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 tea

All it took was an ownership change for Washington to become relevant again. Go figure.

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.