We are in the early stages of yet another Daniel Snyder legal entanglement, this time allegations that the Commanders’ owner acted like a nefarious usher at church, swiping some of the singles from the basket before it reached the altar. Some in the media are billing this as the kind of transgression that could finally sink his troubled tenure as an NFL owner (the franchise, for what it’s worth, is forcefully denying those allegations and in a statement Monday accused the source of the story of perjury).
But we’re here to tell you that it can’t fully sink Snyder. At least not all on its own. And the NFL needs to know as much.
Snyder is just now recovering from the public outrage over a scandal in which dozens of former employees alleged a culture rife with sexual harassment and verbal abuse in his workplace. The issue was so bad the NFL’s investigation was delivered orally so that there would be no evidence to leak or burn, outside of a damning series of articles in The Washington Post. Snyder was put on “leave” and fined $10 million. He gave a cozy interview in which he was able to pretend he was never there, so that none of the surprising-to-Snyder allegations were his fault. It was the rich person’s equivalent of in-school suspension.
