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Originally Posted by BringBackJoeT

Uh, I think you're the one with your facts wrong. As I said, Snyder was hired before the '99 season, when the Redskins finally made the playoffs. Your statement that "by the time Synder had purchased the team it was too late to fire Norv" is not responsive to anything that I said. Second, which "Cooke" are you referring to when you say that "it was Cook who kept Norv around for so long"? As I'm sure you recall, Jack Kent Cooke died in April, 1997, and his son was temporarily in control of the team for two years before the executors of the estate sold the team to Snyder. During the two years that Cooke's son ran the team, he avoided making big changes to the organization (like, for example, firing the head coach), because he, quite reasonably, decided that he would hold off on major decisions pending the estate's decision on who should get the team.

Your right.