“Grant and Danny” of 106.7 The Fan hit the jackpot Wednesday. Their show revolved around the Daniel Snyder announcement of potentially selling some or all of the Commanders.
Guests for Grant and Danny included ESPN’s Seth Wickersham, John Ourand of Sports Business Journal, Lisa Banks of Katz, Marshall and Banks, Virginia State Senator Jeremy McPike, the Washington Post’s Barry Svurluga, Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton, Richmond Times Dispatch’s Michael Phillips. They also had former Washington QB Kirk Cousins as well.
Of course, Cousins was there to talk football, and all of the rest were ready to talk Daniel Snyder.
Wickersham believes today was a monumental day because not only did Snyder make the move with Bank of America, but the team also clarified even more that they are exploring all options. Translated, they sent out an invitation to billionaires to place their opening bid, and let’s see where this goes.
Florio, who has certainly been no fan or supporter of Snyder, shared he had an exchange with an NFL insider. “When I sent that statement to somebody who knows how the NFL sausage gets made, who’s intimately involved in league matters, the reaction was ‘this statement says if we get the number we like, we’re the selling the team’.”
Paulsen was willing to say what any NFL ownership would most likely never wish to have known. Paulsen stated confidently, “To me this all but confirms the team needs money. They need an injection of cash. But who in their right mind with that kind of money would ever be a minority partner for the Snyders? His only hope would be to try to get a well-liked celebrity to buy in and be front facing.”
Space does not permit here, but might it suffice to say, for now, money does not buy happiness? The Snyders are billionaire owners of an NFL franchise. Yet, consider all of the losing of games, the losing of the fan base, the past few years of investigations, bad press and being despised and wished gone by virtually every single fan of the franchise.
With all of that, perhaps might the Snyders now simply want to sell out and live a quiet, peaceful life in luxurious wealth?
