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I'm right there with ya, brother. This was the first time this season I was rooting for the team rather than watching for comedic value or to root against Snyder. Even just the realistic possibility of him selling has me wanting to come back. It needs to happen for me to stick around, though. And, to be honest, this team is now a lot easier to root for. Playing with a lot of heart and with a killer defense. It ain't pretty, but I can root for it.

Kirk gonna Kirk.

I don't think there's an ideal owner out there. There is no such thing. However, I think it's highly unlikely that any of the leading candidates, including Bezos, would interfere with football operations like Snyder has or run a third-rate organization that lets everything fall apart (literally).

This lawsuit hardly constitutes "bet the company" litigation. I doubt it'll be even a speed bump in the potential sale of the team. I'm sure the buyer will require it to be settled pre-closing or for Snyder to indemnify the team for damages awarded against it. If the DC AG follows through and publishes a lot of damning info, it might just lower the selling price a wee bit, however. Damage to the organizational reputation and all that...

I'm always hearing a pronounced sneer whenever I read statements from "Dan and the Lawyers".

Frankford Yellow Jackets - 17 Boston Braves - 3 The defense will come to play. The offense will let them down.

Keeping digging Dan, you'll find that gold down there somewhere.

I'm not in favor of the new owner firing everyone down to cooleyfan93 and the cafeteria staff on day one. Snyder did that, and the organization never really recovered. There are undoubtedly some good people who know what needs to be done, and they should be empowered, not fired. First step is to hire new GM and probably new head of business ops, and let them evaluate and make the decisions on a timeline that makes sense.

The D looks playoff ready. The O looks playoff ready...in the FCS.

How far does moxie get you? About this far, apparently.

King of the Sandlot.

Just tuned in. Did Dan choose those awful uniforms this week out of spite?

It sounds like the process has quietly been going on for several weeks before the announcement, so we don't know how where things actually stand. Even with that, I'd expect the closing of the sale to go on into the spring, even if the bidding process and league approval happen before the end of the year. It may depend on the buyer. If Bezos writes a check, then it's fairly simple. If an investor group has to get their ducks in a row, then it could take longer. It's a multi-billion dollar transaction, so it should be done correctly and not in a rush. It wouldn't be ideal to have a caretaker regime for 2023, but it's likely the new owner starts putting a new leadership team together even before taking formal control. New GM gives Ron and the coaching and playing rosters an evaluation year. The hardest would be a repeat of 1998 where the ownership is in limbo during the free agency signing period.

If the league does the wrong thing and facilitates Snyder selling a minority share to fund a stadium, then I'm out for real and for good. Not from the Commanders. From the NFL. However, I think (regardless of whatever Jerry's word salad there means) the owners only see this ending one way, and it's not that.

My parents and I always thought Butz was the quintessential Redskin back in the glory days, making life miserable for the rest of the NFC East. He was a special part of a special team. RIP.

Money being the most attractive commodity to the folks who'd be voting on this.

The NFL wants Bezos. If he wants in, he could probably get away with naming the team after his dog.

If there's a winning bidder by year's end, I imagine their bid will be contingent on Dan not gutting or sabotaging the team while the sale is pending.

Yeah, but that was basically just speculation. It could be that the league office has been meeting with DC officials on the side, but I doubt it. New owner will have their work cut out for them; the zoning and planning process in DC, with all the "neighborhood advisory commissions" and such, is a bloodsport. Add into this the fact that the federal government owns the RFK site and would have to agree to this, too. And then there's the matter of getting the DC Council to vote up some funding.

The team belongs at the RFK site, and I believe the right owner could make that happen. You have to know whose palms to grease and how to play the PR game with "community development" and all that. I will say, that traffic on the Anacostia Freeway is much, much worse than it was in 1995, including on weekends. Don't think it would be exactly like the old days in terms of getting to and fro.

Unless the sale goes through quicker than they usually do, Ron is likely to get another year. The new owner would have to get a management team in place first.

Do you really want to anger a trained ninja?

Unless Bank of America has mind-control experts on staff, I doubt they're going to be able to persuade any billionaires to come join The Dan Snyder Experience.

Also, the earliest bidder might just be setting the floor for the others. Unless it's Bezos, it'll almost have to be a group bid unless there's another Walmart heir out there (Broncos and Rams are both now tied to the Walton family fortune).

It's behind a paywall, for anyone who has a Bloomberg News subscription: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-02/byron-allen-is-said-to-ready-bid-for-nfl-s-washington-commanders?leadSource=uverify wall