Skins/Bills Game: Atmosphere At FedEx Today

I was too tired from walking the mile+ from metro to go down at Half Time sorry.

Great day and I'll post a video and some Stills in a bit. I need to eat and get dry and have a few beers that don't cost $8 a piece.

My son and I had a great day together pay honor to family.

To hear that the crowd was chanting fire Gibbs today, of ALL days, is really disturbing to me. Yes he made an awful mistake late in the game, but the PLAYERS did a lot of things on the field that put us in that spot to begin with. Gibbs has been trying to bring these guys together and is in the midst of a profoundly difficult task with all the injuries, Sean's passing, and 2 games and a funeral in 5 days. I'm sure he's pretty pissed about what happened, and I'm not happy with him for it, but "Gibbs must go??" I thought our fans were smarter than that.

Were they doing that in the stands, or just at the WaPo Live?

In my opinion the crowd was the most lackluster one in Fed Ex history. It was, however with good reason. Nobody could really get their moxie up and it showed...

I was watching it on tv and i could of sworn that the fans were getting loud when the redskins were in the red zone trying to mess them up. When the Bills were on offense, you don't even hear a mouse. Atleast roar against the Bills or something? That had to be the worst crowd I've seen for a team.

You're right Ninja. It was wierd because it was a nice crowd to say the least but people cheered but it wasn't the same has been the other times. You could hear them trying but it didn't really work. The crowd cheered when the Skins went for it on 4th down because they were hyped. Thursday maybe it'll be different but, yesterday it seemed like the air was taken out of the stadium. Tried to find some of you guys at the bar but that was a MADHOUSE !!!!! Anyway, had a good time at the game, sucks that the Skins lost but honestly;.......I can let it go. Not going to scream Joe must go, not going to yell for the heads of Al Saunders, Gregg Williams, or anyone else. The team was drained, I can honestly let it go.

It was a very weird mood to say the least. I was really suprised to see so many empty seats..and the crowd noise ebbed and flowed. It wasn't your usual raucus crowd from start to finish.

I think the team was drained and so were the fans.

But to your question, SGG..fans were booing in the stands and during Wapo live.

I just wanted to clear something up after reading some other threads. Monksfan, SBF, and Rob feel free to chime in since you guys were in the stands.

During the moment of silence there were a smattering of cheers and "I love You Seans" accross the stadium. It felt awkard, but given the circumstances, you know, all the rules go out the window. As far as the Cowboys fans being silent during the moment of silence, I wouldn't expect a Cowboy fan or any other NFL stadium to yell out "we love you Sean" because he 'aint their Sean, he's ours. So while those handful of fans probably didn't display the best decorum I wouldn't exactly chalk this up as, especially given the raw emotion involved, disrespectful. I honestly think it was a combination of fandom and raw emotion.

As I've said earlier, the crowd was displeased with Joe Gibbs. From the time I got out of my seat at the end of the game until I got on the Metro to head home, many fans were expressing their disatisfaction.

Well during the moment of silence I was walking back from the mob of folks crowded around two police officers who were passing out the #21 towels so I wasn't there for it. A friend of min said that he heard the people yelling it on the tv broadcast and it upset him a little. I can understand it because you do have that raw emotion where you want to say something and everyone knows. Myself, I wouldn't have done it because it places the emphasis on you and not to the man that the silence is for. That silence was for him not for that specific fan. However, I can understand why they did it.

The guys that I were with were yelling for Joe's head. Like I said earlier I honestly can let it go. I felt really bad to see Fred Smoot on the sideline in tears. Seeing that let me really just enjoy the game itself as opposed tp the outcome. Yeah I wanted them to win but I think it was Smoot who just laid on the field after the field goal. I felt bad for them because they really wanted to win but they didn't. They as well as the coaches had to deal with going out there and playing that game. Sucks to lose but it doesn't matter to me.

I heard a few "I love you Seans" during the moment of silence and also way too many people still wearing a hat during the National Anthem. WTF? I heard one guy yelling at others to remove their hats. Thousands and thousands kept their hats on in disrespect to this Nation.

I heard some disapproval about Gibbs and the Team but really no more then you hear at any home game loss IMHO.

I thought the crowd was quite loud at times really. It never gets as loud as RFK with half as many people but the 12th Man was very much doing his part LOUDLY. Rock is a crowd favorite too as many yelled his name.

We came, we gave tribute, we played and God opened the Heavens and let his tears fall on us all as it rained.

That will go down as one of the most memorable days I ever went to a game win or not.

Hail Skins!
mike

I so wish I could have gotten a Taylor towel for all the Warpath brethren. I gave mine to a good friend who couldn't be there.

The people who were yelling didn't really bother me all that much. I too wish they would have remained silent, but oh well.

Man, that game really made me miss Taylor.