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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That is so cool. I remember season tickets were just about impossible to come by back in the 70s and 80s. The word was that the only way to get them was to inherit them in a relative’s will. And you had ten of them? Wow!
I only lived in the DC area for a few years as a teenage Navy brat. We had just come from three years overseas in the years when there was no AFN TV over there, so no NFL games.
It was easy for us to adopt the Redskins as our team. My dad occasionally got tickets through colleagues at the Pentagon and I got to go to RFK a couple of times - major fun!
What was the Redskins special train? That sounds like a blast.
Snyder is dirt. Miserable human.
Taking out Goodell is worth it!! He’s a little shit just like his dumbassed father.
Yes, but Goodell is worse.
Let me guess.... Bob Kraft likes to have sex with hookers at strip malls? We already know that one... So that’s out of the bag.
Jim Irsay likes to do drugs, get drunk and then drive around in cars? Already have that on record... What could Snyder possible know that would be of any consequence?
Nobody cares what the owners do, or what the players do... All they want is NFL football to watch on Thursday, Sunday, Monday and the occasionally Saturday.
The only thing that gets traction these days in the Media is when somebody hurls the charge “Racism”. So that will be the accusation.
Hell no, that was roger godell, the nfl commish.
I love it when 32 billionaires get into a pissing contest over the name of a franchise or whether one or the other had sex with someone who is not their spouse.
Snyder proved that he could be blackmailed when he caved to changing the name from Redskins to Comanches errr, Comtrollers, err Comancheros, err something like that.
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