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blog.washingtonpost.com - 11/12/2007

Redskins: Up in Flames

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McNabb's jersey, before the fires. I'm choosing to pretend it's still 12:15 pm on Sunday. The Redskins are still favored to win, it's still sunny and warmish, Rick "Doc" Walker is still calmish, an optimistic home crowd is still streaming toward the gates, and one of my favorite tailgates in the FedEx lots is getting ready for its thrice-yearly tradition: the burning of the divisional uniform. ...

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The700Level.com - Philly Sports & Minutiae — From DC Sports Bog: It had been announced that the fires would begin at 12:15, so around that time the crowd gathered, chanting "Burn It, Burn It," and the like. Even a guy in a McNabb jersey was yelling "Burn It." People can unite around the cleansing power of fire. Of course, the crowd was briefly distracted by some gents shotgunning light beer of some sort. Tailgating!  But alas, my favorite part from the entire article. Finally the fires began, and the crowd exulted, and the crowd sang ...

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Mr. Irrelevant — ... lying, the latter means he’s embellishing. Lloyd Carr will retire next week. That’s what’s M Go Blog is hearing, and it would be pretty badass for Carr to walk away after finally beating Ohio State. ESPN edits out Golic’s steroids admission. The bigger half of Mike & Mike admits on-air that he used during his playing days, but the online version contains no such commentary. Nothing to see here! Redskins fans burn a McNabb jersey. They should’ve chose Westbrook. ...