The NFL opted not to suspend Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder, and the league’s lengthy investigation into sexual harassment allegations by 15 former WFT female employees did not produce a written report of investigator Beth Wilkinson’s findings. Although the league fined the franchise $10MM after the investigation revealed a problematic culture, particular toward women, its handling of this matter has generated some scrutiny.
Snyder’s status has also invited some debate. The longtime owner is currently sidelined from a day-to-day role with the franchise, ceding those responsibilities to his wife, new WFT co-CEO Tanya Snyder. A Washington Post report Thursday night indicated Dan Snyder will not be permitted to return to a day-to-day role running the team until he receives approval from Roger Goodell, but Snyder’s attorney disputes this.
“Any suggestion that Commissioner Goodell must approve Dan Snyder’s return to daily control is false,” Siev said, via ESPN.com’s Adam Schefter (on Twitter). “Dan was not suspended, so by definition he does not need to be reinstated to any position.”
Siev’s comments did not induce the Post to make any retractions on its original report (via Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk). Snyder may still attend Washington games, but his role going forward is murky.
The NFL’s stance appears to be that Dan Snyder will be effectively sidelined for a while. The league’s release said Tanya Snyder will oversee the day-to-day aspects of the Washington Football team and represent the franchise at league meetings for “at least” the next several months. Based on his attorney’s comments, Dan Snyder may be readying to contest this arrangement.
I’m not a Dan sympathizer, but over his 20+ years in the league, what has his wife done to grow the team & league? Never heard much about her until now.
Purely symbolic move to put his wife in charge for 2-3 months! Dear gawd what will Dan do???
His wife, literally, started the pink breast cancer awareness thing for the entire league.
I didn’t know that, thank you for sharing it. What a great cause and very well run.
Doesn’t mean she knows a thing about the “day to day” operations of a NFL franchise.
Neither do most owners. That’s the role of the GM. Owners are just there to suck out money in an attempt to recoup some of the cost of buying the franchise.
It’s still collusion it’s still a de facto he’s still running the team she’s just a face
Dan will be telling her what to do.
How can he still have a say in the WTF . They should make him sell WTF
Al Hirschen : Are you trying to say WFT or What the F..ck WTF.
I didn’t even catch the difference ‘till I read Your comment! *Some fan, I am; say?
Does anyone like to play fantasy FB?
I assume people do
I keep getting taken out when I post about it lol
But I have a league on league safe it’s 50 entry fee if you’re interested in joining, looking to add 6 more players so we can complete the league
Draft is on August 14
Snyder seems to be the latest version of Eddie DeBartolo who was forced to give up control of the 49ers for a variety of misdeeds.
Yeah, sure. Tanya Snyder’s in charge now. Sure.
Not my favor owner by any stretch of the imagination, he took a very proud franchise and ran it straight into the ground. Treated it like a toy, and yes he owned it, but ran it like a spoiled brat and needs to take the credit for drafts and signings that totally blew up in his face. Interfered with several players and made them totally uncoachable. Do we think he is innocent in these sex scandals? Absolutely not… he is into it up to his neck and it follows the track of spoiled rotten that he has followed. If he would have hired football personal and …. Then say and let them run it… he would have never wrecked this franchise!
Dan Snyder looks a whole lot like Joe Paterno in those pics
Snyder has not been a good owner, but this move makes sense given that the majority of the league’s owners are bad people in their own right and don’t want the target on their back next – as taking advantage of others and leveraging the he!! out of some early money is how you get to be a billionaire team owner in the first place. You don’t unlearn that abusive behavior easily, thus they all probably have some skeletons in their closet.
Great point; makes a lot of sense considering how ~‘easy’ it was for Them to look the other way!