Thread by @Damn_Snyder

MEGA THREAD - Here's a timeline of my disgusting and abhorrent ownership of the #WashingtonFootball #NFL franchise. The on-field follies are well-documented and would break Twitter, so I'm leaving those out. You will NOT believe some of the shit I've done.

1990s: *Gets rich off of switching customers' telephone service without authorization under "Snyder Communications," an illegal practice called "slamming"*

July 24, 1999: I just bought the team and fired Charley Casserly, who would go on to win Sporting News executive of the year. I replace him with Vinny Cerrato, a failed actor with limited football experience.

1999: Despite it already being included in the ticket price, I add the PG County Entertainment Tax to the invoice outside of the ticket price as well, marking the biggest ticket price hike in team history.

1999: I twice leave vanilla ice cream to thaw in Mike Nolan's office to let him know I don't like his coaching. The 2nd delivery consisted of “three giant canisters of melting 31 Flavors ice cream” and a note that said “I do not like vanilla.” larrybrownsports.com/football/danie…

1999: I made D.C. sportscaster Rene Knott do live reports from the Redskins Park parking lot while peers filmed inside the practice facility. WJLA-TV, was the only local network affiliate that didn't pay me to become a “media partner.”

2000: I refer to cancer patients and diabetics as "market segments." On a PBS show called CEO Exchange, I said my business depended on “$5 million niches” that I could sell goods and services to. “We were looking at trend lines. We saw that the aging baby boomer demographics...

...were coming on strong. That meant there’s going to be a lot more diabetic patients, a lot more cancer patients, etc. How do we capture those market segments?” I said. washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk…

2000: I banned pedestrian traffic into FedExField under the guise of "safety." After a class action lawsuit alleged that the ban was really intended to increase parking revenues at the stadium, it was overturned. In 2007, I again cited safety to get offsite parking banned by...

...the town council in Agawam, Mass., home of Six Flags New England. Parking rates at the theme park tripled after my 2005 takeover of Six Flags. When the Agawam council learned about the earlier pedestrian-safety controversy at FedEx, it undid the ban.

July 2000: I make Washington the first team in the #NFL to charge fans to attend camp practices, $10 for admission and $10 for parking.

2001: I'm fined $3.1 million by Florida authorities for "slamming," the aforementioned illegal practice of switching a customer’s telephone service without authorization. A major reason why I made millions with "Snyder Communications."

Sept. 2001: I sell "Pentagon Flag" hats at $23.99 a piece for profit and add a mysterious $4 security charge after the tragic events of Sept. 11. washingtoncitypaper.com/article/238813…

2002: I placed liquor advertising inside FedExField in the sight lines of network cameras, as well as local TV commercials during games. “Airing ads for Smirnoff Ice and Captain Morgan’s Gold during Redskin telecasts trumpets liquor brands and sidesteps the networks’...

voluntary ban on hard liquor ads,” said George Hacker of the Alcohol Policies project.

2002: I fire Marty Schottenheimer after his first season ends 8-3 in his final 11 games, setting the stage for how I'll always run the team.

2004: I fire beloved long-time play-by-play voice Frank Herzog and replace him with Larry Michael, who I allowed to "retire" in 2020 amid the ongoing sexual misconduct scandal.

2005: I tell fans I'll only accept the Redskins Extra Points MasterCard for season ticket payments for the 2005 season. I withdrew the demand following a threatened ticketholder revolt and after MasterCard had to tell me to stop.

2005: I tell Laveranues Coles in the 2005 preseason that I'll send him a flat-screen TV; a threat that I would keep the receiver out of football if he didn’t agree to give up a $5 million bonus called for by his contract. “He said he would send a flat-screen television to my...

home because I’d be better off watching the games there,” Coles told Sports Illustrated in 2005. “That was his way of saying I’d be sitting for the next couple years until they cut me.”

