The all amount of money that Bezos would need to purchase the Redskins (a few billion) could likely be found in his couch cushions. Being an NFL owner is a desired pet project for the super rich. That's why.
This entire conversation reminds me of the story where Cowboys owner Jerry Jones owned the hottest privilege in all of Texas -- the very limited number of parking spaces under AT&T Stadium in Dallas. These spaces were most coveted among all of the suite owners. And Jerry Jones had 100% control of who gained these privileged parking spaces.
That's the thing. When one can afford all the fancy cars and watches and luggage and other luxury goods imaginable people still want a way to signal their status and power. Access displays become more important than things.
And McCain and Hillary lost. And Biden will lose. Charismatic (new and diffetent) candidates like Clinton, Obama and Trump win. And another example would be Bush 43 winning over milquetoast Al "Lockbox" Gore.
This is what liberals and leftist cuck wonks do not understand. Guys like Trump and Clinton, no matter their flaws, command a room. They are tall dudes who have alpha leadership qualities without objectively coming off as total douchebags. That is why they can win huge elections. It is an exceedingly rare soft skill, but when you looked at the DNC clown car during the debates it was obvious none of them had it.
Dubya, the campaigner, didn’t really have it, but my god did he channel it and dig it up from deep after 9/11. Obama had it during the stump speeches but then just somehow was a stiff who tried way too hard to be “cool” once he won.
Obama was a community organizer. His home turf was being out among the rubes people and working them up to do something against authority. Once he became that authority, he was out of his depth.
Trump has been "authority" of one sort or another (boss, father, community leader) his whole life. President was just another variation on the position.
Plus Obama was running against two very uncharismatic republican nominees in McCain and Romney. Quite frankly, both of those candidates needed to have a pulse checked time and again to see if they were moving.
Completely agree with you regarding Slick Willy. What a difference between spouses! Bill is still loved by Dems everywhere. And Hillary wil forever be loathed.
What does it say about a person when you're married to a man that a sizable portion of the electorate believes is a serial sex predator/rapist, and most of them prefer him to you?
A preference of Slick Willy over Crooked Hillary says a lot. That is, in part, the sentiment that many 2016 voters had in mind when they decided to either stay at home for the Gen Election or to vote for Donald Trump. Bill continues to be liked, while Hillary was never liked. Just think about it. A career politician seeking to become the first female President, and she loses to a real estate mogul/reality TV star who had never run for political office before. Besides Donald Trump's very winnable MAGA ideology, it was a "perfect storm" of lifelong Crooked Hillary corruption, hidden email servers and an unprecedented loathing of the Dem candidate. And she remains oblivious to those electorate feelings about her from four years ago as she still continues to make public statements about the 2016 General Election results. Hillary, you need to understand that people don't want to see you or hear from you again -- it is time to go away and stay away.
Why? The dude literally has Fuck You money compared to everyone on the planet. You think Bezos has half of the stones of Donald Trump and will give up the most comfortable life of any human that has existed on the Earth ever to eat shit from the American public and media all day and night long?
There's a certain level of permanence that comes with a position of power that one can't gain simply by possessing power. If Bezos lives out his life as he is now, he'll be basically forgotten within a few decades of his death. Sooner if he somehow loses his current power and wealth before then. But if he ever becomes President, he'll always be known of as a President, even after loses that position, and even if he loses it ignominiously along with all his other power and wealth.
what makes you say that? Theres so much more demand for that now than there's ever been. And I'm not asking in a rhetorical way, I'm a female who doesn't know shit about sports things... so I'm just actually asking.
Admins just aren't supposed to be stupid enough to get caught. That's when they get in trouble. Look how everyone treated Kraft after his Massage Adventures got out to the public. He's powerful (read: rich and has info on others) enough that he wasn't kicked out of the boys club, but he and his team weren't shown any deference any more by the league and the refs.
I'm sure it's more prevalent in the upper ranks than anyone would care to believe. They just keep it wrapped up better. Tighter circles. This reeks of politics. We'll see.
You need to understand the mind of liberals. They EXPECT minority players to do drugs and assault people. It called the "bigotry of low expectations". It's the same reason they conclude Voter ID is racist. Because they think minorities don't know how to get an ID. Even if it was issued free of charge from the government.
Why else do you see ridiculous articles in the news like "Showing up on time is white supremacy" or "Being polite is white supremacy" "Being able to think objectively is white supremacy". When you see those articles and flip it to understand they are saying "Minorities can't show up on time" "Minorities can't be polite" Minorities can't think objectively" then you see the attack isn't just on "white" people, but also minorities, telling them they can't help it they are stupid.
