The DUMBEST CONTROVERSY of Dan Snyder's CAREER

Good riddance, Dan Snyder. You will be missed by no one. And if you want any example of just how bad Snyder was as an owner when it came to making decisions that you might not know about, let's take a look at what happened in 2002 when a feud emerged between he, quarterback Shane Matthews, and team legend Sonny Jurgensen
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[@geraldhanks3222]

His owner rating was worse than if he did nothing but spike the ball into the ground on every single play. (Come on! Somebody had to say it! :D )

[@msarzo]

He was the Danny Wuerffel of NFL owners

[@joevanlear7566]

Bravo 👏

[@tonythomas2391]

​@@msarzoThat's an insult to Danny Wuerfful. I have the same owner rating as Dan Snyder.

[@dagjo]

Lol

[@martincruz8319]

That deserves a standing ovation 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@andykillsu]

Pretty sure the dumbest controversy of Dan Snyder's career was his entire ownership of the team.

[@jbhalpern1]

Jurgensen's Jersey was retired in the 2022 season finale against Dallas. Also, when Spurrier was hired, Washington was trying to clean up from the salary cap mess in 2000 when it tried to buy the Super Bowl. As Spurrier said about Matthews and Wuerffel, "They were cheap and available.:

[@TheSonicsean]

As an NFL owner, there's 3 ways to do something. The right way, the wrong way, and the Dan Snyder way, which is the wrong way but louder and somehow worse. Remember Independence Airlines?

[@user-li6es1so1k]

Snyder definitely remembers Independence Air! Or more precisely, he remembers the Independence Air bankruptcy sale. Snyder acquired a supply of peanuts at that sale that he would later provide to fans at FedEx. The problem, you ask? This supply had apparently exceeded its proverbial "born on" date by the time the supply was distributed. There's a legendary Washington DC City Paper article that covers this and other "accomplishments" of Snyder. (Just Google search on "City Paper article Dan Snyder."). Or so the story goes...

[@whatsoperadoc7050]

Remember Six Flags branded mattresses?

[@kwakerjak]

I’d say “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out,” but I really want the door (real or metaphorical) to hit him on the way out.

[@ravivaithinathan1222]

Right where God split him.

[@ShrexyGuy]

August 21st the Skins play a nationally televised preseason game. August 23rd Sunny turns 89. It'd be a great look to give a living legend the commemoration he deserves as an early birthday gift

[@dagjo]

Lifelong Washington fan here. Thank you for making this. If only we could sit him down and make him watch this, Clockwork Orange style.

[@kingjonathan7773]

Hope y'alls next owner sucks too

[@rda7569]

He was the greatest to help the rest of the teams look good. Even the Lions 0-16 season is better than having Snyder as the owner

[@mohammedkhaleel7542]

No. Snyder was a better owner than William clay ford. Ford killed footballs in Detroit for 60 years .

[@SimSays]

The Redskins gave us our first win after going 0-16 the season before. Yes, the Fords managed to alienate 2 HOFs in Barry Sanders and Calvin Johnson. But the amount of tomfuckery that Snyder got involved in...from being investigated by Congress to having a second set of books to keep revenue from the shield. Dan Snyder was 1000X worse I'd rather take the Fords anyway than this con artist with glasses. Imagine being such a petty fuck that you sue people DURING a recession for not being able to afford season tickets, the same supposed season tickets that had a wait list of 200,000!!!!

[@whatsoperadoc7050]

@@mohammedkhaleel7542 Ford might have killed football in Detroit but Snyder killed basic decency in Washington.

[@steelenigma17]

No one can piss both sides of a situation off like Snyder can.

[@TPTGopher]

Surprising fact: when Daniel Snyder bought the Redskins, they were in a longer playoff drought (6 years) than they ever went through during his tenure (5 years).

[@crittoneida958]

U sure abt that? Longest Snyder drought was only 5 yrs? It damn sure has felt waaayyyyy longer than that

[@TPTGopher]

Hadn't made it since '92 when he came in, made it in '99, '05, '07, '12, '15 and '20.

[@okolo22000]

The worst owner (including owners that moved their franchises) I’d say it’s between him & Hugh Culverhouse at this moment; the Urinating Tree did a fantastic video about Culverhouse a couple years ago that quite literally created rifts in time in NFL history!

