Posted on 10/13/2022 5:42:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Commanders owner Dan Snyder believes he has enough “dirt” on fellow NFL owners, commissioner Roger Goodell and league officials that he could “blow up” several people and organizations, ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr., Seth Wickersham and Tisha Thompson reported Thursday.
“He’s backed into a corner,” a veteran owner told the network. “He’s behaving like a mad dog cornered.”
ESPN’s report comes at a time when the embattled owner is facing investigations from the league and a congressional committee looking into workplace misconduct in the franchise. Yet, Snyder reportedly told associates he does not plan to lose the Washington team “without a fight that would end with multiple casualties,” ESPN wrote.
This fight includes information he has gathered throughout his 23-year tenure as Washington’s owner, as well as the reported use of private investigators. The tactics Snyder allegedly used within his own franchise—the ones used to scare employees seeking accountability for workplace misconduct and sexual harassment allegations levied against the owner and his team—have apparently spread to NFL owners and more than 30 league and team executives, as well as owners, lawyers and former and current Washington employees who spoke with ESPN said.
One Commanders executive has repeatedly called Snyder “the most powerful owner in the NFL” thanks to the information he has gathered, a source told ESPN.
Snyder’s use of private investigators to follow NFL owners is well known in owner circles and even the league, sources told ESPN. Owners and league officials have been informed that the Washington owner told his law firm to hire private investigators to reportedly keep tabs on owners as well as Goodell. Though the number of owners tracked is unclear, sources told the network it’s believed to be at least six.
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Well, it is Washington.
It sounds seedy, but I can’t blame someone who owns a $5.5 billion asset from taking these measures to protect his own interests.
Wasn’t Snyder the guy who torpedoed Jon Gruden by releasing private emails?
If he does it, I’ll by a jersey.
Redskins gonna take some scalps?
Personally, since those assholes dumped the Redskins, I’m hoping that the entire league goes belly up and bankrupt...
As a 55-year season ticket holder who bailed out in 2015, I consider that It is no longer “football” and more closely resembles the WWF...
The worst stadium ever built, the ridiculous name change, and incredibly bad upper level management, scouting, and a string of pathetic coaches...
Also, as soon as players became multi-millionaires they stopped playing “football”
RFK Stadium was amazing. Legendary. FedEx Field is a cookie-cutter abomination.
But it sounds like you went through some great times with your season tickets. The George Allen years and the Joe Gibbs years. (I had a crush on John Riggins when I was a teenager.)
You got to see some legends.
Seems like it would be cheaper just to [redacted comment].
Good luck with getting anything on the Packers, since, yanno, they don’t *have* an owner.
Some influential person wants to buy the team and needs Snyder out of the way.
They have thousands of owners.
The Packers have the biggest secret of all : their quarterback is unvaccinated.
Got free ticket to their first game in DC stadium in1961 when it opened...
I was, at that time a lifelong Giants fan...
Switched. In 1962 when I got my first 5 seats 3rd row from the overhang upper deck, 40 yard line... Also, we were literally sitting with our feet on the Redskins bench and they could hear everything we said to or about them...
In 1963, at the old M street office, I added 5 more, looking ahead to grandchildren... Till they got to about 7-years old, that 5 was used (and paid for) by friends at work...
Also used to ride the Redskin special train to Philly, NYC, and, once, to Pittsburg...
What is the Corner he has been backed in?
“When the money gets big
People get hurt”
Corb Lund
There were private emails but synder did not leak them the league did
I can’t stand the little POS, but I do have to admit, I love that he’s willing to take a lot of powerful people down with him. NFL owners are a corrupt bunch but they aren’t stupid. Theres a reason that little bastard is still an NFL owner.
Some influential person wants to buy the team and needs Snyder out of the way.
If he’s got the dirt on other owners, he isn’t going anywhere.
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