The Redskins, Much Like Myself, Love Breakfast Sandwiches
Post - In a conversation about rookie hazing earlier this week, London Fletcher mentioned the Redskins’ tradition of rookie-provided breakfast sandwiches. Of course we had to know more, so I asked some of the players about it during open locker room on Wednesday. The tradition isn’t team-wide. It’s up to each position to decide their own breakfast-sandwich routine, which keeps it reasonable for whoever is tasked with bringing them in. “We have about eight or nine guys in the linebacker room, so only about that many,” explained Ryan Kerrigan, who said his position does it on Fridays. “Usually it’s the same one every week. Ashburn Bagel, that’s who I used to buy them from, they were pretty good about helping us out. My rookie year it was me and Marcus White, so we alternated each week.” Adam Gettis said the offensive linemen also enjoy breakfast sandwiches courtesy of the rookies. “The O linemen, we do sandwiches on Friday morning,” Gettis said. “We either get it from Joe’s or downstairs. We do it, the linebackers do it, and I think another group does it also.” I asked Gettis if a rookie has ever refused to provide breakfast for his teammates and he paused for a minute, not wanting to answer. “Me,” he finally admitted. “Last year it was between me and [Josh] LeRibeus who was gonna bring in breakfast sandwiches. And I just straight-up refused, so they had LeRibeus do it for the whole year, even though I was supposed to do some days. I stood my ground.” LeRibeus got stuck with breakfast-sandwich duty for the year, but the easygoing guard wasn’t bothered. “I had a bigger signing bonus, so it didn’t bother me,” LeRibeus chuckled. As for what kind of sandwiches rookies bring, LeRibeus says they usually follow the meat, egg and cheese on a bagel or roll assembly. “Football players are kinda superstitious, so they keep the same routine all the time,” he explained. “So it was pretty easy, I just brought the same thing every week. I would mix it up for myself, though. If I was in a good mood, I’d go and get myself a lox and cream cheese or something like that.” Not every position does sandwiches. Chase Minnifield, who got out of such duties by being on injured reserve his rookie year, told me the defensive backs do things differently (as defensive backs usually do). Bacarri Rambo and David Amerson are responsible for boarding the bus on game days armed with Popeye’s chicken.
I wasn’t doing shtick when I talked about my love for breakfast sandwiches. I left my house for I want to say only the third time during the week since I started working for barstool to go to McDonalds to get a breakfast sandwich. That’s how strongly I feel about them. So am I shocked that the Redskins feel as strongly about breakfast sandwiches as I do? 100% yes. I started my day with a breakfast sandwich and BOOM, blogs started flying off my fingertips like I was Peyton Manning running the two minute drill. Today I didn’t have a breakfast sandwich and I blogged about a bridge. Coincidence? I think not. So it looks like we have found the reason the Redskins are losing football games. Breakfast sandwiches don’t fuel football players. They need to change it up. It’s not rocket science. Or maybe the defense should stop eating Popeyes on the morning of game days? I’m not a nutritionist, but I’ve never eaten a box of fried chicken without my whole body cramping and having a mini-stroke.
PS: Another example that this whole Incognito “bullying” thing is BS. The kid Gettis was asked to buy everyone breakfast, and he declined. They moved on. Bitch move for him to put it on someone else? Maybe? I don’t know, but it doesn’t look like any of them really care. Incredible that Gettis was fine with saying “no” to buying a few bacon, egg, and cheeses, but Martin couldn’t say no to paying for a 15k vacation.