Nearly five months after a fellow NFL team owner publicly declared that he believed 'there's merit to remove' Dan Snyder from owning the Washington Commanders, Snyder is close to finding a different solution.
Snyder has long refused to sell his team, just as he had long refused to change the name of his now twice-renamed-in-the-last-three-years Commanders. But on Nov. 2, a“Dan and Tanya Snyder and the Washington Commanders announced today,” read the statement, “that they have hired BofA Securities to consider potential transactions.”NFL team owners didn’t expect this descent when they unanimously approved Snyder’s purchase of the franchise on May 25, 1999.
The NFL did not officially suspend Snyder then, instead saying his wife, Tanya, would oversee daily operations. The league also refused to release the full findings or any written report of its investigation, citing privacy concerns. The result: U.S. Congress' House Committee on Oversight and Reform opened its own investigation. In Congressional testimony, former Washington cheerleader and marketing manager Tiffani Johnston, including his hand on her thigh, during a work dinner.
On April 12, 2022, the House Oversight Committee contacted the Federal Trade Commission regarding a new strain of Snyder-related concerns: financial impropriety. Snyder's repeated inability — largely due to his reputation and practices — to secure a new stadium deal for the Commanders didn't help his standing among team owners.
Once a cornerstone NFL franchise that won three Super Bowls during a 10-year stretch, Washington struggled to win for much of Snyder's 24-season tenure.
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