Life doesn’t seem to be getting any easier for Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder.
At this point, Snyder must be wondering if this offseason will ever end, after already having to change the team name following a peak in public outcry, followed by a litany of both sexual abuse and harassment allegations aimed at both him and the Washington franchise.
Now, according to ESPN’s John Keim, there are a number of former employees in Washington who are calling for Snyder’s removal as the team owner, claiming that the toxic culture in Washington won’t be able to be to fixed unless he is gone.
An attorney for 20 former Washington Football Team employees said her clients want the organization to have “accountability and change” and said that won’t happen until owner Dan Snyder has been removed.
Lisa Banks told ESPN’s Jeremy Schaap on Outside the Lines that the issues reported in two Washington Post stories this summer have been ongoing for two decades under Snyder.
“Well, it’s certainly not about making a hire or changing a policy,” Banks told Schaap. “The tone, the culture comes from the top. And here, I don’t see us having meaningful change without a change in ownership.”
The investigation of Washington’s front-office misconduct has now been taken over by the NFL, and depending on what they find, there are grounds for Snyder to be forced to sell the team. However, it would take quite egregious acts and discoveries to warrant such action. While a vast majority of people and fans continue to call for Snyder’s removal, you can bet that the owner is just counting down the days until football returns, so he can be removed from the center of attention.
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