Mod Notice: Temp Ban if Post on Changing the Name. Per New York Times: Dan Syder Agrees to Sell Washingon Commaders for $6B

[@DCGoldPants]

1 minute ago, method man said:

DON'T START BUYING TEAM SWAG YET! The money will still be going into Snyder's pockets until the team is officially sold

That's my take. Once it is all done. One item. Probably a hat with a simple W. 

[Number 44]

2 minutes ago, ANONYMOUS SOURCE. said:

So much anger directed at that 💩 for so long  

…..and now I don’t know what to do with it …😂

I have an idea...

[NoVaSkins21]

Can't wait to finally be viewed as a professional football team.  It's been a long time coming

Edited April 13, 2023 by NoVaSkins21

[88Comrade2000]

It would be funny if Josh opened his press conference by introducing a new head coach. That won't happen though. He'll just say Ron will be evaluated on how he does this season and then we discuss the future in the off-season.

 

In private he should tell Ron, he expects at minimum a playoff appearance or he won't even be considered for staying beyond 23.

 

 

We can finally cede our title as the worst franchise in all sports.

[SoCalSkins]

Sounds like RFK is in play:

 

 

[The Sisko]

12 minutes ago, CapsSkins said:

"Settle down, settle down! Not only is Mr. Snyder not selling the team to Josh Harris, he's actually found a deal to finance a new stadium! The culture is damn good and found ourselves a QB! Long live Mr. Snyder!"

 

Kinda crazy that IIRC, that was around the same time that the team was last relevant. 

[Skinsinparadise]

 

 

[Warhead36]

We'll have a new stadium by 2030

[Skinsinparadise]

 

Before the celebration about the news that (clears throat, blinks eyes, reads again) Daniel Snyder has tentatively agreed to a deal to sell the Washington Commanders, there is a requirement to re-litigate the destruction he wrought. There will be and should be and must be a let-your-hair-down, dance-on-the-tabletops, everyone-does-upside-down-keg-stands bash when the approximately $6 billion transaction is complete. But part of the cleansing process is to review — the football misjudgments and revolting misogyny and everything in between — because it will serve as a reminder that the owner didn’t just symbolize what was wrong with a franchise that was once was an NFL pillar. He caused it.

 

Let the restoration begin.

 

The new guy is someone named Josh Harris. Local fella, born in Chevy Chase, went to the Field School in the District. We don’t have to know much about Harris — and there will be plenty of time to dig in on who he is and how he’ll act and what kind of face and force he’ll be for the Commanders — to know that he possesses the one quality this team’s fans have yearned for in an owner: He’s Not Daniel Snyder.

 

The buyer could be Josh Duhamel or Emmylou Harris, Richard Harris or Josh Groban. It really wouldn’t matter. The non-Snyderness is coveted above all else, and it will be celebrated before we begin scrutinizing how the Harris in question has served as a steward of the NHL’s New Jersey Devils or the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, both of which he owns.

 

...We’ll get to the possibilities new ownership might bring. For now, enjoy the grace period, Josh. It’s a gift of circumstance you did nothing to earn. It may last a decade anyway.

This fan base — wise but worn-down — has come to understand that no quarterback or coach could affect and inject the change needed to alter not only the football team’s win-loss record (abysmal) but the organization’s reputation (far worse). Goodness knows those fans have watched how 24 seasons of what amount to cosmetic changes worked out under Snyder.

 

...In that environment, and with that character, try getting a deal for a new stadium. Snyder was poison, and instead of having three jurisdictions fighting over his team, he had three jurisdictions running from him. An indication of how massive an impact Harris’s non-Snyderness will have on the franchise going forward may be how quickly and readily he and his partners are able to engage with officials in the two states and the District to put forth a plan for a new facility. Stay tuned.

What a day. Exhale, and cleanse yourselves, Commanders. Change is nigh, and it’s meaningful.

 

There is a strong argument that this sale is the most significant Washington sports story this century. The contenders: baseball’s return in 2005, which made D.C. home to all four major pro men’s sports for the first time; the Capitals’ Stanley Cup in 2018, which dispelled the notion that the city bore an athletic curse; and the Nationals’ World Series title of 2019, which briefly made the idea that this could be a “District of Champions” seem something other than ludicrous.

