Smoot Assures Us Christmas Is Coming Back

Part of the necessary evil of putting up Christmas lights each December is taking them down, lest you end up being “that house” down the street which leaves them up all year ‘round. You know “that house” that I speak of. Every neighborhood has one. They leave their icicle lights dangling from the roofline 12 months a year, begging you to mock their blatant laziness and complete disregard for the unwritten bylaws of exterior illumination. ↵↵Well, in one Great Falls, Virginia neighborhood, “that house” belongs to Redskins cornerback Fred Smoot, who used the eloquence that only he possesses to tell The Bog’s Dan Steinberg why he always leaves his lights up:↵

↵↵⇥This came up when I approached his Great Falls abode and realized that there were still Christmas lights hanging from the roof. I turned to Smoot for assistance. ↵⇥↵⇥“Christmas is always on the way back around,” he explained. “We ain’t got, what, like three, four months to go?” ↵⇥

↵⇥↵⇥Then he paused. ↵⇥

↵⇥↵⇥“It was like that when I had 11 months to go, too,” he admitted. “Why pull them down man? Christmas [is] coming back.”↵⇥

↵↵You know what, Smoot? Christmas ain’t coming back. It never left. So long as you’re around, providing us with your endless river of genius, it’ll be Christmas every single day for this grateful blogger.↵