Seeing my hometown NFL team–that would be the Washington Commanders–play in the NFC Championship game yesterday was kind of a thrill… until about 18 seconds after their opponents touched the ball. Philadelphia’s early score may have been a sign of things to come, though I didn’t really expect the thrashing to be as thorough as it was. True that we have seen worse, if one remembers a game from 1940. That one involved the Commanders too (by their previous name), and people do still talk about it 85 years later.

At least I didn’t take the hat trick on championship game losses. It could have been worse had I watched the Yankees, Notre Dame, and the Commanders all lose in championship games. Still, I would have liked to see the chance, risky as it may have been.

Wait ’til next year.