Shoes, Ships, and Sealing Wax

I'm not being unfaithful

By the way: Yes, hockey and the Capitals are my major sports love, my deepest and most enduring sports love, and my recent euphoria about the Redskins (and the Terps, for that matter) is not infidelity.

In 1975, when I finally got the Redskins jacket, you couldn't buy Capitals gear. I know; I tried. When Herman's World of Sports didn't sell jerseys, I sent my $70 (saved from allowances and washing cars and skipping the ice cream man) to CCM. They sent back a check and a note that Capitals jerseys were unavailable. I spent the money on a bike. (This was the reason Victor gave me the jersey this year.)

But lack of Capitals clothes aside...I was also a Redskins fan before the Caps were a twinkle in Abe Pollin's eye, and I can prove it: