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HipHipHooray · 10-15-2008, 07:28 PM

Over the years I have shed most of my crazy rituals, because during peroids that skins were doing bad I assumed it was all my fault - so i stopped doing certain things. That explains the 15 redskin shirts in my closet I don't wear on game day. My wife wants to throw them out, but I told her I find comfort just knowing they are there....she just stares at me. Thats okay. My shirts understand me.

I guess the only rituals I truly have start after a game when they loose. I start off by being real angry and cuss a lot, and discourage any human contact. I spend all day Monday just hating them and wondering why they would personally do me wrong like they did and swear I will never fall for it again. Tuesday, i start by feeling sorry for the Redskins and making excuses about how close they came and if that only done "this" or "that" they would have won. Wednesday, I start to convince myself that the loss was just something that happened and it is all correctable. They have the potential. Thursday, I fall back in dispair and wonder how long I can survive being addicted to a team like the Redskins. Friday, I start to get a little bit of my spirit back because I have resigned myself that I have been riding this roller coaster for over 38 years and there is no getting off. For every game sitting in the pouring rain (with more Cowboys fans then Redskin fans) watching Tim Hasselback earn a 0.0 QB rating while Dallas slaughters the Redskins - there are the beautiful sunny day games of a year or so ago when we slaughtered the Cowboys. Saturday, I am angry again. Don't really feel like spending the next day getting up and dealing with the drive to FedEX field and all the all day commitment to the game - wish I could just stay home and watch it from my couch. Esoecially since I know they will "blow" it again. Sunday, get to FedEx about 3 hours before the game and let my father in law cook me something to eat. Then...it happens.... everything fades away and I convince myself 100% that the Redskins will be victorious today by a score of 47-3. My lack of faith and dread of another painful loss falls away and I go right past hope to 100 % certainty that today the Redsksins will win. I sit in my seat and watch the game and go through 3 hours of what can only be classified as the on set of Stroke conditions and/or symtoms till the the end of the game. If they lose - I repeat the enitire ritual. if they win.....I just stay comfortably numb and in a happy place for the entire week.

10-15-2008, 07:28 PM	#64
HipHipHooray Camp Scrub Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Woodrbidge Virginia Age: 65 Posts: 15	Re: REDSKIN RITUALS. What weird things do you do to help the 'Skins kick butt on Sundays??? Over the years I have shed most of my crazy rituals, because during peroids that skins were doing bad I assumed it was all my fault - so i stopped doing certain things. That explains the 15 redskin shirts in my closet I don't wear on game day. My wife wants to throw them out, but I told her I find comfort just knowing they are there....she just stares at me. Thats okay. My shirts understand me. I guess the only rituals I truly have start after a game when they loose. I start off by being real angry and cuss a lot, and discourage any human contact. I spend all day Monday just hating them and wondering why they would personally do me wrong like they did and swear I will never fall for it again. Tuesday, i start by feeling sorry for the Redskins and making excuses about how close they came and if that only done "this" or "that" they would have won. Wednesday, I start to convince myself that the loss was just something that happened and it is all correctable. They have the potential. Thursday, I fall back in dispair and wonder how long I can survive being addicted to a team like the Redskins. Friday, I start to get a little bit of my spirit back because I have resigned myself that I have been riding this roller coaster for over 38 years and there is no getting off. For every game sitting in the pouring rain (with more Cowboys fans then Redskin fans) watching Tim Hasselback earn a 0.0 QB rating while Dallas slaughters the Redskins - there are the beautiful sunny day games of a year or so ago when we slaughtered the Cowboys. Saturday, I am angry again. Don't really feel like spending the next day getting up and dealing with the drive to FedEX field and all the all day commitment to the game - wish I could just stay home and watch it from my couch. Esoecially since I know they will "blow" it again. Sunday, get to FedEx about 3 hours before the game and let my father in law cook me something to eat. Then...it happens.... everything fades away and I convince myself 100% that the Redskins will be victorious today by a score of 47-3. My lack of faith and dread of another painful loss falls away and I go right past hope to 100 % certainty that today the Redsksins will win. I sit in my seat and watch the game and go through 3 hours of what can only be classified as the on set of Stroke conditions and/or symtoms till the the end of the game. If they lose - I repeat the enitire ritual. if they win.....I just stay comfortably numb and in a happy place for the entire week.