2005: My top brass uses the pseudonym "Andyman" online to post anti-media rants on fan message boards. In 2005, Washington City Paper reported that Karl Swanson, my longtime PR chief, had registered on sportsjournalists. com, a website where Andyman often sniped at...

...The Washington Post. Andyman, which could be Pig Latin for Danny M (my first name, middle initial) all but disappeared after the report. washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/31546…

2006: I'm sued by a former nanny, Juliette Mendonca, who told a Montgomery County court that when she pointed out she was being shortchanged and asked for proper recompense, I screamed, “I pay you more than my Redskins Park people! I can’t afford to pay you like this!”...

...The court ordered me to pay Mendonca $44,880. query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h…

2006: I illegally cut down trees protected by the National Park Service for an unobstructed view of the Potomac from my Montgomery County home. I retained Mike Sitrick, who helped with damage control for the Michael Jackson family after the pop star’s death and Paris Hilton...

...after one of her arrests, for PR help. I later tried to destroy the park ranger's career for doing his job. sportscasting.com/washington-foo…

2006: I launch "Redskins Unfiltered," a website feature to rebut everything written about the team by The Washington Post. Immediately after the Post ran a story that mentioned players eating “fast food” at Redskins Park, I had Larry Michael produce a long video in which...

team employees testified that Baja Fresh was NOT fast food. Unfiltered came back to haunt me when players used its video as evidence in a union grievance over “contact drills” during voluntary workouts. “You know how we caught them?” said NFLPA chief Gene Upshaw...

...“We saw it on their Web site.” query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.h…

2006: I'm so bad for business, even Bill Gates loses money with me. Gates had 10,210,600 Six Flags shares worth about $122 million in early 2006, when I began putting my marketing team in place. They were worth $0 by the time I was tossed off the board...

“Bill Gates gives away more money than anybody, and his main cause is malaria,” said a representative of Resilient Capital Management, a hedge fund and Six Flags investor, which sued to have me removed from the company for fiduciary irresponsibility...

“That was money that could have gone to save kids from malaria.” bizjournals.com/seattle/storie…

2006: Conservative thinktank American Enterprise Institute summed up my football operation as a “leading exemplar of this tendency toward irrationality." Kevin Hassett, director of economic policy studies at AEI, cited me for running a “seriously mismanaged” operation...

“I used the Redskins because they’re the most frightening example of a team that hadn’t thought through the simple economics of pro football,” Hassett said at the time. “The problems of running a pro football team are right out of the textbooks: With the salary cap...

everybody’s got the same amount of money to spend, so let’s see what you’re going to do with your money. The big signing is counter to the economics of pro football. Over time, [Snyder is] spending the same amount of money as everybody else, but he’s spending it irrationally...

I think they’re years away from correcting the mistakes they’ve made.”

Sept. 2006: I sold expired peanuts to fans at FedExField, specifically in royal blue and white 5 oz. bags adorned with the Independence Air logo. Problem: The airline had gone under about a year earlier...

The supplier told Washington City Paper that it stopped shipping the airline’s nuts “before Independence Air went out of business.” A spokesman for the Peanut Council told City Paper that to prevent rancidity, the recommended shelf life of a foil bag of out-of-shell peanuts...

was “about three months.” washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/1…

2007: I volated the Maryland Clean Indoor Air Act of 2007 that prevents smoking in bars and restaurants. The law prompted regulators to order Club Macanudo, a cigar bar on FedExField’s Club Level, to either stop selling drinks and food or stop allowing smoking. I stopped food...

and drink sales for one season. But the establishment reopened as the Montecristo Club in 2009, and I explained that the new facility was no longer a bar, but a tobacco shop, and therefore not required to comply with the state code...

Unfortunately, a promo film for the tobacco shop posted on the team's website featured a bartender pouring a Bud Light from a tap, a clear violation of the law...

2008: I told Asian actors trying out for a mascot job at Snyder-run Six Flags to "emulate Charlie Chan" during 2008 auditions. After the 2006 firing of Mr. Six, the longtime mascot I deemed “creepy,” the theme park chain’s marketing team hired a Japanese actor to scream...