 

Edited April 13, 2023 by Skinsinparadise

[Califan007 The Constipated]

1 hour ago, Mr. Sinister said:

If I had the money, I'd absolutely have someone quickly commission a statue of Snyder, just so I could tow it to team hq and topple it, lmaoooo

 

 

 

I got my guy working on that Snyder statue now...

 

 

[Skinsinparadise]

 

While fans continued celebrating — 106.7 The Fan played the team’s former fight song and Kool & the Gang’s “Celebration” coming out of commercial breaks — some lawmakers were already discussing how a new ownership group could revive plans for a new Commanders stadium. For years, Snyder tried unsuccessfully to create a competition among D.C., Maryland and Virginia to replace FedEx Field in Landover, where the team is contractually obligated to play through 2027. In recent months, some local leaders, including D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D), have said the sale could eliminate one of the main objections to building a new stadium.

 

A spokesperson for Bowser didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

Jack Evans, the former finance chair of the D.C. Council who spent years trying to help the team return to the RFK site, said a new stadium would help the city at a time when it is facing decay downtown and declining tax revenue.

“Once [Snyder is] gone, that really opens up the door to the new stadium at the RFK site,” Evans said. “There’s hurdles along the way — the most visible one, of course, is the DC City Council — but I think all of those things are [able to be overcome]. There were as many hurdles, if not more, with baseball.”

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Virginia state Sen. Scott A. Surovell (D-Fairfax) said Thursday that the ownership change will “definitely help” with stadium efforts. Surovell represents the district that covers the two Prince William locations the team has considered, and he added that it was too soon to say if a sale will revive support for a stadium in Richmond.

 

 

Del. David Reid (D-Loudoun), whose district includes Ashburn, said he expects new ownership “probably would restart the process” of getting a stadium deal done.

“I had always looked at this as whether it was a good economic development opportunity for the state of Virginia,” he said, adding that after revelations about the team’s management problems, “it quickly became a referendum on Dan Snyder.”

Reid noted that it’s likely Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) will call the General Assembly into special session in the coming weeks to take up a long-delayed deal on the state budget. In that case, Reid said, “I would fully expect that someone would draft a piece of legislation that will bring back up for consideration the stadium authority.”

 

“As the governor has said, any future plans with the Commanders should have the best interests of Virginia taxpayers at heart,” Youngkin spokeswoman Macaulay Porter said in a statement.

 

The sale could also restart Maryland’s approach to trying to keep the stadium.

“We would welcome a new partner to work with, and we would look forward to conversations once the deal was done,” said Del. Jazz Lewis (D-Prince George’s), who represents the neighborhood that is home to FedEx Field.

A spokesman for Gov. Wes Moore (D) said in a statement that Moore “is excited to start the next chapter in the longstanding partnership between the team and the state. If this purchase is approved by the NFL, the governor looks forward to meeting with the new owners to hear their vision for the future of Commanders football.”

Edited April 13, 2023 by Skinsinparadise

[NickyJ]

First off, happy New Year, everybody.

[dunfer]

8 minutes ago, Califan007 The Constipated said:

 

 

 

I got my guy working on that Snyder statue now...

 

 

I would love a contest for dan statues. Imagine them ranging from dildos to coat hangers....but whatever wins i want in the new stadium

[Andre The Giant]

 

[redskinss]

34 minutes ago, 88Comrade2000 said:

It would be funny if Josh opened his press conference by introducing a new head coach. That won't happen though. He'll just say Ron will be evaluated on how he does this season and then we discuss the future in the off-season.

 

In private he should tell Ron, he expects at minimum a playoff appearance or he won't even be considered for staying beyond 23.

 

 

 

Just stop man really. 

You're getting as bad as so cal.

[CjSuAvE22]

Omg is there a chance for a Super Bowl before im 40?!? 

[bird_1972]

1 minute ago, CjSuAvE22 said:

Omg is there a chance for a Super Bowl before im 40?!? 