I've never understood the whole "bigotry of low expectations" thing. It sounds like a really fancy way of saying "racism."
Worse, if you think white people are intrinsically superior to every other race, even going so far as branding any behavior seen as positive as "white," then that's white supremacy.
... But remember: the parties totally switched, you guys.
It is racism. And it's the best case of "systemic" racism they keep saying is the real boogey man. They are the ones peddling it. I like to label it "bigotry of low expectations" because they literally look down on minorities as being unable to live responsibly, dignified, and with purpose. And they feel good thinking that. It's a holy virtue to think like that. And if anyone dares suggest otherwise they all go after them because they cannot tolerate any other opinion on the matter.
It’s not so much a “black people acting like thugs, what do you expect?” But more “you are very articulate and it is very impressive you have a college degree.” The difference is that plain old racism is negative while BoLE is unduly positive. BoLE is still generally considered to be a type of racism though.
The WaPo story was released earlier this afternoon, and there are no sexual abuse or drug abuse allegations reported. The two basic findings from the fifteen Redskins female employees were verbal abuse of a sexual nature and exhortation for the females to wear tight clothing to close sales deals. So the fact that there are no frank sexual abuse or drug abuse issues here, is this a relative win for Daniel Snyder? Honestly, I was expecting a lot worse from this WaPo exposé.
Good point. Snyder just needs to hire someone who checks all these boxes -- female, Afr-American, LGBTQ, illegal alien/DACA, #MeToo survivor -- then he'll survive this latest WaPo exposé
Only things these owners are good at is tricking tax payers into subsidizing their stadiums and business model. It's why they can afford to be so woke.
CIA- project Mockingbird. I don't think Bezos has a lot of day-to-day say in how the WaPo operates. Last thing TPTB want is another William Randolph Hearst- and Bezo's wealth makes Hearst look destitute by comparison.
I'm sure that players involvement is part of this story too. But this Washington Post report will be all about Redskins administrators, including coaching staff. This is not so far-fetched of a story about the Redskins because in 2013, there were multiple reportings about Redskins cheerleaders who were coerced by team representatived to act as escorts and nude models for top sponsors at both domestic and international gatherings.
Those cheerleaders are really weird. It’s more of a hobby they enjoy than a job. The pay is so low that many of them have actual day jobs in addition to practices and game stuff. They can’t live off cheerleading money.
Bc they’re basically volunteers living out some bizarro high school hobby, I wouldn’t imagine any of them would speak up about things.
Cheerleading, "professionally" is actually to make connections. Rich and powerful people show up to games, and you could be, what's the term they use in the entertainment business? Spotted? Yo could get invited to take part in big paying gigs like modeling, get to go on tour as a backup dancer for singgers/ rockstars/ rappers/ whatever. Or, you know, the most lucrative job of them all, becoming a mistress to the rich and powerful. Some women play the game well. Others... not so much. And then you get situations like the Skins cheerleading scandal.
I had the misfortune of driving through Arizona and New Mexico and through some Indian land, and that area was beyond unsightly and fraught with debauchery. I stopped at a diner to eat lunch, and no less than four Native Americans came up to me, begging for money. What a pit.
I live in Southern California and there's some big indian reservations with very successful casinos near the San Diego area, you've got Pala and Pechanga. Well if you go to those casinos, they're fucking beautiful and amazing and the area around those casinos is beautiful and amazing. But if you take the right roads to get to those casinos, and you drive through the actual reservation where American Indians live?
hoooooo boy those people live in fucking squalor. Felt like my Chevy was a time machine driving through that clusterfuck.
New Mexico: holyyyyyy Hell is that a wasteland. Had a very dramatic experience that involved mortal danger. I will never go back to that no mans land.
I was surprised while out west (I’m from SE) how much of the area is like old westerns. The smaller areas scattered in the desert & mountains, where it doesn’t feel like camping but a death march in a nuclear testing zone. Hey...waitaminnit..
You don't have to think back too far to the Kobe Bryant sodomy case in Eagle, Colorado. That accuser, Katelyn Faber, made big money on the civil suit, and don't forget that Kobe paid for a,$4M million diamond ring to save his gold-digging wife from leaving him.
This NFL behavior was tolerated (and even celebrated) in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Read North Dallas Forty by Peter Gent sometime. It is a novel based on the true-life debauchery of the NFL. The novel was one of the first to examine the NFL's hypocrisy regarding drug use. The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have put this previously-accepted NFL caveman behavior front-and-center now.
