The Fans Were Phenomenal

While I'm off talking to rowers and badminton players, and playoff invitations are being officially extended to Soulja Boy, the D.C. fans have been phenomenal.

1) These Ovechkin Rock the Red tees would seem to be the best hockey tee I've ever seen. Go buy them at the Concrete Pond.

2) A Redskins fan managed to tag along with a buddy to a wine-and-cheese reception featuring Jim Zorn and the official Redskins whirlpool; while there, he confirmed the Jim Zorn kayaking story.

Zorn's only request was that we give him a chance, be fair as he begins his coaching career. "No tomatoes, ok?" was his exact request.

3) My Eastern-Motors-jersey wearing friend from Ahern Inquirer dressed like an 80s glam rocker at the Nats-Wizards home-and-home on Saturday night, making the MASN live broadcast for the Nats and the jumbotron for the Wiz. (He also got video of Antawn Jamison's mouth after being struck in a sensitive part of the body last night.)

4) The Mayor of Fed Ex Field was also at the Sixers game on Saturday night, and he also emerged with a stellar photo, in his case involving Gheorghe Muresan and an inappropriate anti-Philadelphia t-shirt.

5) Bog Hall of Famer Nancy finished giving out all her Wiz swag, and I guess Dominic McGuire's new name is The Cleaner. I've missed some of the details, but TruthAboutIt.Net photoshopped McGuire's new look.

6) Reader The Fingerman tells a Caps-Flyers story from the mid-'80s:

It was a Saturday night Caps-Flyers game somtime in the mid-1980s, when I was a teenager. I was at the game with my dad and there were a bunch of Flyers fans who had come down from Philly and appeared to already be drunk before the game started in the section next to us. A few minutes before the game started, a guy wearing a Flyers fan got up, stood in the aisle and just yelled to no one in particular, "Before the game starts, let's just get this out of the way. Rod Langway -- f*g."

Those Flyers fans, so classy.

7) Speaking of Caps-Flyers, yeah, there was a fight on Sunday. And it was started by [insert name of other team here] fans. Caps fans say it was "typical Philly fans." Philly fans say "I can't believe how backwards this sounds, but it's true. I'm not going to DC for another game, at least for this season... I witnessed too many Caps fans trying to "start isht". I hope their fans don't come to Philly this week."

By Dan Steinberg | April 15, 2008; 10:37 AM ET | Category: Caps , Redskins , Wizards
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My Wizards goodies are in the mail!

(Except a couple of winners that didn't give me their emails. Still looking for wizards extreme and a I guy name "Ben" to contact me by email to claim their Wizards wigs. See contest thread for instructions.)

And hey, last night the game? I met up with one Aaron Golstein who claimed his name "The Long Ranger" was a pretty good proposal for Mason, and since I couldn't dispute that either, I gave him a consolation wig too.

Agent Stein! MC Styles had me on the pregame jumbotron holding up my "Vote for Gilbert" gold sneakers!! Whoo hoo! I'm so proud of those. I'm no sneakerhead, but I'm wearing those sneakers to each home playoff game . . . so I guess I am! The kids in the rows behind me wanted to see 'em, so I was in socks for part of the game whie they passed them around.

It's time for everyone to get their playoff outfits and signs in order!

Posted by: Nancy | April 15, 2008 11:19 AM

Dan, I think our nickname contest kinda made comcast TV last night. They interviewed Mason after the game (properly so -- what a great game he had!) and after they asked him all the standard questions, they asked him what his nickname was.

LOL. Now had did THAT come up?

The answer, Mason said, was Mace-On.

OK, that's his official nickname, I'm not disputin. We just had a silly contest with a silly judge (me) and our nonbinding, noncrolling choices were:

Roger Mason Jr.
1st Place: Tres (WizardsExtreme.com)
2nd Place: Dr. Tre (Ahern Inquirer)
Unofficial 3rd: The Long Ranger (Aaron Golstein) (complained with sufficient tact to get a wig)

Dominic McGuire
1st Place: The Cleaner (yours truly)
2nd Place: McFly (CK in GA from VA)
3rd Place: LiveWire (doclinkin)

I like Mace-on, though. And since we're hearing from the guys on the team that's what it, perhaps ultimately Roger should have the final say.

