Swengali: D.C. Deserves to Get Bullets Back

Express sports columnist Matt Swenson calls 'em as he sees 'em.

WASHINGTON, D.C., HAS A LONG, if not necessarily glorious, tradition of sports.

Sure, the Redskins won three Super Bowls and D.C. United is in a league by itself, in MLS terms.

But, mostly, this city's sports history is about losing — whether it's on the field or off of it. So much so that we've lost baseball twice.

There are two ways we can go with this: hang our heads in shame or embrace it.

To wit, we give you the Washington Capitals. In a nod to tradition, if not style, the Caps are going back to the red, white and blue uniforms seen in all those painful playoff losses of the 1980s. (The team made the Stanley Cup final with the new unis.)

I'm so much in favor of the switch that this space is now dedicated to daring the Wizards to do their Verizon Center mates one better.

Naturally, this means a call back to the red, white and blue-striped shirts of years past. But moreover, let's go back to the Bullets, the moniker of the 44-38 team that miraculously won a championship in 1978.

"Wizards" is a bad marketing scheme that never got better. The fact that it's lasted 10 years is sad.

And let's be real: The curse certainly hasn't been broken (see last year's injuries). Rather than hide from it — or pretend it doesn't exist — just roll with it.

The team will always be the Bullets to this city. We might as well make it official again.

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