“More flags! More fun!” in a vaguely Asian accent in TV ads. The Chicago chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, which publicized the “Charlie Chan” angle, was among the advocacy groups critical of the effort. The campaign was canceled very shortly after its debut.

2008: I faced a lawsuit from a group of FedExField ticket office employees who weren’t being paid for extra hours. I argued that the team ticket office wasn’t covered by standard overtime laws, citing a 1932 exemption for “amusement and recreation employees” in the federal...

Fair Labor Standards Act. The exemption, however, was meant to cover lifeguards and greenskeepers, not office employees. I settled the suit with the employees in 2010. James Rubin, a Montgomery County attorney who represented the ticket sellers, says that he was shocked to...

...learn during the case that Snyder now requires all employees to sign a document waiving their right to sue him “as a condition of employment.” washingtoncitypaper.com/articles/38269…

2008: I charged $25 for a special group of standing-room-only tickets at FedEx Field in 2008. The cheap tickets were linked to the high-priced suites; lobbying watchdogs said I was merely attempting to skirt congressional gift limits. Damning evidence:...

A team brochure for instructing ticket sales personnel to explain lobbying loopholes to suite customers. I denied the charge. SRO tickets now sell for $152.50, with no mention of lobbying in the sales pitch. washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…\

2008: I had been taking tickets away from season ticketholders for violating the team’s policy against reselling tickets. The Washington Times reported that the team even repossessed six tickets from the Braloves, a D.C. family that had had them “since the 1940s,” after...

...my PIs found that they’d put some tickets up for sale on eBay.

June 12, 2008: My Red Zebra Broadcasting acquires Washington's two most prominent sports radio stations, ESPN 980 (WTEM) and Sports Talk 570 (WSPZ). They allowed me to control media conversations about the team.

Oct. 8, 2008: Through WFI Stadium Inc., I file one of my 125 lawsuits against season-ticket holders who were forced to default on their 10-year, $5,000 agreements after being hit hard by a two-year recession. Per The Washington Post, they were sued for a total of $3.6 million...

... with the team ending up winning $2 million in judgments. That comes despite my claim that there were at least 200,000 people on the season-ticket waitlist at the time.

2009: I sue 73-year-old grandmother—and five-decade Redskins season-ticketholder Pat Hill. She could not afford to keep up payments on the 10-year, $50,000-plus club seats contract she’d signed. washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…

2009: I begin selling beer in bathrooms. E.coli be damned. washingtoncitypaper.com/article/227278…

2009: I charge $20 a ticket for a scratch-off Virginia Lottery game called "Redskins Mania." It is the most expensive scratcher in Virginia lottery history. Much like most of my endeavors, it flopped.

Oct. 18, 2009: I hire a bingo caller and retired NFL assistant to call plays for the team.

2013: During an offseason trip to Costa Rica, my team forces its cheerleaders to be escorts and get naked in front of its patrons, according to a New York Times investigation. nytimes.com/2018/05/02/spo…

2020: Growing tired of shoddy ownership, withholding of payments, and generally deplorable behavior, minority ownership tries to sell its shares. Almost nobody wants to buy them with me around, and I block sales to those that do by selectively exercising right of refusal for...

2 of the 3 minority owners.

July 16, 2020: A Washington Post investigative report details the toxicity of my organization, from which 15 women accuse team employees of sexual harassment. washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07…

Aug. 26, 2020: The Post follows up its July report with another piece alleging more workplace harassment throughout my tenure. 25 more women come forward to the Post, making the total number of accusers 42. Among the claims is that I ordered the team's video department to...

produce an outtakes video of cheerleaders' private parts that were filmed during the shooting of the squad's swimsuit calendar in 2008, to the backdrop of my favorite music. I also suggested to a cheerleader at a 2004 charity event that she join Anthony Roberts, the team's...

official ophthamologist and a high school classmate of mine, in a hotel room so they "could get to know each other better." washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07…

Dec. 22, 2020: It was revealed in filed court records that I (under the team's name instead of my own) paid a former female employee a $1.6 million sexual misconduct settlement in 2009. washingtonpost.com/sports/daniel-…

Dec. 29, 2020: Three limited partners in Washington Football Team's ownership accuse me of corporate malfeasance, which included harassments and intimidation as well as financial misdeeds.