[@flyinelvis69]

Hugh and Dan for incompetence. Marshall for his flat out racist policies back in the day

[@okolo22000]

@@flyinelvis69 Ah yes, how can we all forget about George Preston Marshall; the parallel opposite of Branch Rickey. Unfortunately Marshall’s franchise won 2 NFL championships while he was an owner plus both Snyder & Culverhouse had racial & misogynistic tendencies in their tenures so I feel that he’s quite a few steps behind the other two. It’s astonishing that the same franchise had 2 of the 3 worst owners in the sport!

[@flyinelvis69]

@@okolo22000 as a side note, the Redskins won those titles before the NFL integrated.

[@TPTGopher]

Kind of ironic when you think about how Snyder's team was the ultimate beneficiary of Culverhouse's idiocy.

[@nickbradfordsr80]

As a Philadelphian, I listen to alot of sports radio. And one time on the former midday show on 94WIP, with Joe Decamara & Jon Ritchie, guest, analyst and former lineman, Ross Tucker tells a story from his time in Washington. And it goes, on a team flight, the team formerly known as the REDSKINS, had a player by the name of Darrell Gardner who I believe played LB. And on that flight, a few rows in front of fairly new team owner Daniel Snyder and his wife, Gardner is watching hardcore porn on a portable DVD player while Synder and his wife sat in silence the whole damn flight... Ross said, "right then he knew Daniel Snyder wouldn't make it as a owner" 😂😂

[@phillyfan-182]

Sounds like he was oblivious to his player watching by porn hahahahahhahahahahah

[@phillyfan-182]

As a fellow Philadelphian I know what you’re talking about.

[@nickbradfordsr80]

@@phillyfan-182 u heard the same show?

[@phillyfan-182]

@@nickbradfordsr80 yeah

[@nickbradfordsr80]

@@phillyfan-182 ook yea I love hearing old stories like that

[@babarazamsucks]

Thanks for the JJ Watt shout out.

[@TheDavBow3]

Firing Marty was #1 in stupidity for me. The flashy big offense of Steve Spurrier was terrible. Hopefully happy days will be here again

[@SPTO]

Dan Snyder is one of the most toxic owners in the history of the NFL. The guy screwed up everything he did. The only time he kinda stepped back was when a clearly past his prime Joe Gibbs was the HC. The guy even picked a fight with legendary college coach Steve Spurrier by forcing him to throw Patrick Ramsey out there on a permanent basis. Hell, in Spurrier's 2nd year he couldn't even name his own starting QB. It was dictated by Snyder. Spurrier probably would've failed (or at least been subpar) but we don't know for sure because of Snyder's BS. The sad thing is, Snyder probably would still be the owner if he didn't do the shit he did over the last couple years. ESPN did a lengthy investigation. Snyder had embarrassing e-mails of league office people, owners etc etc. The guy tried to take down the entire league just so he could keep the team. I'm glad his plan completely backfired.

[@GameShowMike]

In December 2000 during the last Steelers game at Three Rivers Stadium against the Redskins, Myron Cope took perverse delight at labeling Dan Snyder as “boy billionaire”. Snyder told Cope not to call him that, but Cope refused. And with apologies to Fox 2 Detroit’s Rob Wolchek, Dan Snyder is in… the Hhhhhhhhhhhall of Shame!

[@crowtservo]

He was bad, but Hugh Culverhouse and George Preston Marshall were both worse than Snyder. Way too much recency bias when it comes to calling Dan Snyder the worst owner ever.

[@eugenedenbrook322]

You're right. Lord, were those two awful

[@arcas8423]

Allowing the name to be changed was by far the stupidest thing in pro sports, tied with Cleveland.

[@Rambam1776]

Fool

[@finchborat]

You just wish he was willing to find new sponsors to replace those who caved in to woke investors.

[@johncate9541]

That's messed up. Snyder should have known Jurgensen would allow it. Sonny Jurgensen is grateful for his accomplishments and doesn't have the sort of ego that he'd refuse someone a number that wasn't even retired. If Snyder, who was a Redskins fan long before he owned them, didn't want anyone wearing Sonny's number, HE should have told Matthews no and not dragged Jurgensen himself into it. And honestly, I don't know why he didn't just retire those numbers officially. This is someone who went out of his way to issue Super Bowl rings to the 1987 replacement players (the ReplaceSkins went 3-0) a quarter-century after the fact.

