WaPo’s Front Page: “Redskins Heat Up in December”

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My roommate just brought in the paper and exclaimed, “LOOK!”. I thought I was going to see a picture of an adorable little angel in some DC-area Christmas pageant, a put-upon dog wearing antlers or Santa water-skiing on the Potomac…what landed in my lap was a lot cooler (and way unexpected). I knew Redskins mania had been taking over my city, and NFL fans are a devoted lot, but I think it’s extra cute to sport Redskins Red this way. 🙂

After posting this a few minutes ago, I thought, “I’ll bet someone sent this in as a tip”. Ah, but you readers never disappoint. A full hour ago, AM wrote:

The print edition of the post features a big photo from the redskins game yesterday showing Santana Moss after leaping into the stands – nearly in the center of the picture is a man in a sporty burgundy dastar. I was at the game as well and was impressed by the variety of fans – no longer the homogeneous crowd of the early years of the NFL.

I’m impressed, too. But I’m still a Niners girl, now and always. 😉

37 thoughts on “WaPo’s Front Page: “Redskins Heat Up in December”

  1. I’m torn about who to root for. I live in Philly (these days), but I grew up in DC. It’s definitely more exciting to root for the Skins this fall (one tries to overlook the offensive name and mascot…).

    That said, the credit for this beautiful front page shot goes to the newspaper more than the team.

    p.s. Sorry to hear about the panda pix.

  2. Is that guy not the spitting image of malayalam filim superstar Mohanlal or did I have too much egg nog?

  3. Is that guy not the spitting image of malayalam filim superstar Mohanlal or did I have too much egg nog?

    yeah… too much eggnog

  4. WOW! Ok….I detest football in general, but I must say…that is awesome. WAIT! I SEET TWO SARDARS IN THE PIC…the noticable one, and there’s a second one, to the right of the redhead, also in a red dastar. (and slightly brighter a red, or maybe it’s lighting.) and he’s got black instad of white underneath. It looks like the second sardar may be holding the fella’s helmet, and is ready to knock the first one in the head! Be careful! reminds me of a pic i saw (i forget if it was from here, or if one of my buddies had it up on their site – a sardar in a green football uni. I think it was for one of the colleges.) I still have the pic somewhere on disc. ;)! such cute things!

  5. Anna, you’re sooo sweet! thanks! merry christmas to you and everyone else! 😉 and i have to admit, if i did like football, i’d be either a niners or patriots fan..once considered the vikings. speaking of, any sardars in auto racing? VVROOMMM!

    peace to all! hope you’ve had a good holiday ( for those who celebrate, and for all of us, may wehave a wonderful day bringing happiness to all.)

  6. vendakya

    Is that guy not the spitting image of malayalam filim superstar Mohanlal or did I have too much egg nog?

    No thats his lost twin brother Sohanlal. He was lost in a mela and was adopted by a sikh.

  7. That’s my mamaji!

    Juuust kidding, although he is a huge Redskins fan. Have you seen the sardar Ohio State fans? Hard to the core!

  8. Jai, do you understand a word they’re saying? I don’t. It’s like a foreign language.

    OK, I kid, it’s very funny no. You all make laugh. But seriously, Anna O orthodox one who celebrateth olde pagane festivales, when I DID try to decipher this post I thought it’s about an Indian player in the NFL. But no, it’s about a Sikh guy in a picture! What the hell?! You know I have nuffink but love for you sister, but…slow news day?

  9. it’s about a Sikh guy in a picture

    Actually, it’s about TWO sardars, who were on the front page of the the washington post. What’s truly great about it, besides their cute faces, is that they’re not being looked at as terrorists, or anything else, just as fans, like everyone else. it’s good to see some sardars in the paper, in pictures liek this – being included in society, being treated as americans as they should be. the paper treated them with respect for once.

  10. it’s good to see some sardars in the paper, in pictures liek this – being included in society, being treated as americans

    with all this talk about sikh guys, and having become a regular reader at SM, i feel my “indian detecting” spidey senses are at an all time peak! was watching batman begins yesterday and there’s this shot where Bruce Wayne runs into Rachel Dawes in a hotel lobby and they’re talking. lo and behold, a sikh dude walks through the shot in the background…something like that would never have registered before i was introduced to SM (i missed it when i watched the movie in the theater).

  11. Pattie, I’m just teasing. I know it was your sharp eyes that noticed the second sardar. I don’t want to turn this into another Britain-is-so-far-ahead-cos-we-have-sardar-talk-show-anchors-and-billboards-around-town thing cos Jai and I have done that before and I’m sure you’re all sick of it so I’ll stop there.

    MJ I can match you there! Did any of you know that foxy Canadian singer Karen David was a reporter in Batman Begins? She’s three-quarters Indian and one quarter Chinese (her Dad is from Chennai, her Mum is half Chinese half Assamese).