Jan. 2021: I let well-regarded, up-and-coming personnel guru Kyle Smith leave, mostly because he famously stood up against me to defend his scouts when I went against them to draft Dwayne Haskins.

Feb. 2021: I offer hush money to my accusers in a desperate attempt to silence them amid growing pressure. washingtonpost.com/sports/2021/10…

April 2, 2021 - The #NFL officially rewards my conduct and alleged crimes with a debt waiver and 100% ownership of the Washington Football Team.

I've crapped on people so many times throughout the years that, inevitably, I forgot about a few. Thank you to those who pointed out what I missed. In order:

2004: I add 4,000 obstructed seats at full, lower level prices. You won’t see half the field.

2008: I had TWO lewd outtake videos of cheerleaders produced to my favorite music, not just the one I mentioned. One for each eye and ear, I guess.

2009: I banned signs at FedEx Field that are critical of my ownership. Meanwhile I let Geico hand out signs with ads. voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsbog/20…

2010: I filed and then dropped a lawsuit against the Washington City Paper and writer Dave McKenna for posting true stories about me. washingtoncitypaper.com/article/464131…

2014: I sold fans expired beer. cbssports.com/nfl/news/redsk…

2014: I set up a faux charity for indigenous people. usatoday.com/story/sports/n…

2020: I hire private investigators to intimidate women and other witnesses speaking out about the rampant sexual misconduct under my auspices. Even the #NFL had to tell me to stop. washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/09…

2020: Amidst my sexual misconduct scandal and trying to sell a hilariously transparent "it wasn't me and I've changed the culture" narrative, I had bots created to litter Twitter with fake opinions and hopefully sway yours. bleacherreport.com/articles/29347…

2020: A website surfaces called NYC Talk, which is almost never updated, and exists simply to promote me and my benevolence (second half of the story in this link). bleacherreport.com/articles/29347…

2021: My stadium unleashes not just bad football, but also dirty water on the few fans I haven't chased away yet.

https://twitter.com/Boss_Hogg_81/status/1452773452650328069

2008(?): I give employees apples instead of the industry-standard of holiday bonuses. They did not like them apples. washingtonpost.com/sports/redskin…

2000s and 2010s: Employees were not allowed to go to the bathroom when I was present and wandering the building. bleacherreport.com/articles/29074…

2000s and 2010s: I demand that everyone, even grown adults, address me strictly as Sir or Mister Snyder.
brobible.com/sports/article…

Oct. 2021: I decide to hastily retire the number of murdered franchise legend Sean Taylor on 4 days notice to distract from the groundswell of bad press surrounding my despicable behavior. The result is an utter desecration of his memory, in the presence of his family...

...And porta-potties.
sbnation.com/nfl/2021/10/18…

Oct. 2021: The DEA raids the team's facility as part of a criminal probe. Trainer Ryan Vermillion is placed on leave. @NFLPA asks for more info citing safety. I claim the raid is "unrelated to the club." Days later another team trainer is placed on leave. fox5dc.com/sports/second-…

Dec. 16, 2000: I tried to censor the late, long-time voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers Myron Cope. In his home stadium. old.post-gazette.com/steelers/20001…

2019: Star LT Trent Williams is told he has cancer that is "far more advanced" than thought. It had been growing for 6 years. My team told him it was just a cyst and that he had nothing to worry about. "I almost lost my life," Williams said. usatoday.com/story/sports/n…

Former then-Redskins defensive tackle Brandon Noble, straight from the horse's mouth:

https://twitter.com/BNoble75/status/1453730849329868813