The Internet Is For Zorn

Some of the pairings in this NFL QB’s & Their Muppets listicle on Buzzfeed are inspired.

Redskins 2012 Media Guide App is a Thing

Maybe I’m wrong, but when I worked for the Redskins I always felt like fans would both enjoy and benefit from access to the team’s media guide. And at times over the years the printed version was made accessible, for a nominal fee. As printing costs increased and print runs dwindled, that practice was abandoned, but — like just about everything else in the universe — the media guide is now available electronically.  And, apparently, it’s been quietly made available to the public in that format as well. 

If you have an iPad, you can find it in the App Store, either by searching or by clicking here. (The file isn’t optimized for viewing on an iPhone but I suppose it would technically work there as well.)  Or you can get a PDF version here.  Maybe everyone else already knew about this, but I was both surprised and pleased.

(And, yes, despite Dan Snyder’s reputation for squeezing money out of every opportunity, it appears to actually be free.)

Once you download this, you too can easily reference the number of games Tyler Polumbus started in 2011 when you need it for an already-outdated-and-misguided blog post.  Enjoy.

Things I hate about GEICO:

1) The caveman

2) The pig

3) The gecko

4) The guy with the sunglasses doing a bad Agent Smith impersonation

5) Jimmy and Ronnie, the beard + mandolin two-piece that is the GEICO’s 2012 Poochie ad campaign (because nothing sells car insurance like faux hipster irony)

6) The fact that they are making “jinxing DMV athletes” into their second-most lucrative business

A few examples:

Hey, maybe the Redskins should’ve tried giving Orakpo a cortisone shot. Seems to be the only thing that fights off the GEICO jinx.

It’s even more fun if you head to the Bane Soundboard and press the “What matters is our plan” button over and over again while you stare at it.

The Tragic Secret Origin of Logan Paulsen's Facial Hair

Terrific work from John Keim here, uncovering the genuinely tragic reason for Logan Paulsen’s current hirsute look.

This Before Griffining piece on CBS Sports is terrific. Now I want pictures of everybody Becking, as in the above image.

As Redskins fans, we tend to put a lot of stock in the importance of the offensive line. 

“Build from the inside,” we say. 

“The one constant on the three Super Bowl-winning teams was a strong offensive line,” we say.

“If we’d just pay some attention to the offensive line, it wouldn’t matter who was at quarterback,” we say.

I’m not really sure why this is. Part of it, no doubt, is the memory (now verging on ancestral memory) of the Hogs. Part of it is a desire to seem undistracted by the flashier positions — we’re not impressed by your fancy wide receivers, nossirree. Part of it is probably honest belief. All of it is overstated.

I’ll explain:

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Via the Facebook page of the inimitable Christie “Huly” Lopez.

So Brent of @BurgundyBlog managed to single-handedly start a nationwide trend of people taking pictures of themselves in Robert Griffin III’s seated, arms-raised, post-touchdown pose.  This is a pretty impressive bit of social media work and VERY 2012, and Brent deserves all the kudos in the world for it. With that said … UGH PLEASE MAKE IT STOP.  Whomever is behind @StopGriffining provides a terrific summary of the opposition point of view, but here for good measure are a few reasons why the trend rubs me wrong:

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