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freddyg12 · 04-06-2009, 11:07 AM

I may have the most politically correct answer ever to this question!

Growing up in VA, The Skins are the home team & are on every weekend. When I started watching football w/my dad, he always got excited for Skins v. Boys. My dad studied Native American culture a bit & collected antique artifacts. He explained to me how us white men came to North America & took over, putting the Indians on reservations.

For that reason, the Redskins were always on higher moral ground to me, while the cowboys were the evil gun slingers! A classic American battle, cowboys v. Indians. It helped too that the Skins were on every week & I developed a familiarity w/the game by watching them in the late 70s.

Oddly enough, my dad, who watches football but doesn't follow teams too closely, was a Skins fan as a kid but started to like the cowboys when they came into the league in the 60s. He was a rebel & I was too, so I also rooted against his team. His rooting for the cowpokes probably helped make me into such a diehard skins fan.

04-06-2009, 11:07 AM	#56
freddyg12 Playmaker Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 4,540	Re: Why you chose to be a Redskins fan: I may have the most politically correct answer ever to this question! Growing up in VA, The Skins are the home team & are on every weekend. When I started watching football w/my dad, he always got excited for Skins v. Boys. My dad studied Native American culture a bit & collected antique artifacts. He explained to me how us white men came to North America & took over, putting the Indians on reservations. For that reason, the Redskins were always on higher moral ground to me, while the cowboys were the evil gun slingers! A classic American battle, cowboys v. Indians. It helped too that the Skins were on every week & I developed a familiarity w/the game by watching them in the late 70s. Oddly enough, my dad, who watches football but doesn't follow teams too closely, was a Skins fan as a kid but started to like the cowboys when they came into the league in the 60s. He was a rebel & I was too, so I also rooted against his team. His rooting for the cowpokes probably helped make me into such a diehard skins fan.