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There’s Still a Place Where Folks Believe in the Redskins Ticket Waiting List. But Not Around Here
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:
