October 29, 2009

Repressive Redskins Ban Signs

Kevin Blackistone, FanHouse

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...Indeed, the worst-run pro sports franchise in the country, if not on the planet, has now turned into a repressive regime. According to Wednesday's edition of Dan Steinberg's D.C. Sports Bog from The Washington Post, the organization is cracking down on fans so put out by the team's dismal 2-5 record -- and even more dismal outlook -- that they've taken to sporting T-shirts and carrying placards expressing their disgruntlement.

There is no other way to describe what the club's owner, Dan Snyder, and his lieutenants are doing to upset fans other than imitating a government with distaste for dissent. After all, when things were going swimmingly for this club, you could bring in all the banners and sport all the T-shirts with homespun slogans that you wished. I know. I was...

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