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Originally Posted by 70Chip

My thing is that with all the trouble in the world, football is the one area where I am satified to be happy and not right. If you can't be optimistic about the Redskins, even if it takes some doing, then you may as well be doing your taxes. This is not to say that we can't criticize, but at times certain posters here seem never to approve of anything the team does. At the same time they are all too eager to talk about what a great job this or that team does. I don't think being a fan means being relentlessly optimistic, but I also think that sometimes it helps to silence the inner critic and enjoy the thing. If they were paying me to be a fan, I might take a different attitude, but there not and never will, so I choose to find other areas of life in which to be miserable. Football should be fun.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I feel like I (and others here) have been saying this for years. I know some people here like to label Matty and myself as Redskins' apologists (Danny's kids is what I believe we've been called a few times) but it probably seems that way because we feel (well I feel) compelled to counter all the constant negativity that spews from the keyboards of some posters here.

Obviously this team is not without its faults but there are problems league wide with each and every team. It's convenient, I suppose, to think every team is awesome and we suck and will always suck. You probably can never be disappointed that way since you expect nothing. But it's just not the way I want to look at things. I'd love to have the life of the person here who's biggest worry is the Redskins.

Anyway, I digres....what was this thread about again?