[@lionsfan7500]

Another great video as usual 👌 As a fan of the game and the NFL I am truly happy that the Commanders have new ownership and good riddance to Dan Snyder. With all these sexual harassment accusations vs Snyder it's a wonder his wife hasn't left him yet! I've never been a fan of the Redskins/Commanders but I respect the great fans of the team and the deserve so much better and I hope these new owners bring respectability back and make the team much more fan friendly because they deserve it.

[@Fireyninjadog]

Did anyone ever tell Dan that spending ridiculous amounts of money on old, washed-up legends isn't a good idea?

[@mrmoose6619]

6:52 I would LOVE to see this with your narration.

[@tgfabthunderbird1]

I was covering Central PA news back when the team now known as the Commanders did training camp in Carlisle, PA. Until Snyder got there, training camp was free and open to the public. Suddenly, you had to pay 10 bucks a head (even the kids) to watch a day of training camp. People were not happy with that. It made Snyder look like a cheap owner who was looking to fleece the fans, before the team even played a game under his ownership. It didn't get better from there, did it?

[@CTubeMan]

Not to mention other teams could legally attend practices.

[@chriswahl4139]

his first full year as owner with his stamp on the team had him thinking he could win the 2000 Super Bowl with the 1993 All Pro Team

[@finchborat]

And he didn't use the Saints 1999 draft picks to turn the Redskins into a dynasty. Had he done that, maybe they're still the Redskins.

[@kingjonathan7773]

I liked Snyder. He made the redskins suck for years. Won't be someone like him, but here hoping the next owner is exactly like him.

[@coiler3927]

Lou Holtz with the Jets, Switzer, Spurrier, and You Know Who are perfect examples of why college coaches almost never succeed in the NFL. The level of play and power differential is just totally different.

[@davidroberts7282]

Barry Switzer had some success over the first three seasons as Dallas Cowboys HC and won Super Bowl XXX. Granted, it was mostly all still Jimmy Johnson's players, assistants, but those wins are still his, whether we like it or not. Also, Jimmy Johnson originally was a very successful NCAAF HC at Oklahoma State and Miami for nearly a decade before his former Arkansas college roommate and teammate, Jerry Jones, hired him to become his new HC after buying Dallas Cowboys. This was, of course, after he treated legendary Cowboys HC Tom Landry like old, disposable trash and unceremoniously threw him away like trash outside of the Cowboys headquarters.

[@whatsoperadoc7050]

Jimmie Johnson was successful at both, but he is the exception not the rule.

[@davidroberts7282]

@@whatsoperadoc7050 Jim Harbaugh is also another exception to the rule of college HC’s who succeeded at both. Same argument goes for Dick Vermeil with UCLA and then later successfully rebuilt, re-molded perennial loser Philadelphia into a winning playoff contender, eventually reaching Super Bowl XV in 1981, then burning out and retiring and working as a CBS NCAAF/ NFL broadcaster for the next 14 years, then helped rebuild the St. Louis Rams into a near-dynasty team from 1999-2003, then rebuilt the Kansas City Chiefs into a playoff contender.

[@davidpeters2625]

Changing the name from the Washington Redskins was the dumbest thing he did..... aside from 24 years of futility........

[@forestgeorge8855]

I don’t know how to feel about the CommandSkins right now, but good gravy was Snyder a horrible owner. As a Redskins/CommandSkins fan, I knew where you were going when the dude wanted to wear #9. However, when Sonny says it’s okay … like Unitas told that Raven QB … go ahead. But no, Danny Boy has to interject. I’m shocked FedEx hadn’t burnt to the ground with the stupid crap Synder did. Yeah, the severe stuff is bad … but even the minor stuff was moronic. When you’ve owned a team for almost 24 years and you win one playoff game and lose in the wildcard round four times. Yeah … they only won one playoff game in 24 years … maybe two if you count Norv Turner. I’d have to look up the 99 stats later.

[@CTubeMan]

This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about a similar controversy in Seattle between Quarterbacks Dave Krieg and John Friesz over the #17.

[@yudigg7]

at the last home game for the commanders last season they retired jerg’s jersey.

[@quasimoto7662]

This one also involves Danny Wuerffel and Joe Theismann.

[@josephdufour385]

Coach Urban Meyer still gets shit .. Just if Jimmy Johnson had social media he would of been ran out of Dallas..

