Well, as you may have heard, Heath Shuler was elected to Congress today.

Back in January, when we found out Heath Shuler was running for Congress, we thought, "wouldn’t it be funny to oppose his bid, purely on football reasons?" We think the conclusion, after all of this, is yes. Yes it was.

We did this for the cause of comedy. No higher ideals,no politics, nothing very noble. Technically, we are not residents of DC (we prefer sunny San Diego these days). Technically, we are Democrats. Even more technically, we are more liberal than Heath Shuler. And while we are dealing in technicalities, our family wants us back.

We learned lots of things along the way.

We realized that we’re glad that we don’t live in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional district. Not just because we lack "mountain values," but because of who they had to choose from in this election. As much as we made fun of Heath Shuler for his football career, as a politician he really seemed like an empty suit. That being said, his opponent, Charles Taylor, was a rich old crook who had problems being even remotely appealing. It is amazing what happens when you start to look at the details of a specific Congressional election — it’s rather depressing, to be honest.

We’ve definitely learned that Deadspin rules. Nothing was a bigger influence in our traffic or our publicity they were. Thanks, Will.

Finally, we’ve learned that you people are cheap — we only made $12 off the Stop Shuler Store. Thanks for nothing.

So what now? Do we protest Heath when he comes to DC? (We have had some feelers out to the good folks at Kissing Suzy Kolber about that) Do we do what we can to keep him away from the Redskins?

No, our work is done here. It was a good run, but we’ve got other things to worry about.

Good night, and good luck.

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Here are the key posts to catch up on, if you so choose:

• The Why. (The Stop Shuler Manifesto)
• The facts. (The Shuler Record)
• Buy a bumper sticker! (The Stop Shuler Store)
• We go negative. (A Better Day, The Shuler Record)
• Finally, an explanation. ("Every day but Sunday, I’m going to give 110%")
• We get a not-so-exclusive interview. (Heath Shuler Speaks!)
• Norv adds nothing (Norv Turner can’t handle the truth)
• Contact us. (stopshuler@stopshuler.com)