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I would guess the Indianapolis Colts.
The redskins play the Kansas city chiefs at home on Sunday. The last time the redskins beat the chiefs, amazingly was in the 1983 season. On 9/18/83 the redskins won 27-12. At halftime the chiefs led 12-0 and I was very uneasy. But the redskins came back and won. These were the redskins finest moments with Joe Theismann, John Riggins. Their next game after that 27-12 win over chiefs was Seattle in the Settle Kingdome. This game was the 1st time the redskins played in the Seattle Kingdome, now gone. The redskins also won this game 27-17. In this game, Seattle's quarterback was Jim Zorn, now the redskins' head coach.

I have given up on the redskins making the playoffs this year. Their defense is great, but their offense has bad execution, and Daniel Snyder should sell the team and take his friend Vinny Cerrato with him, I feel. Plus in many of the past drafts, there have been some bad draft choices. They were not known to fail, these draft choices, people just haven't heard of them because they quit football, or had injury problems or they just haven't been that good. I feel the redskins have to revamp their organization to get better and start from square 1. It starts at the top, as Carlos Rogers said.
In 1993, that summer, there was this NFL special on TV in the summer. Among the best-looking uniforms people voted for were Dallas, Seattle, (L.A.) Raiders and Atlanta. Among the worst were Cleveland, Tampa Bay (those orange ones) and Green Bay.
I have been feeling bad sometimes and good other times. Both feelings come and go. I know the economy might be making people feel bad but the economy has little to do with me feeling bad. It's just that I'm 40 and I thought certain things were going to happen because of my hard work but I feel sometimes no matter how hard I work, nothing good is going to happen. I have lots of things on my mind, but I hope to feel better someday. For anyone who feels depressed, I know I've been there. I am trying not to be depressed.

When I was a boy, there was this show I liked on the radio called American Top 40. The host was Casey Kasem. I discovered it when my cousin listened to it in 1980. American top 40 started being a show on the radio in 1970. I listened very intently wondering what songs were in what positions. The beginning of the end of American top 40, as far as I'm concerned, started in 1990. There was this group called Black Box. American top 40 had the story about the lead singer, how she learned to sing clearly by learning phonics (seriously, this is what the show said). They said the lead singer was not of american origin, which was true, but the show made up the story about her learning phonics, because the real, uncredited lead singer of Black Box was Martha Wash. The "lead singer" not of american origin was still credited as being a "visual performer" in Black Box's videos. 1991 American Top 40 was still going, but late that year the Billboard magazine charts where American top 40 got their top 40 got their list from switched to the Soundscan computer system for more accuracy, and the magazine left their old "system" in how they ranked the week's hits. Then American top 40 got their list from the radio airplay countdown in the magazine instead of the sales + airplay formula they used since 1970, and in the middle of 1992 this version of A T 40 was gone. I heard Ryan Seacrest hosts the show by the same name now but I don't know now because I don't listen to top-40 music on the radio anymore.

The original host of American top 40 was Casey Kasem. But then in 1988 contract talks broke off and Kasem quit because of contract difficulties. In August 1988, Shadoe Stevens took over as host. The next year, in 1989, Casey Kasem started his own countdown show called Casey's top 40, and billboard magazine said something like "the countdown wars are heating up again". Then, in 1990,was the strory about black box. I don't think it was Shadoe Stevens who came up with that story about the singer learning phonics to sound clear when she sang "Everybody Everybody" but it was told on the radio before the show played that song. But Kasem, in the 90s still had the show "Casey's hot 20" and then the name was changed to "Casey's countdown."

In late 1985, I heard Stevie Nicks's song on the radio "Talk to me". But I was feeling angry sometimes in late 85 so I thought the name of the song was "You can't talk to me."
Actually, late 85 was one of the better times of the 80s for me. I can't say I loved the 80s because depending on what time it was in the 80s I was either feeling bad or good. If I had to rank, in order, from best to worst, how I liked the years of the 80s, it was 1983, 82, 81, 80, 86, 89,88, 85, 87 and last and least, 84.

Last night I saw the movie WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE with my Mom. I could see why people thought it was scary but it was a pretty good movie for me. I had my own world when I was a boy and I still have it but the boy in the movie's own world was different than mine. When I was a boy and read the book, it was a little scary to me.

One of the things NFL telecasts do now that frustrates me is after a team scores a touchdown and extra point, there is a commercial break. Then when the game comes back, there is the kickoff and return or so, and then there is ANOTHER commercial break. Back in 1981 when I first really got into watching football, TV coverage NEVER did this.
I know maybe I could blog about the redskins somewhere else, but I choose here. In 93 and 94, the redskins did bad... but not to this depth. This season is possibly the worst i have ever seen them... and this includes ever since I first became a fan of theirs in the 1976 season. I feel sorry for Jason Campbell because their O- line has problems. In the Falcons-Redskins telecast, the announcer Daryl Johnston was right when he said the Redskins didn't do anything to help themselves when it came to their offensive line.

Back in the late months of 1979, there was this easy-off oven commercial, where the view was that the viewer was inside the oven looking out, and the commercial picture was of a woman cleaning the oven in the 1800s, as if a woman back then was doing that. Then the voice of the commercial said something like "this is how ovens were cleaned back then." I thought the year at the bottom of the screen said 1864, but i can't remember everything. Then the picture showed how a woman did it in 1979, and then the narrator said something like "this is how it's done today, with easy-off." It was coming to the end of 1979 and they still showed this commercial. I was hoping it would show this after 1980 started, so I could proclaim "it's not 1979 anymore, you're wrong." But after 1980 started, they never showed it again.

In mid-1987, American Top 40 had this special: The biggest hits of the 80s, so far. The number 1 song was Physical by Olivia Newton-John. But there was no American top 40 special to rank the 80s hits after the 80s ended.