What happened to home field advantage??

[scowan]

Originally Posted by skinsfan69

Not the case from I'd say from when George Allen first got here til 1993 when Gibs left. There is a completly new generation of fans that have only seen losing. And part of it is the somewhat older fans like myself are simply tired of the bullshit.

Skinsfan, I think you hit the nail on the head. I am 41 years old and remember and lived the 80s as a teenager and early 20s. I remember winning a lot as a Skins fan. How many winning seasons and playoff appearances have the Skins had since their last Super Bowl win in 1991? That's 20 years ago!!! How can fans create a home field advantage when your team just stinks year in and year out. Even their last playoff team in 2007, the Skins were 9-7. 2005 season was 10-6, but both of those teams were Wild Card teams. The Skins havn't won the division since 1999. Then you have to go back to 1991 to find the next one. You have suffered for a lot of years if you are a Redskins fan.

[Defensewins]

A winning team cures everything.
You can't have good home field advantage with out a winning team.
RFK is not some magical place. It was the coaches and players that came together to make it grand. Once we win over 10 games in one season, then what ever stadium we play at will be a great place.
We had decades of terrible football in RFK before Vince Lombardi, George Allen and finally Joe Gibbs arrived. We could play in a parking lot, I don;t care, just win.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by htownskinfan

that article gave excellent points,RFK seemed to have a huge home field advantage,fed ex rarely seems as loud as rfk did.
I wish for 1 game something happened to fed ex and the team had to play at rfk again and todays players saw what it was like,preferably a playoff game,that would be so great,the stadium would be rocking!
Is there any player currently on the skins that played at rfk?

I think if we were winning Fedex would also rock. Not much for fans to really get excited about right now.

[Longtimefan]

Originally Posted by Defensewins

A winning team cures everything.
You can't have good home field advantage with out a winning team.
RFK is not some magical place. It was the coaches and players that came together to make it grand. Once we win over 10 games in one season, then what ever stadium we play at will be a great place.
We had decades of terrible football in RFK before Vince Lombardi, George Allen and finally Joe Gibbs arrived. We could play in a parking lot, I don;t care, just win.

So true, and well said.

[DCtoAZ]

I agree 100% on the fact that Fed Ex Field is ready to rock .. that stadium does get loud and has even pumped up the volume for some "big" games over the past few years .. your telling me that game 1 this year wasn't loud ? The atmosphere wasn't good considering they let people tailgate for 13 hours ?? Fed Ex Field IMO is just one home playoff game from getting buck nasty .... 90,000 people have been waiting very patiently for a few home playoff games ...

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by mlmpetert

In the spirt of bumping old threads:

Seahawks fans cause seismic shock in playoff win - Shutdown Corner - NFL* - Yahoo! Sports


Pretty cool on Seattle's part. Hopefully if Danny builds a stadium in DC he will try to copy some of the design of Qwest. Although at the end of the day the fans are gonna have to do their part.


Also as someone pointed out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_Game

Do they still pipe crowd noise in over the speakers?

http://www.thewarpath.net/redskins-l...s-stadium.html

[Monkeydad]

FedEx CAN be loud:

http://www.thewarpath.net/redskins-l...ht-merged.html

[SolidSnake84]

Originally Posted by htownskinfan

that article gave excellent points,RFK seemed to have a huge home field advantage,fed ex rarely seems as loud as rfk did.
I wish for 1 game something happened to fed ex and the team had to play at rfk again and todays players saw what it was like,preferably a playoff game,that would be so great,the stadium would be rocking!
Is there any player currently on the skins that played at rfk?

As best i can remember, the last player for the skins who played for them in both stadiums (FedEx, RFK) was Darrell Green. There isnt any player on the team right now that played at RFK. Ray Brown (OL), also played in both stadiums as a player when he was here in 2005.

[DCtoAZ]

this is a little off topic but what do you think of the idea of having a "Winter classic" hockey game at Fed Ex ?

[SmootSmack]

That'd be pretty awesome

Daniel Snyder Discusses The Future Of FedExField

[mooby]

Originally Posted by DCtoAZ

this is a little off topic but what do you think of the idea of having a "Winter classic" hockey game at Fed Ex ?

Man I would love that. I think if the Winter Classic ever does come to DC, it would probably go to Nats Park just because it's more modern, but I wouldn't care where it was as long as it came to DC.