Good Riddance You Sack of Fermented Excrement

It looks like Dan Snyder will finally be selling the Washington, DC Football franchise. 

He has been loathed in DC for years, and I used to be a fan of the team, but he put me off the team, and the sport, in his first year as owner, when he laid off back office staff and refused to pay severance.

It's fairly clear that this sale was made under duress, his fellow owners were sick of his burgeoning sexual harassment scandals, and, perhaps more importantly for them, his financial shenanigans that cost the other teams a not inconsiderable chunk of change. 

He's also been hiring detectives in an attempt to dig up dirt on his fellow owners for blackmail purposes.

If the team had not been sold, they would likely have imposed some sanctions against him:

Josh Harris, an owner of the N.B.A.’s Philadelphia 76ers and the N.H.L.’s New Jersey Devils, agreed in principle to buy the Washington Commanders for a record $6 billion from Dan Snyder, the longtime owner of the team plagued by scandals that drew investigations from the N.F.L., Congress and other government agencies.

With the end of Snyder’s tenure nearing, the N.F.L. can begin to distance itself from a painful chapter in its history and right the future of the popular franchise, which under Snyder had been tarnished by accusations of a toxic workplace and an inability to secure a new stadium.

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The agreement comes as the N.F.L. continues its second investigation into allegations of widespread sexual harassment made against executives at the team, including Snyder, as well as potential financial improprieties. Those allegations, coupled with Snyder’s inability to build a new stadium and a backlash from the team’s fans, had pushed many of the owners of the league’s other teams to consider voting to force him to sell the team, which he bought in 1999 for $800 million.

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Snyder and his wife, Tanya, a co-owner of the team, formally began a search for a buyer in November 2022, when they hired Bank of America to seek offers for all or a portion of the Commanders. They began to field offers just weeks after the owner Jim Irsay of the Indianapolis Colts said that Snyder “needs to be removed,” confirming what owners had been saying privately for months. 

For those of you who do not recall what Jim Irsay, Bob's dad did, moving the Colts out of Baltimore literally in the middle of the night, if your level of moral turpitude is such that clan Irsay cannot tolerate it, you are indeed a very bad person.

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In July 2021, the league fined the club a record $10 million and ordered Snyder to stay away from the team after a league-helmed investigation found that a rampant culture of sexual harassment perpetuated by managers and executives had persisted at the team for more than a decade, and that Snyder had done nothing to stop it.

Again, this is extraordinary for an organization that considers Jerry F%$#ing Jones a member in good standing. 

Bye Felicia!