NFL owners meet Tuesday in Lower Manhattan for their annual fall meeting in New York, and while it’s not on the agenda, much of the discussion is about Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder. I hope that
There’s renewed focus on Snyder in light of Thursday’s report on ESPN. Several fellow NFL owners claimed to have ‘dirt’Snyder will not attend the meeting and Washington will have to attend with his wife, Tanya, who has been on a daily basis since last July.
The agenda itself is fairly bland, but there is time for closed sessions. In that session, scheduled for Tuesday at 5:40 p.m. ET, only his one representative from each team will be in the room to discuss (believed to be) confidential matters. It’s there that we can have a conversation about Snyder.
“I don’t even know the other owner takes his calls. [anymore]’, one team executive told CBS Sports of Snyder.
Snyder cannot represent his team at league meetings until he meets with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, multiple league sources told CBS Sports. Goodell’s attorney said in a statement obtained by CBS Sports that he “has no NFL restrictions related to his involvement with the team.” It is highly unlikely that it will take place until the two investigations are completed.
Fellow owners haven’t been moved to vote Snyder out yet. Findings from investigator Beth Wilkinson’s report on toxic workplace cultures from 2021 have not been made public, and the league has made it public No NFL owner has ever been voted on and 24 votes are needed to remove Snyder.
Removing an owner is unprecedented in today’s sports world. Jerry Richardson put the Panthers up for sale in 2017, before an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and racist language began in earnest. , was permanently banned from the NBA and the team was sold after his wife removed him from the trust. Suns owner Robert Thurber sold the team last month amid a one-year suspension and pressure from sponsors and minority owners to sell. Kelly Loeffler, who previously owned WNBA’s Atlanta Dream, sold the team to Black Lives after clashing with players over his Matter movement.
Snyder, whose House Oversight Committee investigation into workplace culture revealed a tendency to deter private investigators, is reported to have threatened complomats against fellow owners. Megan Imbert, a former Washington employee who was filed by Snyder’s attorney, wrote on Twitter Thursday that the idea of Snyder not doing it for his fellow owners was “comical.” .
Another former Washington employee told CBS Sports that he has long harbored suspicions that Snyder “has dirt on people.”
“It was completely incomprehensible to me that he could be the owner for so long,” said the former employee. “I already knew he had a history of suing people and using everything against people. The only way it made sense was if he had dirt on people. .”
Snyder’s attorneys, John Brownlee and Stuart Nash, partners at Holland & Knight, said the allegations against Snyder were “absolutely untrue.”
“Dan has never hired or authorized a private investigator to investigate other NFL franchise owners, nor has he hired anyone on his behalf,” the attorney said, obtained by CBS Sports. “He has no redacted ‘papers’ on the owner,” it said in a statement.
One proposal in the ESPN report includes Snyder withholding financial help to build new stadiums. Yes, the league typically provides $200 million in loans to fund stadiums.
“The league’s only real tool is to starve him out of the money to build the stadium,” the team president told ESPN.
However, one of the club’s executives objected. “It’s not a legitimate strategy,” a source told CBS Sports after all, Snyder has shown for years that he’s been comfortably running his team at the worst stadium in the league. I came.
Also in that closed session, as first reported by The Athletic, the owners will discuss a $790 million St. Louis move settlement. A league source told CBS Sports that a “reasonable conclusion” has basically been decided on how the settlement money will be paid out, which will see Rams owner Stan Kroenke bear a significant portion of the tab. and divide the rest into the other 31 teams.
Another owner absent from the meeting is Dolphins owner Stephen Ross. Ross, who was suspended in August for game integrity violations after the team tampered with Tom Brady and Sean Payton, will be lifted on Oct. 17, one day before the meeting. However, the terms of his suspension dictate that he is still unable to “attend a meeting of the league” prior to the Spring 2023 Major Shareholders Meeting. is forbidden to enter
Dolphins CEO Tom Garfinkel is expected to represent the team at Tuesday’s meeting, league sources said.
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