33 Years Later After Playing Hooky, Skins Will Win Super Bowl

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I played hooky from work one January day in 1991. Risked getting fired. But it was for a worthwhile cause, traveling from suburban Maryland to the Mall in Washington, D.C., to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with hundreds of thousands of other fans celebrating the Super Bowl Title of the Washington Redskins.

The crowd chanted “Wilbur” “Wilbur,” “Wilbur” to pay homage to Wilbur Marshall who starred at linebacker on that team that had two days earlier whipped the Buffalo Bills to snatch for the city its third Super Bowl crown.

I risked losing my job that day because I thought my team may never win another Super Bowl during my lifetime and I didn’t want to spend my life regretting not going to that parade that stirred my heart and soul into a delicious dish of strawberry yogurt with caramel nuts on top.

I was right in my suspicion my Skins would never win again. It’s been 33 years since that day of Washington Wonderland.

But now the time has come. Another celebration is coming on the Mall next February after my rookie quarterback, the Heisman Trophy winner named Jayden Williams, takes my team back to the zenith of pro football. You read it here first. The Skins will win the Super Bowl and you and I will meet on the Mall to chant “Jayden,” “Jayden,” “Jayden” and after we’ll have breakfast at the Tastee Diner in Bethesda and talk about the 33 years of waiting which has felt like 883.

I’ll buy a tall milkshake and so will Tommy Haley, and he’ll talk about what it all means, being 60 years old and still a Skins fan which all of us still are no matter how much we profess not to care about our childhood team anymore.

See you at the Diner.

This is my first NFL prediction in these last few days before the season starts this Thursday. A few others:

Taylor Swift will dump Travis Swifty mid-season and he’ll have to take a leave of absence to deal with his emotions of not dating the most popular person on Earth. Taylor will produce another album all about dumping Trifty and start a new tour called “Breaking Up” and Trifty will be a stagehand carrying her sound equipment.

There will also be a sharp pivot in what NFL audiences will be watching this season. They’ll be much more focused on the NFL tunnel fashion shows where the players will copy the money-making scheme now being fully leveraged by members of the WNBA.

What the players wear into the games will become much more popular than the games themselves: gold necklaces, natty scarves and cowboy boots/uggs, long-neck earrings, stomach piercings, clam pants, striped and checkered shirts, and supposedly male “blouses.”

Sal Paolantonio will be the lead NFL analyst covering the tunnel fashion shows and mid-way through the season will tell ESPN he’s tired of covering football and will be shifting to tunnel fashion reporting full-time for both the NFL and WNBA.

Aaron Rodgers will turn New York Jets fans all apoplectic with the political commentary he spouts about the presidential election, the game shows Jeopardy and transcendental meditation techniques he’s learned in dark hideaways during the off-season.

All of New York will come to realize he’s more interested in things that don’t involve football and become irate and protest on Broadway that he needs to be cut to make room for, well, no one.

He’ll start complaining his Achilles injury from last year is flaring up and he feels the pain and that’s why he’s not throwing the ball accurately. Plus he’s getting into the presidential race.

But he’ll wear some cool nose ring in the tunnel and that will make his play on the field less important among fashion industry leaders.

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Sammy Sportface, a sports blogger, galvanizes, inspires, and amuses The Baby Boomer Brotherhood. And you can learn about his vision and join this group's Facebook page here:

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