Pete Kendall, Award-Winning Talker

In open locker room today, in front of the assembled media, David Elfin of the Washington Times presented The B.J. Blanchard Good Guy Award, which goes, as the plaque says, “To The Washington Redskins Player Who Has Best Helped The Media Do Its Job.” If you were to go purely by number of words written [...]

Redskins Voting the Non-Redskins Ticket

The fans no longer have to worry about Pro Bowl voting. Everyone got out and Voted the Redskins Ticket, and the net result was that out of nineteen positions on the Pro Bowl rosters, nine of them have Redskins as the leading vote-getters. Thanks to ESPN NFC West blogger Mike Sando’s downloadable spreadsheet, we can [...]

Friday, November 21: Sitting in Sonny’s Office

When you walk into Redskins Park, you are (sensibly enough) looking directly at the reception desk. Beyond the reception desk are the Super Bowl trophies, and beyond that are the stairs down to the locker room, practice fields, and so on. The far wall beyond that is a glass window looking in on the Redskins.com [...]

Thursday, November 20: More Voting For More Smoot Talk!

Yes, yes, yes. I know. You’re voted out. First it was all the FedEx Player of the Week awards. Then it was the President of the United States of America. Then it was the Pro Bowl. Then it was seemingly endless commentary on the process of voting for the Pro Bowl. I have no doubt [...]

Texas Pete Hot Sauce Loves Fred Smoot

It’s always fun when boxes and boxes of stuff show up unannounced for players on the team. I doubt anything will match the sublime joy of Colt Brennan faced with dozen of fresh pineapples, but yesterday’s mail was certainly interesting: four cases of Texas Pete hot sauce for Fred Smoot. (The picture, obviously, is from [...]

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, [...]

Fred Smoot Likes Reading, Veterans, Loading Delivery Trucks

Fred Smoot was in the parking lot of Redskins Park today, loading a FedEx truck with sealed boxes while the uniformed FedEx driver stood by, watching nervously. “Lift with your legs, man,” the FedEx guy said. “We can’t have you getting hurt — and it’ll cost me my job if you do.” “I’m lifting all [...]

Redskins Parking Lot: Fred Smoot’s Impala

Sometimes I head out to the parking lot specifically to see if there are any interesting cars there for blogging purposes, but Fred Smoot’s 1963 drop-top Impala actually caught my eye on my way to leave, and Smoot came out and found me admiring it. “That’s my favorite car,” he said. “That’s my baby. I [...]

Fred Smoot’s Wingspan

Fred Smoot came in after practice yesterday talking about his exceptional wingspan. To demonstrate just how unusual it is, he started an impromptu compeitions. First he put the tips of the fingers on one hand just against the wall, straightened his arms, and forced Shawn Springs to do the same thing facing him. “This is [...]

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 [...]