Friendly Fire: Jets 34, Redskins 19

Early December.  Its kind of a weird time of the year.  Its not really fall anymore, and things are just starting to get all Christmas-y.   

It reminds of a Sean Lennon album I bought 5 years ago called Friendly Fire.  It’s a beautifully bitter-bittersweet album about a terrible breakup he endured.  His girlfriend cheated on him with his best childhood friend, who then bought it in a motorcycle accident before they could confront each other.   

I like listening to it every early December because that’s around the time the Redskins completely snuff out their own season through incompetence, foolishness, arrogance, and sloppyness.  There are so many great lines from that album that make me think about either my relationship with the Redskins or just the Redskins generally:

• Dead meat, you just messed with the wrong team

• In the end you’re gonna learn, you’ll get what you deserve

• You had to bring me down, we had some fun before we hit the ground

• You’re always such a spectacle, you said you would but you never will change

• Today can we pretend its not too late?

• Stay away, I’m not myself, no one can help me now…

You know, I don’t care that they lost to the Jets.  They just gave it all away so cavalierly.  They took the lead midway through the 4^th quarter.  And then Graham Gano pops up his kickoff, the upback returns the ball to midfield, and that was that.  A few players later, Sanchez through his longest past of the day for sluggo touchdown.  3 or 4 players later, Rex holds the ball too long, gets sacked, and the Jets takeover.  All of a sudden, we go from winning in the 4^th quarter to losing by two scores.  

And now, Sleepy Davis and Trent Williams are going to be suspended for smoking weed.  But they didn’t just smoke weed.  They smoked weed after being caught multiple times in drug tests and were warned that they couldn’t do it anymore or they would get in trouble.  But then, they smoked some more weed!  Selfish and stupid.

On the other hand, getting high kind of is a viable option playing on a team like this regardless of the consequences.