The Washington Commanders, an NFL team with a heritage of success but a more recent history of unchecked scandal and mismanagement, has been sold to an investor group for $6 billion
, who is already a part-owner of baseball’s LA Dodgers, is part of the investment group buying the Commanders. Led by Philadelphia 76ers co-owner Josh Harris, the new group also includes billionaire Mitchell Rales. Months ago, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos had explored a potential bid, but was rebuffed by Snyder given the tech mogul’s ownership of the, which has published a number of damning investigations into misdeeds by Snyder and the front office.
The catalog of offenses, which were probed by the NFL but never resulted in any formal discipline, included sexual harassment, racial discrimination and the creation of a work environment known as one of the most noxious in professional sports or corporate America. Congress and other government bodies have been looking into Snyder’s leadership of the team as well as its finances.
Snyder bought the team, then known as the Redskins, for $800 million in 1999. As other front-office dramas were playing out, Snyder was also mounting fierce resistance to changing the team’s name despite mounting criticism of it as racist. After the former owner finally bent to pressure from corporate sponsors and agreeing to a shift, the team played for a period of time as simply The Washington Football Team until it conducted a fan poll to arrive at Commanders.
On the field, Snyder’s troops have also performed poorly. Amid a marked decline from three Super Bowl wins during the 1980s and ’90s, the team has now gone 18 years since its last playoff win, amassing a record under Snyder of 164-220-2.
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