Fools Gold

[mheisig]

Moderators,

Kudos for pulling off such an intelligent and witty ruse. Your convincing banter and well laid plans really came across as quite humorous, as you can tell from all the people here who have found this so funny. </end sarcasm>

Yes, it's a joke, I get it. Yes, you were well intentioned and meant no harm. I would like to point out that your intentions are completely irrelevant. What you DO is what's important. I am by no means about to abandon WP.net or write you all off, but I will say this entire things shows a real lack of maturity and character.

Whether you meant well or not, you can see by this thread that virtually everyone here found this to be far from "hilarious." I think most everyone found it highly annoying at best. The Redskins fans who spend a considerable amount of time and energy participating on this site, and without whom this site would not exist, are pretty pissed off and some form of apology may be in order.

I don't think you need to come "begging for forgiveness for your horrible crimes," but at least admit this was poorly thought out and that you've offended and annoyed a substantial portion of your fanbase.

I can take a joke with the best of them and I enjoy a good April Fools prank, but have some discretion in the future.