 

I dunno. Depends on how old you are.

[PolarExpress]

41 minutes ago, 88Comrade2000 said:

It would be funny if Josh opened his press conference by introducing a new head coach. That won't happen though. He'll just say Ron will be evaluated on how he does this season and then we discuss the future in the off-season.

 

In private he should tell Ron, he expects at minimum a playoff appearance or he won't even be considered for staying beyond 23.

 

 

We can finally cede our title as the worst franchise in all sports.

I hope 2023 is Ron’s last season.  He’s a great guy but I’m not impressed.  I’m not buying any swag until 2024.  I received two new hats for Christmas in 2022, so I’m going to wait to see if they make any uniform changes….if they can.  

[Skinsinparadise]

 

 

[Skinsinparadise]

Who is Josh Harris, the potential new owner of the Washington Commanders?

Who is Josh Harris?

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Born to an orthodontist, Harris grew up in Chevy Chase, Md., cheering for Washington sports teams. He attended the Field School in Northwest Washington before enrolling in the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

 

 

He displayed an entrepreneurial spirit from a young age. He’d sell his comic books for a profit as a kid, and one summer in college, he returned to Washington and ran a lemonade cart near the Farragut North Metro stop.

 

Harris co-founded the private equity investment titan Apollo Global Management in 1990 and saw his net worth skyrocket when the company went public in March 2011. He remained with Apollo until January 2022.

“It doesn’t surprise me at all that he’s been incredibly successful in business in his career,” his brother, Gabe Harris, previously told The Post. “It would surprise me if he retired and went and played golf or puttered around on a boat. That’s just not him.”

 

Harris, 58, also owns the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, the NHL’s New Jersey Devils and is a general partner of Crystal Palace in the English Premier League. He is a limited partner in the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers and will have to sell that stake to buy the Commanders.

 

What are Josh Harris’s Washington sports roots?

Harris has said he grew up a fan of all Washington, D.C. sports teams. He lived in the area during George Allen’s tenure as the Redskins’ head coach and the glory days of the Washington Bullets. He recalled playing basketball on eight-foot hoops at Woodlin Elementary and eventually graduating to more physical games at North Chevy Chase Park.

His father, Jacob, had Washington Bullets season tickets and would regularly make the drive to Landover to watch the team play at the Capital Centre, near the future site of FedEx Field.

“Wes Unseld, Elvin Hayes, Phil Chenier — they were something,” Josh Harris told The Post in 2012.

 

Harris was an active youth wrestler. He picked up the sport in the seventh grade, wrestling for Bethesda Boys Club. He wrestled at Penn, too, competing at 118 pounds.

 

“Wrestling was the perfect sport for him,” his brother told The Post. “It’s all about dedication, being in great physical shape, having a lot of heart and perseverance — intelligence, too.”

What kind of sports owner has Josh Harris been?

 

Harris led a group that purchased the downtrodden Philadelphia 76ers franchise in October 2011 for $280 million. The day after he was announced as owner, the Philadelphia Daily News published an all-caps headline on its front page that read: “Rich Penn guys hope to turn Sixers around … Good luck with that.”

Josh Harris turned the 76ers into winners, but it wasn’t pretty

In Harris’s first year as an owner, the 76ers slashed ticket prices and saw their attendance jump by more than 15 percent.

 

“I think by dropping the ticket price in his first year, that was a huge step in trying to open a door that was closing very quickly,” 76ers’ legend Julius Erving told The Post in 2012. “ … It’s obvious that he’s concerned about the connection between the team and the city.”

 

The 76ers became a consistent winner under Harris’s ownership. This season marks the seventh time in his 12 years of ownership that they have reached the playoffs. They’ve lost five times in the conference semifinals during that period. The franchise is now valued at $3.15 billion, according to Forbes — ranking 10th in the NBA — and has announced ambitious plans for a new arena.

 

In August 2013, Harris and David S. Blitzer bought the New Jersey Devils for $320 million. Until this year, the team had reached the playoffs just once during that time and hadn’t finished better than fifth in its division under the Harris-Blitzer ownership. The Devils are poised to finish first or second in their division this season.

