The headline, in red at the very top of the front page, above the name of the paper (The Washington Post) reads, "Woe...Redskins fall apart, 20--17." This is a city with a lot of teams--baseball, basketball and so on. They mostly lose and Washington stays fairly calm. When the football team loses, Washington weeps and wrings its hands. It's not that they expect to win; the Redskins last won the Super Bowl in 1988, twenty-one years ago. But it's different here. The Chicago Cubs, the baseball team I grew up with, last won the World Series a hundred and one years ago, in 1908. Fans still flock to Wrigley Field and seem to enjoy the games. Not here, not with the 'Skins. The "fire the coach?" stories began some time ago and are now numerous. Impeach the West Coast offense? Maybe they could try that. The team song, "Hail to the Redskins" appeared in another recent Post headline as "Fail to the Redskins." Well, newspapers are supposed to be accurate, after all. And some of this year's losses have been spectacular. Yesterday's winner, Carolina, hadn't won a game all year until the Redskins came to town. Earlier, the Skins lost to Detroit, which hadn't won a game this year - or last year, come to that. I'm not sure, but that may have been the only 0--16 season in NFL history. So, hail to, rail at, quail from, fail with the Redskins. Wish coach Jim Zorn luck if he ends up looking for work. And hang in there. Eleven more games, and it'll all be over. Hail!
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