Affidavit Exhibits 151-204 in Support of Motion To Dismiss in Dan Snyder v. Washington City Paper and Dave McKenna

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
CIVIL DIVISION

DANIEL M. SNYDER,

Plaintiff,

v.

CREATIVE LOAFING, INC., CL
WASHINGTON, INC. (d/b/a
WASHINGTON CITY PAPER); and
DAVE MCKENNA,

Defendants.

Civil Action No. 2011 CA 003168 B
Judge Todd E. Edelman

Next court date: July 29, 2011
Event: Initial scheduling conference

PRAECIPE FOR CONTINUATION OF SPECIAL MOTION TO DISMISS
THE COMPLAINT: EXHIBITS 151204 TO AFFIDAVIT OF ALIA L. SMITH, ESQ.
Due to size restrictions, Defendants have had to submit multiple filings. Please consider
this a continuation of Defendants Special Motion to Dismiss the Complaint.

Dated: June 17, 2011 Respectfully submitted,

BAKER & HOSTETLER, L.L.P.

By: /s/ Bruce D. Brown
Bruce D. Brown (D.C. Bar No. 457317)
Mark I. Bailen (D.C. Bar No. 459623)
Washington Square, Suite 1100
1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 200365304
Telephone: (202) 8611660
Facsimile: (202) 8611783
bbrown@bakerlaw.com;
mbailen@bakerlaw.com

LEVINE SULLIVAN KOCH & SCHULZ, L.L.P.

By: /s/ Jay Ward Brown
Seth D. Berlin (D.C. Bar No. 433611)
Jay Ward Brown (D.C. Bar No. 437686)
Alia L. Smith (D.C. Bar No. 992629)
1050 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Suite 800
Washington, D.C. 20036
Telephone: (202) 5081100
Facsimile: (202) 8619888
sberlin@lskslaw.com; jbrown@lskslaw.com,
asmith@lskslaw.com
Counsel for Defendant Dave McKenna
David M. Snyder (pro hac vice pending)
DAVID M. SNYDER, P.A.
1810 S. MacDill Avenue, Suite 4
Tampa, FL 336295960
Telephone: (813) 2584501
Facsimile: (813) 2584402
dmsnyder@dmslaw.com

Counsel for Defendant CL Washington, Inc.

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Maybe Dan Snyder has too much time on his hands now that Iootball
people at Redskins Park are making some Iootball decisions. In any case, there are reports Snyder's back to
making Gekkoesque business deals away Irom the NFL operation.
The :DOO6WUHHW-RXUQDO wrote yesterday that Snyder recently sold "Junk" bonds Ior Dick Clark Productions, a
company he owns. From the Journal (subscription required):
In August, Dick Clark Productions, which produces television shows such as "Dick Clark's New Year's
Rockin' Eve" sold $165 million in notes in a deal that originally was supposed to be $150 million. OI
that, the company will pay $105 million to shareholders including Six Flags Inc. and private-equity
Iirm RedZone Capital Management LLC, whose chieI is Daniel Snyder, owner oI the Washington
Redskins Iootball team. Moody's Investors Service gave the notes a B2 "iunk" rating and noted the
company's reliance on three music awards shows, including the American Music Awards, plus the New
Year's Eve special and the reality show "So You Think You Can Dance."
A spokesman Ior Snyder's DCP told the Journal that B2 was a "solid rating."
As I recall Irom reading studious kids' report cards, "B" meant "above average" back in high school. But I've
learned it stands Ior something entirely diIIerent on Wall Street. Moody's guidebook says bonds with a B rating are
"considered speculative and are subiect to high credit risk." And B2 bonds, as the Journal says, are iunk.
This isn't the Iirst questionable deal Snyder's made with the L.A. production company. In Iact, Snyder's acquisition
oI DCP in 2007 seemed unethical Irom the start, since Snyder bought DCP Ior $175 million by mingling Iunds
Irom his private investment kitty, Red Zone, and money Irom shareholders oI Six Flags, a public company he
controlled as chairman oI the board. He spent all that Six Flags money even while the company was billions oI
dollars in debt, and, under Snyder's hand, on the Iast track to bankruptcy. Snyder's protege, Mark Shapiro, had been
installed by Snyder to be both CEO oI Six Flags and president oI DCP.
During the bankruptcy proceedings, the DCP purchase and subsequent transactions between the theme park chain
and Red Zone that Snyder hammered out while negotiating with himselI were cited in a lawsuit Iiled by a hedge
Iund that lost millions.
That suit, which spelled out Snyder's conIlicts oI interest in a way that to the lay observer (ok, me) sure made his
actions seem criminal, collapsed when a Federal iudge approved a reorganization plan that threw Snyder out oI the
company. Shapiro was likewise tossed to the curb as soon as the new board oI directors came in.
But, Irom the sound oI "iunk," the high-proIile comeuppances humbled neither oI them. Then again, aIter Six Flags'
spectacular Iailure, who would invest a dime with Snyder, anyway?
There's gotta be a photo oI Snyder with a shoebox-sized mobile phone to his ear out there somewhere.

