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[quote=Sheriff Gonna Getcha;401426]I sent Farnsworth an e-mail regarding the comments re: Sean Taylor. I basically said it was a classless act. I received the below email message from Clare a few minutes ago.

[B]"You're right, Dylan. I wish I could apologize to everyone, and not just you, for my callous comment. ... clare"[/B][/quote]

Well I'll give the guy credit for apologizing. Sometimes people say thing which they think are funny then when they have a chance to reflect on what they said realize how much of poor tast it was made.

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You guys should see how they're having a field day with this on the Seahawks message board. Here's a quote from one of their members:

[QUOTE]maybe if Jason Cambell or Portis gets killed this week they will get inspired to win out all the way through the superbowl. [/QUOTE]

[url=http://www.seahawkshuddle.com]Seahawks Huddle - Home of the 12th Man :: Home[/url]

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Yeah, i looked at that message board. It really surprises me that every fan board is full of assholes.

This site is honestly different. We wouldn't dare say some of the things they say over there. Other skin fan boards might but this one wouldn't.

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[quote=Redskins_P;401437]You guys should see how they're having a field day with this on the Seahawks message board. Here's a quote from one of their members:



[URL="http://www.seahawkshuddle.com"]Seahawks Huddle - Home of the 12th Man :: Home[/URL][/quote]

I've been reading some of their stuff on the message board. Turns out some of their fans are huge assholes, especially in that "Number 21 on helmets" thread.

I think their fans come in number 2 behind Eagles fans. I can't read anymore of that message board for the fact that it's terribly upsetting.

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fuck this guy, if he is from seattle, too bad because our team will not be distracted from his writing

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supervisor's e-mail

[EMAIL="rob.wieman@thenewstribune.com"]rob.wieman@thenewstribune.com[/EMAIL]

I'm so bored at home right now. I have no school till the 28th. I'm not going to get a job for just 1 month.
I am about to call every relevant number to that paper.

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That board is really messed up. The guy who is the worst is a moderator!

[QUOTE=DynamiteRave;401439]I've been reading some of their stuff on the message board. Turns out some of their fans are huge assholes, especially in that "Number 21 on helmets" thread.

I think their fans come in number 2 behind Eagles fans. I can't read anymore of that message board for the fact that it's terribly upsetting.[/QUOTE]

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[quote=DynamiteRave;401439]I've been reading some of their stuff on the message board. Turns out some of their fans are huge assholes, especially in that "Number 21 on helmets" thread.

I think their fans come in number 2 behind Eagles fans. I can't read anymore of that message board for the fact that it's terribly upsetting.[/quote]

I tried to get through it, but got bored after a few pages. It's just one d-bag yelling "f- Taylor and look at me!!" I'm sure he's just a lonely little boy looking for attention, but it's amazing someone like that doesn't get banned. I'd hope that if someone on this site were spouting crap like that about a player from another team that [U]was arbitrarily murdered while defending his family[/U] they'd get the boot.

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[QUOTE=Mattyk72;401396]What the hell is the big deal about leaving #21 listed in the starting lineup?? It was probably something that was decided upon weeks ago as a tribute for the rest of the season.

F this guy for trying to make it seem like the Skins are exploiting this situation in any sort of way. The entire organization has handled this brilliantly, from Snyder flying the entire damn franchise down for the funeral, to Snyder setting up a trust for his daughter, and to the way the team has played their hearts out in his honor.

Seriously, just F this guy.[/QUOTE]


100% true matty ..i mean it aint worth the time or day if you ask me..
i will let the redskins actions on the field take care of itself......
all guys like this want is for you all to give him replies or hits on his site or whatever so i would just say if thats what you think but i myself really don,t care for people like this. he knows better.

efforts on the field and off it speak for sean and the team....

all i would say to this guys is whatever..

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[QUOTE=BigSKINBauer;401444]supervisor's e-mail

[EMAIL="rob.wieman@thenewstribune.com"]rob.wieman@thenewstribune.com[/EMAIL]

I'm so bored at home right now. I have no school till the 28th. I'm not going to get a job for just 1 month.
I am about to call every relevant number to that paper.[/QUOTE]

The writer has doen nothing wrong. Writing to his supervisor does nothing. He has expressed an opinion that we feel strongly against -- as does most of the country. He did this to provoke a response. But freedom of press allows him to say what he wants to.

With that said. Here is my response.

