Congress Throws Snyder, NFL 4 Loss

Many folks in DC Swamp assumed Washington’s football owner Dan Snyder would get creamed in Congress’ report on alleged toxic workplace culture, but who’d a thunk NFL itself would be accused of aiding cover-up?

So, at least, says the 79-page final report issued by the US House of Representatives Committee on Oversight & Reform. As ESPN reports on the long-awaited report, “owner Snyder ‘permitted and participated’ in the team’s longtime toxic work culture and obstructed a 14-month congressional inquiry by dodging a subpoena, working to dissuade and intimidate witnesses from cooperating and claiming more than 100 times in testimony that he could not recall answers to basic questions …” But, as if piling on, the report released Thursday “also comes down hard on the NFL, concluding that the league was complicit in Snyder’s efforts by not cooperating with the congressional inquiry and burying a 2020-21 investigation of the Commanders’ workplace led by attorney Beth Wilkinson, the results of which have never been fully released.”

Neither Snyder nor the NFL has commented on the report until they get a chance to read it and as if their “prevent defense” approach to the whole affair would work any better than it does against Tom Brady during his 2-minute drill. They will likely continue to claim “partisan politics” is behind the Congressional blitz. Maybe that’s so. But, does it change the underlying facts underscored by the report?

Davd Soul