Cooley, Colt, Yoder, and the Crossbar

Based on this morning’s SportsCenter and the dramatic layout of the Post’s Sports section, I’m still one of about five people on the planet Earth who didn’t think Clinton Portis‘s comments yesterday were the single worst thing ever to occur. We’re at that point in the season where tensions run high anyhow, and this seems [...]

I Wish I Got Austrian TV

It’s easy to make the media horde at Redskins Park look enormous; lord knows I’ve been guilty of it myself. And, numerically, it does tend to be a pretty substantial group, but by this point in the season they’ve all become fairly familiar. Even the guys I don’t know by name or haven’t spoken to, [...]

Thursday, November 6: We Missed a Chance at an Entire Practice of Colt Brennan as Jim Zorn

One of the more successful costumes at last week’s rookie costume contest was Colt Brennan’s. Brennan, apparently, dressed up as head coach Jim Zorn. YOUNG Jim Zorn. SINGING young Jim Zorn, in fact. Or, to be completely specific, singing young Jim Zorn in a Redskins practice uniform complete with a QB-practice-yellow #10 jersey with ZORN [...]

Player’s POV: Chris Horton is a Sound Sleeper

Just before we boarded the buses to the airport for the Detroit trip, I handed Colt Brennan a Flip video camera and asked him if he could film some “on the road” stuff for me. We didn’t have time to talk about the project, and in the end he wasn’t able to record very much [...]

Making “The Mayne Event”

Kenny Mayne’s idea for his Mayne Event segment this week centers around the “Hip Hip Hooray” cheer, which appears to have caught the public imagination in a way that I couldn’t quite have imagined when Zorn first broke it out at the Welcome Home Luncheon. As Mayne explained to me when I spoke to him, [...]

Nuts For Colt Brennan

Here’s one of the great ironies of Redskins Park: It’s the Friday before the game at Dallas. The Redskins are riding a two game winning streak, and it’s early enough in the season for that winning streak to also carry all the hope and optimism of the start of the year. If I were working [...]

Tuesday, September 16: Colt and the Congresswoman

It’s become fairly clear, even just by reading the comments here, that Colt Brennan established a bit of a following in Hawai’i – and, further, that those people have happily followed him to the Washington Redskins. Hawai’i is just under 5,000 miles away from FedExField, at least as the crow flies, so through the sheer [...]

Redskins @ Panthers – Still Redskins Territory

As I mentioned, the handheld cameramen are all local talent, hired from this area to work this game. All of them have experience shooting football, and some view this as just another gig — a good one, for sure, but nothing to get too worked up about. Then there’s Danny Brown, shooting handheld on the [...]

Friday, August 15: Pineapple Express in Redskins Park

Colt Brennan seems like a pretty good guy, from what I’ve seen. Generous with his time, happy to talk to fans and reporters and the like … the whole stereotypical laid-back Hawai’i thing really seems to have rubbed off on him. Sometimes, being a nice guy pays unexpected dividends, in this instance three cases of [...]

Separated at Birth?

Jerry Glanville, legendarily eccentric former NFL head coach (and current head coach of Portland State University): Larry Michael, of Redskins.com TV and Redskins Radio, at practice today: Perhaps Larry is just trying to make Colt Brennan feel at home by dressing as the defensive coordinator from his first years in college ball.