ANALYSIS/OPINION:
When sportscaster Lindsay Czarniak announced at the start of the Washington Redskins Welcome Home Luncheon Wednesday that special guest and Redskins fan Matthew McConaughey would not be appearing as scheduled, you could feel the air go out of the ballroom at the Marriott Marquis in the District.
It was like a fourth-quarter FedEx Field crowd.
They pulled out John Riggins as a surprise last-minute substitute guest.
Look, who doesn’t love themselves a little Riggo, but he’s no Rust Cohle — McConaughey’s “True Detective” character and, for my money, his most memorable.
Man, you would think it must have been really painful for Redskins owner Dan Snyder to ask Riggins — the man who once said Snyder had a “dark heart” — to bail him out, no matter how many fences they have supposedly mended.