I completely agree. Snyder had been steadfast for years that the Redskins name would remain in place. So what makes Snyder accept the name change now? Was he made aware of this Fred Smith/Jeff Bezos coup, and this name change was an attempt to keep this news story from being released?
This connection stands out once you pointed it out. FedEx forced redskins hand to change their name by pulling their funding/merch and who has a bigger account with fedex than Amazon.
Jerry Jones gets a pass, cause even though he's hated, he's more responsible for turning the NFL into a money machine than any other owner.
Example: 20 years ago, hockey jerseys outsold NFL jerseys, cause hockey jerseys were more decorated. All those retarded alternative uniforms were Jerry's idea, and it worked.
NFL consumers, now, in addition to spending insane amounts on seats, spend up to $200 to get a jersey to wear to the games, like they're Tony Romo's bitch girlfriend or something.
The same pass is applied to Robert Kraft, because he lead many NFL Committees toward enhancing leaguewide owner profitability. Kraft owns a team that consistently cheats to win, even with a Hall of Fame head coach and a top three QB on the roster. And then the fact that Robert Kraft had a couple of oral therapy sessions at a Florida "massage parlor" didn't bring him down either.
This definitely sounds to me like part of a smear campaign to facilitate a hostile take over. They’re publish all this hostile shit, and then they can take over the team, change the name, etc. with impunity.
Thing I love is how a Trump hating sports writer douchebag went to a hotel to see a woman that he thought was going to sleep with him for a Redskins related scoop just to find out that there was no woman.
Jason La Confora or whatever the fuck this wimpy incels name is. He got outed back in 2013. Then him and his fellow woke assholes swept it under the bed.
This tweet from Harrison Weinhold (@RadioHarrison) is eye-opening.
Front office and team personnel fucking media members in exchange for scoops and leaks. Protecting leadership, coaches, players from getting in trouble with their wives, et cetera, and then using that information for blackmail, leaks and to keep people obedient (Gruden, Allen, McLovin).
Wow! Banging media members to ward off bad news. After reading this upcoming WaPo story, I am going to need a thorough eyewash.
As a lifelong Bucs and Arena Football fan, I am very disappointed about Jay Grudens involvement in all of this. Back in the 90's and 2000's he was loved and respected for being a good and decent family man. Now there is talk that he was involved with some pretty nasty stuff in D.C.; there is also a video of him smoking dope and cavorting with some, ahem, "ladies".
Very sad how far he has fallen. I always loved him in Orlando. Always a very personable, down-to-Earth guy. Always had time for Predators fans, would personally answer emails from fans. Hell, one time I called the Orlando Predators front office late one night and somehow got into their voice mail system and just for the hell of it I dialed Jay Grudens extension - and he picked it up! He was working at the office reviewing game film or something and I told him to bench the QB (Shane Stafford). He chuckled and asked if I was willing to play QB for them if he did that.
The moral of the story here is to NEVER go to D.C. unless you have a strong moral compass.
Let it happen. When they only hire LGBTQAAIP+ football players, they'll be last in the league. Liberals might start waking up to the idea that hiring based on skill, rather than victimhood hierarchy, is much more effective.
This Gruden footage was from last year, and some were theorizing that the Redskins leaked the footage to bolster their effort to fire Gruden at that time for cause.
Remember when that cuck NBA owner lost his team because he said don't take pictures with black dudes to his girlfriend? Bang away, but don't be seen with the brothers.
That's some shit the woke mob can take away your franchise.
The NFL is trash. Basically any sport where it's 75-80% black can't take their foot off the woke peddle. The NFL is the worst culprit for having absolute scumbag players.
You bring up the Raiders as a very good point. I can't recall any NFL owner in the entire history of the league that was more hated by the Commissioner's office than Al Davis. But decades ago, Davis wasn't the target of a coup because NFL players, coaches and administrators behaviors like drug use, sexual proclivities and off-field debauchery was accepted.
Funny that it works this way. I don't follow sports but I remember a few years ago that an owner of a basketball team who had a black girlfriend, was called out by her as racist and he lost his team just like that. Steve Balmer, worst CEO in history, picked it up. So that's cool.
You can say that again. (Hugh Culverhouse was also a bastard).
Sterling was one of the cheapest bastards in all of pro sports. He ran the Clippers like you would a minor league team. The stories out there about that SOB. Dear Lord, lol.
