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So I want to know, are we ready for the ninth season of the Redskins Rap Up? And better yet, are you ready for some football!
Folks, if you know me, I get about as excited about preseason football as I do a hotly contested game of cricket. I’d much rather spend the four weeks of preseason sipping an ice cold beverage in the Outer Banks than to come up with some kind of nonsense column on the Redskins-Bengals and Redskins- Jets games.
Well, I missed the SkinsBengals, thereby missing onefourth of the preseason. But like a dummy I taped it. Anyways, during the game I got a call from my trusty buddy, Ben in Richmond, with the dire news. Clinton Portis is hurt, looks a shoulder. Portis got hurt making a tackle on an interception thrown by Brunell I’m told.
What are you going to do with these University of Miami guys? You can’t get them to turn off their football motor, going full speed all the time.
I got back in town right before the Redskins-Jets game and after making my wife unpack the truck, carry the bags in, bathe the kids and feed the dogs, I settled to see the play when Portis got hurt. As I watched the tape, I couldn’t focus, so I asked the wife to keep it down; she made a bunch of noise lugging the luggage up the stairs. When it got quiet, I thought to myself “Maybe there’s a bar in town that’s airing a hotly contested
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