SI's Best & Worst Owners

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Originally Posted by over the mountain

imo DS is the most embarrassing aspect of being a skins fan. hes low class to no class and is tarnishing the skins long built tradition and reputation imo. but hey, hes a fan atleast he wants to win. win at any cost baby!! just win!!!

if you run a franchise like DS with that win at any cost approach and dont win, you tend to get bashed. when we do win or get to the SB perhaps the ends could justify the means for most, including the media.

go skins!!

In my opinion, I have no idea what you mean by low class to no class. And I think think you have little concept of Redskins history or their owners. George Preston Marshall was an unabashed bigot who reportedly picked fights with opposing coaches, overruled his coaches on play calls during games, and even fired one coach at halftime of a game. And then there was Edward Bennett Williams, who represented some of the country's more dubious names (Hoffa, Milken), but I'm not hating-EBW was just doing his job.

And as for the franchise, over the course of more than 25 years until the Allen era they only had four winning seasons, and not to mention most of the 90s when they lost all home games one year, started 0-7 another year, and blew a 7-1 start yet another.

I love the Redskins but their tradition is full of questionable owners and poor performance on the field. Their history does not begin in 1972 and end in 1992.