The damning story of terrible things going on within the Washington (former) Redskins organization had been teased for days and now we finally have the story that is going to change the Washington front office for a long time to come.
On July 5th, the Washington Post reported that minority owners Fred Smith, Dwight Schar and Robert Rothman have been trying to sell their interest in the franchise.
Over the weekend, the team fired Director of pro personnel Alex Santos and assistant Richard Mann II, and on Wednesday longtime broadcaster Larry Michael announced he’s leaving the team after 16 years.
On Thursday, the Washington Post dropped that article that had just about everything in it from sexual harassment and verbal abuse.
The Post reports, “they cried about the realization their dream job of working in the NFL came with what they characterized as relentless sexual harassment and verbal abuse that was ignored — and in some cases, condoned — by top team executives.”
“Former women employees said the first few weeks … also often came with an informal, but invaluable, orientation administered privately by veteran female employees who warned them to avoid certain people and places, such as the staircase near the entrance to team headquarters.”
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Washington has primarily been focusing on its name change in the last week after the team officially retired the nickname and logo.
“On July 3rd, we announced the commencement of a thorough review of the team’s name. That review has begun in earnest. As part of this process, we want to keep our sponsors, fans and community apprised of our thinking as we go forward.
Today, we are announcing we will be retiring the Redskins name and logo upon completion of this review,” the Washington football team announced on Monday.
The name change has been the big story in D.C., but now it becomes an afterthought something even bigger.
