Dan Snyder headed to France last week after the Redskins dropped to 2-5. Why France? Probably because it’s hard to extradite anybody from there.
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This, of course, was after the sad scene at FedEx Field on Monday night, when scores of fans had their homemade signs - many of them critical of team management - confiscated at the gate.
I tried to get a comment from stadium security, but Colonel Klink and Sergeant Schultz couldn’t be reached.
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It’s pretty amazing, when you think about it, that Donovan McNabb and Co. weren’t stopped at the locker room door and told to change out of their Eagles uniforms.
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What’s next, making season-ticket holders take loyalty oaths?
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I went to a Redskins game… and the McCarthy Era broke out.
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To which Neal from Gaithersburg adds: “Are you now, or have you ever been a Cowboys, Giants or Eagles fan?”
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It might be time for Vic Gold of Washingtonian magazine to write another story - telling us what a good guy Dan is and how he’s misunderstood and all that.
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Elsewhere in the NFL, rookie quarterback Mark Sanchez apologized for downing a hot dog on the Jets’ bench during a game at Oakland, explaining he felt sick and needed something in his stomach.
Given all the coverage the incident has gotten, you’d think Sanchez was getting ready to challenge Joey Chestnut next July 4 at Coney Island.
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To atone for his sin, Sanchez donated 500 hot dogs and 500 hamburgers to a soup kitchen in Morristown, N.J.
The NFL must be relieved to see a quarterback doing something positive with dogs.
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Who would have thought that, four years after they traded thrills in arguably the greatest college football game ever (Texas 41, USC 38), Matt Leinart would still be playing behind 38-year-old Kurt Warner in Arizona and Vince Young would just now be taking over for 36-year-old Kerry Collins in Tennessee (if, indeed, the switch is permanent)?
You just never know - do you, Matt Cassel?
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Brett Favre returns to Green Bay on Sunday in a Vikings uniform and, if you ask me, Green Bay is taking it way too personal. Changing the name of Minnesota Avenue to Aaron Rodgers Avenue? Have these folks forgotten that the year before Brett arrived, the franchise was stuck on the Mike Tomczak Bridge to Nowhere?
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Number of the Week: 500.
How many dollars Andre Agassi claims he won for his father when, at age 9, he hustled football great Jim Brown in a tennis match (according to his soon-to-be-released autobiography, “Open”).
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Agassi’s book sounds like fun reading. In an interview with People magazine to promote it, he recounted the time he pitched a fit on the set of “Friends” when ex-wife Brooke Shields, who was appearing on the show, had to lick Matt LeBlanc’s hand.
Why Andre, of all people, would have been jealous is beyond me. The man spent 20 years licking every tennis player on the planet.
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Can’t say I’m particularly shocked, either, at Agassi’s admission that he used crystal meth in the late ’90s. Heck, back in those wild and crazy, “Image Is Everything” days, I wouldn’t have been surprised if Andre had been dating somebody named Crystal Meth.
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Just caught my first glimpse of Michelle Beadle, Colin Cowherd’s sidekick on ESPN’s “SportsNation.” It’s like the network told its talent scouts: “Go out and find us a female co-host who looks, sounds and acts exactly like Cameron Diaz in ’There’s Something About Mary.’ ”
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You know the kind of woman I’m talking about. The kind who says, “Let’s go watch SportsCenter!” - and means it.
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The kind you’d gladly get a fishhook caught in your mouth for.
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The kind who causes men to break out in a rash - and even experience imaginary paralysis in their legs.
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Speaking of femmes fatales, a Philadelphia woman - and diehard Phillies fan - was arrested the other day for offering sex for World Series tickets. I wouldn’t count on the charges sticking, though. After all, according to her attorney, the undercover policeman she was negotiating with never even got to first base.
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So I’m watching Chase Utley’s first homer barely clear the wall in the Series opener, and I’m thinking: The Yankees have a terrific team, but they really miss Jeffrey Maier in right field.
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Meanwhile, in Boston, where four Japanese pitchers are already on the roster, the Red Sox are pursuing a Cuban southpaw who has been clocked at 102 mph.
The club is also said to be talking to a U.N. interpreter who can catch the knuckleball.
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If things get slow at next weekend’s Breeders’ Cup, maybe they could stage a match race between Sean Kemp, Travis Henry, Jason Caffey and, say, Steve Garvey.
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And finally…
News item: NCAA OKs $35 million addition to its headquarters in Indianapolis.
Comment: Yeah, they’re building a whole new wing. They’re going to call it the Department of Discontinued Programs. There are even plans for a museum - featuring things like a Clemson wrestling jersey, a University of Vermont batting helmet, a West Virginia golf bag and a Washington swimsuit.
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