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Gut Check

(All GIFs by HeyBelinda)

I am exhausted. Not just because I spent 40 minutes of "real time" standing-squatting-jumping-kneeling-windmilling in my living room as the last four "game minutes" plus OT played out between the paid football players representing the Chocolate and Charm cities yesterday. (BTW, no one should be surprised that D.C. prevailed — food > manners.) But also because meaningful December football is no longer part of my constitution. Like baggy jeans and land-line telephones and paying for music, the once-vital D.C. pro football team has become less critical to my daily existence for all of the obvious and exhaustively well-documented decades' worth of reasons. Of course the 2007 run after the still-unfair and still-distressing Sean Taylor tragedy was inspired. But Todd Collins was prominently involved, which means ... that Todd Collins was prominently involved. This QB and this team and this run are different. Like, once-in-a-generation different, which definitely feels like hyperbole but isn't, IMHO.

Ted, a Grantland reader and great American from Denver, writes: "Watch that RG3 run again, and check out the Skins' sideline. Was Kirk Cousins the least excited person on earth on this play?

Watch the video, he never moved from that stance the entire play, even as RG3 is running right past him (as you can see in the photo). I’m not even 100% not sure that’s not a cardboard cutout. If you’re the backup QB and the starting QB just broke a 76-yard game-saving TD, you don’t have to be the most excited guy in the stadium, but you can’t be the LEAST excited guy in the stadium either can you? It’s gonna make film day kinda awkward I think."

Better look at Cardboard Cousins after the jump.

When the most anticipated game of the weekend delivers the best finish, what more can you do than show the video? It's only Week 8, but I'm ready to ordain an official Play of the Year:

As French football fans say, MON DIEU. Here are some scattered thoughts for the Monday after: