Chief Zee, the Washington Redskins’ mascot for the last 29 years, was absent from last Sunday’s FedEx Field season opener. He was in Dallas, at Texas Stadium, home of the arch rival Dallas Cowboys. It was for a good and noble cause, though:
Turns out he was in enemy territory — Texas Stadium — to honor the godfather of superfans, Wilford “Crazy Ray” Jones. Crazy Ray died in March after 44 years of rooting for the Dallas Cowboys, and Chief Zee escorted Jones’s widow onto the field in Sunday’s pregame ceremony. It was only the second time in 29 years that the Chief missed a Redskins home game; the last was in 1981, when his father died. “The only thing that would keep me away was the death of my father or Crazy Ray,” he told us yesterday. “We became like brothers.”
Had I been watching the Dallas game, I’d have gotten choked up for sure at seeing the ceremony.
-k-
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