In the more than six weeks, 42 women have alleged in two separate investigations through The Washington Post that the Washington football team had been a show of sexual harassment and misconduct for much of Dan Snyder’s 21-year reign as owner.
In a July 16 report, Snyder was not directly involved. In the most recent article in the publication, published Wednesday morning, it is. An obscene video about creating the team’s 2008 porr costume calendar was reportedly compiled for Snyder, while he is also accused of suggesting a porrist sign up for one of her close friends in a hotel room so that “they can get to know each other better. . “Matrix”
Sean DeBarbieri, spokesman for the Washington football team, told USA TODAY Sports on Wednesday that the team had no comment on Wednesday’s report. Snyder posted on a Wednesday afternoon denying the allegations, saying the Post’s investigation “reads like a ‘successful job’.”
However, if the accusations are true, Snyder will have to go. Under no circumstances will you be allowed to continue to own an NFL team.
If Snyder even had a trace of dignity amid those fulminant and reprehensible accusations that not only oppose him but oppose the office he oversees, I would say he is necessarily promoting the team and resigning, just as 3 of his workers did last month with the numerous allegations made to them in the First Round of the Post Office Roundtable with the team.
Fortunately, Snyder even has a tendency for alleged sexual misconduct to follow. Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson said he would sell his equipment on December 17, 2017, the same day Sports Illustrated reported that at least four former Panthers workers had won significant financial arrangements due to comments from Richardson’s office and conduct, adding sexually suggestive. language and behavior, and at least in one case direct an opposing racial slur to a black team scout.
Five months later, Richardson left, promoting his team as part of a $2.2 billion deal approved by NFL homeowners on May 22, 2018. A month later, Richardson fined $2.75 million through NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. He made a lot of money, but the NFL broke up with him.
If Snyder doesn’t announce his departure, Goodell will honor him. It would probably require research, a valid research expedition conducted through the league, and not studies funded through Snyder that took up position after the first post article.
NFL researchers don’t take long; The Post’s meticulous reports explained everything to them. If the NFL confirms what the Post reported, then Goodell and the league owners will have enough evidence to drive Snyder out forever. Expulsion requires the three-quarters vote of the league’s executive committee, which is composed of a representative of the 32 teams.
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Snyder has his allies, of course, but there can’t be a spot in the NFL in 2020 for a owner as terrible as Snyder supposedly. The huge number of women who have denounced a culture of sexual harassment and misconduct within Snyder’s organization for more than 15 years is impressive. The Post said it interviewed more than a hundred existing and former workers from the formerly respected NFL club, and reviewed internal corporate documents and other records.
The brave men and women who came here also spoke of an environment in which intimidation and degrading behavior through control created a climate of concern that allowed abusive behavior to remain unchecked. The 25 women in Wednesday’s story described male bosses, colleagues and players commenting on their bodies and clothing, sexual innuendo in office conversations and making unwanted advances in the user or email, text messages and social media.
It is attractive to note that many of those who spoke to the Post about this week’s investigation did so because they were irritated by Snyder’s comments that he sought to distance himself from his organization’s poisonous paint environment, as reported in July.
But in his statement, Snyder volunteered as leader of his organization, but as a kind of spectator.
He said he had “certainly been too distracted as an owner,” adding that “in the long run I will be more involved.” He spoke of “important adjustments in the body of workers that bring new leadership to drive cultural transformation on and off the field.”
After Post’s first story, Snyder brought in a new president, Jason Wright, the first black user to take up the position in NFL history, and a new senior vice president of media, Julie Donaldson, Array’s tallest woman.
With the new head coach, Ron Rivera, they are expected to be a replacement for this suffering organization.
It’s nice. But even if Snyder needs to distract us from his overwhelming presence in the most sensible of the team he owns, we know he’s here. We also know that there’s a guy guilty to everything that’s going on in his organization, and that’s Snyder himself.