WaPo just dropped the story that from 2006 to 2019, fifteen Redskins female employees detail unwelcome overtures or comments of a sexual nature, and exhortations to wear revealing clothing and flirt with clients to close sales deals. The article details that Daniel Snyder was not among the accused harassers, but the female employees felt that Snyder turned a blind eye toward these occurrences.
Exactly. There have been no accusations of actual physical sexual abuse. And I think the fact that Daniel Snyder is so loathed among other NFL owners, that is the reason that the Redskins have not been able to squash this Washington Post story. Are you telling me that owners who create wealth for the NFL and other owners, like the Cowboys' Jerry Jones and the Patriots' Robert Kraft would not have been able to kill this story? I know the Robert Kraft had his "oral therapy" sessions in Florida exposed, but that was his own doing. A team-wide verbal abuse matter would be easily squashed in a more friendly press environment like Dallas or Boston. And what is the worst thing that could happen to Daniel Snyder here? The fact that he would sell his Redskins to another owner and make a thousand percent on his previous investment in purchasing the Redskins. Gee whiz, I would feel bad for Daniel Snyder and his 1000% return on investment.
This sounds like an attempt at pre-emptive damage control. It was just reported that Daniel Snyder is trying to get out ahead of this story, by hiring a Washington DC law firm to study his team's "culture, policies and allegations of workplace misconduct."
Purchase an NFL team? Now?
That's fuckin retarded. The NFL will no longer exist in a few seasons.
He bought a newspaper. Some purchases are not for financial investments.
CIA bought a newspaper.
Send in the clowns.
Too late. They came with the purchase 🤡🥳
don't bother, they're heeeeeeeeeeeeeeere!
The all amount of money that Bezos would need to purchase the Redskins (a few billion) could likely be found in his couch cushions. Being an NFL owner is a desired pet project for the super rich. That's why.
I agree. It's a vanity thing. Like having a Lambo in your garage that you never drive but show off to your friends.
And being a NFL owner puts you in the most popular fraternity of the rich. And all billionaires want to be in the coolest fraternity.
Yepper. And invites and access to swanky boxes are currency in that tier.
This entire conversation reminds me of the story where Cowboys owner Jerry Jones owned the hottest privilege in all of Texas -- the very limited number of parking spaces under AT&T Stadium in Dallas. These spaces were most coveted among all of the suite owners. And Jerry Jones had 100% control of who gained these privileged parking spaces.
That's the thing. When one can afford all the fancy cars and watches and luggage and other luxury goods imaginable people still want a way to signal their status and power. Access displays become more important than things.
Control = Power
Power over others, generally.
Money, get away
Get a good job with more pay and you're O.K.
Money, it's a gas
Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash
New car, caviar, four star daydream,
Think I'll buy me a football team
Super rich Dems have always enjoyed owning young healthy black men and forcing them to amuse them and work for them.
Ed Buck: has entered the chat
He said healthy black men, not dead black men.
Think about it like an UNPLANNED SALE Dan... 🤷🏻♂️😇
Guess one way to get your foothold in DC to push for policy you want, and make a presidential bid in 8-12 years?
If true, chalk this up as the official beginning of the Bezos campaign.
Bezos in 2032? I don't think so. Money can't buy you votes when you have all the charisma of a stone. Just ask Bloomberg.
? McCain? Hillary? Biden?
You can call those people alot, but charismatic is not one of them
And McCain and Hillary lost. And Biden will lose. Charismatic (new and diffetent) candidates like Clinton, Obama and Trump win. And another example would be Bush 43 winning over milquetoast Al "Lockbox" Gore.
Yes, but they still got votes
. . . but still lost.
Winning or losing wasnt the question
This is what liberals and leftist cuck wonks do not understand. Guys like Trump and Clinton, no matter their flaws, command a room. They are tall dudes who have alpha leadership qualities without objectively coming off as total douchebags. That is why they can win huge elections. It is an exceedingly rare soft skill, but when you looked at the DNC clown car during the debates it was obvious none of them had it.
Dubya, the campaigner, didn’t really have it, but my god did he channel it and dig it up from deep after 9/11. Obama had it during the stump speeches but then just somehow was a stiff who tried way too hard to be “cool” once he won.
Obama was a community organizer. His home turf was being out among the
rubespeople and working them up to do something against authority. Once he became that authority, he was out of his depth.Trump has been "authority" of one sort or another (boss, father, community leader) his whole life. President was just another variation on the position.
I hadn’t thought of that, but is an astute observation.
Plus Obama was running against two very uncharismatic republican nominees in McCain and Romney. Quite frankly, both of those candidates needed to have a pulse checked time and again to see if they were moving.