Who is in Josh Harris’s family?

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His wife, Marjorie Harris, serves as chair of Sixers Youth Foundation and is co-founder of Harris Philanthropies, the family’s charity organization. The two met while Harris was studying for his MBA at Harvard. The couple has five children.

 

 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/04/13/josh-harris-washington-commanders/

[Sticksboi05]

April 13, 2023 will go down in D.C. sports history. In the last 30 years, it is June 7, 2018, then October 30, 2019, and now this. There is hope to be a legitimate NFL franchise for the first time since the Clinton administration.

 

This is a day many thought wouldn't come for a LONG time. We owe the journalism community, federal and state prosecutors, and the lawyers who signed the deals to bring on the old minority owners so much for getting us to this point.

 

Get a stadium deal done in WASHINGTON, D.C. on the RFK site.

[ClaytoAli]

Is anyone tracking the future owner’s airplane yet?

[Skinsinparadise]

 

Josh Harris turned the 76ers into winners, but it wasn’t pretty

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/04/13/josh-harris-76ers-rebuild-success/

 

When Josh Harris purchased the Philadelphia 76ers for a reported $280 million in 2011, the New York investment banker took on a big-market franchise with a championship past and a passionate fan base that had slipped into an extended period of mediocrity.

 

Twelve years later, the 76ers have reached the playoffs in six straight seasons and boast an MVP candidate, a well-known coach and a highly-regarded team president. The franchise is now valued at $3.15 billion, according to Forbes — ranking 10th in the NBA — and has announced ambitious plans for a new arena.

 

The broad strokes of that turnaround surely sound appealing to fans of the NFL’s Washington Commanders, given Thursday’s news that Harris was nearing an agreement to purchase the franchise for $6.05 billion. The Chevy Chase native graduated from the Field School in Northwest Washington and attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His father, Jacob, had Bullets season tickets and would regularly take his sons to home games in Landover, not far from the site of FedEx Field.

 

...The 76ers’ path under Harris was hardly a smooth one, and its recent success required several unpleasant years marked by bold strategies that drew the ire of the NBA, rival organizations, national and local media and a segment of the fan base.

Harris purchased the 76ers at a time when the economic conditions in professional sports were much less rosy than they are today. 

 

..the 76ers embarked on the most dramatic rebuilding effort in NBA history, later dubbed “The Process.”... in hopes of improving its positioning in the NBA draft lottery. Sam Hinkie, the franchise’s unapologetic former general manager, theorized that Philadelphia’s best path to title contention was to land franchise cornerstone talents with high draft picks.

 

The strategy helped net 2014 third overall pick Joel Embiid, 2015 third overall pick Jahlil Okafor, 2016 No. 1 overall pick Ben Simmons and 2017 No. 1 overall pick Markelle Fultz...

 

...Despite the distractions, Embiid has captained the organization’s most successful stretch since the 1980s,...

 

...Importantly, though, the 76ers kept searching for top-shelf talent to support Embiid, hiring former Houston Rockets executive Daryl Morey to oversee their basketball operations in 2020. Morey successfully shipped Simmons to the Brooklyn Nets in a deal for James Harden, giving the franchise an inside-outside pairing of all-stars.

Morey, Rivers and Harden collectively represent the evolution of the 76ers under Josh Harris, who held onto the franchise as its value skyrocketed. All three were proven high performers brought in to drive a championship push, as opposed to the inexperienced, anti-establishment approach of “The Process” years. Many of the team’s supporters would point out, though, that the recent winning was only possible because of Embiid, who never would have landed in Philadelphia without those years of purposeful pain.

 

[SkinsGuy]

 

[Warhead36]

8 minutes ago, Sticksboi05 said:

This is a day many thought wouldn't come for a LONG time. We owe the journalism community, federal and state prosecutors, and the lawyers who signed the deals to bring on the old minority owners so much for getting us to this point.

The real unsung heroes are the fans who booed Tanya during her cancer event thingy. I firmly believe that was the straw that broke the camel's back. Those fans should be regarded as national heroes on par with George Washington and Paul Revere.