David Rosenthal: commitment

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…You needed an ownership change and suddenly you needed it fast. If you go to Dan Snyder's Wikipedia page, it literally says on his Wikipedia page, Snyder is widely considered to be one of the worst owners in the history of North American professional sports and has a whole train of citations after that. This ultimately ends up in 2021, two, three, in a US congressional investigation into the Redskins slash commanders and Dan Snyder's ownership of them. And at the end of 22, as these investigations are ongoing, the rest of the owners in the NFL finally decide like, enough, we need to kick this guy out of the league and force him to sell the team, which they can do by the NFL's bylaws. If there is a super majority vote of at least 24 of the other principal team owners, they can force one of the other owners to divest the team. Now it doesn't actually come down to a vote, but just by virtue of having that leverage in 2023, Snyder finally steps down, stops fighting and says, okay, I will bow to the pressure and initiate a sale process here. Well, the good news, bad news for the NFL is that because they've been so successful and the Washington football team is a great franchise, great stadium rates, et cetera. Key market.…

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