Mr. McGrath-

I think that the only person guilty of exploiting Sean Taylor's death at this point is you. The Washington Redskins have suffered a devastating loss that, although felt deeply amongst the entire Redskin community, only his teammates can truly feel as they face his empty locker on a daily basis. The Washington Redskins are honoring Taylor by placing him on the depth chart, there is no trickery here. They are mourning Taylor the only way they know how -- playing their hearts out for him. Was Taylor's father exploiting him when he asked the team to make it to the playoffs for Sean? Have Portis' end zone wings for Taylor been just a ploy for attention? I think everyone knows the answer to both of these is no.

Your article disgusts me. You wish to kick dirt in the face of players and coaching staff playing for something bigger then this game. You were correct about one thing. Sean Taylor was not lucky or charmed. He was one incredible football talent that was taken from us too soon. I will shed a tear as the redskins take the Quest field just as I have every game since Sean Taylor's passing.

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[QUOTE=RobH4413;401424]The Farnsworth comment really took me back. I almost couldn't believe what I had just heard. That's more than a lack of class. This team is mourning, and playing for their teammate.

Was he trying to be funny? Who knows. It just seemed like the comment came from way out of left field, and was sort of a stab at Bram's meaningful and accurate representation of how this team is feeling.[/QUOTE]

Everyone here at work was like "WTF did he just say?" It was terrible and insensitive and really some time should have been accomodated during the show for him to return and apologize. I don't know if he did because I had to leave, but my guess is he didn't.

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[QUOTE=Redskins_P;401437]You guys should see how they're having a field day with this on the Seahawks message board. Here's a quote from one of their members:



[url=http://www.seahawkshuddle.com]Seahawks Huddle - Home of the 12th Man :: Home[/url][/QUOTE]

Our own 12thMan should sue

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[QUOTE=Hog1;401428]I'd be hanging this all over the Locker room[/QUOTE]

Just forward it to JLC [email]lacanforaj@washpost.com[/email] I'm sure he can put it in the proper hands.

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[QUOTE=SFREDSKIN;401462]Just forward it to JLC [email]lacanforaj@washpost.com[/email] I'm sure he can put it in the proper hands.[/QUOTE]

I already have. I also email Dan Steinberg of the DC sports bog. I'm listening to sportstalk 980 and Chick Hernandez (Comcasts beat reporter for the Skins) has already heard about the article....he said the guy is an idiot.

I'm sure it will make it to the locker room sooner or later.

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Heh, sounds like JLC received a link to this article from a bunch of us here at TWP.

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[QUOTE=cpayne5;401372]Here's his contact info for anyone who wants to tell him how you feel...

John McGrath: 253-597-8742, ext. 6154

[email]john.mcgrath@thenewstribune.com[/email][/QUOTE]

consider his voice mail box blown up. i'll keep it on speed dial for a couple of days and leave all sorts of nice comments like "hey john, you're a pos"

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This guy is a straight up piece of s**t, d-bag! I'm sure this article will be placed in every locker of the Redskins this weekend. If he thinks we didn't have motivation before, we will definitely have it now against Seattle. I doubt P.O.S. reporter would have the "Spaldings" to say what he said to Pedro Taylor about his son.

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[quote=Sheriff Gonna Getcha;401426]I sent Farnsworth an e-mail regarding the comments re: Sean Taylor. I basically said it was a classless act. I received the below email message from Clare a few minutes ago.

[B]"You're right, Dylan. I wish I could apologize to everyone, and not just you, for my callous comment. ... clare"[/B][/quote]
If he's sincere (which I think he is), then good for him. I think he was trying to be funny, and just really lost perspective. Way to take your 2min of fame and make yourself look like a jackass Farnsworth.

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[QUOTE=mredskins;401394]In the world there is always the 1% who can never go with the flow. Just ignore the article, save yourself the angry. Just like I ignored the punk on XBOX who told me he was going to kill me like Sean Taylor in Halo. My tag name is mredskins.[/QUOTE]

This is post-in-the-locker-room material. Someone should forward to Portis and tell him that Seattle fans are accusing the Redskins of exploiting ST's death. Let him share that with the team and then let's see if Hasselbeck and Alexander don't get the ever-loving shit stomped out of them tomorrow.

I cannot believe that an editor would let someone print that.

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Too bad it wasn't a seahawks player that said it, then we would be seeing the team truly fired up.