[@loupgarou1317]

It was a reason that Wayne Gretzky wore 99 instead of 9 as he wanted to, because of Gordon (Gordie) Howe , used 99 to honor his childhood idol.....to keep this BS from happening....

[@CTubeMan]

At 2:33 did this make Snyder “Schrödinger’s Owner”?

[@kevingreen2400]

Your ability to find highlights amazes me, you got all the stellar plays in the 2 games he played the Bengals in 1970 & 1974

[@margaretjiantonio939]

Didn't the Washington team make a QB play in spite of having an injured knee in a playoff game. They literally ruined that player's career.

[@MrBerdman77]

RG III against the Seahawks at FedEx Field (the same field with deteriorated guard rails, sewage spilling on fans, a mile away from a public transportation stop, and consistently awful field conditions)

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

Dude came into the league with replaced knees and repeatedly injured himself running out of bounds and sometimes just standing in a stiff wind.

[@nickbrennan8979]

Yeeeeeeeeeeup. I had a feeling you'd do a video on Snyder eventually. Also, apparently they're considering ANOTHER rename! Crazy, right!?

[@TPTGopher]

Hopefully the NFL makes sure it takes long enough (say 2027) that, when the time comes, President DeSantis has sufficiently eviscerated woke hate that the REDSKINS can be restored. #HTTR

[@inny74]

@@TPTGopher Define "woke" correctly, and you can be deemed intelligible enough to join in the adult conversations. EDIT: DeSantis isnt likely to become president either. Keep dreaming.

[@GetYourBeaks]

Around 5:40, yeah it'd also be like if the Eagles hired Chip Kelly out of Oregon and he traded LeSean McCoy for a linebacker he coached at Oregon and then also tried to give up a lot of draft capital to move up and get the quarterback he coached there too. Oh wait, that happened after this... *nervous laughter*

[@CTubeMan]

One thing Snyder did that I didn’t like was taking Washington away from wearing their white jerseys on burgundy pants at home, even against Dallas. I always liked that look on them at home.

[@TPTGopher]

As much as I love said combination, he didn't "take it away" as much as "left it to the coaches"...only Schottenheimer and Shanahan (who I'm quicker to forgive because the burgundy jerseys-gold pants look was also awesome) completely abandoned that look: Spurrier and Zorn used it early + blueshirt (white at home to force the Cowboys into blue jerseys), Gibbs fully restored the white-at-home dynamic he fostered (as the Chargers' OC in '79 and '80, he bought into Don Coryell's theory that a dark number on a white jersey was easier for a QB to spot than the other way around), Gruden mostly stuck to Shanahan's uniforms but blueshirted the Cowboys in his last two seasons.

[@DeeDaKaang1]

I'm from The DMV & the reason that The Washington 🤷🏾‍♂️ Football Organization hasn't been successful since Jack Kent Cooke sold the team is, because all Dan Snyder cares about is 💰

[@pixelythegamer3260]

Dan Snyder, welcome to the hall of shame of the worst owners in sports history, where you will join Donald sterling

[@stopspammandm]

I lost all respect for Snyder when he sold the right to name the stadium from Jack Kent Cook Stadium to Fed Ex Field. Not only was this disrespectful to the previous owner but it was of the only stadiums at the time built with private funds and he let it get run down so it's now considered one of the worst stadiums in the NFL

[@AdrianKendrick]

Oh man the Steve Spurrier era in Washington 😂 a disaster.

[@thomascrowley9122]

You can just his entire tenure as the owner was the dumbest

[@ImNotLoganA]

"Dumbest controversy" So... his entire ownership?

[@user-el5cz9po3p]

While I usually love your channel, this one I have issues with. First, the 1st coach he hired was schottenheimer, and the team was full of past their prime vets on big fa deals. They started 0-5, and the td/int was 2-6 in those games. They went 8-3 from then on and qb play improved (still wasn't good). Bets like Bruce Smith loved Marty, and then jacka$$ Snyder fired him for Spurrier. You usually don't have factual errors. I grew up as friends with Brian schottenheimer and their whole family was good people. RIP Marty

[@jeremydobbs5578]

I wonder which was worse: Steve Spurrier as an NFL coach or Steve Spurrier as an NFL player

[@rachmanwalker4145]

Shouldn't this be a multi-part, miniseries?

