Certain types of actual or apparent dysfunction can’t be avoided. Other types can be.
That’s today’s lesson, kids, thanks to the Washington Twitter account.
Via Dan Steinberg of the Washington Post, the team periodically has been posting countdown-to-kickoff messages, with the remaining days until the first game provided by number on a jersey worn by a player.
With 46 days to go, it was running back Alfred Morris. At 38, safety Dashon Goldson. With 11 days left, receiver DeSean Jackson.
And with 10 days to go, they didn’t skip it.