[FormerLib]

I'm not the only one, either, as most anyone who moves to this area and is a pro-football fan automatically hates the team.

Amen to that! I've been in the DC area since 1986 and I still don't give a hoot for this team. I really think it's that stupid song of theirs. You couldn't make-up a dumber one if you tried.

Of course, even long time Redskins fans have learned to hate Daniel Snyder to such a point that they actually laugh out loud when they show his face, looking all angry as the 'skins lose another one!

Gee, how big of a horse's rear-end do you have to be to make Redskin fans fondly recall the days of Jack Kent Cooke?

[Nightbird]

Well former, every 'Skins fan I've ever known always loved the old man. Jack Kent Cooke simply opened his checkbook and said "get the job done fellas."

Sure he was eccentric, and that Colombian wife of his was always in the newspaper, but it's not like he was making draft picks or calling plays.

Not to mention, he built his own stadium. He didn't buy off politicians or pillage the taxpayers like the stadiums in Philly, Pittsburgh and Baltimore. He built the place and named it simply, Redskins Stadium. People suggested to him that he should name it after himself, but he found the idea silly. Once he died, they named it Jack Kent Cooke stadium, and it is now called FedEx field.

Old Jack always had the fans at heart, "the best bloody fans in football."