick. Uh oh!

The Redskins' GM-with-a-longer-title-and-less-power-than-a-typical-GM selected Cody Glenn, a converted linebacker whose Nebraska career was most notable for injuries and the way it ended: by getting kicked off the team last year for an undisclosed off-field incident.

As Lawrence Phillips or any honest Husker fan can tell you, if you can play some ball, it's tough to get suspended in Lincoln for anything short of a war crime.

Cerrato said Glenn was investigated thoroughly before the draft. But that claim looked shaky when Glenn told reporters his troubles came when he was caught illegally selling football tickets. That story quickly fell apart, however, and Glenn admitted the suspension wasn't for selling tickets, and apologized for lying.

He did not, however, 'fess up to whatever it is that got him booted. The rumors have been flying ever since.

And they're ugly.

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I wrote this week about the history of the Redskins waiting list and its apparent descent into bogosity.

I sensed things were bad over at the team's ticket office.

Turns out they're worse.

Dan Snyder claims in interviews there are "over 200,000" folks waiting for season tickets.

Oh, really?

CITY PAPER HAS OBTAINED a piece of direct mail (available after the jump, click graphic to view full size) that the Redskins sent out a few days ago. The document offers recipients the chance to buy "up to eight (8)" season tickets and parking passes for the 2009 season.

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