I'm trying to figure out if the Redskins learned from last year's "Fan Appreciation Day" or not. Like last time, this event features "free admission", and there's also "free hourly giveaways" and "free autographs." At a minimum, this one has free parking. However, it's in Williamsburg, so if you don't mind driving 3 1/2 hours to get there and spending $2.50/gallon on gas, it's free. I'm wondering about the "Dress Like a Redskin" photo op. It isn't marked free; does that mean you'd have to pay for the opportunity to dress like a potato/Indian? In all seriousness, would you really want to put on a sweaty helmet or jersey that 10,000 other sweaty kids have put on?
I'll give the Skins credit: at least they're trying. Draft day events (and pre-draft day parties, for that matter) are among the most boring events in sports, IMO. Please don't tell me that people were glued to their TVs in 1998 to watch Ryan Leaf get drafted? I realize that for every Ryan Leaf you've got a Reggie Bush or a Peyton Manning, but how about the guys who weren't even drafted and turn out to be stars (Rod Smith, Adam Vinatieri)? Now you know what I'm NOT doing at the end of April.
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They've done this well in the past. The year that the illustrious Patrick Ramsey was drafted, the Draft Party was at the Fed. It was free to enter, I don't remember whether we paid to park, but they had dollar brews and dollar dogs inside. To say I gorged myself would be an understatement.
That said, I haven't been to any sort of draft party since. Mostly it's because FedEx was far to go from Northern Virginia, and other times because the draft is just too damned long to be at the stadium for anything more than the first round. So if I wasn't driving to FedEx because of the distance, I'm surely not driving to Williamsburg.
But seriously, how slow do you drive that it takes 3½ hours to get there? I can make Norfolk in 2½.
2 1/2? How fast are you driving?!?
As I type this, I am literally wearing the Redskins Training camp shirt I bought in Frostburg in 1999, was that the last real one?
I feel so alienated from this team lately.
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