When is Daniel Snyder going to be relieved of his duties as an owner and forced to sell? (1 Viewer)

[Sleestak]

Surprising amount of Dan stanning. Thought there would be 100% schadenfreude on this one.

 

[phandango]

Snyder threatened to kill the deal by refusing to share his bank information, preventing Harris from wiring him the money.

"Bro if you're not gonna give me your account info so I can send this $6 billion, can you at least give me your Venmo"

 

[Dizzy]

Clearly I made my "story" up with nothing to back it up. The decades-old reporting duo in this case wrote a story with next-to-nothing to back it up.

And of course fatness just loves these clickbait rumor mills and spreads them faster than a sewing circle.

Fatness, my apologies if you're some blue hair that actually is in a sewing circle. In that case, carry on and enjoy your golden years.

Well let's look at the "decades-old reporting duo in this case". You and I are both decades-old so that shouldn't be a problem.

Don Van Natta Jr.
"Don Van Natta Jr. (born July 22, 1964) is an American journalist, writer and broadcaster. He is an investigative reporter for ESPN, since January 2012, and the host and executive producer of “Backstory,” an ESPN docuseries. He previously worked for 16 years as an investigative correspondent at The New York Times, where he was a member of two teams that won Pulitzer Prizes."

Seth Wickersham
"Wickersham is native of Anchorage, Alaska and attended Robert Service High School. He has written for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine since graduating from the University of Missouri in 2000. His work primarily covers the National Football League (NFL) and has been featured on Outside the Lines, SportsCenter, NFL Live, The Ryen Russillo Show, and E:60. In his 18 years at ESPN, he has profiled the likes of Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Bill Belichick, John Elway, Odell Beckham, Jr., Bill Walsh, Jim Harbaugh, and Y.A. Tittle, among others, and he has written deep dives into strained relationships within the Cleveland Browns, Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriots. Along with senior writer Don Van Natta, Wickersham has written critically acclaimed investigations on the NFL's handling of the Spygate and Deflategate cheating controversies, the Rams and Raiders franchise relocations, the behind-closed-doors meetings on the inequality protests, and the efforts by Jerry Jones to block Roger Goodell’s contract extension. An October 2022 story by Wickersham, Tisha Thompson, and Don Van Natta Jr. is widely credited with triggering the push for former Commanders owner Dan Snyder to sell the franchise."

They're solid writers with solid track records.

They had one source for the "He ****ing hates it" description. They had another source for this:
"Snyder's outlook has evolved. There's still anger, and he remains "in denial" about what led to his ouster, said a person close to his inner circle. But there's also something else: "Sadness -- for himself," that person said. "It's killing him. ... It's devastating for him.""

Basically you're attacking the reporters for being "decades-old", you're pretending they just passing on gossip, when they have long records of quality reporting. If you didn't know that before, you do now.

I get that you don't like this article. But I have to ask you --- is your problem with the article or with me personally? The blue hair and sewing circle comments of yours are why I ask that. You seem quite peeved.

Quite the novella there fatness. Doesn't change anything... still a crap piece based on 2nd hand "he said" blah blah blah.

Anything juicy in the National Enquirer about Aaron Rogers this week?

No, Tanya.

Tanya?

 

[Harjiran]

Care to explain your POV a little, Dizzy? Some of the people in this thread have watched for years while Snyder ruined their team, brought shame to a storied franchise, and in general acted like a jerk. Is your issue with that sort of take on Snyder specifically or just with the article's source being an anonymous dinner companion? The article does fit with what we know about Snyder's pettiness and general lack of character.

 

[Dizzy]

Care to explain your POV a little, Dizzy? Some of the people in this thread have watched for years while Snyder ruined their team, brought shame to a storied franchise, and in general acted like a jerk. Is your issue with that sort of take on Snyder specifically or just with the article's source being an anonymous dinner companion? The article does fit with what we know about Snyder's pettiness and general lack of character.

Yes. To be clear, I am no way defending Daniel Snyder. Dude's a massive POS by all accounts.

My issue is with the "story" and "reporting" in general (or what reporting has turned into). This latest dumping is basically a bunch of crap nobody should care about written around what some unnamed source's opinion is of what Dan Snyder feels about his former team winning (back in October?) based on a remark overheard at dinner. The story is crap enough without people picking it and spreading it like the POS it is.

So, basically, it's a POS article about a POS person... and I hate the former (because we are drowning in hot-take garbage like this - always from unnamed sources and always without the opinion of the person it's written about) and couldn't care less about what happens to the latter.

 

[Harjiran]

Got it - thanks. We 're in agreement both on Snyder's POS status and also the fact that journalism is fast becoming a lost art.

 

[Dizzy]

Got it - thanks. We 're in agreement both on Snyder's POS status and also the fact that journalism is fast becoming a lost art.

I don't doubt the writer's are legit as fatness vigorously defended... but I would also guess that they have succumbed to the desires of others to come up with hot takes that draw clicks on a daily basis as opposed to getting the time to research and write a genuine news piece.

 

[joey]

Can’t we just all agree that we enjoy the thought of Dan Snyder in pain?

 

[fatness]

My issue is with the "story" and "reporting" in general (or what reporting has turned into). This latest dumping is basically a bunch of crap nobody should care about written around what some unnamed source's opinion is of what Dan Snyder feels about his former team winning (back in October?) based on a remark overheard at dinner. The story is crap enough without people picking it and spreading it like the POS it is.

So, basically, it's a POS article about a POS person... and I hate the former (because we are drowning in hot-take garbage like this - always from unnamed sources and always without the opinion of the person it's written about) and couldn't care less about what happens to the latter.

I'm pretty sure you haven't read this whole thread, and the links in it.

Much of the reporting on Dan Snyder over the years has featured anonymous quotes and sources of information, to avoid being threatened, sued, or otherwise bullied by Dan Snyder. It's much more likely that someone talking about Snyder to a reporter will want to remain anonymous than want to be identified. It's been that way for years.

You certainly can rag on about "anonymous sources" all you want. I'm just letting you know that, in this case, what comes across is that you want the sources identified, so Dan Snyder can go after them. You're sticking up for a guy who's the equivalent of a bowel movement on the porch of millions of people every Sunday morning for over 20 years. He sued a grandmother and bankrupted her.

 

[Dizzy]

My issue is with the "story" and "reporting" in general (or what reporting has turned into). This latest dumping is basically a bunch of crap nobody should care about written around what some unnamed source's opinion is of what Dan Snyder feels about his former team winning (back in October?) based on a remark overheard at dinner. The story is crap enough without people picking it and spreading it like the POS it is.

So, basically, it's a POS article about a POS person... and I hate the former (because we are drowning in hot-take garbage like this - always from unnamed sources and always without the opinion of the person it's written about) and couldn't care less about what happens to the latter.

I'm pretty sure you haven't read this whole thread, and the links in it.

Much of the reporting on Dan Snyder over the years has featured anonymous quotes and sources of information, to avoid being threatened, sued, or otherwise bullied by Dan Snyder. It's much more likely that someone talking about Snyder to a reporter will want to remain anonymous than want to be identified. It's been that way for years.

You certainly can rag on about "anonymous sources" all you want. I'm just letting you know that, in this case, what comes across is that you want the sources identified, so Dan Snyder can go after them. You're sticking up for a guy who's the equivalent of a bowel movement on the porch of millions of people every Sunday morning for over 20 years. He sued a grandmother and bankrupted her.

Jesus Christ I'm not defending Dan Snyder. Have another drink and call it a night.