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Dan Snyder vs. the Kennedys It has Hooters girls and
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On Monday, the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex opened in Los Angeles. The Iive-story complex
is hailed as the most expensive public school in history, costing more than halI a billion dollars to build. The new
Iacility will house nearly 4,000 kids in grades K12.
One night earlier, the RFK Standing Stomping Club made its regular season debut in Landover, above the end
zones oI FedExField. Redskins owner Dan Snyder will use the new sections to sell the costliest standing-room-
only tickets in the history oI local sports and entertainment. The marketing pitch describes a 'party deck with
access to a cigar bar, Hooters girls and admission to a weekly '5th Quarter Party that Ieatures a chance to rub
elbows with cheerleaders.
The Kennedy estate gave its blessing to iust one oI the proiects.
Guess which?
'Neither the RFK Center nor the RFK Iamily have given rights to the name |to Dan Snyder|, says Lynn Delaney,
executive director oI the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center Ior Justice and Human Rights. That`s the D.C.-based
Ioundation established by Kennedy`s Iamily and Iriends in October 1968, mere months aIter the Iormer U.S.
attorney general and presidential candidate was slain at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, the site oI the newly
opened education campus. The group`s stated mission is to 'advance respect Ior human rights and social iustice Ior
all people.
Delaney says: 'We work with human rights groups on the ground in 27 countries to spread that message.
So, is that do-gooder obiective promoted by having the initials 'RFK attachedby the owner oI a team named the
'Redskinsto the home oI a Hooters?
'No, it`s not, says Delaney. 'Absolutely not.
Several weeks ago, the Redskins sent a mass e-mail advertising the RFK Standing Stomping Club to season
ticketholders and others on the team`s marketing lists. The e-mail was signed by Redskins chieI marketing oIIicer
Mitch Gershman. A page oIIering the special RFK tickets Ior sale via Ticketmaster Ior $152.50 then appeared on
the team`s oIIicial website.
Nobody Irom the Redskins, Delaney says, discussed the marketing gimmick with anybody associated with the
Kennedys beIore the RFK tickets went on sale. She says until she got a call Irom Washington Citv Paper last week,
neither her group nor the estate was aware oI the RFK Standing Stomping Club.
Legacy Status: Dan Snyder`s use oI RFK Ior
Redskins marketing is in a legal gray area.
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David Donovan, the Redskins chieI operating oIIicer and the guy who has handled the team`s past intellectual
property matters, did not respond to a request Ior comment about the use oI 'RFK.
Snyder`s use oI a name he doesn`t own is particularly interesting given his obsession with trademarks. Nobody is
more aware oI the value oI a name than the Redskins owner. In 1999, shortly aIter buying the team, he sold the
naming rights to what was called Jack Kent Cooke Stadium to FedEx Ior $7.6 million per year through 2025. Then
he set out to stop local TV stations Irom using the word 'Redskins to promote any news segments without paying
him Iirst. Beginning in the 2000 preseason, those who didn`t pay were penalized: 'We spent the |2000| season
shooting in the Redskins Park parking lot, recalls Rene Knott, Iormer sportscaster Ior WJLA, the only news
operation Irom a network aIIiliate in this market that reIused Snyder`s demands.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark OIIice`s database oIIers ample evidence oI Snyder`s Ietish Ior intellectual property.
He registered the trademark 'First Ladies oI Football Ior his team`s cheerleaders, Ior example, and during his
tenure as chairman oI the board oI Six Flags actually Iiled papers with the Ieds claiming ownership oI 'Daycation,
'You Are Here and both 'Pay Like a Kid. Play Like a Kid and 'Play Like a Kid. Pay Like a Kid Ior the
amusement park chain.
So Snyder knows 'RFK is gold. Especially to area Iootball Ians.
Among the Iirst things ever named Ior the slain statesman, oI course, was the Iootball stadium where the Redskins
had played since 1961. In June 1969, during a ceremony that Ieatured local hero QB Sonny 1urgensen leading a
Iootball clinic Ior underprivileged youngsters, the then-Iederally owned Iacility oIIicially went Irom being called
'District oI Columbia Stadium to 'Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium.
OI course, it`s the good memories oI that stadium, rather than the good name oI the liberal icon, that Snyder wants
to exploit in order to sell pricey SRO tickets to the Redskins current home. During their 36 years at RFK Stadium,
the Redskins won three Super Bowlsa status they haven`t enioyed since decamping to Landover.
UnIortunately, the Washington Convention and Sports Authority, the quasi-governmental agency that now owns
and operates RFK Stadium, says Snyder never called to ask Ior permission, or let them know he`d be nicking the
name, either.
The RFK Stadium crowd, however, doesn`t act like it`s ready to rumble with the Redskins over the new party
deck`s Iamiliar name.
'Most people would probably tell you that most oI the great memories oI the Redskins were made on the Iield at
RFK, says Erik Moses, managing director oI WCSA`s Sports, Entertainment and Special Events Division. 'I
think coniuring that and all the good Ieelings is part oI the team`s history. Next year is the 50th anniversary oI that
stadium, and we`re hoping to honor that legacy. II the Redskins are making people coniure the name RFK, that`s
not a bad thing Ior us.
Even iI the stadium Iolks were peeved, their legal standing in a squabble with Snyder over the name is dubious.
One intellectual property attorney I spoke with says that Snyder has a decent chance oI getting away with using
'RFK without securing a license Irom anybody.
'I think it`s a pretty shrewd move by Dan Snyder, says the attorney, who requested anonymity. 'You are allowed
to use something in a name that`s a descriptor, so iI there were sections in the old stadium where Iolks were
standing and stomping, he could allude to that, so I don`t know what claim |WCSA| would have. The Kennedy
Iamily Ioundation would have a better claim here, but, well, he was a politician, a historic public oIIicial, so it`s not
like |Snyder| is using Elvis Presley` in the name. This is a very gray legal area.
So, perhaps something other than hangovers will come out oI Snyder`s new party deck. Like, say, legal precedent:
Delaney says attorneys Ior the RFK Memorial Center Ior Justice and Human Rights will 'look into the RFK
Standing Stomping Club situation this week.
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Mr. Bigglesworth
September 16, 2010
Shrewd? Perhaps. The kind oI stunt only an incredible d-bag would attempt? Absolutely.

