Former Gamecock, Culliver, to Washington

Well, I'm a big Skins fan and the last time we had a Gamecock in the Skins; secondary we went to the Super Bowl with Brad Edwards. Boo was on that team as well.

Most of us old timey Skins fans cannot stand Daniel Snyder but, whatta we gonna do? He owns 65% of the team and is firmly entrenched and in all honesty he is a business genius when it comes to making money.

He's got the organization pretty-much debt free after paying a record $800 million for the team, and the stadium, in 1999.

He's got three partners, Dwight Schar, Robert Rothman and Fred Smith (yes, that Fred Smith) which combined he managed to get $500 million from to pay-off debt then he turned around and just did another deal wsith Smith and FedEx to sell naming rights (for $200 million) to Redskins Stadium ... now FedEx Field.

The organization is the third most valuable in the entire league behind Dallas and New England ... and all of this while having a losing record since taking over the team and having gone through eight coaches in sixteen seasons.

It just boggles the mind.

I go up there to at least one game a year, sometimes two. It's gotten much more expensive since he took over the team from Jack Kent Cook who was a very family oriented guy. But what I dislike about it most, and I fear Williams-Brice is turning this way to some degree, is that the games up there have become all show and pomp and circumstance ... too much piped-in noise, too much canned excitement. Used to be we fans made that place special but now it's all contrived and fake feeling ... and it's $300 per game per person, on average, just to get in the stadium and have a beer and dog.

Anyways, it is what it is and I hope Culiver is prosperous and pro-bowling up there in short order.

So a year ago we had three Gamecocks in San Fran. They fire Harbaugh and now we're down to one ... Ellington.