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  1. profusion
    No way the other owners force Dan out unless he's having an impact on the larger NFL business. However, I can see them pressuring him to sell by promising not to aid him in funding a new stadium. Essentially just tell him any new stadium proposal is DOA at the league office. Dan's Commanders can play at FedEx until it collapses.
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    The main job of congressional committees is to consider, amend and forward legislation, not to act as law enforcement. They can hold hearings on anything they want and call public attention to things, but the only possible "work product" is referring the matter to the DOJ or causing enough public outcry that DOJ gets involved. Neither is likely here. Looks like we're stuck with Snyder, which means I'm still teamless for the time being.
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    JDR will be a big hit in St. Louis, along with the rest of this fine organization.
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    The culture isn't damn good. It's damn GREAT!
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    What's amazing is that Watson didn't somehow end up in Ashburn.
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    Dan won't sell unless he's forced to. Nothing Roger says publicly or the committee does will make it impossible for him keep owning the team. He'll have to be voted out. You or I? Sure, we'd sell quietly to avoid being thrown under the bus. Dan is incapable of shame and thinks his lawyers can bully their way to any desired result.
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    Dan and Roger would be fools to show up. Nothing to be gained.
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    Oh god, the PSL sales would be a massively entertaining disaster.
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    Part of the point of going with a smaller stadium in the modern era is to make up for the smaller capacity by jacking up prices for such a "premium" experience, assuming that the poors will simply be watching on TV. Does anyone think the impresario behind sewage leaks, unsafe safety railings, defunct airline peanuts and expired beer is going to provide anything approaching a "premium" experience? He'll jack up the prices, for sure, but for the same level of awfulness all around. If there's a corner to be cut, it'll be cut with a chainsaw.
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    It's not just market size. The DC area includes 3 or 4 of the wealthiest counties in the country. Forget attendance. Having an engaged fanbase in the DMV impacts the TV contract due to the area's desirability to advertisers. With all that said, there are a lot of transplants here, and ratings might still be high without a local team. And the owners love having an empty market out there as leverage for stadium negotiations. St. Louis and San Diego don't have the same punch that way.
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    If Dan can't get a stadium deal anywhere around here, then I wouldn't be shocked if the league let him move. They'd do that before forcing him out, I think. We'd become the new Los Angeles: the big vacant market used as leverage for the other teams' taxpayer extortion effort. The NFL was willing to let LA go without a team for 20 years. It could absolutely happen here.
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    There shouldn't be any kind of deal. If a billionaire's club wants a playpen for the Washington branch of their business, let them build it themselves. I'd feel that way if the [I'll always call them Redskins] had won the Super Bowl last season.
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    An entertainment destination project at the Dulles quarry site would seemingly be a winner. I can imagine politicians falling all over themselves for a big moneymaker like that. Thing is, it probably doesn't need a Commanders stadium to work, just the way National Landing doesn't. If anything, a Snyder stadium would be a drag on the entire thing, since there is so little demonstrated demand for the team. The only reason to plop down a big useless concrete bowl into a project like that is to generate foot traffic. If I'm a banker, I'm not seeing the numbers add up.
  14. profusion
    Just when you thought you'd heard it all... What a clown.
  15. profusion
    From cursory reading, it appears the funding is more of a future tax break than an up-front payment. Sadly, local and state governments give these sweetheart deals to bigger businesses all the time. Snyder would still have to come up with the cash to build the project. The league would probably help out, as they've done elsewhere. The questions for lenders would be whether Snyder is already too leveraged and whether the profit potential is high enough. If I were considering it, the Loudoun location would appeal because of the upscale demographic there. The stadium isn't central to the profitability here; it's the surrounding entertainment stuff that makes or breaks it financially. Woodbridge and Dumfries are both terrible in terms of accessibility and are downscale. I'd wary of committing multi billions to fund a destination project there.
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    I'd prefer that the Va. legislature further adjust that support figure down from $350M to zero. If Dan wants to build his giant Commanders-logoed toilet bowl in Woodbridge or Dumfries or Appomattox Courthouse, fine, but not on my dime. If the league won't force him out, then I'd prefer him gone from the area altogether. I'm done with him.
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    If I were to guess, I'd say that the owners would threaten Snyder's financial future (behind the scenes) if he refused to sell, rather than openly vote him out. It wouldn't surprise me if something like that was in play with Jerry Richardson or Eddie DeBartolo. These are not necessarily nice people engaged in a nice business. Snyder's wealth is largely tied to, and tied up with, the team, so it's not like he can tell the owners to take a hike if they pressure him thusly. As for fanhood--I'd rather just drop the league entirely than flounce away to the Ravens or Bills etc. Dan Snyder and things like the Jon Gruden affair and the Browns' signing of DeShaun Watson have soured me somewhat on the entire enterprise. I still have my treasured memories of the old days, but this doesn't seem like that league anymore.
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    Could be, but it seems more like a cheezball negotiating tactic.
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    It definitely looks fast-food related, in some way. Like a new campus for Hamburger University, perhaps.
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    I lived in Woodbridge 20 years ago and briefly in the San Fernando Valley about a decade before that. There's no comparison. The traffic from the Beltway down to Woodbridge was a nightmare seven days a week, and that was two decades ago. It's way worse now. I know off-hour traffic in LA is worse now, but I've never experienced anything like I-95 in Northern Virginia. It's like taking all the traffic in the Valley and condensing it into a third the space
  21. profusion
    The issue with reach is not whether to pick the player, in most cases, but whether a team wanting that player could trade back for more picks and still get that player. There's a gamble involved with that, if course.
  22. profusion
    State AG investigations of prominent people or companies always have a political dimension, but we don't need to go off into conspiracy land about what it "really means." For one thing, if an investigation turns up more bad stuff on Snyder, the AG will be taking a big risk by deciding not to sue or pursue charges. Hard to snuff out the fire once lit.
  23. profusion
    The 'juice' (if it happened) put more money in Dan's pocket than being honest would have. The question is Dan's risk assessment capability. You give him more credit for that than I do. This is not a guy whose horizon stretches very far.
  24. profusion
    This is the guy who sued grandma because she couldn't afford her season tickets anymore. It's absolutely believable. Petty and stupid is perfectly on-brand.
  25. profusion
    In other words, the big racism scandal can't be far off. 😄
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