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For years now, my football team, the Washington Redskins, have blissfully bounced along without an indoor practice facility - bubble or full hangar - to practice in when weather goes south.

Only a handful of teams in the league do not have one, and they are almost all in very warm cities.

Well, finally our beloved leader and owner Daniel M. Snyder has gotten the permits done and is constructing a "bubble" which will be done sometime in early November.

Unfortunately, the Giants are here on Sunday. This, Sunday.

It has been raining since Monday.

So, no worries, our guys just CARPOOLED TO A LOCAL LIFETIME FITNESS to get some good quality reps in today for the Giants game.

Christ.

And we're an NFL team, worth $1.4 billion, last time I checked.

"I'm LeBron Baby!"

In fact, I am starting to think that "yes, yes you are!" And that's not a good thing, either.

I remember the quote attributed to Obama at the 2004 Democratic Convention: "I’m LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game.”

Neil Minkoff of the National Review Online makes a great comparison to perhaps the two biggest "global icons" we have here in America.

The most compelling part of the Barack Obama–LeBron James comparison is the baffling way each wilts when the lights are brightest and the stakes highest. LeBron has now appeared in two championship series (2007, 2011) and an Eastern Conference finals (2010), where he played poorly and shrank whenever the game was tight in the fourth quarter. LeBron didn’t want the ball and played hot potato whenever the ball found its way to him. Similarly, Obama is said to be “leading from behind” when he dishes off health-care reform and negotiating the debt-ceiling agreement to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Obama has passed responsibility for Gitmo policy and trials for terror suspects to Eric Holder, his attorney general. The buck has been passed to NATO for our military presence in Libya. At each crisis, Barack Obama hasn’t wanted to take responsibility for a decision, so he relied on his teammates in his cabinet and Congress to carry him.

The footnote to this excellent piece, is that LeBron still remains VERY popular for a large segment of the sports public that - believe it or not - just doesn't put too much stock in that pesky thing called "winning."

Just like, I am sure, Obama remains popular for a large segment of the population that - believe it or not - just doesn't get too wrapped up in the fact his policies have all been abject failures.

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