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Dan Snyder’s ability to remain owner of the Washington Commanders has been an established fact for so long now that I treat it as a given on par with death, taxes and James Corden being an officious prick. But I did live long enough to see Snyder forced to change that franchise’s name from a longstanding racial slur to their newer, sleeker, somehow even dumber moniker. So you never say never, even when Dan Snyder himself says NEVER.<\/p>\n

Dan Snyder has had to say never<\/em> many times over the past 24 hours, because it’s no longer just us peasants who want him exiled from the NFL. Last night, for the first time ever, an actual NFL owner came out and said he’d like to see his colleague ousted. That colleague was Colts owner and aspiring Grammy winner Jim Irsay, who said that \u201cI believe that there is merit to remove him as owner,\u201d before accidentally brainfarting out the old racial slur team name<\/a> that helped make Snyder so radioactive to begin with.<\/p>\n

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Owners meetings are usually torpid affairs in which a gang of old white people gather round a conference table to complain that toothpaste is too spicy today. So it counts as real news when one of these owners goes in front of a camera and puts himself out there on Snyder. And while I can’t yet delight in Snyder’s formal expulsion, I can hang onto Irsay’s comments as a tangible sign of mounting discontent within the league regarding the Commanders owner, a discontent that made itself known just one week ago in a far-ranging and juicy colossus of a report filed to ESPN by Seth Wickersham, Tisha Thompson and Don Van Natta Jr. That report got us one step closer to Snyder’s. Irsay has nudged us even closer. Oh, perchance to dream.<\/p>\n

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More importantly, we can take a look at Irsay’s comments and get a good look at how NFL owners would like you, the public, to think of NFL owners. Dan Snyder and Dan Snyder alone might have given you the impression that NFL owners are disconnected billionaires who don’t give af\u2014k about the fans and see them only as a source of profit and perhaps future organ harvesting. Reader, that simply couldn’t be further from the truth. Here’s Irsay rebutting such notions Tuesday night:<\/p>\n

\u201cI just believe in the workplace today, the standard that the shield stands for in the NFL, that you have to stand for and protect that.\u201d<\/p>\n

That’s so true. I can abide Dan Snyder fostering a hideously misogynistic workplace, pimping out his own cheerleaders to other rich assholes, suing everyone who cuts him off at the crazy and bouncing checks<\/a> issued to contest winners. But what I will NOT tolerate is his desecration of a corporate logo. Has anyone told the NFL that the shield is not an actual shield? It won’t protect you from incoming arrows or anything like that. It’s just pretend.<\/p>\n

Oh, but it’s not pretend to Jim Irsay, who owns his team because he’s the son of an incorrigible drunk who moved the Colts from Baltimore to Indianapolis under cover of darkness in order to reap a tidy profit. As far as Irsay is concerned, that shield is the only thing standing between us and the forces of evil. So do n’t think of this man as just some heartless billionaire eager to shroud all of his nefarious dealings behind a noble bit of graphic design\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think what’s happened in the workplace, having three daughters, seven granddaughters \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh you better believe that Irsay played the \u201cfather of a daughter\u201d card last night. If you have three daughters and seven granddaughters, that’s like having one hundred<\/em> daughters. That’s 100 times the empty wokeness! You have to respect a man who has deployed his sperm THIS conscientiously.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to look at the investigation and see the finality of certain things that have happened .\u2026 I believe it’s in the best interest of the National Football League that we look it squarely in the eye and deal with it. I think America, the world, expects us to as leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that Irsay had just come out of the same meeting where NFL owners, himself included, unanimously agreed to have Rams owner Stan Kroenke pay $571 million<\/a> to the city of St. Louis to settle a dispute that the city filed against the NFL for disregarding the league’s own bylaws to move Kroenke’s team to Southern California. THAT is what I, America, the world expects NFL owners to do. You know, as leaders. Oh, and last night these same people also reinstated Dolphins owner Stephen Ross after he was suspended by the NFL for trying to illegally lure Tom Brady to Miami while he was still under contract with Tampa Bay. This is the same Stephen Ross who was accused by his former head coach of offering bounties in exchange for tanking games. Again, all within my expectations of NFL ownership.<\/p>\n


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But Jim Irsay insists that I’ve got it all wrong. THESE ARE GOOD FOLK. #NotAllOwners! Hear it for yourself!<\/p>\n

\u201cI think owners have been painted incorrectly a lot of times by various people and under various situations.\u201d<\/p>\n