Tonight Valerie and I went to watch the Washington Redskins host the Buffalo Bills in a preseason NFL contest.

Our real estate agent, Ed Pagett, was kind enough to give us his season tickets for the game.

If you know Valerie that well, you know that she is a die hard Redskins fan. Some of her weeks are determined by how they play that Sunday.

I for one am not a die hard fan of any NFL team, as I grew up in Southern California where both the Rams and Raiders deserted us.

When I married into her family they tried to convert me to a Redskins fan, but let's just say that the Redskins strategies and game plans and I don't get along. So it has been hard to be a loyal fan of a team that week in and week out disappoints my wife and brings heartache year after year.

But I sort of pull for them in the hopes that they will win so my wife will be happy.

Tonight's preseason game was average at best, but her Redskins won 17-14 and that makes her happy.

Here are two photos of her and our child sporting their collective #47 Chris Cooley jersey:

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You gotta love classic pictures of when you were a kid, if anything just to look back on and laugh at your hairstyles, your missing teeth, or the fact that you are holding a Cabbage Patch Kid.

This is a picture of Valerie (on the left) with three of her cousins. She found a bunch of these pictures one day and scanned them all into her computer and sent a daily "Turn Back the Clock" picture to her brother - who was in a lot of the pictures as well.

Oh to be a kid again.

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