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Don Van Natta Jr.

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Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

Well, Dan Snyder, when he bought the team, remember, this is the team that Dan Snyder loved as a boy. He first went and watched the Redskins play with his father at the age of six. And at the age of 34, Dan Snyder had enough money to write an $800 million check to buy the team he loved.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

Well, Dan Snyder, when he bought the team, remember, this is the team that Dan Snyder loved as a boy. He first went and watched the Redskins play with his father at the age of six. And at the age of 34, Dan Snyder had enough money to write an $800 million check to buy the team he loved.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

Well, Dan Snyder, when he bought the team, remember, this is the team that Dan Snyder loved as a boy. He first went and watched the Redskins play with his father at the age of six. And at the age of 34, Dan Snyder had enough money to write an $800 million check to buy the team he loved.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

A record price at the time. And Paul Tagliabue, then the commissioner, introduced Snyder by saying, this is the perfect person to own an NFL franchise. Fast forward 25 years later, and in our story, we quote Tagliabue telling a confidant, Dan Snyder is the worst NFL owner in history. And so how did that happen?

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

A record price at the time. And Paul Tagliabue, then the commissioner, introduced Snyder by saying, this is the perfect person to own an NFL franchise. Fast forward 25 years later, and in our story, we quote Tagliabue telling a confidant, Dan Snyder is the worst NFL owner in history. And so how did that happen?

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

A record price at the time. And Paul Tagliabue, then the commissioner, introduced Snyder by saying, this is the perfect person to own an NFL franchise. Fast forward 25 years later, and in our story, we quote Tagliabue telling a confidant, Dan Snyder is the worst NFL owner in history. And so how did that happen?

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

Well, very early on when Snyder first took over the team, he rubbed his fellow owners the wrong way repeatedly. He showed up at one meeting. He was supposed to be there at noon. It was of the broadcast committee. He showed up 10 minutes to five o'clock as everybody's getting ready to leave. He's in a tuxedo. He says, well, I'm going to an event tonight at Lincoln Center.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

Well, very early on when Snyder first took over the team, he rubbed his fellow owners the wrong way repeatedly. He showed up at one meeting. He was supposed to be there at noon. It was of the broadcast committee. He showed up 10 minutes to five o'clock as everybody's getting ready to leave. He's in a tuxedo. He says, well, I'm going to an event tonight at Lincoln Center.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

Well, very early on when Snyder first took over the team, he rubbed his fellow owners the wrong way repeatedly. He showed up at one meeting. He was supposed to be there at noon. It was of the broadcast committee. He showed up 10 minutes to five o'clock as everybody's getting ready to leave. He's in a tuxedo. He says, well, I'm going to an event tonight at Lincoln Center.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

And he then wastes their time. So they stay for another 40 minutes talking about stuff that didn't matter to them.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

And he then wastes their time. So they stay for another 40 minutes talking about stuff that didn't matter to them.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

And he then wastes their time. So they stay for another 40 minutes talking about stuff that didn't matter to them.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

Crimes against the membership, wasting their time, okay, is a big one. And so when the revelations came out about the toxic workplace culture, about Snyder himself allegedly sexually harassing a woman that worked for him, you would think that that would be enough.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

Crimes against the membership, wasting their time, okay, is a big one. And so when the revelations came out about the toxic workplace culture, about Snyder himself allegedly sexually harassing a woman that worked for him, you would think that that would be enough.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

Crimes against the membership, wasting their time, okay, is a big one. And so when the revelations came out about the toxic workplace culture, about Snyder himself allegedly sexually harassing a woman that worked for him, you would think that that would be enough.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

And it wasn't. They hired Beth Wilkinson to do an investigation, which never came out. It looked for a while like Snyder might actually survive. And it wasn't until Seth and I actually reported a story that Snyder was running around telling people, including one of his fellow owners, that he had dug up dirt. on Roger Goodell, and on Jerry Jones.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

And it wasn't. They hired Beth Wilkinson to do an investigation, which never came out. It looked for a while like Snyder might actually survive. And it wasn't until Seth and I actually reported a story that Snyder was running around telling people, including one of his fellow owners, that he had dug up dirt. on Roger Goodell, and on Jerry Jones.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

And it wasn't. They hired Beth Wilkinson to do an investigation, which never came out. It looked for a while like Snyder might actually survive. And it wasn't until Seth and I actually reported a story that Snyder was running around telling people, including one of his fellow owners, that he had dug up dirt. on Roger Goodell, and on Jerry Jones.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

Right. He's saying the NFL is a mafia, and I have enough information that I've gleaned about them that I can blow up the whole league if they try to take my beloved team away from me. And the fact that he had his hand in their pockets and was not sharing all the revenues that he was supposed to share from a team, by the way, that was last in local revenue.

Pablo Torre Finds Out
What NFL Owners Don't Want You to Know, with Don Van Natta Jr.

Right. He's saying the NFL is a mafia, and I have enough information that I've gleaned about them that I can blow up the whole league if they try to take my beloved team away from me. And the fact that he had his hand in their pockets and was not sharing all the revenues that he was supposed to share from a team, by the way, that was last in local revenue.