The Commanders are one of the coolest stories in sports right now. Unless you're Dan Snyder apparently! The former Washington owner, who presided over decades of disastrous football and somehow even worse off-field stuff,

For Washington Commanders fans, it was a good news/bad news weekend. The bad news? The team’s wildly improbable, preposterously successful turnaround season finally came to an end—one win short of the dang Super Bowl—with a road loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.

NFL owners wanted a stable, well-run franchise in Washington, and that’s what they’ve gotten from Josh Harris’s group running the Commanders.

Growing up in Maryland, Dan Snyder loved the Washington NFL team. His passion for the club only grew when his father scraped together the cash to buy tickets to take his young son to a game. That's according to an ESPN report on Saturday,

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.