Dave Zirin: This disgraced NFL owner will be laughing all the way to the bank.
When I moved here as a young man, this team was everything; every bus stop and barbershop was a site of chatter about the latest D.C. football news. And when Snyder purchased the team, the waiting list for tickets was as long as the Washington Monument is tall.
In almost a quarter century of dysfunction, on the field, Snyder's franchise won only 42% of its games and had . Off the field, he was as nasty as he wanted to be. My wife, who teaches D.C. history, has given me her blessing to say that there has never been ain the area who has been loathed as much as him. There’s a reason for that: He took one of the most beloved franchises we have and ran it into the ground.
Now instead of being the thing everybody wants to talk about, the team is a painful afterthought, like a former love you cross the street to avoid bumping into. This past season, the team wasn’t even that bad and, yet, it had. That’s Snyder’s legacy: He made being a fan of Washington football feel dirty.During Snyder’s tenure, there’s been, none of whom tasted any kind of sustained success. He was also reportedly imperious and insecure in the way he treated other personnel.
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