Commanders fans are showing signs of Stockholm Syndrome?
The Kevin Sheehan Show
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, I wanted to read this. |
| 0:02.3 | It comes from Randall. |
| 0:05.1 | Randall writes, Kevin. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm a sports psychologist, and while fan behavior isn't my specialty, I know psychologically |
| 0:13.2 | damaged fan bases when I see them. |
| 0:16.2 | Nothing exemplifies the damage done by the Dan Snyder, by Dan Snyder to the Commander's Redskins |
| 0:22.4 | fan base, more than the sudden turn by many against the GM, coach, and QB. Last year was |
| 0:31.6 | actually an uncomfortable place in something called trauma bonding. That's what's occurring right now. It's a form of |
| 0:41.4 | Stockholm syndrome, where for many Washington fans, they are finding it difficult to engage in |
| 0:48.3 | behavior that will release or detach themselves from their abuser. |
| 0:55.2 | This is great, Randall. |
| 0:56.7 | I don't know if you're really a sports psychologist, but I love this so far. |
| 1:00.2 | This is why you've heard from so many fans who have taken the first sign that last year was a fluke, |
| 1:06.8 | was abnormal, and used it as a reason to embrace an abusive past, which became their norm. |
| 1:16.7 | Thought this would help. |
| 1:19.2 | Randall, I guess responding to a lot of the conversation this week about, you know, |
| 1:25.3 | Adam Peters is, you know, he stinks, Stan Quinn stinks, the quarterback |
| 1:29.8 | has regressed so much, they got the wrong guy at number two, and he calls this trauma bonding. |
| 1:37.7 | I've never heard of this, but it's a form of Stockholm syndrome, which I have heard of. |
| 1:41.7 | That's where you sympathize, right, with your captor. |
| 2:01.8 | Yes. Yes. And he says, Washington fans are finding it difficult to engage in behavior that will release or detach themselves from their abuser. This is why you've heard from so many fans who've taken the first sign that last year was a fluke was abnormal. |
| 2:06.3 | They're embracing their abusive past because it became their norm. |
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