Not long after the Redskins drafted Robert Griffin III, one fan wrote to me, promising that I’d see a Griffin III Orioles jersey worn in public in the near future.

The future, everyone, is now. Or the future was Friday night, anyhow. So the future is now the past.

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Unless you’re an Orioles fan, there are few things more annoying than when Baltimore fans yell “O!” during the national anthem. Even within the Orioles family, there is debate over whether it’s disrespectful. Some say it is, some say get over it and some are already teaching their offspring how to do it right.

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“RGIII is a stud,” a PR person for a non-Redskins D.C.-area pro sports team e-mailed me on Friday morning. “I can’t compete with this. This kid is simply AMAZING!”

That is why we do 5,000 Robert Griffin III items a week on this here blog. And that is why we will link to every commercial RGIII films, including the below spot for EvoShield.

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I would try to re-write Thursday’s Potomac Nationals press release about the retirement of owner Art Silber as part-time first base coach, but I couldn’t do better than the original, so here ya go:

Art Silber, owner of the Potomac Nationals, Minor League Affiliate of the Washington Nationals, announced today that he will no longer coach first base. Silber, 71, who is now in his 23rd season as owner and part time first base coach stated that he has “coached his last game.”  Read full article >>

The Post has written a few times about Chuck Brown’s son Nekos, who decided on football instead of music and starred at Virginia Tech. From a Mark Viera 2009 story:

“I’d get Nekos on the stage, but he didn’t want to get on that mic,” Chuck Brown said in a telephone interview. “He’ll get on that mic now, but he’s got to be in the right mood to get up there. He’s got to have his own little rap. It comes right off the top of his head sometimes.” Read full article >>

Nick Sundberg’s back tattoo has long been amazing. The Redskins long snapper explained a bit about it to the dearly departed (though not dead) Matt Terl of Redskins Blog in 2010:

“It’s not finished yet,” Sundberg told Terl, “but it’s a Greek mythology scene. I’ve got a lot of Greek in the old bloodlines. It starts up with Mt. Olympus, the middle section is Earth, and the bottom is the Underworld. You’ve got Zeus, Hector, Achilles, Hercules, Hades, Ares...quite a bit going on. For the first tattoo it was definitely a big one to choose, I guess. My mom was kind of shocked when I came home and had the whole outline done.” Read full article >>

The 2012 Preakness Stakes are tomorrow, which means that some of you are carbo-loading, filling your camelbacks and decorating your crash helmets.

I’ve never experienced the infield at Pimlico thanks to equal parts fear and “I’m too old for this.” Maybe I’m too far removed from my crazy college days, but this doesn’t look fun.

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Robert Griffin III was a guest on ‘The Tonight Show’ last night, and through the course of the interview you can almost hear any RGIII critics melting into puddles of love.

Seriously, at some point will this kid become so likeable that he turns the corner into unlikeable?

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Robert Griffin III taped his appearance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Thursday. The full show aired on NBC at 11:35pm ET/PT, but here are a few clips from the interview in case it was past your bedtime. He talked about the military, meeting the President and, of course, socks.

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Because at least one person asked, here are the plans for the MASN broadcast booth during this weekend’s Beltway series, which has gotta be the most important Orioles-Nationals series since the Nats came to D.C.

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When I walked into the Nats’ clubhouse on Thursday, I saw Goon Squad t-shirts everywhere. Rick Ankiel was wearing one. Mark DeRosa was wearing one. Jesus Flores was wearing one. There were more in a box by Chad Tracy’s locker. Even Ian Desmond had one.

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New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma, suspended by the league as part of the sweeping punishments imposed in the team’s bounty scandal, sued NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell for defamation Thursday.

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Remember how ESPN.com’s Howard Bryant recently blistered the Nats for not saving Stephen Strasburg for the playoffs?

Well, MASN’s Bob Carpenter evidently read that piece of work, because he discussed it on-air during Wednesday night’s broadcast.

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Personally, I think the New York Jets should be the subject of HBO’s “Hard Knocks”every season. Rex Ryan plus Tim Tebow has to equal hilarity.

While the documentary series has yet to announce which team they’ll be following this season, there were rumors that the Redskins were on the short list.

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The Bethesda Big Train is hosting a celebrity softball classic Sunday afternoon at 1:30 at Shirley Povich Field. Shirley Povich Field is lovely, and is located near playgrounds and the Montgomery Mall, if you want to make a day of it.

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Saturday, five years after he was an NBA lottery pick, Jeff Green will graduate from Georgetown with a major in English and a minor in theology. He told the school’s athletic site that he was pushed to get his degree by his former Hoyas teammates, and that finishing school was a a “weight lifted off my shoulders.”

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After DMV athletes on other teams spent the first two rounds of the Stanley Cup playoffs rallying around the Capitals, some of the Caps are returning the favor.

Brooks Laich, John Carlson, Mathieu Perreault and Joel Ward attended last night’s United game, complete in matching personalized jerseys.

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With the passing of Chuck Brown, D.C. lost a music legend and friend. We also lost someone who loved DMV sports dearly.

He once called his Redskins halftime performance in 2010 a “dream come true.”

“I’ve always been a die-hard Redskins fan,” he said in the press conference announcing the performance. “Through thick and thin, for me it’s the Skins.”

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John Riggins has been promoting his next venture, a huntin’ and cookin’ show on the Sportsman Channel, for several months.

As you’ll recall, he suddenly stopped doing Redskins commentary for WTOP and MASN last winter. Shortly thereafter, he announced a new show, for which he would “range the field, rove the flood, and climb the mountain’s crest every week, looking for fur, fish, fowl, and fun. Then we’ll take to the kitchen and let my 120,000 BTU Montague Grizzly transform it into a feast.”

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