Chainsaw Dan Snyder

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Originally Posted by 44 70 chip

You realize that the skins are among the top 5 or 6 teams in total NFL games won in the history of the league?

I guess not...

BTW teams such as the Bears, Giants and Packers that are ahead of them in total wins all started in the 20's while the Skins were 1930's so have a 10 year head start.

I'm aware that over the history of the franchise they have about 550 or so wins, which puts them I think 4th all time. I'm also aware that they have 500 plus losses over the course of their career which makes them historically just above a .500 team. In the 50s, I believe they had one winning season, two in the 60s.

Maybe you can point to some specific facts or point out errors in a real substantive way instead of just poo pooing articles because you don't like how they portray the owner?

Just a few things

700 Pages: Length of the playbook brought to Redskins Park in 2006 by Al Saunders, who Snyder hired to call plays for Gibbs. In pre-Snyder era, Gibbs’ comparatively simple offensive schemes revolutionized the game and brought the Redskins three Super Bowls: Where's your proof Synder forced Saunders on Gibbs. Further, why is there no mention of the massive success Saunders has had as an offensive coordinator in the NFL?

Herzog, Frank: Beloved former Redskins play-by-play announcer. Herzog was best known for signature call, “Touchdown, Washington Redskins!” He was replaced in Snyder’s Redskins Broadcasting booth in 2004 by Larry Michael, best known for saying “Brought to you by Subway! If you love bacon come into Subway! Eat fresh!” I know Frank Herzog and this is simply not true. Furthermore:

Pals reunite on-air with Frank Herzog, 'the voice' of the Redskins - washingtonpost.com

Herzog explained later that Redskins owner Daniel Snyder wasn't behind his firing; he was dumped by radio station WJFK-FM, which then held the rights to broadcast Redskins games.

"It was a money thing," Herzog said. "They wanted to use one of their employees, who had other responsibilities, so they could save one salary." As for Snyder: "He did all he could. I saw him later, and he looked me in the eye and shook my hand and said: 'I don't interfere with the decisions of other companies. It's their call to make.' "

And while I'm not a fan of Larry Michael, why was there no mention that he spent several years doing play by play for George Washington's basketball team for over a decade, that he has a history in sports radio programming, that he's covered the Olympics, NCAA tournament play, boxing. He didn't just walk in off the street with no credentials

Inside the Red Zone With Vinny Cerrato: WTEM radio show featuring top Snyder aide that debuted early in the 2008 season, shortly after Snyder had bought what was then D.C.’s only sports-radio station. Because of abuse from Skins fans, Cerrato quickly stopped taking calls. He later stopped showing up at all on Mondays after Skins’ losses. The show didn’t return for the 2009 season.: Yeah VC didn't approach it right or handle it correctly, but no mention that the Colts GM also has a weekly show?

Mitchell, Brian: Redskins fan favorite and the NFL’s all-time leading kick returner. Mitchell was cut in 2000 to make room for Dallas Cowboys star Deion Sanders.: No mention that Mitchell and Snyder speak frequently, that Snyder apologized for not stepping in when VC suggested getting rid of B Mitch, that Mitchell accepted that apology, that Mitchell re-signed with the Redskins for a day so he could officially retire as a Redskin

“More than 200,000”: Number of names that Snyder claims are on the waiting list for Redskins season tickets. So why were the Redskins reduced to putting ads on the sides of Metrobuses this season?: No mention that this questionable waiting list has been in debate since Jack Kent Cooke's days Wait Service: Reality be damned, Redskins claim season-ticket demand keeps growing. - Washington City Paper

Check out that Washington City Paper article... the man is possibly the biggest douche in the history of billionaire douches. Yeah amazing as that sounds, a bigger douche than Donald Trump (and by a mile)

Well my short list of examples above should show you that the article doesn't paint the whole picture. It also doesn't talk about Snyder starting the Redskins Charitable Foundation, flying the entire team and their families to Sean Taylor's funeral, putting the time and resources in to renovate playgrounds in the poorest DC communities, getting Robert Royal's family safely out of New Orleans as Katrina was hitting,

MAYBE McNabb was 100% Shanahan... but the way he pulled him at the end of the detroit game doesn't seem to support that presumption. The trade its self has Snyder MO written all over it. In any case it's hard to believe that Snyder had nothing to do with the trade. Snyders money has had a mesmerizing effect on just about every coach he's hired, why should Shanny be any different?

Sure, we can speculate all day. Doesn't make it right

BTW Larry Johnson also had Snyder written all over it, you mean to tell me that Shanahan the king of pulling great young running backs oiut of thin air wanted a washed up big name? Look at how much of a real shot LJ got... before he was cut for Shanny's project Ryan "reminds me a TD" Torain...

More speculation. Forgot that Shanahan signed Travis Henry? Granted his stats were better than LJ but he was a veteran big name