Now-benched Robert Griffin III featured on Redskins' Week 1 tickets

Amid the news that Kirk Cousins was named the Week 1 starter for the Washington Redskins and that the team might be preparing an exit strategy for Robert Griffin III now comes this, one lasting reminder of the mess in D.C. that still lingers.

The Redskins' Week 1 game is against the Miami Dolphins, and the face on those tickets ... is none other than that of RG3. (h/t @DarrenRovell via Washington Post)

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It always works out this way, does it not?

Maybe the Redskins should have played the safe route and featured some of their all-time greats on the tickets. After all, it has been years since the glory days, and some of the team's former titans are the ones fans of the team still resonate most with. (John Riggins, for instance, never goes out of style.)

But then again, everything the Redskins spewed out this offseason was that Griffin was their guy, even if many people failed to believe it. We're not even convinced head coach Jay Gruden believed what he was saying as far back as February.

So. Awkward.

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Of course, this team has been a total nightmare almost since the day Daniel Snyder bought the team, so why did we expect anything different?

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