[@Fender178]

What Josh Harris exactly NEEDS to do is get funding for the Commanders for a New Stadium. Oh I think you can do worse look at RFK stadium and how rundown it looks. The Commanders needed a new stadium for the past couple of years.

[@allthingsgaming6]

Was it hard to choose only one?

[@ShrexyGuy]

Lmfao I love it, Hornung wasnt gonna let the bs slide 😂 Edit: My favorite Dan Snyder moment has to be him becoming a pimp. That dropping to the public with the confirmation owners new for years the same day those evil Gruden emails came to light was something Hollywood couldn't script lol

[@WaltGekko]

Even with this sale, there will always be those who felt the NFL should have "righted a wrong" by buying the team and stadium from Snyder and giving the team back to the Cooke Family that some STILL feel should be the rightful owners of the team and their being allowed to change the name if they want. Many felt the Cookes were swindled out of the then-Redskins by Snyder as the auction where Snyder got the team was designed by Jack Kent Cooke for John Kent Cooke (his son) to get the team without having to pay MASSIVE inheritance taxes and make money for charities. The elder Cooke failed to envision a scenario where someone else would swoop in and buy the team as Snyder did pay a then-record $240 Million of so in 1999. One thing I would do if I had gotten the now-Commanders is to immediately change the name to the Senators, the name of the two former baseball franchises in Washington through 1971, working with the Texas Rangers (who were the second Senators from 1961-'71) to get the rights to the name if necessary as well as the old second Senators logo that I would modify for the NFL.

[@Giantsfanlewis]

So people don't think that Snyder deserved the team because an incredibly wealthy man was looking for a way around paying extra taxes that no ordinary person could pull off? Honestly Snyder ruining the Cooke family plan might just be the best thing he ever did. You just made the Cooke family sound as bad as favre

[@flarethefolf78]

I would named it Braves, as it keep the Native American imagery without the racial connotation, plus Braves was the team's first name

[@Matt-uh3fu]

I lost all respect for him when he said he wouldn't change the name of Redskins and like a coward caved in

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

Didn't he change it to distract from accusations that he was pimping cheerleaders?

[@drbonesshow1]

The Dan Snyder story: $6 Billion - $60 Million = $6 Billion. Yes, this is the twisted humor of mathematical approximation.

[@Matt-uh3fu]

I bet if they voted on keeping the name Redskins it would not have changed

[@bigD9051]

if snyder didn't want Matthews to wear the number he should have done the adult thing and said no instead of trying to make someone else the bad guy

[@marcus813]

Ever since the late '90s, I have not been a fan of Snyder. One of those two playoff wins in his time with the Commanders was at the Buccaneers and his club was lucky to win that game and unsurprisingly lost in Seattle the following weekend. With Snyder out of the mix, maybe the Commanders can finally move back to DC. They need to get up out of FedEx Field.

[@jeffjackson4343]

Most of his time the team was called the Redskins. And that name should have been left alone.

[@marcus813]

@@jeffjackson4343 That name couldn't be left alone. If a sizable amount of the Native American population is having major issues with it, their feelings can't be thrown to the side as if they're nothing. Also, at a certain point, the name wasn't marketable anymore. The name was left off certain special promotional merchandise in the years leading up to the name change, which should tell you something. When Amazon and other retailers took down the club's merch and FedEx threatened to kill its naming rights deal for the club's stadium, only then did Snyder do the right thing. It took possibly messing with his money (PepsiCo and Nike, the NFL's apparel partner, were pressured to cut ties with the club) to make the necessary change and that's sad.

[@jeffjackson4343]

@marcus813 it had been left alone for several years and even Native Americans didn't have a problem with it. It only became a problem when 44 went into office and people went brain dead and became offended over everything. Hell, even a peanut butter and jelly sandwich was considered racist. Why target the Redskins and not the Atlanta Braves? Better yet, why aren't we changing the names of several cities? Alot of them have references to Native Americans. Oconomowoc, WI is a good example. How about Atoka, Oklahoma? This generation makes no sense. They think if they cancel something it no longer exists, but the fact remains, that history repeats itself and wouldn't if the racist fools and idiots would stop trying to sweep history under the rug. See? I can write a novel too. When people write war and peace novels thinking their word count has importance, I can do the same.

