Whenever the Redskins are playing at home I make the trek to Landover, Maryland and deal with the minor inconveniences presented by FedEx Field. The only reason I put up with it every week is because of my unfailing love for the franchise. It seems as if every week I experience a balance of positive and negative emotions that have nothing to do with the game itself. This week was no different; once again I was impressed with the defense's commitment to the dance, unfortunately they're being offset by a couple of developing trends.
DJ Unk's song video "Walk it Out" has become a part of this Redskins team. Whenever the song (or a few other songs of it's nature) begins blaring during a stoppage of time there's a good chance you'll see the defense begin to dance. A while back I posted the YouTube video showing Carlos Rogers, Sean Taylor, and Marcus Washington getting loose during a television timeout. Now it looks as if the trend is spreading throughout the defensive unit, clearly their resurgent defensive performance was a result of Unk's beats and not Gregg's schemes. Via two of my favorite local bloggers (Dan Steinberg of DC Sports Bog and Chris Mottram of Saved By the Blog) comes this week's video of the festivities. You may be able to tell that this time the crowd was immediately responsive (I walked it out from the seated position).
Say what you want about my Redskins but I love 'em more than anything at times like these, granted their moves could still use a little bit more work. I know the idea is to stay loose during breaks in the action but that doesn't mean you can't show what you've got. Check out Lil Tee courtesy of YouTube, see how she stacks up against our defense after the break ...
Now that's how you walk to the music.
Unfortunately not all the dancing in Landover has been positive. Especially now that the once entertaining, now tedious, Funky Four has become a 90 second in-stadium commercial for FedEx, the official corporate overlords of the Washington Redskins. Now they're only left with about twenty seconds of truly uninspired funk, they have that same look in their eye as Adam Archuleta when he's lined up behind the long snapper.
The newest development I noticed this week was the ownership's response to a September lawsuit against the team. Perhaps you remember hearing reading about the suit filed by the National Association of the Deaf (perhaps not, the news was overshadowed by the deaf protests at Gallaudet). The complaint alleged discrimination as a result of the lack of functional closed captioning within the stadium. Let me preface my complaint with this statement, I am all for closed captioning in the stadium, I think it is necessary feature to have in any stadium let alone Danny's house. My problem is that instead of creating a new space to display the words of the PA announcer and the referees they've simply piggy-backed on the out of town scoreboard. Now it's as if the rest of the NFL can't get in a word edgewise and I gamble too much to live without frequent scoring updates. Yes, I'm petty ... so what?
If Danny doesn't correct this flaw I'll probably end up renting a Kangaroo TV, an invention that could contend for the Nobel Prize in something or other. Needless to say, I have high expectations.