Completely agree with you regarding Slick Willy. What a difference between spouses! Bill is still loved by Dems everywhere. And Hillary wil forever be loathed.
What does it say about a person when you're married to a man that a sizable portion of the electorate believes is a serial sex predator/rapist, and most of them prefer him to you?
A preference of Slick Willy over Crooked Hillary says a lot. That is, in part, the sentiment that many 2016 voters had in mind when they decided to either stay at home for the Gen Election or to vote for Donald Trump. Bill continues to be liked, while Hillary was never liked. Just think about it. A career politician seeking to become the first female President, and she loses to a real estate mogul/reality TV star who had never run for political office before. Besides Donald Trump's very winnable MAGA ideology, it was a "perfect storm" of lifelong Crooked Hillary corruption, hidden email servers and an unprecedented loathing of the Dem candidate. And she remains oblivious to those electorate feelings about her from four years ago as she still continues to make public statements about the 2016 General Election results. Hillary, you need to understand that people don't want to see you or hear from you again -- it is time to go away and stay away.
Bloomberg’s campaign was a money laundering scheme for the DNC/Biden.
Why? The dude literally has Fuck You money compared to everyone on the planet. You think Bezos has half of the stones of Donald Trump and will give up the most comfortable life of any human that has existed on the Earth ever to eat shit from the American public and media all day and night long?
Yes, because he's a sociopath. More is never enough.
I don't think he's Bretton James.
There's a certain level of permanence that comes with a position of power that one can't gain simply by possessing power. If Bezos lives out his life as he is now, he'll be basically forgotten within a few decades of his death. Sooner if he somehow loses his current power and wealth before then. But if he ever becomes President, he'll always be known of as a President, even after loses that position, and even if he loses it ignominiously along with all his other power and wealth.
OMG we could start a new league where they all play on their knees...We will make MILLIONS!!!!
Salon: Or we could replace it with the National Furry Leage!
The XFL (and its second version) is dead and buried. There is no way that anothe rival football league will be undertaken anytime soon.
what makes you say that? Theres so much more demand for that now than there's ever been. And I'm not asking in a rhetorical way, I'm a female who doesn't know shit about sports things... so I'm just actually asking.
well that seems like an incredibly temporary state of affairs... why would it stop xfl from trying to organize?
Backwards, Trump wins kung flu is gone before the nfl offseason (thr time when another leaugue would consider playing).
But I just don't see another attermpt at a rival football league happening anytime soon.
The financial losses of all these leagues are legendary. And that $1.00 damages check paid from the NFL to the USFL didn't cut it.
Sex assaults? Drug and alcohol abuse?
sounds like 31 other teams, wonder why the Redskins would be singled out?
Black players as thugs? Okay. White administrators as thugs? WaPo headlines.
Admins just aren't supposed to be stupid enough to get caught. That's when they get in trouble. Look how everyone treated Kraft after his Massage Adventures got out to the public. He's powerful (read: rich and has info on others) enough that he wasn't kicked out of the boys club, but he and his team weren't shown any deference any more by the league and the refs.
I'm sure it's more prevalent in the upper ranks than anyone would care to believe. They just keep it wrapped up better. Tighter circles. This reeks of politics. We'll see.
You need to understand the mind of liberals. They EXPECT minority players to do drugs and assault people. It called the "bigotry of low expectations". It's the same reason they conclude Voter ID is racist. Because they think minorities don't know how to get an ID. Even if it was issued free of charge from the government. Why else do you see ridiculous articles in the news like "Showing up on time is white supremacy" or "Being polite is white supremacy" "Being able to think objectively is white supremacy". When you see those articles and flip it to understand they are saying "Minorities can't show up on time" "Minorities can't be polite" Minorities can't think objectively" then you see the attack isn't just on "white" people, but also minorities, telling them they can't help it they are stupid.
I've never understood the whole "bigotry of low expectations" thing. It sounds like a really fancy way of saying "racism."
Worse, if you think white people are intrinsically superior to every other race, even going so far as branding any behavior seen as positive as "white," then that's white supremacy.
... But remember: the parties totally switched, you guys.
It is racism. And it's the best case of "systemic" racism they keep saying is the real boogey man. They are the ones peddling it. I like to label it "bigotry of low expectations" because they literally look down on minorities as being unable to live responsibly, dignified, and with purpose. And they feel good thinking that. It's a holy virtue to think like that. And if anyone dares suggest otherwise they all go after them because they cannot tolerate any other opinion on the matter.