  12. hi bonsy…lol…i gotcha…

    however – “Britain-is-so-far-ahead-cos-we-have-sardar-talk-show-anchors-and-billboards-around-town”

    pattie needs to see that. ah…..i must go back to UK again and see this. 😉

    ok…i have really no interest to really get batman begins, but do need a shot of the sardar. 😉

  13. Pro: Brown representation in mainstream media sans racism/terrorist accusations

    Con: But they’re at a REDSKINS game, for god’s sake!

    One darker-toned culture up, another down…

    A point of clarification: this is nothing against the sardars in question. It’s just sad and more than a tad ironic that the mascot/name of the team is the epitome of racist.

    Separate issues, I realize, but aren’t they all connected? 🙂

  14. That guy is almost sort-of quasi-famous. I’ve seen his mug on every televised Redskins game I’ve seen this year.

  15. Is the Primary Sardar trying to steal the football?

    i’ll be damned, i think so..lol…

    That guy is almost sort-of quasi-famous. I’ve seen his mug on every televised Redskins game I’ve seen this year.

    mm……and here i had no reasons to watch televised football games. 😉

  16. Primary Sardar: “I bet I could get a good price for that football at Uncle Devinder’s Video Store…..Maybe I can grab it while Juggi distracts him…..”

    Secondary Sardar (Juggi): “I really shouldn’t be enjoying this so much…..”

    Santana Moss (football player): “I haven’t felt this claustrophic since I accidentally gatecrashed that Indian wedding and all the aunties kept asking me why I wasn’t married yet…..And dammit, that had better be just a belt-buckle I can feel behind me…..”

    White dude on the right smiling at him: “Heh heh, Santana still hasn’t realised what the guy in front of me’s trying to do…..”

  17. This brown was at the Packers-Bears game in the one and only Lambeau Field on Christmas Day. If that isn’t dedication (given the beautiful 2005 season and the fact that we had our spandexed rear ends handed to us … by the Bears … at home), I don’t know what is. sigh

    Desi count at Lambeau field: Large Sikh gentleman in full pagdi regalia, a couple of teenage desis and me. [I would love to meet other desi Packer chicks.]

    Is there still only one desi player in the NFL?

  18. :Is there still only one desi player in the NFL?
    

    Brandon Chillar? Desis are not built for NFL, Daal-Roti and Vegetable makhanwallah will not make the cut 🙁

  19. Desis are not built for NFL, Daal-Roti and Vegetable makhanwallah will not make the cut 🙁

    ach! Dal Roti makes for some big boys. give some of those young guys some time

    its past time for all that “desis aren’t made for this and that” ying yang

  20. forgot to say, sorry to double post

    most of us are going to be having kids, and i don’t think most of us want to be limiting our kids potential by telling them they aren’t made for this or that field of endevour

  21. most of us are going to be having kids, and i don’t think most of us want to be limiting our kids potential by telling them they aren’t made for this or that field of endevour

    well put, sahej! and for those of us who can’t have kids, there’s always the nieces and nephews, and neighbours, etc. to look out for – and we only hurt them and society by squashing their potential.

  22. Ray, don’t get Manish started on this…he’ll prove you wrong! Trust me, I know. Quite an interesting thread that link is, and Manish mentioned Yuba then too! I want to go there now. Cos today I went shopping in Oxford Street and felt like Gulliver in Lilliput. Damn, shoppers are getting smaller.

  23. apart from Yuba, people might be interested to read what some of the European members of Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s court had to say about the physical stature of the people they saw

  24. <i>Desis are not built for NFL...</i>
    

    Good lord, you’ve obviously never seen the man-mountains from Yuba City.

    Maybe it’s a West Coast thing (the Man-mountain Range runs from California to B.C.).

  25. Desis are not built for NFL, Daal-Roti and Vegetable makhanwallah will not make the cut 🙁

    Au contraire, I would say it has more to do with the desi mindset, where we want our children to be more recognized in academia as opposed to sports, that could explain the practical non-representation of desis in most major sporting leagues at least in the US.

    “Beta, what is there in sports? If you become a software engineer, you will bring home a bigger salary and more job security.”

  26. No offence to Desis, I am all Rah-Rah for them…..However, we have to wait for a 2nd or third generation to see another Brandon Chillar-NFL( half-desi), Manny Malhotra (NHL), or an Emmanuel Sandhu (figure skating). My kids can do what ever makes them happy… I am not going to push them towards the Med school/Law school/Software thingy. Bigger Salary and job security is not gonna buy you peace of mind and satisfaction.

    Go Desis!!

  27. Speaking of dastar-spotting, I think I caught a brief glimpse of Vikram Chatwal in the new Notorious B.I.G. video.