[@marcus813]

@@jeffjackson4343 It was a problem long before the Barack Obama administration. National protests of the club's name began way back in 1988 (back end of the Ronald Reagan administration) after the Super Bowl XXII title. Tons of Native Americans urged then-owner Jack Kent Cooke through letters to change the name, but he obviously didn't. When investments firms worth $620B successfully enticing major companies to yank their financial (and in Nike's case, apparel) support is what it takes for Snyder to realize that he needed to make the change that should've made long ago, that tells you where his head is. Also, this isn't about sweeping history under the rug. Don't get it twisted. It's about respecting people, especially vulnerable populations such as indigenous people.

[@TPTGopher]

RIH George Floyd

[@Tadicuslegion78]

YOu know what I never understand about these billionaire owners? The ones that don't take any pride in their franchise or their field. Like I get it, NFL stadiums are gargantuan money pits, but....how can an owner look at sewer water flooding his stadium and go, "yeah, that's perfectly acceptable". Like does becoming a billionaire mean you'll tolerate the worst/lowest standards possible just so long as it doesn't directly effect you?

[@andrewgrove1691]

Daniel Snyder chased away an entire fanbase

[@tamonicus]

I think you missed a quasi-retired Redskins jersey number: 43 for Larry Brown. I don’t believe it’s been issued since Brown retired.

[@Sacto1654]

Look, they are in the process of demolishing the old RFK Stadium in DC itself. Maybe it's appropriate that the Commanders (neé Redskins) return to a brand new, state-of-the-art stadium on the old RFK Stadium site?

[@lionsfan7500]

You should tell the story of the first nfl playoff game in 1932 which was held at Chicago Stadium the old home of the Blackhawks and bulls on a 80 yard dirt field and the dirt was leftover from the circus with animal crap in it worse then jack Murphy Stadium ordeal. The bears hosted the ports mouth Spartans now the Lions in the championship game that year

[@jamesbenages649]

In all fairness, Jimmie Johnson got a lot of hurricanes to join him at Dallas. Won a couple of super bowls.

[@flyinelvis69]

The Redsk....i mean the Commanders have a fee other informally retired numbers as well 28 for Darrell Green and 43 for Larry Brown come to mind. I think a couple of linemem have numbers put on hold

[@jeffjackson4343]

You can call them the Redskins. It's ok. We know who you're referring to.

[@TPTGopher]

Hail to the Redskins, ScalpThePCs

[@tigercap100]

Side note. Guardians is the stupidest name in sports

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

It is. At the least they could have picked a Native adjacent name (something to do with warriors or hunting or something) but instead went with the adult equivalent of the Puppies.

[@JonesDylan874]

GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH.

[@d0nKsTaH]

JaguarGator just wanted to do a smear piece on poor Dan Snyder.... Let me tell you something Bubba...... ..... it's perfectly damn fine with me! Yeeehaw! Dan Snyder is gone! Wooo! Be nice if the new owners brought back the "Redskins"... Someone spam Magic Johnson with that idea! (remember the logo was designed by Native Americans) Probably won't happen... sigh.... Unless the team is one day sold TO.. Native Americans and they bring it back themselves!

[@msarzo]

BYE BYE DAN SNYDER!

[@veritasinvicta8128]

I'm a Giants fan, I liked Snyder being the Washington owner.

[@theodorerooseveltsantlers270]

Hard to believe the Redskins went from Jack Kent Cooke to this walking dumpster fire.

[@shar0285]

I guarantee that it can get worse. It'll be hard to do, but it can be done.

[@tomsmith5584]

This is a case where Dan Snyder wanted someone else to make the decision he made so he could blame them for it.

[@enricopolazzo33]

Snyder maybe did sonny a solid here. Sonny shouldn’t have been put in that spot

[@josephallsen3135]

Snyder is pretty putrid but, I am not sure that he is the worst of all time. Snyder has real stiff competition. William Clay Ford of Detroit, The McCasky family in Chicago and Hugh Culverhouse of Tampa Bay, Bob Irsay of the Colts, Victor Kiam of New England, Leon Hess of the Jets and the Bidwell family of the Cardinals were pretty awful. An obscure example was Giles and Connell Miller who owned the Dallas Texans in 1952. According to Art Donovan, the coaches, players and staff had to stop practice and race to the bank to deposit their paychecks. If you were not one of the first to deposit your check then there was a good chance that it would bounce. Having said that I think Hugh Culverhouse could be the worst or second worse. Maybe Snyder #1A and Culverhouse could be 1B or maybe vice versa. Bob Irsay could be argued to be the biggest A-hole but, then again this could be a tie or a 1A and 1B situation. Who do you think are the top 5 or top 10 worst NFL Team owners?

