RedDawn

The trauma had already occurred. What is happening right now is PTSD. Eliminating the dysfunctional ownership that destroyed the team doesn’t eliminate losing, it just re-introduces the possibility for winning, aka hope. Many people in this fanbase seem to have forgotten that frustration, disappointment, and losing are all part of the normal fan experience, and in the normal fan experience the balance comes from hope, not any sort of guaranteed success. It’s fine to hate the Quinn hire, or any decision ownership makes, but none of us are being robbed of something that is owed to us any time we are unhappy. I don’t know if the team will get back to what it was, but I have doubts about the fanbase as long as people think anything short of gratification is adversity.

What is the significance of this? Is it bad? Why?

The flip side is if it was any other team maybe Harris still becomes owner with a different deal. Basically if he was able to leverage the situation into a more favorable overall structure, good for him. People need to drop the idea that he was scrambling for financing. It’s a business deal and it’s always about getting the most for the least, regardless of the bottom line number. This reporting doesn’t matter to us, it just reflects that we’ve entered into the phase where NFL and Harris negotiate.

Perfect time for Bezos to strike

Exactly. And he hasn’t because he won’t. And Snyder knows he won’t, otherwise he’d still be playing the “I’m not sure I want to sell to Bezos” cards. Instead he’s constantly getting the name Bezos out trying to scare the last legitimate bidder into a higher offer. It’s the end of the end game, basically a staring contest between Harris and Snyder

You're completely ignoring the big blinking light here: that Harris is bidding at a level that is chasing him off. In that case it's irrelevant how much more money Bezos has. He's a successful businessperson who didn't get there by making bad deals. Why would he try to buy 40% of the team to step aside now? 1) See above. The valuation indicated by Snyder's buyout of minority partners was 2.4 billion. So knowing Bezos was interested in 40% tells us N O T H I N G about what he thinks about the value in this transaction 2) Minority ownership, as we're seeing with Harris and his Steelers stake, is advantageous towards future ownership. In other words the fact that the stake was in the Commanders is irrelevant, it was a foot in the NFL door

Good call if only we knew how Fred Smith feels about a business partnership with Dan Snyder

Is acquiring talent ... bad?

Magic Johnson has had a share of several professional team, and I believe they have all won championships. Jay Z was part owner of the Brooklyn Nets for a decade and, I'll spare you the research, they did not. Time to rename the millennial pause.

PFT said nothing about tomorrow and AJ Perez himself said that was speculation…

Why did everyone instantly start assuming something is happening tomorrow?

An important question occurred to me. Given that news of a sale could drop out of the blue anytime between now and never… where would be the best place in Northern Virginia to go impromptu to celebrate with other fans?

It wasn't a response to your list or even a defense of Wright. It's just that this misdirection complaint keeps coming up and I think it always misses the point.

This is so overplayed. He was asked about leaking the name through trademark registration and said there would have to be some misdirection. Registering in Trinidad & Tobago, which they did, could be misdirection. Registering social media accounts under decoy names in addition to Commanders, which they did, could be misdirection. For some reason people want to treat this boring answer to a boring question like he promised some kind of amazing magic trick.