The Commanders are one of the coolest stories in sports right now. Unless you're Dan Snyder apparently! The former Washington owner, who presided over decades of disastrous football and somehow even worse off-field stuff,

An independent investigation by Washington D.C. lawyer Beth Wilkinson was conducted. After 10 months of digging, she had found that Washington had created "a workplace culture where sexual harassment, bullying, and intimidation were commonplace throughout most of Daniel Snyder’s ownership," according to The Post .

For Washington Commanders fans, it was a good news/bad news weekend. The bad news? The team’s wildly improbable, preposterously successful turnaround season finally came to an end—one win short of the dang Super Bowl—with a road loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

Snyder eventually gave up control of the team for just north of $6 billion dollars, but was fined an NFL-record $60 million on his way out the door as a condition of the sale. The Van Natta and Wickersham report includes new details on all the ways Snyder tried to tank the deal at the eleventh hour before ultimately relenting.

On Saturday, ESPN's Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta Jr. published an excellent profile into the mindset of former Commanders owner Dan Snyder, who sold the team to an ownership group led by Josh Harris in July 2023,

Dan Snyder sold the Commanders for a record $6.05 billion, but he was reported to have made an effort to blow up the transaction.

The joy stemmed from the team’s sale by former owner Dan Snyder, who in the summer of 2023, ended the most disastrous stretch of ownership the NFL has ever seen, selling the team to a group led by Philadelphia 76ers owner Josh Harris for $6.05 billion.