OT-Dan Snyder and the Washington Football team (unrelated to name)
Apparently there isn't enough smoke for you to share any of it...
Some quick hits from a few different sources within the past 24 hours.
From JP Finlay of NBC Sports Washington on Sunday: “A real busy week. And it’s not all going to be about the name and it’s not all going to be pretty.”
From Jason La Canfora of CBS, who once worked the Washington beat for the Washington Post: “The warped and toxic culture of the Washington Football Team is about to be exposed in a sickening fashion . . . Again.”
From Julie Donaldson of NBC Sports Washington on Tuesday: “What’s coming is disappointing and sad.”
From Scott Abraham of ABC 7: “There is much more going on . . . than a name change. . . . And it’s not good. I did not get specifics, but get ready people.”
These tweets presumably relate to chatter within the industry regarding a Washington Post story regarding the team. As of the weekend, it was believed the story would be published by Tuesday. It’s now believed that it will be published on Thursday.
The Redskins reportedly fired Director of Pro Personnel Alex Santos and Assistant Director of Pro Personnel Richard Mann II. These two former executives will reportedly be named in whatever mess is being reported. Chief Content Officer/Senior VP/”Voice of the Redskins” Larry Michael suddenly announced his retirement yesterday after 16+ years with the organization.
There hasn’t been a single word from Redskins Park to confirm any of these moves. The only announcement was that Jeff Scott was taking over Mann’s job. Eric Stokes is reportedly being brought over from the Panthers to replace Santos, but that’s not official yet. There was also a report that former Redskins great Don Warren was being hired for Mann's job, but that isn't happening now.
Tada. Something better than references to smoke.
This is posted waaaay down the thread, but here’s the story.
This is ten years old, but always a fun read. Expired airline peanuts, mattresses and agent orange...
I found what the OP is probably referring to. 'Dailysnark' sounds suspicious.
https://dailysnark.com/apparently-the-washington-redskins-are-about-to-be-in-some-deep-deep-sht/
It could all be BS, but I'll check the Washington Post later today.
Also, I checked around and found references to this report on reddit and twitter. Just a rumor about a report coming out 'tomorrow'. The report doesn't come out and then it's coming out 'tomorrow' the next day. Keeps sliding to the next day. Could all be BS.
That said, Larry Michaels, long term play by play announcer for the 'skins just resigned/retired.
The amount of typos, misspellings, and grammar/punctuation issues in that linked story makes it look like a Nigerian Prince wrote the damn thing. I'll wait for the WaPo to tell us truth...
Triple post this time. Way cool.
The second of the triple posts.
You did better on the third one.
I edited the comment you responded to. This just sounds like a mudslinging effort by people who don't like Snyder. Plenty to dislike, but could all just be crap.
Chimps do know a lot about crapslinging. Avatar checks out.
Not sure why you got a down vote. Simians do fling Pooh.
I have no idea how this completely factual statement drew a down vote. But I upvoted to provide some small nullification of the naysayer...
You didn’t pay for the full, edited version of the story? I did. I had to send $5k to cover some unforeseen expenses, but they are going to send me all that back, plus more.
If you are waiting for the truth from the WaPo I hope you are well stocked with supplies
Yes, because a frequent source of Pulitzer winning journalism and a generations long reputation for stellar reporting throughout the industry, is all wrong.
Go ahead and enjoy your Fox News and Inforwars commentary, dipstick.
I was going to make a mild WaPo joke here but realized it wasn’t worth it & just enjoyed a brief chuckle in my head.
Then I saw this response & am soooooo happy I didn’t step into the fray.
Humor is dead. We are not allowed to have fun anymore.
So far this "story" is like a high school rumor that all the cool kids know (but won't talk about) and if you dont know, well you're just not that popular-SORRY!
I mean every single dude I follow on Twitter is referencing it yet nobody will say exactly what's in it. Because it's just too big apparently.
I'll believe there's something when somebody has the balls (or facts) to go on the record. Until then consider me one of the fat kids at the loser lunch table because I dont know anything and nobody will tell me.
Down voted for the improper use of the word 'cause'.