It’s not so much a “black people acting like thugs, what do you expect?” But more “you are very articulate and it is very impressive you have a college degree.” The difference is that plain old racism is negative while BoLE is unduly positive. BoLE is still generally considered to be a type of racism though.
The WaPo story was released earlier this afternoon, and there are no sexual abuse or drug abuse allegations reported. The two basic findings from the fifteen Redskins female employees were verbal abuse of a sexual nature and exhortation for the females to wear tight clothing to close sales deals. So the fact that there are no frank sexual abuse or drug abuse issues here, is this a relative win for Daniel Snyder? Honestly, I was expecting a lot worse from this WaPo exposé.
Well Hell Mark Cuban had that going on with the Mavericks, just hire a black woman president and he should be good to go.
Good point. Snyder just needs to hire someone who checks all these boxes -- female, Afr-American, LGBTQ, illegal alien/DACA, #MeToo survivor -- then he'll survive this latest WaPo exposé
Football is enjoying their new woke status by getting attacked by the same fucks they are catering to. Get fucked football.
Not an ideal business model. These people are supposed to be smart.
Only things these owners are good at is tricking tax payers into subsidizing their stadiums and business model. It's why they can afford to be so woke.
This is exactly the same propaganda that American newspapers were founded on. Used for the same reason. To benefit the owner of the newspaper.
CIA- project Mockingbird. I don't think Bezos has a lot of day-to-day say in how the WaPo operates. Last thing TPTB want is another William Randolph Hearst- and Bezo's wealth makes Hearst look destitute by comparison.
Exactly. I really believe that there is no coincidence here that WaPo owner Bezos is seeking to gain ownership.
It is his only legal way to own black people.
I'm sure that players involvement is part of this story too. But this Washington Post report will be all about Redskins administrators, including coaching staff. This is not so far-fetched of a story about the Redskins because in 2013, there were multiple reportings about Redskins cheerleaders who were coerced by team representatived to act as escorts and nude models for top sponsors at both domestic and international gatherings.
And if Commissioner Goodell acquiesces to a story in which The Star-Spangled Banner will no longer be played at games, then stick a fork in the NFL
Those cheerleaders are really weird. It’s more of a hobby they enjoy than a job. The pay is so low that many of them have actual day jobs in addition to practices and game stuff. They can’t live off cheerleading money.
Bc they’re basically volunteers living out some bizarro high school hobby, I wouldn’t imagine any of them would speak up about things.
Cheerleading, "professionally" is actually to make connections. Rich and powerful people show up to games, and you could be, what's the term they use in the entertainment business? Spotted? Yo could get invited to take part in big paying gigs like modeling, get to go on tour as a backup dancer for singgers/ rockstars/ rappers/ whatever. Or, you know, the most lucrative job of them all, becoming a mistress to the rich and powerful. Some women play the game well. Others... not so much. And then you get situations like the Skins cheerleading scandal.
So, according to WaPo, the environment on the Redskins is exactly like living on an Indian reservation?
KEK
A little more meth on the Rez, paleface
I had the misfortune of driving through Arizona and New Mexico and through some Indian land, and that area was beyond unsightly and fraught with debauchery. I stopped at a diner to eat lunch, and no less than four Native Americans came up to me, begging for money. What a pit.
I live in Southern California and there's some big indian reservations with very successful casinos near the San Diego area, you've got Pala and Pechanga. Well if you go to those casinos, they're fucking beautiful and amazing and the area around those casinos is beautiful and amazing. But if you take the right roads to get to those casinos, and you drive through the actual reservation where American Indians live?
hoooooo boy those people live in fucking squalor. Felt like my Chevy was a time machine driving through that clusterfuck.
Sounds about right
New Mexico: holyyyyyy Hell is that a wasteland. Had a very dramatic experience that involved mortal danger. I will never go back to that no mans land.
I was surprised while out west (I’m from SE) how much of the area is like old westerns. The smaller areas scattered in the desert & mountains, where it doesn’t feel like camping but a death march in a nuclear testing zone. Hey...waitaminnit..
So football players and teams act like football players and teams!?!
Imagine how today's press would have dealt with the 70's-80's Raiders, Steelers, Dolphins, and the 80's Giants?
Different sport, but imagine how they would have handled the NY Mets (84-90)? Lol.
also different sport, but I would imagine the Lakers' dirty laundry is quite dirty indeed, as well.
Magic Johnson was fucking dudes.
