Commanders Overcome Bugaboo

One wag said a win is a win. Another said it was ugly. 

But not many Washington Teams have beaten the New York Giants as of late. 

This one did. Which is big in ways that don't show up in the stats. There is something nefarious and snakebit about going against the Giants. Like a reverse Joe Pisarcik. 

I don't know about you. I heard the Commanders were going to go up-tempo against the Giants which I thought would have been a mistake. Had they done so, Daniel Jones would have been on the field a lot more than he was. Assuming he'd have been as productive with more time, this would have been a definite loss.

But for the first time since Pisarcik, the Giants were the snakebit ones. They lost their kicker. That effectively took them out of the running. And it must have pissed sharp money off no end.

This game recalls Kliff Kingsbury's best days in Arizona. Where the one playoff team he had ran the football pretty well. And it shows how dumb the last regime was not running B-Rob. I don't know that Kingsbury planned to play four corners offense but it worked and it helped limit the defense's exposure to Daniel Jones.

Jones was well on his way to yet another irritating monster game against D.C. He just couldn't get on the field. 

Maybe B-Rob will make Dan Quinn famous the way John Riggins made Joe Gibbs famous.  

I'm not saying the Commanders should play stall ball every game. But it is a proven way to keep a struggling defense from hurting you. It is good they experienced it. It is now in their toolbox.

Another ugly experience could be on tap with the trip to Cincinnati, a team that held the vaunted Kansas City Chiefs under 300 yards offense. They have a brainiac at defensive coordinator.

It is yet another in a series of challenges to Jayden Daniels' intellectual manhood.

Kicking Custer's Ass

The question of the Washington NFL Franchise's nickname is still open according to some. I am going to try to present a shamanic interpretation of the word "Redskin" and argue in support of the nickname. Do a little vision-questing.

Woke Postulate: The term "Redskin" represents the extermination of Native America. Retort: The claim Native Americans were exterminated like pests is false. Native America still exists and was not wiped out. That claim is White Narcissism. 

In other words, the claims of the Woke Community that Native Americans were victims of White Supremacy is a "projection" of the Woke Community's own supremacist/narcissist ideation. The defensive self-infatuation of the Woke White. "I'm not like that."

You are precisely THAT. Claiming the Natives were wiped out is a declaration of victory by Woke Whites. The True Supremacists.

Native America still exists because of an insurgency led by people the Whites, out of frustration and stress related brain fog, called "Redskins". You don't trash talk someone you are routing. You trash talk someone who is kicking your ass. 

It is unsurprising some Natives adopted the name proudly because they knew intuitively it was an expression of defeat on the part of the Whites. "I am a Redskin" equaled "I am your ass-kicker."

Somebody somewhere, it wasn't me, said something like "Isn't every Cowboy game an exercise in kicking Custer's ass?" A Little Bighorn re-enactment?

Football is just a game. I don't know that it is the proper venue for understanding history. Or keeping memory alive.

But isn't it interesting an attempt was made to wipe out the memory of the Washington Redskins. George Armstrong Custer and Andrew Jackson, citing supremacist moral authority, attempted to wipe out real Native America. They can't even allow the vaguest notion of an insurgent Native America. That would indeed contradict the narcissistic myth of manifest destiny and American Conquistadorial Exceptionalism.

Maybe there is a deeper down unconscious Jungian thing going on. That the extermination of the Washington Redskins symbolizes the successful extermination of Native Americans.  

Woke America no doubt would have made Custer proud.

It seems to me John Riggins, in his recent post at MegaRiggins, was correct in that the Washington NFL Franchise should negotiate with the Tribes. Part ownership. Profit sharing. Taking an active role in Native concerns. The disappearances of Native women and children. Putting a Native American on the Board.

And in some way celebrating the fact Native America is still alive, was not exterminated, and ultimately will flourish again. 

Just what we fans want for the Redskin Football Team.

Riggo is Back

John Riggins posted to his MegaRiggins YouTube channel. 

He spoke of current events in the Land of Burgundy and Gold. I'm one who hopes he chimes in this season. Once a week. Once a month. Take what we can get.

The Man has a good life. Doesn't need football as an enhancement. We need him more than he needs us. Just like Doc, Joey T, and Coach Gibbs. 

The Founders.