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NFL homeowners unanimously approved a gaggle led by Josh Harris to buy the Washington Commanders from Dan Snyder, paving the way in which for the transfer to develop into official and close shortly.
We’ll quickly discover out what orders of enterprise that Harris undertakes as he assumes management of the franchise, however ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. mentioned on the Wealthy Eisen Present that he believes a reputation change could possibly be so as (1:25 mark).
“I feel so, sure,” Van Natta mentioned when Eisen requested if he thought the workforce might change its identify and begin utterly contemporary to separate itself from the Snyder period.
“I feel there is a fairly good probability of that to erase any a part of the Snyder legacy to have a whole do-over. I might not be shocked in any respect, Wealthy, to see a reputation change and a whole re-branding.”
For sure, Snyder’s 24-year reign was a catastrophe on and off the sector, with Nicki Jhabvala of the Washington Submit offering a snapshot by the numbers.
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The NFL additionally announced Thursday that Snyder was fined $60 million after an unbiased investigation led by former U.S. legal professional and SEC chair Mary Joe White into alleged interpersonal and monetary misconduct. The 23-page report can be found here.
Of word, the experiences states Snyder sexually harassed a workforce worker. It additionally notes that the workforce withheld roughly $11 million in income that “seems to have improperly shielded from sharing, to the extent required by NFL insurance policies.”
Now the workforce is off to a contemporary begin beneath Harris, who has bought funding teams that purchased the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils. As Van Natta famous, it must be a prolonged “honeymoon” interval for Harris in D.C. after the Snyder reign, and a reputation change might very properly be welcome to rid the franchise of the workforce’s previous.