You don't have to think back too far to the Kobe Bryant sodomy case in Eagle, Colorado. That accuser, Katelyn Faber, made big money on the civil suit, and don't forget that Kobe paid for a,$4M million diamond ring to save his gold-digging wife from leaving him.
This NFL behavior was tolerated (and even celebrated) in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Read North Dallas Forty by Peter Gent sometime. It is a novel based on the true-life debauchery of the NFL. The novel was one of the first to examine the NFL's hypocrisy regarding drug use. The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements have put this previously-accepted NFL caveman behavior front-and-center now.
I completely agree. Snyder had been steadfast for years that the Redskins name would remain in place. So what makes Snyder accept the name change now? Was he made aware of this Fred Smith/Jeff Bezos coup, and this name change was an attempt to keep this news story from being released?
Boycott NFL
This connection stands out once you pointed it out. FedEx forced redskins hand to change their name by pulling their funding/merch and who has a bigger account with fedex than Amazon.
I really despise Snyder for how he's completely trashed such an amazing franchise, but I don't see how Bezos could ever be better.
Bezos has unlimited money and an unlimited desire to be invited into the NFL owner fraternity.
He can wait until an owner wants to sell without coercion (like Martha Ford and the Lions) or until expansion teams are announced like everyone else!
Want to bet you could write this exact same story about any team in the NFL?
Definitely, but hated owners like Jerry Richardson, Bud Adams and Daniel Snyder are always targeted.
Jerry Jones gets a pass, cause even though he's hated, he's more responsible for turning the NFL into a money machine than any other owner.
Example: 20 years ago, hockey jerseys outsold NFL jerseys, cause hockey jerseys were more decorated. All those retarded alternative uniforms were Jerry's idea, and it worked.
NFL consumers, now, in addition to spending insane amounts on seats, spend up to $200 to get a jersey to wear to the games, like they're Tony Romo's bitch girlfriend or something.
The same pass is applied to Robert Kraft, because he lead many NFL Committees toward enhancing leaguewide owner profitability. Kraft owns a team that consistently cheats to win, even with a Hall of Fame head coach and a top three QB on the roster. And then the fact that Robert Kraft had a couple of oral therapy sessions at a Florida "massage parlor" didn't bring him down either.
Troof.
This definitely sounds to me like part of a smear campaign to facilitate a hostile take over. They’re publish all this hostile shit, and then they can take over the team, change the name, etc. with impunity.
Thing I love is how a Trump hating sports writer douchebag went to a hotel to see a woman that he thought was going to sleep with him for a Redskins related scoop just to find out that there was no woman.
Jason La Confora or whatever the fuck this wimpy incels name is. He got outed back in 2013. Then him and his fellow woke assholes swept it under the bed.
Woa
This tweet from Harrison Weinhold (@RadioHarrison) is eye-opening.
Front office and team personnel fucking media members in exchange for scoops and leaks. Protecting leadership, coaches, players from getting in trouble with their wives, et cetera, and then using that information for blackmail, leaks and to keep people obedient (Gruden, Allen, McLovin).
Wow! Banging media members to ward off bad news. After reading this upcoming WaPo story, I am going to need a thorough eyewash.
https://twitter.com/RadioHarrison/status/1283610660958502913?
McLovin? What the FUCK, MCLOVIN?
There was once a time when former GM Scot "McLovin" McCloughan's reputation was described as extremely sound and disciplined.
He's a raging alcoholic.
As a lifelong Bucs and Arena Football fan, I am very disappointed about Jay Grudens involvement in all of this. Back in the 90's and 2000's he was loved and respected for being a good and decent family man. Now there is talk that he was involved with some pretty nasty stuff in D.C.; there is also a video of him smoking dope and cavorting with some, ahem, "ladies".
Very sad how far he has fallen. I always loved him in Orlando. Always a very personable, down-to-Earth guy. Always had time for Predators fans, would personally answer emails from fans. Hell, one time I called the Orlando Predators front office late one night and somehow got into their voice mail system and just for the hell of it I dialed Jay Grudens extension - and he picked it up! He was working at the office reviewing game film or something and I told him to bench the QB (Shane Stafford). He chuckled and asked if I was willing to play QB for them if he did that.
The moral of the story here is to NEVER go to D.C. unless you have a strong moral compass.
Bitch set me up!
Let it happen. When they only hire LGBTQAAIP+ football players, they'll be last in the league. Liberals might start waking up to the idea that hiring based on skill, rather than victimhood hierarchy, is much more effective.
That's like tanking the stock market to buy up major stakes.
