Snyder Camp Upset!!

[Longtimefan]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

I know, I just get tired of hearing how the Skins are the absolute worst and are the only team with issues. It's simply not true.

I think I kinda know why!!.we're constantly surrounded be so many negative implications, a pattern has been formulated.

ps frustrating, isn't it?

[irish]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

I know, I just get tired of hearing how the Skins are the absolute worst and are the only team with issues. It's simply not true.

Wow, I didnt realize things had gotten so bad. Its pretty sad when you have to say "hey the skins are better than the Lions, Raiders, Browns, & Cards" and of those pathetic teams 2 have actually been to the Super Bowl in that time period.

Ask anyone outside of Redskinville what are the worst 3 franchises and I think the Skins will be named in 9/10 groups.

[Longtimefan]

Originally Posted by irish

Wow, I didnt realize things had gotten so bad. Its pretty sad when you have to say "hey the skins are better than the Lions, Raiders, Browns, & Cards" and of those pathetic teams 2 have actually been to the Super Bowl in that time period.

Ask anyone outside of Redskinville what are the worst 3 franchises and I think the Skins will be named in 9/10 groups.

Merci, Danke, Gracias, Spasibo we're all skins fans, and httr

[MTK]

Sue him for owning the team? That sounds even more ridiculous than Snyder's suit with the city paper.

[juskins]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

Sue him for owning the team? That sounds even more ridiculous than Snyder's suit with the city paper.

Its called collusion, connivance to control the sale of a franchise with a willing party. It is not frivolous law suit, it happens all the time. Known as fixing the market, etc.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by juskins

Its called collusion, connivance to control the sale of a franchise with a willing party. It is not frivolous law suit, it happens all the time. Known as fixing the market, etc.

10 years after the fact? C'mon

[juskins]

Originally Posted by Mattyk

10 years after the fact? C'mon

Yes, ten years after the sale. If someone wanted to supplant Snyder and his ownership that is an avenue to a conclusion. Someone can always challenge a sale.

[MonkFan4Life]

SUE HIM FOR OWNING THE TEAM ?

HAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !

You guys are HIL-AR-IOUS !!!!!

Christ, is this where we have gone. So they would start with Dan ? Ralph Wilson gets a pass huh ?

Look, we can sit and read the article making John Cooke out to be a victim but the fact is that (if juhskins' theory is correct which I agree with in a way) he got into a bidding war for a business and he lost. Period.

He wasn't quite the model for a kick ass owner at the time either. Under HIS watch, we brought in James Washington, Stanley Richard, Carl Banks, Alvin Harper, and lets not go to the AWESOME drafts that Charlie Casserly blessed us with. Shit happens and it happened to us after Joe Gibbs retired the first time.

[SmootSmack]

I'm not going to say much here because I'm still pretty livid about previous accusations sent my way (won't sue anyone though, so don't worry), but just wanted to point out a couple of things a) in the year and change I was around the team when John Kent Cooke was around it was pretty obvious he wasn't all that respected (and I've had many former players it was like that during the 80s/early 90s, that he was kept out of most major decisions regarding the team). Some may say that's what we need right now of course. Right? A guy who just writes checks and sits in a corner.

Secondly, just to remind people John Kent Cooke put up an offer of close to $700 million. But Howard Millstein and his group (of which Snyder was a minority owner) outbid them with an $800 million bid. The owners didn't approve the deal because of concerns of how debt-heavy Milstein's bid would be, and also because they wanted to keep the team in John Kent Cooke's hands (this campaign if I recall correctly was spearheaded by Cooke himself and Pat Bowlen), even though the trustees of Papa Cooke's estate had already agreed to sell to Millstein's group. Ultimately enough owners voted to sell the team to Milstein's group, but this time with Snyder as the majority owner.

That's all. Nothing else to say.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

I'm not going to say much here because I'm still pretty livid about previous accusations sent my way (won't sue anyone though, so don't worry), but just wanted to point out a couple of things a) in the year and change I was around the team when John Kent Cooke was around it was pretty obvious he wasn't all that respected (and I've had many former players it was like that during the 80s/early 90s, that he was kept out of most major decisions regarding the team). Some may say that's what we need right now of course. Right? A guy who just writes checks and sits in a corner.

Secondly, just to remind people John Kent Cooke put up an offer of close to $700 million. But Howard Millstein and his group (of which Snyder was a minority owner) outbid them with an $800 million bid. The owners didn't approve the deal because of concerns of how debt-heavy Milstein's bid would be, and also because they wanted to keep the team in John Kent Cooke's hands (this campaign if I recall correctly was spearheaded by Cooke himself and Pat Bowlen), even though the trustees of Papa Cooke's estate had already agreed to sell to Millstein's group. Ultimately enough owners voted to sell the team to Milstein's group, but this time with Snyder as the majority owner.

That's all. Nothing else to say.

SS, this is a question .I heard it just as you say but Ted's group was not given the same option I heard an that caused some riffs?

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Giantone

SS, this is a question .I heard it just as you say but Ted's group was not given the same option I heard an that caused some riffs?

Ted?

[MonkFan4Life]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Ted?

Marchibroda ? Dansen ?

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Ted?

Shit sorry. When the bids for this first started weren't Snyder and Leonsis were in the same group.....and then things changed and Ted Leonsis was making a bid with his own group without Snyder.I think the argument was that the Bid came in a certain way...switching the majority owners should have made for a new bid altogther..yes/no?

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by Giantone

Shit sorry. When the bids for this first started weren't Snyder and Leonsis were in the same group.....and then things changed and Ted Leonsis was making a bid with his own group without Snyder.I think the argument was that the Bid came in a certain way...switching the majority owners should have made for a new bid altogther..yes/no?

Leonsis was never part of this

[Arrrgh!]

Haha, awesome. Somebody give McKenna a raise.