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[QUOTE=CrackBack;401451]The writer has doen nothing wrong. Writing to his supervisor does nothing. He has expressed an opinion that we feel strongly against -- as does most of the country. He did this to provoke a response. But freedom of press allows him to say what he wants to.

With that said. Here is my response.

Mr. McGrath-

I think that the only person guilty of exploiting Sean Taylor's death at this point is you. The Washington Redskins have suffered a devastating loss that, although felt deeply amongst the entire Redskin community, only his teammates can truly feel as they face his empty locker on a daily basis. The Washington Redskins are honoring Taylor by placing him on the depth chart, there is no trickery here. They are mourning Taylor the only way they know how -- playing their hearts out for him. Was Taylor's father exploiting him when he asked the team to make it to the playoffs for Sean? Have Portis' end zone wings for Taylor been just a ploy for attention? I think everyone knows the answer to both of these is no.

Your article disgusts me. You wish to kick dirt in the face of players and coaching staff playing for something bigger then this game. You were correct about one thing. Sean Taylor was not lucky or charmed. He was one incredible football talent that was taken from us too soon. I will shed a tear as the redskins take the Quest field just as I have every game since Sean Taylor's passing.[/QUOTE]

Nicely done! I too get choked up as well every time I watch the skins.

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*SHOCK*

[IMG]http://i9.tinypic.com/6laciug.jpg[/IMG]

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Cowboys fans seem to be the most understanding during these times. Kudos to them.

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I think the Ron Springs story is behind it, but I'm happy 'Boys fans have been as classy as ever in giving our squad support, rivalry be damned. it's bigger than the game and their fans have shown that to our family.

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What an asshole! I just left him a pretty nasty message on his voice mail letting him know that by writing an article like that was exploiting Sean’s death in more way's the anything the Redskins have done.
I think the dog shit I scraped of my shoe this morning has done more for the world then this jerk.

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Here was my post on the website

Wow. I hope your ass gets fired or even worse happens to you and when you need someone or something to inspire you its not there. Skins fan or not this article was uncalled for and to even think about the redskins are doing things for profit. All profits are donated and I hope that the owner of the Seahawks is repulsed by your fucking article and has something done. If he has just an ounce of class like Mr. Snyder does he would. Win or Lose Taylor is Gone and your still an ASSHOLE. Asshole has 7 letters time 3 (Gibbs Superbowls) = 21 WOW!!!!

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Hey don't get so bent out of shape you guys!

:lol:

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[QUOTE=Seahawks_Fan;401631]Hey don't get so bent out of shape you guys!

:lol:[/QUOTE]

Wouldn't you if it the same happened to say Shaun Alexander and then some reporter in DC said get over yourselves?

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[QUOTE=SmootSmack;401637]Wouldn't you if it the same happened to say Shaun Alexander and then some reporter in DC said get over yourselves?[/QUOTE]

I don't know, I guess I wouldn't let it bother me too much. But, in reality, I didn't even read the News Tribune article.

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[QUOTE=Seahawks_Fan;401644]I don't know, I guess I wouldn't let it bother me too much. But, in reality, I didn't even read the News Tribune article.[/QUOTE]

You are a tool. Please go away.

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[QUOTE=cpayne5;401372]Here's his contact info for anyone who wants to tell him how you feel...

John McGrath: 253-597-8742, ext. 6154

[email]john.mcgrath@thenewstribune.com[/email][/QUOTE]

My pleasure!!!

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[quote=Seahawks_Fan;401644]I don't know, I guess I wouldn't let it bother me too much. But, in reality, I didn't even read the News Tribune article.[/quote]

Come on, I find that hard to believe. What if it was someone that you respected as a person? What if it wasn't a football player? They die and then someone comes along and basically says, "They're dead. Get over it."

You can't say you wouldn't choke the life out of them? At least I would. It's just a thing of being respectful.

I just got finished taking a class on death and dying and the worse thing a person can do is tell someone to just get over it. Mourning is an ongoing process and its not a thing that it's just one day you wake up and it's all okay again. If this is what the Redskins organization has to do to grieve as a team then that's their way and no one has the right to tell them whether it's right or wrong. In fact I think it's probably more healthy that they all honor his memory in this way rather than facing it alone and then having to stuff it all down and pack it away when they're together as a team to "focus". Instead they use all that emotion and focus it into the game. I feel the Skins have handled this whole situation brilliantly.

