Dan Snyder Hires Bank Of America To Potentially Sell Washington Commanders

[skinsfan69]

Originally Posted by SunnySide

Both went to super expensive private schools in DC as kids .... easiest way to get rich is to be born on 3rd base.

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My brain is telling me this is to good to be true, its going to be a minority deal.

Also .. now that Dan Snyder is down in the dumps, seems to have social acceptance anxiety and now all the cool kids are ostrechizing him, under multiple criminal investigations .. I kinda feel bad for him.

He was just a super fan who made many mistakes as an owner but I always thought his intentions were good, to win a SB.

I don't feel bad for Dan at all. Everything that is coming down on him is 100% his own doing.

Read Dave Paulken's testimony to the House. Gives you a real insight on what type of guy Dan is. What kind of boss asks his employees for cash to get hookers?

[MTK]

Snyder is a shit head. He deserves everything coming his way.

[Chief X_Phackter]

Originally Posted by EdmundDorf

Goodell has been very quiet/non committal on all these reports for the last few months, cant help but think he has been quietly pushing Dan towards this position like he did with the name change. Goodell has to have a good idea already as to the likely outcomes of all of these reports and has maybe made the point that Dan will get a better price if he sells the team voluntarily rather than being forced out. Would maybe explain why Dan made such a sudden change of direction on both subjects. Just speculating

I'm sure there's a lot of "stuff" going on behind the scenes that is forcing his hand. 31 other billionaires have had it, and that's a wrap.

[Schneed10]

I'm not sure what anybody sees in Bezos that could be problematic aside from conflicts of interest that might somehow preclude him from bidding. But he's a very strong businessman and would no doubt give us what we want: someone who would not meddle and would just hire leadership and let them do their jobs.

Bezos is too big to meddle in the affairs of the team. In the end that's all we want, someone that hires football people and gets out of the way.

This isn't about who we might end up with, it's about getting rid of the guy who meddled so much.

[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

I'm not sure what anybody sees in Bezos that could be problematic aside from conflicts of intersest that might somehow preclude him from bidding. But he's a very strong businessman and would no doubt give us what we want: someone who would not meddle and would just hire leadership and let them do their jobs.

Bezos is too big to meddle in the affairs of the team. In the end that's all we want, someone that hires football people and gets out of the way.

This isn't about who we might end up with, it's about getting rid of the guy who meddled so much.

This just seems like such fucking common sense, but Snyder was just too stupid/egotistical/etc. to figure it out.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by sdskinsfan2001

This just seems like such fucking common sense, but Snyder was just too stupid/egotistical/etc. to figure it out.

It's heartbreaking to think about the 25 years of our fan-lives gone under his ownership, and at the same time liberating and joyous to think that it may finally be ending.

[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

It's heartbreaking to think about the 25 years of our fan-lives gone under his ownership, and at the same time liberating and joyous to think that it may finally be ending.

Totally. I was only 8 when they last won the Super Bowl. I basically don't remember any of it. It would be very joyous to have a fresh start with an actual possibility of not always scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by sdskinsfan2001

Totally. I was only 8 when they last won the Super Bowl. I basically don't remember any of it. It would be very joyous to have a fresh start with an actual possibility of not always scraping the bottom of the barrel.

I would think about buying tickets, even to shitty ass Fed Ex. Just to be one of the fans pulling on the rope to help the new owner make it better.

[SolidSnake84]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

It's heartbreaking to think about the 25 years of our fan-lives gone under his ownership, and at the same time liberating and joyous to think that it may finally be ending.

I got into football in HS, so I was still a kid when I realized that Dan had to go. So to think that a childhood wish is now being potentially realized as an adult is pretty big deal emotionally. I think it is a big deal emotionally for all of us if and when it finally goes through.

[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by SolidSnake84

I got into football in HS, so I was still a kid when I realized that Dan had to go. So to think that a childhood wish is now being potentially realized as an adult is pretty big deal emotionally. I think it is a big deal emotionally for all of us if and when it finally goes through.

I'm still too jaded to really believe its going to be true, but there have been some good posts here that does make me a bit more optimistic.

I'm going to get shitfaced out of my mind the day that sell officially goes through.

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by SolidSnake84

I got into football in HS, so I was still a kid when I realized that Dan had to go. So to think that a childhood wish is now being potentially realized as an adult is pretty big deal emotionally. I think it is a big deal emotionally for all of us if and when it finally goes through.

It's amazing to think about our lives before and after Dan Snyder. Every fan of this team has stories like this, the dichotomy between life before him and life with him.

For me the line of demarcation is essentially childhood vs adulthood. I'm 43, he bought the team when I was 19.

Life before him included the first Super Bowl win, I still have photos of four year old me wearing a Riggins jersey and my dad throwing me up in the air in celebration after Riggo ran on 4th and 1. I had a huge grin, not because I realized what was happening in the football game, but because my dad and I were forming a memorable bond over football.

That continued as 8 year old me saw a Super Bowl, with photos in an 80s style Redskins shirt, and then 11 year old me saw another.

As a 12 year old, wore a Mark Rypien jersey to a baseball card show, had a card dealer leave his table to come show me something, it was a Mark Rypien card autographed. I said how much do you want for it? He said whatever you're willing to pay, I have a feeling you'll love it more than I do. I turned over all 28 dollars that I had on me.

In high school and early college it wasn't the same as we weren't as successful under Norv, but the passion was there, and the frustration of not realizing potential under Norv was huge because of the passion.

But then I hit adulthood and it feels like real life hits. College is ending, have to find a job, pay bills, Dan Snyder owns the team. Signs Jeff George, fires that coach at 7-6, fires the next, hires a college coach, brings back my childhood hero who does herculean things just to make the playoffs twice under Snyder.

I get married, I have two daughters, I have moments with them but nothing close to when my dad threw me in the air in a Riggins jersey. They're 16 and 13 now. They don't care about the Commanders. He never gave them reason to.

I won't get that back. Is it the greatest tragedy to have befallen someone? Nowhere close but it still makes me sad. But knowing that there's a chance it could be like it was when I was a kid means everything to me.

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

I'm not sure what anybody sees in Bezos that could be problematic aside from conflicts of interest that might somehow preclude him from bidding. But he's a very strong businessman and would no doubt give us what we want: someone who would not meddle and would just hire leadership and let them do their jobs.

Bezos is too big to meddle in the affairs of the team. In the end that's all we want, someone that hires football people and gets out of the way.

This isn't about who we might end up with, it's about getting rid of the guy who meddled so much.

One of the rare cases where you rather deal with the devil you don't know versus the devil you know (DS).

[MTK]

Report: Jeff Bezos is “looking into buying” the Commanders

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by MTK

Report: Jeff Bezos is “looking into buying” the Commanders

I swear to god I will go to every game like this

[Chief X_Phackter]

Originally Posted by MTK

Report: Jeff Bezos is “looking into buying” the Commanders

He's been waiting for this I think. He was connected to the Broncos when they were for sale - only speculatively though. I have seen his name connected to the Seahawks too, but I think he's been waiting for this opportunity. I'd be fine with it.