The Zaff brothers who owned the UFC were said to have really has their eyes set on owning a team because the $$$ was ridiculous.
Shoutout to Zaff though they helped save that sport
Jay Gruden Appears to Be Smoking Weed and Talking to Young Woman in New Footage
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.www.complex.com/sports/2019/10/jay-gruden-weed-young-women
This Gruden footage was from last year, and some were theorizing that the Redskins leaked the footage to bolster their effort to fire Gruden at that time for cause.
If I were Snyder I would get out while the gettin's good.
Take the money and run, bro.
Woa really? I missed this story, and am having trouble finding it. Do you have a link?
Remember when that cuck NBA owner lost his team because he said don't take pictures with black dudes to his girlfriend? Bang away, but don't be seen with the brothers.
That's some shit the woke mob can take away your franchise.
He got like 6 or 7 times the value of the Clippers. Best decision he ever made.
THIS.
The NFL is trash. Basically any sport where it's 75-80% black can't take their foot off the woke peddle. The NFL is the worst culprit for having absolute scumbag players.
There is a saying about what happens when you get woke...
You could go to any team and find that. It’s football and these guys are Neanderthals
NFL team sexual assault and drug abuse... you don't say.
Now do the raiders
You bring up the Raiders as a very good point. I can't recall any NFL owner in the entire history of the league that was more hated by the Commissioner's office than Al Davis. But decades ago, Davis wasn't the target of a coup because NFL players, coaches and administrators behaviors like drug use, sexual proclivities and off-field debauchery was accepted.
Funny that it works this way. I don't follow sports but I remember a few years ago that an owner of a basketball team who had a black girlfriend, was called out by her as racist and he lost his team just like that. Steve Balmer, worst CEO in history, picked it up. So that's cool.
That would be Donald Sterling, perhaps the worst owner in the history of professional sports.
Heh. But am I wrong that it is a bit iffy that Balmer was right there to pick up a team after a quick claim of racism?
You can say that again. (Hugh Culverhouse was also a bastard).
Sterling was one of the cheapest bastards in all of pro sports. He ran the Clippers like you would a minor league team. The stories out there about that SOB. Dear Lord, lol.
Being an eagles fan.. this “report” seems to be exclusively targeted to try to remove Synder... i just feel like this is total Bull shit
Personally I'm offended that any organization would use slave owners as their mascot. It must be because they support slavery.
That depiction was applied to colleges too. Do you remember Colonel Reb at Ole Miss?
To be honest that sounds like the average NFL team
Also rumors that this is Epstein related as well.
That would be an interesting tangent. I could see that as part of the story, will all these rich people involved (?Snyder).
Story just broke on espn.
Thank you. Here is the archived version of the WaPo exposé:
http://archive.is/MniFI
Only non-racists can do blow and hookers
As a former Redskins fan, I'm not totally against this. We've been wanting Snyder to sell ever since he bought the team.
Sarcastiball stopped be watched by us a while ago. Bunch of propaganda kowtowing cunts
WaPo just dropped the story that from 2006 to 2019, fifteen Redskins female employees detail unwelcome overtures or comments of a sexual nature, and exhortations to wear revealing clothing and flirt with clients to close sales deals. The article details that Daniel Snyder was not among the accused harassers, but the female employees felt that Snyder turned a blind eye toward these occurrences.
http://archive.is/MniFI
Exactly. There have been no accusations of actual physical sexual abuse. And I think the fact that Daniel Snyder is so loathed among other NFL owners, that is the reason that the Redskins have not been able to squash this Washington Post story. Are you telling me that owners who create wealth for the NFL and other owners, like the Cowboys' Jerry Jones and the Patriots' Robert Kraft would not have been able to kill this story? I know the Robert Kraft had his "oral therapy" sessions in Florida exposed, but that was his own doing. A team-wide verbal abuse matter would be easily squashed in a more friendly press environment like Dallas or Boston. And what is the worst thing that could happen to Daniel Snyder here? The fact that he would sell his Redskins to another owner and make a thousand percent on his previous investment in purchasing the Redskins. Gee whiz, I would feel bad for Daniel Snyder and his 1000% return on investment.
The Washington Post story is not yet published. It is likely that it will come out tomorrow.
Football? Oh, the game I play with my family to teach them about teamwork. Didn't realize there was a professional league for it.
Don't care
This sounds like an attempt at pre-emptive damage control. It was just reported that Daniel Snyder is trying to get out ahead of this story, by hiring a Washington DC law firm to study his team's "culture, policies and allegations of workplace misconduct."
http://archive.is/a3gtF