Tuesday, September 28, 2004

There are many reasons why I’m not a fan of Monday Night Football - chief among them being the lateness of the games here on the east coast. Next in line is that the Redskins suck on Monday night, especially against Dallas. Although I have to brag that I was at a MNF Redskins-Cowboys game in the 90s where Washington clobbered Dallas at RFK. That was fun. Last night’s game was not fun. Trying to get through the day after on half of the normal amount of sleep I get is worse - especially after a dreadful loss like that.

I’ll tell you this much, the Redskins have long been plagued with poor officiating - two botched calls directly impacted the outcome of that game. Joe Gibbs’ unwise decision to challenge the touchdown showed that he still has a lot of catching up to do with the new rules of the game. Why they didn’t challenge the clear case of defensive pass interference that was called as offensive pass interference is beyond me.

Anyway, I said at the beginning of the pre-season that I would be happy with an 8-8 first season of the second Gibbs’ era. I’ll keep telling myself that.