Dear Diary, I have broken up with my longtime football team.
, and I’ve been thinking a lot about whether to watch. The contest against the hapless Jacksonville Jaguars promises to be one of the weekend’s least essential matchups, but my hesitation goes far deeper than that. For many of us longtime followers of the team’s previous incarnation, this feels like something of a crossroads moment. I’ve loved DC’s NFL team for decades—as long as I can remember.
I’ve never been one of those avid sports people who can rattle off team rosters and spit out statistics, but Washington football has been a part of my life since at least the early ’80s. In those days, the team was a source of local excitement and discussion in a way that’s impossible for recent arrivals to comprehend. I still recall the eerie quiet of streets on Sunday afternoons in the autumn; rare was the local host who dared schedule a social event during game time.
In elementary school, the kids in our daily carpool held their breath as we drove past Dorset Avenue in Bethesda—a collective expression of loathing for Dallas Cowboys star Tony Dorsett. The team’s first Super Bowl victory came in 1983, when I was in middle school, and I joined an estimated 500,000 other admirers for a chaotic, rain-soaked victory parade, the size and intensity of which surprised even the players.
Still, no real fan would abandon a team simply because they’re perennial also-rans. It’s the depressing off-field spectacle that really rankles—the grim allegations of a
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