It was a tumultuous week for Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder. At last week’s NFL owner’s meetings, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay spoke candidly about the Washington owner.
“I believe there is merit to removing him as owner,” Irsay said. Irsay stood by his comments later that evening in a chat with Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer.
Snyder’s Commanders had a home game on Sunday against the Green Bay Packers. It wasn’t just any home game; it was homecoming weekend where the franchise would add 10 more franchise greats to its “90 greatest,” celebrating 90 years as an NFL franchise. In addition, the team would be giving out seat cushions to fans.
However, after considering the Snyder situation, the franchise decided against the seat cushions and instead gave them out after the game. But Washington had to know there would be fans with signs, specifically centered around selling the team, directed at Snyder.
On Sunday, multiple fans who brought signs to the game aimed at Snyder to sell the team were directed to put the signs down.
Snyder’s security guards made me take the sign down so I put on the bag on and they made me take that off. I told them it was our franchise’s version of the cheese head. Plenty of cheese heads around us. #SellTheTeam pic.twitter.com/o73l79r5XN
— Tom Manatos (@TomManatos) October 23, 2022
This wasn’t the only example.
Staff making fans put the “Sell the Team” signs down pic.twitter.com/37sZsasch4
— JP Curtz (@teamsellinszn) October 23, 2022
As you can see in this video, multiple fans held “sell the team” signs and were told to put them down.
On Sunday evening, a team spokesperson reached out to Nicki Jhabvala of The Washington Post with the following statement:
“They should not have been asked to take down the signs. (Bags over heads are not allowed as it’s a safety issue.)”
From a team spokesperson: "They should not have been asked to take down the signs. (Bags over heads are not allowed as it’s a safety issue.)"https://t.co/66JPhyfiDP
— Nicki Jhabvala (@NickiJhabvala) October 24, 2022