Mace-on!!

Posted by: Nancy | April 15, 2008 11:23 AM

P.S. "The Cleaner" was proposed about thetruthabout it -- I copied that from his website. Not by yours truly.

Great graphics by TheTruth there in your link, Dan. http://www.truthaboutit.net/2008/04/dominic-mcguire-code-name-cleaner.html

Posted by: Nancy | April 15, 2008 11:25 AM

I've got one of the Ovechkin tees. Glad to see ConcretePond getting the love they deserve.

Posted by: murf | April 15, 2008 12:08 PM

Picked up an Ovy T...Those things Rock!!!! Gonna wear it on Saturday at Game 5...Let's Go CAPS!

Posted by: Ovy 8 | April 15, 2008 12:41 PM

The Ovechkin t-shirt rocks!

Posted by: Caps Fan | April 15, 2008 12:50 PM

Need to get me one of those Ovy Shirts....!
GAME 3...Bring it on Flyers!!! Just Bring IT!

Posted by: R F D | April 15, 2008 1:25 PM

Ovechkin as a mass murderer. Boy, that's cool. Why not stick a Hitler or Stalin mustache on him?

"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary. These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the paredon (the wall against which people are shot)!" --Che Guevara, Cuba's chief executioner

Posted by: Bill Walsh | April 15, 2008 3:31 PM

Only people like "Bill Walsh" would take it that seriously and over the edge....yeah...that's what we think of Alex Ovechkin....please remove the pole out of your Arse.

Thanks...and while you're at it...this is a SPORTS bog....not politics.....

Posted by: Ovy 8 | April 15, 2008 4:01 PM

I hope the Caps kill the Flyers tonight in Game 3.....

(So I guess by your standards and thoughts....I hope the Caps literally kill the Flyers and leave them for dead)

Sure.....What a loser...no fun...you must really work for the NFL "No Fun League"

Posted by: Hey "Bill Walsh" | April 15, 2008 4:05 PM

Putting the face of Ovechkin--whom we all like, right?--into a picture of a sadistic, murderous thug--sadism, murder, and thuggery are bad, right?--is a terrible thing to do to Ovechkin and a lame thing to glorify as cool or trendy. I'm not bringing in any politics, pace Ovy 8--whoever made the T-shirt did. I'm just saying, "Murderers bad, Ovechkin good," let's not conflate the two.

Hey, "Hey 'Bill Walsh,'" Guevara was a *literal* murderer, the Himmler or Beria of Cuba. Where's the line? How about Chris Clark as Charlie Manson with a swastika carved in his forehead and the legend "Fork the Flyers?" Why not Olie Kolzig with a Hitler mustache on him labelled, "Gas the Flyers!"

Posted by: Bill Walsh | April 15, 2008 5:21 PM

Mass murder is da bomb! I'll take a size large, please.

Posted by: HTruman | April 15, 2008 5:45 PM

But wouldn't you agree that by co-opting the Che image for pop-culture-related entertainment we remove some of that image's power?

Plus, they get HUGE bonus points for not using the faux-backwards "R" in the word "Red." Especially since that character is a vowel in Cyrillic.

Posted by: for billy | April 15, 2008 6:15 PM

For for billy,

AWESOME point about the Я. "Toys Ya Us!"

But, no. It's not diminishing the image's glamour, it's trading on it. Mel Brooks mocked and diminished Nazis in "The Producers." This just says, "Ovie's Our Che!"

Posted by: Bill Walsh | April 15, 2008 7:42 PM

Dan, either you know the implications of associating Ovechkin with Guevara or you don't. Either disgusting or sad.

Posted by: Garrett | April 16, 2008 11:39 AM

The Fans Were Phenomenal

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