[@martincruz8319]

Fellow KZbinr Depressed Ginger had a very recent post about a (likely) nickname to replace Commanders. Personally, I like the Presidents. Some of the other candidates include the Redtails (or Red Tails), Admirals and Lincolns (seemingly Depressed Ginger's favorite. What is yours if Washington's nickname is changed?

[@TPTGopher]

Redskins #ScalpThePCs

[@inny74]

@@flyinelvis69 NFL wouldnt approve it.

[@patfinch9907]

For me the Washington Warriors, however I have another suggestion is to have the team named after Linganore High School located up in Frederick MD. Linganore High’s mascots is the Lancers , whose uniforms are modeled after the Washington Redskins Jerseys of the 1960s and that of Florida State University Seminoles football Jerseys. Linganore High School isn’t just that I am alumni from there, but #79 offensive tackle for the LA Rams Rob Havenstein is and is currently the highest paid Offensive lineman in the NFL. So it would be both a tribute and an reference.

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

I'd prefer something related to Native Americans and their warrior spirit. Calling it redtails would actually be offensive since they would be erasing Native representation in order to honor a completely different race. It would be like slapping a black woman on the Land 'O Lakes logo.

[@redskinsman10]

Yea the second u said this guy Spurrier brought in to wanted 9, i was like "nope, cant have it". Btw #9 was officially retired last year. Also THANK GOD THE BAD MAN IS GONE!!!!!! FUCK DAN SNYDER

[@cmdrflake]

Ouch! Double ouch. Forrest Gump might have had a better chance of getting this situation resolved properly.

[@josephnicolino8529]

In 2002, they should've been called the Washington Gators

[@Metalthrashingnate]

If I'm a Washington Fan, I'm celebrating getting rid of Snyder like it's a Super Bowl win.

[@jamesdulany2176]

How was Dan Snyder involved with the Scott Mitchell thing? I think you may have linked to the wrong video.

[@OfficialJaguarGator9]

No that was the right vid. It was a different uniform controversy involving Johnny Unitas and Scott Mitchell that was sort of similar

[@jonahfalcon1970]

George Marshall was far far worse.

[@patfinch9907]

I would say to the New owners of the Commanders/Redskins you are better off changing and rebranding the team. Back in December 2022 I was working down in Tysons Corner Virginia which is just outside Washington DC. I remember talking to the Manager of the local Lids and few of the local sports stores in the Tysons Corner mall and one time when I was Dulles and in Fairfax VA. Most of the Managers and owners of these places as I had heard they were still getting stuff from the warehouse that they were supposed to get 2 years ago but was delayed because of Covid-19. They told me that No one within Northern Virginia and even in Maryland wants Commanders merchandise, they all were mostly asking for any left over Washington Redskins stuff. That should give you an idea as to how badly botched the Renaming went, and most younger people and new comers to the Washington DC area (the DMV) have no idea that the Washington Redskin from the 1960s until the start of the 2010s were 2nd most valuable team in the NFL 🏈 🤑 , which was one of the reason why it took so long to rebrand to begin with. It would be like someone buying the Los Angles Lakers 🏀 one of the biggest and most valuable team in the NBA and renaming them Los Angles Stars after the defunct ABA team, because the New owner felt that the name Lakers connected way to much to their former home of Minneapolis. How do you think the Laker fan base would react 🤔? If Snyder changed the name earlier he would have lost more money 💸 then he did, by changing the name before the start of the 2020 preseason to WFT and then Commanders. Also, how Snyder went about the name change only further angered and divided the fan base, because he choose the Washington Commanders name a name that no fan wanted or liked. As I was a supporter of the early fan favorite The Washington Warriors, others included Red Wolves, Red Tails, Redhawks, Renegades. Snyder ignored the fan favorites because I suspect it had to do with right issues and choose the Commanders name which no wanted or likes.

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

I remember rumors they were looking at DC Sentinels but someone bought up all the domains for the leaked potential names and were demanding a fortune.