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[quote=SmootSmack;401637]Wouldn't you if it the same happened to say Shaun Alexander and then some reporter in DC said get over yourselves?[/quote]

You should use as an example someone who is important to the Seahawks and who is an elite player, like...:confused:

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[quote=onlydarksets;401701]You should use as an example someone who is important to the Seahawks and who is an elite player, like...:confused:[/quote]

Umm... Umm... Seneca Wallace! :rofl:

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How is he an authority on appropriately mourning the loss of a teammate? This is the first in-season death of an NFL player in nearly 40 years. Not to mention that Taylor was arguably the best player on the team. This writer is a freakin' tool.

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Just to counter the negative article regarding Sean, here's a very well written and heartfelt blog entry by Lindsay Czarniak sharing her experience in covering the Sean Taylor tragedy.

[B]"From Sean Taylor to Seattle" [/B]

I haven’t found it easy to write about covering the tragedy of Sean Taylor’s death because I didn’t know Sean as well as his teammates. And, honestly, there have been times over the past four weeks I’ve felt bad because the nature of my work forces me to ask people about Sean, and I know that it will conjure up emotions of a tragedy they are trying to overcome.

Right now, I am 35,000 feet about a snow-covered patchwork of ground on my way to Seattle for the Redskins playoff game. And because Sean's death has had such an impact, I want to share what I’ve seen this past month. Even if the Redskins' run ends Saturday night, this has been the most shocking, emotional story I have ever covered.

[URL="http://www.nbc4.com/quickkicks/index.html?dl=mainclick"]nbc4.com - Redskins Blog[/URL]

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[quote=Lady Brave;401723]Just to counter the negative article regarding Sean, here's a very well written and heartfelt blog entry by Lindsay Czarniak sharing her experience in covering the Sean Taylor tragedy.

[B]"From Sean Taylor to Seattle" [/B]

I haven’t found it easy to write about covering the tragedy of Sean Taylor’s death because I didn’t know Sean as well as his teammates. And, honestly, there have been times over the past four weeks I’ve felt bad because the nature of my work forces me to ask people about Sean, and I know that it will conjure up emotions of a tragedy they are trying to overcome.

Right now, I am 35,000 feet about a snow-covered patchwork of ground on my way to Seattle for the Redskins playoff game. And because Sean's death has had such an impact, I want to share what I’ve seen this past month. Even if the Redskins' run ends Saturday night, this has been the most shocking, emotional story I have ever covered.

[URL="http://www.nbc4.com/quickkicks/index.html?dl=mainclick"]nbc4.com - Redskins Blog[/URL][/quote]Thanks for posting that LB - it beats dwelling on the negativity of an outside writer.

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I agree, and the writer has no true knowledge as he has no association with the Redskins or the fans in this area, a true outsider, who in all honesty in my opinion sounds fairly immune to human loss and pain associated with such. I think his article is purposely caustic and unnecessary and classless. IMO I personally placed little stock in the shallow things written by the writer who has conviently mentioned his opinion during the same week that the Redskins are playing the Seahawks. It sounds like, as a fan of the Seahawks, and writer for the local paper, he has a vested interest in the outcome, using almost a reverse psychology in trying to sound like there was something wrong with our Redskins trying to achieve something special for their beloved teammate, as that is what he would have wanted. I am somewhat disappointed, though I can't be because it is one person from that area and simply an opinion expressed. To me, it is simply sad.

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[QUOTE=Seahawks_Fan;401631]Hey don't get so bent out of shape you guys!

:lol:[/QUOTE]

I've found your comments on this thread to be way out of line. It has been less than six weeks since Sean was murdered. It seems to me you are a young person who has not experienced much death close to you or you are as ignorant toward the subject of the thread that your posts indicate. Either way I have some pitty for you and your mental state but not enough to ask the Mods for a suspension from the message board.

How about it Moderators?

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[QUOTE=Skinsfan1967;401747]I've found your comments on this thread to be way out of line. It has been less than six weeks since Sean was murdered. It seems to me you are a young person who has not experienced much death close to you or you are as ignorant toward the subject of the thread that your posts indicate. Either way I have some pitty for you and your mental state but not enough to ask the Mods for a suspension from the message board.

How about it Moderators?[/QUOTE]

My belief and fervent hope is that he'll have nothing to say in about 11 hours.