hail2skins Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Many of us (does 99.9 percent categorize as many??) wish that we had a different owner over the past 20 years. But wanted to throw another scenario....lets say a Dan Snyder who is 34 years old in, say, 1977-78, acquires the team. How do the next 15 years play out? Assume no salary cap until the early 90s as happened, and I'll leave it up to you as to whether the coach when he takes over is George Allen or Jack Pardee, and whether Bobby Beathard is here already or not. Go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyst Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 He hasn’t proven to be knowledgeable with the modern day NFL when its supposedly much easier to turn things around and succeed. I’d assume he would be even worse back then. He still wouldn’t hire the right people, thus we’d still have awful drafts and bad coaching. The playoff sniffs we have now every 5 or 6 years due to NFL paraody, forget about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veryoldschool Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 The Skins would be have been Snyder awful earlier. Gibbs would have coached for a winner in another city. Snyder would have ruined things in any era. America might have lost the Cold War the Redskin suckage would have been so great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Jack Kent Cooke was perhaps the most brilliant sports owner of his generation. Has there been another owner who won multiple championships in different major sports? We should be grateful his record-setting divorce settlement forced him to sell the Lakers and led to his purchase of the Skins. Remember, JKC hired the most qualified GM he could find, and then allowed that GM to hire a coach he didn't know and thus didn't really want. He only intervened very infrequently as a tiebreaker whenever Gibbs and Beathard were feuding. Does any of that sound remotely like our Lord Farquaad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOF44 Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 There would have been no glory years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theTruthTeller Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Is anyone else surprised that "snyder" hasn't become a verb, meaning to take something good and screw it up beyond recognition? Not just in business, but in everyday life. Like "I was baking Christmas cookies today and I snydered a batch in the oven". Or "Things were going great with Roxanne before I snydered everything by texting Lola." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redskin4ever Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 We don't have to imagine it. Look at the Redskins history from the late 40s to the late 60s. It would have been a continuation of that era. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 John Madden definitely would've been our coach at some point and quit 3 years after finding out what kind of tool he was working for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Csup Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 There would not have been a Bobby Beathard if Snyder owner the team. Without Beathard to pick the talent, the Redskins would have been very ordinary under Gibbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alwaysaskin Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 5 minutes ago, Csup said: There would not have been a Bobby Beathard if Snyder owner the team. Without Beathard to pick the talent, the Redskins would have been very ordinary under Gibbs. Snyder would have traded the 83 draft to pick Todd Blackledge and there would be no Redskins fans younger than 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LetThePointsSoar Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 28 minutes ago, HOF44 said: There would have been no glory years. I opened the thread to only write exactly the same thing. It's quite simple, actually. The End. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spjunkies Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Did Sammy Baugh have a son? If so, that guy would've been our "president" until 1995. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuriousD Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Snyder has proven beyond doubt he has no concept of the fundamentals of ownership. Day one he broke rule #1 (hire good people and get the hell outta the way) and the results speak for themselves. He’s failed to learn anything in 20+ years. Drop him in a different decade and the results would be the same... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakedtater1 Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 3 hours ago, HOF44 said: There would have been no glory years. Bingo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikeRedskin7 Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 We would have been the NFC version of the Browns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyst Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 5 hours ago, theTruthTeller said: Is anyone else surprised that "snyder" hasn't become a verb, meaning to take something good and screw it up beyond recognition? Not just in business, but in everyday life. Like "I was baking Christmas cookies today and I snydered a batch in the oven". Or "Things were going great with Roxanne before I snydered everything by texting Lola." He Schruted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Sisko Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 2 hours ago, NikeRedskin7 said: We would have been the NFC version of the Browns. We are now though! Unfortunately for us, the Browns are finally turning things around. It's sort of like when the Withards had the worst mascot in the NBA for years and then the Hornets decided to take on most of our ridicule by switching to the Pelicans as their mascot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skins island connection Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Thanks. thanks for trying to take away my one positive I've had over the last 40 years. I'll just say that if it DID happen, I would have given up football and taken up Underwater Basket Weaving... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MassSkinsFan Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 6 hours ago, theTruthTeller said: Is anyone else surprised that "snyder" hasn't become a verb, meaning to take something good and screw it up beyond recognition? Not just in business, but in everyday life. Like "I was baking Christmas cookies today and I snydered a batch in the oven". Or "Things were going great with Roxanne before I snydered everything by texting Lola." I’ve been incredibly constipated for days and finally got relief after the massive Snyder I just took. 💩 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinfan2k Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Let's say he would have hired Gibbs. Gibbs would have been gone after his 0-5 start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Kev Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 6 hours ago, theTruthTeller said: Is anyone else surprised that "snyder" hasn't become a verb, meaning to take something good and screw it up beyond recognition? Not just in business, but in everyday life. Like "I was baking Christmas cookies today and I snydered a batch in the oven". Or "Things were going great with Roxanne before I snydered everything by texting Lola." Snyder /ˈSny-der noun 1. the physical destruction or disintegration of something or the state of disintegrating or being destroyed. E.G. "The Redskins fell into terrible snyder" synonyms: disintegration, decay, disrepair, dilapidation, falling to pieces, decrepitude, ruination; More verb 1. reduce (a building, place or entity) to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration. E.G. "a snydered football team" synonyms: destroy, devastate, lay waste, leave in ruins, wreak havoc on, ravage, leave desolate; More Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Comrade2000 Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 There would be no glory years and there would be no Skins. The Skins would've been the worst team of the 80's. In the 90's, after failing to get a new stadium; Dan would move the franchise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
profusion Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 The national TV contracts weren't as lucrative back then, and game revenue was a bigger percentage of the team's income. As such, such a proto-Snyder would have had to actually do constructive things to keep the money flowing in. Or, he would have moved the Skins to St. Louis in 1992, thus preempting the equally odious Georgia Frontiere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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