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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule
My initial Cooke comment was tinged with sarcasm, but please that article is a puff piece from the Post at a time when Snyder was on the ropes and they were pulling no punches. Cooke had every opportunity to be the winning bidder, his Dad could have changed the will at any time to give his son additional chances but he didn't.
After he lost the team, what did Cooke do, he went to Bermuda and sat on the beach for several years. Who knows how he would have run the team, but nothing in that article, or his actions at the time convince me that he would have been any better or worse of an owner. Different yes, but better I dunno.
Personally that article sounds like a petulant son who thought he should have everything and when he didn't get it he got mad at the man who did. You notice in the article that Snyder said he was going to give the team to his son, I imagine that that royally ticked Cooke off towards Snyder.
Do you really think he would ever come out and give DS any credit regardless of the team's situation?
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Winning bidder? With what? He didn't have the money. His dad only left him 15 or 20 mil. His dad simply didn't want him to have the team. He got 10% of the sale which turned out to be 80 mil cause he owned a small part but he simply didn't have the cash. Snyder did and won fair and square.