[@bullinmd]

Time for another owner to be forced to sell: Jerry Jones (since he doesn't want to win Super Bowls!)

[@TPTGopher]

Then the hurricane-exploiting shitstain on his father's name in New Jersey - so repulsive that, in 2012, Daniel Snyder effectively called him a motherfucker in public...and literally every unbiased observer who understood WHY he said it took Snyder's side.

[@ravivaithinathan1222]

This is Dan Snyder. He has that special ability to piss people off without trying.

[@flarethefolf78]

I rather had Urban Meyer owned a team than Dan Snyder

[@CTubeMan]

What Snyder had in bad ownership skills he made up for with the charm of a boring piranha.

[@jamesmooney8933]

WASHINGTON COMMODES

[@mjwatts1983]

The culture…

[@nathanjm000]

Hope he buys United

[@TPTGopher]

Hope he buys and fires the malignant cesspool of hate that is the Washington comPost.

[@Nobodyimportant85]

The whole sports world is for the worst due to Dan Snyder's arrogance, cruelty, incompetence, greed and malice. I'm a Bears fan, and what he did to that franchise has made me upset, angry and miserable my whole life. So I can only imagine how Redskins/Commanders/whateverwecallthem fans feel.

[@Giantsfanlewis]

Your franchise is run worse. Be mad at your owners, not other teams

[@connorakers668]

Snyder No Snyding

[@capsfan3940]

Thank God he is finally gone. Celebrate!

[@TPTGopher]

The sooner the Angeloses join him, the better.

[@atworkstation]

Any other videos of that goof?

[@e93sports80]

👍👍

[@ianpoyant9772]

First off: Thank the gods, Dan Snyder’s gone! Second: You mentioned Art Monk as a player whose number is unofficially retired by Washington. I also remember that you mentioned Monk as part of the 1994 Jets receiving corp that was whittled down to basically nothing in the offseason, in the video where you highlighted how Jets coach Rich Kotite elected to pass on signing two-time Pro Bowl receiver Webster Slaughter, and to the surprise of likely no one but Kotite, it backfired.

[@CTubeMan]

Pour yourself a Cognac!

[@markbrown4039]

Snyder was just dumb...period.

[@Rutherford12]

Heard Josh Harris may change the name to completely wipe Snyder's "legacy" from the team. This is a GREAT moment, with him gone

[@mountaineernews2]

I don’t think so that’s to expensive they already did 2 name changes so there’s really no point in re-changing it when they already dumped so much money on it

[@Rutherford12]

@mountaineernews2 I agree money is a factor, but remember their copyright for the name "Washington Commanders" was denied. Copyright issues was also why they didn't go with the name Washington Redwolves

[@mountaineernews2]

@@Rutherford12 very good point not having the copyright to the name is pretty bad but It is becoming clear that It was disappointing that they couldn’t get the copyright claim now people can use commanders for anything including merchandise I do believe The new owners are going to try to make the rebrand work and if it doesn’t work, they know they can’t go back to the old name so they’ll have a name the team contest so they’re in a little bit of a tough position financially they’re in a lot of debt to Snyder they have to pay all of Snyders lawsuits and the fact that they have to rebuild an entire organization I think it’s just too much time and effort to just fix the name. They got more pressing issues to deal with. They gotta fix the stadium or get a new one. They gotta put a winner back on the field. They gotta deal with the lawsuits they gotta get back to trust of DC and the fans. It’s going to take a long time to fix what Snyder had destroyed And the name is probably the least of their issue so it’s not worth the money when there are more issues

[@jeffjackson4343]

He could return the name to Redskins. Undo the damage caused by the woke crowd.

[@JDoe-gf5oz]

@@jeffjackson4343 He'd be crucified in the media and the league wouldn't allow it.

[@adiuntesserande6893]

Hell, you can *include* the owners who moved their teams and Snyder is *still* the worst owner in league history. Hell, the only owner in the history of *sports* who is even in his league was Donald Sterling of the Clippers!

[@TPTGopher]

Not even the worst owner in the NFC East

[@jvanek8512]

I lost any respect I had for Snyder when he changed the name after for years saying he wouldn't have even winning in court to keep the trademark. I don't respect people who cave into mobs.

[@americanswan]

I just got a bad suntan and I think having a football team named after sunburn victims again would be great.