Washington commanders are a victory to reach the Super Bowl and with the Recruit Jayden Daniels in the lead, the franchise is experiencing a renaissance.
A new owner, a quarterback of potential franchise and a revitalized fans base define the current state of the commanders. This was not the case for a long time under Daniel Snyder, and the success of the team in 2024, associated with the way Snyder was expelled from the NFL, would have led to injuring the former owner.
An ESPN story by Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta Jr. reports that a longtime partner of Snyder attended a dinner with the former owner of Washington in the fall and had a point to remember with regard to the Successful commanders this season.
“He hates it,” said the partner with a colleague.
Snyder bought the team in 1999, while the franchise was known as Redskins. The lack of success in the field – six participations in the 2 -year qualifying series – associated with a dysfunctional and toxic workplace outside the field finally led to the sale of the team in 2023 to Josh Harris.
It is a transaction that Snyder tried to derail, report Wickersham and Van Natta. While negotiating with Harris, Snyder thought about the means to keep the franchise.
One of Snyder’s thoughts would have been to announce that his behavior over the years was due to alcohol, but that he had stopped drinking and that he was a changed man. The minimum price of $ 6 billion has also been deliberately set, knowing that only a limited number of parties could afford it. Harris and his group paid $ 6.05 billion.
Once the process is completed, Snyder would have refused to share his bank information to allow Harris to turn money. After friends, including the former head coach of Washington Joe Gibbs, and his family members pressed him to let go of the team, he finally gave up late in the night, a few hours before the scheduled date of An event welcoming the Harris group as new owners.
A few minutes after the owners of the NFL team unanimously approved the purchase of Harris, the league published a 23 -page report containing the conclusions of Mary Jo White, the lawyer responsible for investigating The allegations of sexual harassment and financial irregularities against Snyder.
The conclusions of the report would be devastating for a man still in NFL. He corroborated serious harassment allegations on the part of the former Commanders employee, Tiffani Johnston, and said the club had falsified his accounts to avoid sharing money with the NFL.
In response to the survey, the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell inflicted a fine of $ 60 million – a fine that Snyder refused to pay, but which was finally integrated in the property transaction, on Snyder.
Snyder, now 60, lives in London and many legal questions are still unanswered in the United States. He would have been interested in buying part of a Premier League football team, but other sources said that American football was his only interest.
“He’s not a fan of other sports,” said a source in ESPN. “He’s a fan of [Commanders]. It was the most important thing. “