i could watch this shit all day
Highlights from the Redskins/Dallas game last Sunday, where the Skins came away 26-24 winners. Team looks good this year, a huge improvement over the past...decade or so. The coaching may finally be there. Lord knows they've had the talent and it's just been going to waste under coach Gibbs.
Zorn knows how to run an offense to win games instead of playing not to lose. They aren't scared. Never scurred. Apparently I can't embed this:
http://www.nfl.com/partner?partnerType=game-of-the-week&season=2008&seasonType=REG&week=4
Last year Sean Taylor, #21, was shot and killed in his Miami home. He was 24. The very definition of wrong place at the wrong time; he was visiting his wife and baby daughter. Or perhaps he was in the right place. Who knows what would have befallen his family, had he not been there.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3129406
I've been wanting to write about it for almost a year now, but I don't really know what to say. After all its stupid to greive for someone who is essentially a celebrity. I mean, isn't that what most people think? You didn't know him, he was just a football player, people die every day.
But for some reason it really affected me. When I first heard the news I couldn't keep it back, the emotion just came pouring out of me. At the time I was commuting to DC/Northern VA for work and the coverage was relentless. Which couldn't be more fitting; because so was he.
The kid was all over the field. Ok in coverage, unstopable when he touched the ball, everywhere at once, a safety that hit like two linebackers. Sometimes you here your parents talk about people that came before your time. Legends, personalities, something unforgettable. Honestly, without hyperbole Taylor was all of those things. You didn't have to be a football fan to determine that he was something special.
(one of the many cheesy fan made YouTube videos:
The first game after his death was a home game, so I went to pay my respects. I didn't expect to get in due to not having a ticket. But I had brought flowers so I figured I would just find someone around the stadium to place them.
Through a stroke of luck a straggling scalper sold me a ticket for 'whatever i had in my pocket'.
$15
My Mom calls me after each game, win or lose, to talk to me about it. If they win, she congratulates them. If they lose...well, she tells me they'll get em next week. Honestly that may even be better than the game. So when she called after that one, I couldn't even pretend to keep it together. She talked to me as I protected the receiver from muffled sobs.
"Mom...I..*sniff*...I don't understand...understand...why I'm acting this way...*sniff*...I didn't even know him."
All she had to say to make things better was:
"It's ok honey. You don't have to make excuses. It's ok to be sad."
Zorn knows how to run an offense to win games instead of playing not to lose. They aren't scared. Never scurred. Apparently I can't embed this:
http://www.nfl.com/partner?partnerType=game-of-the-week&season=2008&seasonType=REG&week=4
Last year Sean Taylor, #21, was shot and killed in his Miami home. He was 24. The very definition of wrong place at the wrong time; he was visiting his wife and baby daughter. Or perhaps he was in the right place. Who knows what would have befallen his family, had he not been there.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3129406
I've been wanting to write about it for almost a year now, but I don't really know what to say. After all its stupid to greive for someone who is essentially a celebrity. I mean, isn't that what most people think? You didn't know him, he was just a football player, people die every day.
But for some reason it really affected me. When I first heard the news I couldn't keep it back, the emotion just came pouring out of me. At the time I was commuting to DC/Northern VA for work and the coverage was relentless. Which couldn't be more fitting; because so was he.
The kid was all over the field. Ok in coverage, unstopable when he touched the ball, everywhere at once, a safety that hit like two linebackers. Sometimes you here your parents talk about people that came before your time. Legends, personalities, something unforgettable. Honestly, without hyperbole Taylor was all of those things. You didn't have to be a football fan to determine that he was something special.
(one of the many cheesy fan made YouTube videos:
Click to viewThe first game after his death was a home game, so I went to pay my respects. I didn't expect to get in due to not having a ticket. But I had brought flowers so I figured I would just find someone around the stadium to place them.
Through a stroke of luck a straggling scalper sold me a ticket for 'whatever i had in my pocket'.
$15
My Mom calls me after each game, win or lose, to talk to me about it. If they win, she congratulates them. If they lose...well, she tells me they'll get em next week. Honestly that may even be better than the game. So when she called after that one, I couldn't even pretend to keep it together. She talked to me as I protected the receiver from muffled sobs.
"Mom...I..*sniff*...I don't understand...understand...why I'm acting this way...*sniff*...I didn't even know him."
All she had to say to make things better was:
"It's ok honey. You don't have to make excuses. It's ok to be sad."