Daniel Snyder finds himself embroiled in a new scandal almost every other month and it seems people around the league are starting to get sick of him. This time, he is the subject of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Virginia attorney general investigation into potentially fraudulent bookkeeping.
His fellow owners are reportedly getting fed up.
“We are counting votes,” one team owner told Jarrett Bell of USA Today, implying that the owners were considered an ouster of Snyder’s ownership, which would require 24 votes to force a sale of the organization.
Among the accusations against Snyder and the organization is the potential goal of keeping some of the team’s earnings out of the NFL’s revenue-sharing system.
“If that happened, I think that’s the nail in the coffin,” one team owner said of Snyder’s ownership.
“For the first time, there’s been chatter,” another team owner told Bell regarding a potential ouster. “We should really think about doing something if they find something there.”
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Snyder has owned the Washington NFL franchise for two decades.
In February 2021, Washington settled out of court with a number of former cheerleaders who said that executive staffers had lewd videos made from swimsuit calendar photoshoots in 2008 and 2010.
Not to mention, the team fought like hell to keep the Redskins nickname until they were forced to change it following public pressure and pressure from sponsors. Snyder and his organization have remained in the headlines for all the wrong reasons in the past few years and the product on the field has not been that great either.
His fellow owners appear to be running low on patience.
“There’s growing frustration about the Washington situation and not over one issue, but over how much smoke there is,” one owner told Bell. “I think everybody’s getting tired of it.”
“There are some owners who believe the league will be better off with a different owner in Washington,” another owner added.