C'mon, man!!! You're smarter than that - I know you are! Please use a correct abbreviation, because you sound like a friggen moran that 'ain't got no sense'... I fully realize that I make plenty of mistakes, but I try to minimize them. But this particular faux pas (using 'cause', the word, as an abbreviation) is a crime against grammar teachers everywhere.
There are no grammar nazis. There are just English teachers in jackboots.
I have no idea what you're talking about good sir. I think you might be one of the crazy people who makes things up because I totally didn't just edit my post.
No siree I absolutely did not do that because changing the original would make you look like a complete wack-a-doodle and that would be mean of me.
So no. I didn't do that at ALL.
That's your story and you are sticking to it. I like that.
You missed one, MGrow... Last line in your last paragraph of your OP. LOL!!
You are starting to frighten me. You are now just making up crazy stories that CLEARLY aren't true (go read the post again).
So glad we cannot go back and edit posts after they're made so honest, God-fearing simple folk like me can't be taken advantage of and made to look foolish by city-boys all full of book learning like you.
Well done, Geezer! Haha!!
And thanks for playing!
Not to worry, Sonny. You too will be a Geezer someday if you are lucky.
I'm one of those fat kids at the loser lunch table, too. Even if I knew, I still wouldn't tell you.
And so what?
Even if you leave aside the name issue, we already knew beyond all doubt that the Skins were a trash franchise when they pressganged their cheerleaders into a Costa Rica trip where they were expected to be SEC-style hostesses for VIP fan/sponsors.
So, whatever juicy bomb the OP is hinting at is basically "lots of smoke coming out soon about how Kim Jong has a shitty haircut and exiles family members who displease him!!!1!!"
Did he crash his big yacht into his even bigger yacht?
I think you've stumbled upon the best possible new mascot for them: The Football Team. They are, the Washington Football Team! Their helmet logo could be a football player, and if you look real closely, that logo on that logo football player's helmet is a football player, and...
I thought they went with warriors? was that a bullshit thing I saw on twitter?
Maybe they could be called the Washington Football Nationals, a la the New York Football Giants. After all, no one wants to mix up football with baseball, or football with futbol for that matter.
It would be offensive to football players The world over to associate what they do to what the team in DC does.
supposedly has to do with connections to Jeffery Epstein and multiple visits to his island
Amongst other equally salacious things.
Allegedly.
The internet says this about 100% of famous people.
This has been a coup by Bezos to acquire the team. It's all connected, FedEx, Epstein, etc...
They will be the Washington Amazonians by the end of the year.
If Snyder were still in charge & Bezos instead proposed that team name, I bet the logo would be a crude, chesty drawing of Wonder Woman.
Wouldn't that be racist, stereotyping women of Asian descent as vicious warriors?
Can't see the logo of a bare breasted woman warrior with a spear being acceptable to Fedex.
Wait.....do you think the Amazon is in Asia?
There's a lot of modern speculation over whether the amazons of greek legend had any basis in real-life female warrior groups, with several candidates from the middle east and asia being proposed.
I think "Washington Primes" is more likely. Focus on the upselling.
Wait, can he change course and do this to the Ford family so he can buy the Lions? Washington can have our nickname and we can go with the Detroit PrimeFreeDeliveries
they should name the team after their owner ...call them the Dickskins
They could go in a similar direction with the Washington Foreskins. But that may be offensive to uncircumcised guys. Their feelings matter too.
If their feelings matter, than that's all the more reason to lose the foreskin.
Sounds very Old Testament. Such a statement may be offensive to Muslims somehow. I am am feeling uncomfortable (my foreskin is itching) and will be contacting Mgoblog HR and/or Rob F to complain. We cannot have such insensitive shenanigans on this board...
I expect to be underwhelmed when the news finally breaks. It will be the Edsel of news stories: huge buildup that creates unrealistic expectations for a product that isn't at all that remarkable.
The good news for me is that the man rules, as I understand them, have just given me a chance to drop my lifetime family loyalty to the Skins. What a miserable couple of decades it has been. But I guess we had to pay back for the sheer joy of the Joe Gibbs era. But I think a name change does grant me the chance to remove my obligatory loyalty (and I haven't lived near there for some decades). Hmmm, maybe I'll become a Tampa Bay fan to cheer for our Tommy.
Why aren't any of them actually saying this horrible, terrible thing?