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Report: 20 former Washington employees call for Dan Snyder’s removal as owner

Several former employees are calling for Snyder’s removal as owner, claiming the toxic culture won’t be fixed unless he is gone. 

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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If Amazon’s Jeff Bezos wants to own an NFL team, Washington might be best option

With a big stake of Washington likely up for sale in the near future, Bezos’s desire to own an NFL team could bring interesting storylines.

If you’re looking for rich billionaires who might be interested in purchasing a stake in an NFL team — if not the entire team — you should look no further than Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

Amidst the news that three minority owners in Washington are looking to sell their shares, everyone has been delving into the bidding market and trying to figure out who might be some viable suitors. We even posited a few #HTTR celebrities here who might have an interest in becoming a minority owner. However, with 40% of the team likely up for grabs, which would total approximated $1.36 billion, you’re going to need some big-time money to take that on…

Enter Bezos.

“Jeff Bezos is gonna be the first name that pops up,” Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio said, via NBC Sports Washington. “It’s well known that he wants in and it’s well known that the owners of the other NFL teams wouldn’t mind having him in given that he runs Amazon and it’d be a hell of a lot easier to work out deals for the streaming rights to games if one of the guys that they’re a partner with is also the guy that runs Amazon.”

A story ran last year that Bezos was interested in getting into the NFL ownership circle, but it was likely to be hard to crack that group given the competition to get in and the low rate at which people leave once they’ve got an invite to the party. Now, with nearly half of Washington’s ownership potentially up for grabs, it seems like an ideal time for the man who is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire in the near future.

“He may just want to buy the full 100 percent,” Florio said. “I never understood why anybody with sufficient means would want to not hold the full equity. If you’ve got the money, why do you even want to have to deal with minority partners? What’s the point? If you’ve got the funds to buy the whole thing, and truly Bezos does, just give me the full 100 percent and everyone else can stand down.”

Of course, there is zero indication that Dan Snyder wishes to sell the whole team away from his family, despite a litany of fans’ t-shirts that would urge him to do so. But if Bezos is serious about this, and he makes a big enough offer? Who knows what could happen.

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