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Officially, the Washington Redskins sold out their 368th consecutive home game on Sunday, extending an NFL record. More officially, the NFL's sellout streaks are a bunch of nonsense.

FedEx Field has capacity for 82,000 fans. Announced attendance on Sunday was 68,370, with actual attendance far lower still. Look at that picture. It was taken midway through the first quarter on Sunday, yet the upper deck looks like it does in the fourth quarter of a blowout on a rainy day. If that's a "sellout" then Rex Grossman is Sonny Jurgensen.

The Redskins are hardly the first team to have a sellout in name only, mind you. Sunday in Landover was just another example that such streaks, like season-ticket waiting lists, are promotional rubbish.

Thanks to @GWallaceWTOP for the photo.

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giants logoThe New York Giants have the odd distinction of being visitors in their home stadium on Saturday, thanks to an interconference matchup with their fellow Met Life Stadium tenants, the New York Jets. They were treated like it before kickoff.

Four logos commemorating the Giants Super Bowl appearances were covered with a black curtain outside the team's locker room before Saturday's game. As the designated home team, the Jets have the privilege of controlling signage on the field and throughout the stadium.

The Giants took notice of this and sent kicker Lawrence Tynes and running back Brandon Jacobs to remove the curtain. In retaliation for that move, a Jets official moved the curtain back and placed a security guard near it to prevent any more tampering.

And, yes, in case you were wondering, everyone involved in this is an adult.

The Jets have a New York inferiority complex that all the black curtains in Manhattan wouldn't solve. They played for decades in Giants Stadium and are still the

mcnabb kluweWhen Donovan McNabb signed with the Minnesota Vikings, he asked longtime punter Chris Kluwe if he could take his No. 5 jersey. McNabb had worn the number since college and wanted to continue the tradition.

Kluwe said yes, with some strings attached. The punter would give McNabb the number he had worn in Minnesota since 2005 provided McNabb did a few things for it. The quarterback would have to mention Kluwe's band, "Tripping Icarus" at least five times in interviews and would donate $5,000 to Kluwe's Kick for a Cure charity.

By the time McNabb was released earlier this month, he has only mentioned the band twice and had yet to donate to the muscular dystrophy charity.

"[Getting the money] would be the major thing," Kluwe told VikingsUpdate.com. "Tripping Icarus got the publicity we needed. That was fine, two mentions is more than enough. The $5,000 for Kick for a Cure would definitely be appreciated."

Though McNabb has been released, Kluwe may not be able to wear his No. 5 until 2013.

gruden lightsTwas the day before Christmas, and my spirits are high,
you talk about excitement, just look at this guy! (points to self)
The standings are set with the playoffs quite near,
in hopes that fake Gruden will provide Christmas cheer.

Jaws and Tirico are snuggled in bed,
while visions of A-gaps blitz through their heads.
And I on my stool, with a pants tent that's foul,
hitting rewind for hours, while perfecting my scowl.

When I woke up at 4, I jumped with a start,
the games were today and my hair was sans part!
I combed it real quick and and looked with intrigue
at this week's great schedule in the Nat. Football League.

When I gazed at the games my eyes were a-wonder,
the Bears and the Packers playing on frozen tundra?
And the Jets and the Giants, in a battle of New York?
Whichever teams loses, just give 'em a fork.

Then there's Norv and the Chargers, playin' Suh in Detroit,
that guy is tenacious, Jaws, and his skills are adroit.
He plays with a toughness that's sometimes quite haughty,

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A report on HollywoodLife.com says "Saturday Night Live" wants Tim Tebow to host the show once the NFL season concludes.

Oh, you think? A television show with ratings that rise and fall depending on its guest host wants the nation's most-buzzed athlete to appear on it? The hell you say!

You know who also wants a piece of Tebow? Letterman, Leno, "The Daily Show," CNN, Fox News, "Anderson," women over the age of 45, Oprah's network, Barbara Walters, whatever that Brian Williams show on NBC is called, the Grammys, the Golden Globes, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, gender-neutral scouts, the casting director working on "Expendables 2" and everyone running for president next year. I'm half-surprised Kim Jong-il didn't leave power to him.

Everyone wants to be in the Tebow business, whether it be for a television show, an interview, an endorsement or merely to bask in his heavenly glow. He's going to be stretched so thin once the season ends he's going to look like Al Roker when it's all

Andy Roddick was at the Bobby Bones Tacky Sweater Party this weekend in Austin and took to the stage to rap the Digital Underground classic, "The Humpty Dance." He does so while drinking a Miller Lite and wearing what appears to be a woman's sweater.

He's Andy, pronounced with an "-umpty?" That doesn't sound right.

Racquet clap to @BenRothenberg

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Nobody doubts Dez Bryant's talent, yet there are occasional whispers that the talented wide receiver may not have the best work ethic. On Wednesday, Bryant addressed those concerns through T-shirt writing.

According to The Dallas Morning News, the Dallas Cowboys receiver walked through a throng of reporters at team headquarters on Wednesday wearing this Nike shirt:

lazy

That's some good work by Dez, even though the joke may hit a little too close to home. He should be prepared to run out each pass route at full speed for the rest of the season, lest some in the media poke fun at his "lazy" joke with real-world examples. Heck, I'm already preparing a blog for Christmas Eve that features two clips; one of Bryant making an insane touchdown grab and another of him jogging on a fourth-quarter pass play that eventually gets intercepted. These things practically write themselves!

By the way, anyone else find it weird that Nike makes a shirt with that slogan? It doesn't really fit with the "just

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James Harrison likes to think he has a good point. As usual, he doesn't.

Upon his return from a one-game suspension for an illegal hit on Cleveland Browns quarterback Colt McCoy, the Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker rhetorically wondered why the Browns officials who let McCoy back in the game weren't punished for their actions.

"If he was hurt so bad I don't know why they let him back in two plays later," Harrison asked reporters. "Something should be done to them, I would think. I don't know. I got a game, what should they get?"

It was later revealed that McCoy had concussion-like symptoms and played anyway. The Browns' defense was that nobody on the sideline saw the hit. Harrison didn't buy their excuse.

To Harrison, the blame lies with the caretakers, not with the guy who gave them someone to take care of. These hits are never his fault, there's always someone else to put at fault.

For what it's worth, the NFL did react to the McCoy situation. An independent certified trainer will be