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Donovan McNabb and Daniel Snyder: The Death of My Beloved Washington Redskins

Article By on 17th December, 2010

I could gush about Joe Gibbs and his three Superbowl trophies that sit in the entrance to Redskins Park. I could talk about Joe Theismann and the greatest broken bone in the history of sports or Doug Williams coming from out of nowhere to win Super Bowl XXII. Let’s not forget Timmy Smith setting a Super Bowl rushing record in that game as well. Who is Timmy Smith? Exactly. That is why I could be talking about him.

I could be talking about Mark Rypien or The Hogs. I could be writing about The Smurfs, The Fun Bunch, Art Monk or John Riggins. Sonny Jurgensen and Billy Kilmer deserve columns of their own. Hell, even Babe Laufenberg would be a better subject matter about which to write and according to Jeff Pearlman, a Sports Illustrated columnist, Laufenberg was named the 3rd worst football player of all time.

But instead of talking about this once storied franchise and their Superbowl victories, I will be writing about how a single owner has destroyed all that I have (and he has supposedly) loved since being a child. The death of the Washington Redskins.

Is Daniel Snyder the worst NFL owner in the league? I don’t know. If I were a Cleveland Browns fan or an Oakland Raiders fan or a Carolina Panthers fan, I might argue that Snyder is not. But being a Redskins fan, it is difficult to believe that given the team that he purchased and the number of years and draft picks that he has had in order to take us back to the Super Bowl, you would be hard pressed to convince me that anybody could have done a worse job than Daniel M. Snyder.

Remember this is the guy who brought Deion Sanders to Washington. Are you kidding me? As a Redskin fan, Deion was the most hated player in the league and Snyder threw so much cash at him that it evidently weighed him down and prevented him from playing the position of cornerback at anywhere near the level that that amount of cash dictates. Oh wait, pardon me, it also could have been because when Daniel Snyder acquired Neon Deion, Sanders was 68 years old and way past the “prime” in “Prime Time.”

A little piece of me died when I first saw that idiot, showboat, afraid-to-make-a-tackle, poor excuse for a defensive back, in burgundy and gold. Thank you for that Daniel Snyder.

A few years and absolutely no impressive seasons went by and you, Daniel Snyder, brought your stupidity as an NFL owner to an entirely new level. A level that nobody even knew existed. You boldly went where no man has been before.

Except instead of discovering cool new life forms or planets, you discovered Steve freakin’ Spurrier. Wow, is really all I have to say about this move. For the inexpensive price tag of $5 million per year on a five-year contract, the ol’ ball coach graced Washington with his presence just ten days removed from the University of Florida.

By the way, when Daniel Snyder screws up he does it in the best possible fashion.  Go big or go home Daniel Snyder. He gave Spurrier the biggest contract ever in NFL coaching history to date. Smart move Daniel Snyder—better lock up that guy before someone else does.

In the Spurrier era we, as fans, were tickled to death to see the likes of Danny Wuerffel (Woeful) and Shane Matthews take the field in place of Patrick Ramsey and run our offense…into the ground. Mr. Daniel Snyder, I never thought you could top signing Deion but then you threw good money after bad and brought in Stephen Orr Spurrier. Another piece of me died that day, Danny.

Well with two strikes on the table and about a bazillion other things that you did that were very close to being strikes but had to be downgraded due to the sheer brilliance that was Sanders and Spurrier, I thought that there would be no way you could not learn from your previous lessons and garner a third strike thus striking out. Nobody is that stupid. Nobody who claims to love something so much could possibly be more destructive than you already had been.

Fool me once…Fool me twice…but would I be fooled by your stupidity for a third time? Enter Donovan McNabb. Daniel Snyder, you moron. I will give you the benefit of the doubt and say that hindsight is 20/20 however, why did you sign him?

Seriously, after all of the crap that the Redskins faithful have put up with over the years because of your unbelievably idiotic decisions, you had the nerve to sign McNabb? Let’s just think about this logically.

McNabb plays for a division rival, he is in his late 30’s and he is on the downside of his career. You might stop to think, just for a second, that if the Philadelphia Eagles are willing to get rid of their QB to a DIVISION RIVAL that he is obviously not worth trading for.

But no, Daniel Snyder! No, not only do you trade for him but you give away a second round draft pick and another third or fourth round draft pick. You do realize that Tom Brady was taken in the 7th round. Just pointing out the caliber of players we could have drafted if you weren’t such an idiot Daniel Snyder.

It must have been like Christmas in the Eagles household. They were surely downing the eggnog and decking the halls because not only could they poison a division rival with an aging QB but they could also get two very solid draft picks from us in return.

Oh, Daniel Snyder, do you know who you are? You are Taco from The League. You are the guy who owns a team but doesn’t even know what sport his team is playing.

“You want to trade a kicker to me for Ray Rice? Sure Andre that sounds like a great trade. Oh and please let me give you a couple of my draft picks next year too.” 

You amaze me Daniel M. Snyder. What does the “M” stand for by the way? Mediocre? Can’t be mediocre, because mediocre is another way of saying average and you have worked extremely hard to be a well below average owner. I would guess it stands for “Miserable” or “Might never, ever, ever make it to the Super Bowl again, ever.”

Not only did you disgrace our franchise by acquiring a dinosaur QB who has had his worst statistical year to date but you also signed him to a 5-year $78 million deal just days after your coach, Mike Shanahan, benched him for Rex Grossman with two minutes left to play against arguably the worst team in the league, the Detroit Lions.

Do you know how bad a QB you have to be in order to be benched in favor of Rex Grossman? Absolutely freakin’ horrible. Rex Grossman, people. Come on man.

But the best part about this entire three-ring circus that is my beloved Washington Redskins is that they just announced that McNabb will be the third string QB for the remainder of the season.

Yes, you read that correctly, Rex Grossman is our starter. The only smart thing that Daniel Snyder did was put a clause in McNabb’s contract that stated we could cut him this year, but even that costs an additional $3.5 million. Easiest money Donovan ever made.

Two high draft picks and $3.5 million additional dollars and we are starting Rex Grossman with, in all likelihood, McNabb being let go and going to another organization to, as our luck would have it, flourish.

Strike three Daniel Snyder. You have successfully killed off every piece of me that ever loved the Redskins. Until you sell the team to somebody who has even the tiniest bit of football knowledge, I can no longer invest my time, money, energy and emotion into the burgundy and gold.

It is truly sad, but Daniel Snyder, you have single handedly killed for me the team I have been following since birth. The team I loved more than any other team in any other sport.

So I would like to thank you for that sir.

Daniel Snyder if you have truly been a fan of the Washington Redskins organization your entire life as you claim to have been, then as a true fan you MUST sell the team to someone who can revive it before you bury it forever. Call Ted Leonsis first, he seems to know what he is doing with the Washington Capitals. Please, Daniel Snyder, please sell my team.

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