What's next? Mahatma G's BuIIalo Wings and ML King Kone Ice Cream shops?

Seriously, Snyder, iust STOP. Even that nutball Marlene Cooke would be a better owner than you.
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K
September 17, 2010
Has there ever been a team owner more out oI touch with local opinion? Just sell the team to Ted Leonsis: not only
does he WIN GAMES, he does it while being a good guy.
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Falls Church
September 17, 2010
Shouldn't 106.7 The Fan be in iust as much trouble Ior appropriating RFK's big brother's initials Ior its radio station
call letters?

Do you think the Nationals asked permission oI Teddy Roosevelt's estate beIore they turned him into a perpetual
loser?

And don't Iorget Franklin Delano Romanowski, Kramer's Iriend in that SeinIeld episode.
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SW
September 17, 2010
The genius in Danny Boy's meglomania is that only he can take something with a value oI $40 (a standing room
only ticket) and package it with enough bullshit to charge $150 Ior it.
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Iorest glen
September 19, 2010
synders a dick, I heard he made a poster oI the redskins cheerliders with a loga saying "you mecca me hot"
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Checkbook iournalism is hot.
Last week word got out that NBC chartered a plane to bring David Goldman and his son back Irom Brazil in an
apparent exchange Ior an interview on Toaav.Andy Schotz, chairman oI the ethics committee Ior the Society oI
ProIessional Journalists (SPJ), issued a statement blasting NBC. 'Paying Ior access taints the credibility and
neutrality oI what you are doing, Schotz said. 'There is now a motive Ior people to be helping you, to be telling
you what you want to hear.
Then CNN and ABC took heat Ior paying Ior photos Irom Jasper Schuringa, a guy who claimed to have been a hero
in the underwear bomber episode. Schuringa happened to give his Iirst interviews to the Iolks who bought his
photos. 'It`s unconscionable to think about a bidding war Ior sources on importantor unimportantnews
stories, railed Stacey WoelIel, chairman oI the Radio, Television and Digital News Association (RTDNA).
WoelIul called the practice oI paying Ior sources 'a ticket on a one-way Ilight to ruin Ior our proIession.
Yet Ior all the recent stink, the practice oI paying Ior sources has been going on in this market Ior decades, as
sportscasters vie Ior access to the Washington Redskins. George Michael, the beloved Iormer WRC sportscaster
and undisputed king oI pay-to-play broadcasting, died iust as the ethics debate raged nationally.
Michael`s amazing run atop the D.C. sportscasting scene was Iueled by checkbook iournalism. He started paying
Redskins players and coaches to get access shortly aIter arriving in town in 1980, and aIter Dan Snyder bought the
Redskins, Michael and WRC even began taking money Irom the team to get Snyder`s message out via various
sources, including Snyder-produced inIomercials.
Neither Michael nor WRC ever disclosed to viewers that they had Iinancial arrangements with the interview
subiects. And Michael never apologized Ior his behaviorand almost nobody ever asked him to. In a 1992 article
in the Washington Post that went over the various deals WRC had to pay Redskins players and coaches Ior
interviews, including then quarterback Mark Rypien and head coach Joe Gibbs, Michael rationalized the exchange
oI money. 'That news segment is sponsored and sold. We promote the segment, Michael told Len Shapiro. 'The
Iact is, a player deserves to be compensated iI you use his name to sell it. (Full disclosure: I Ireelance music
reviews Ior the Washington Post.)
Michael also pointed out to Shapiro that he didn`t invent the paid interview. That`s true.
The term 'checkbook iournalism took hold in the 1970s, when news organizations began compensating mostly
bad guys to get them to talk. David Frost paid Richard Nixon to sit down. Nixon went to Frost aIter CBS turned
down the disgraced president`s oIIer to play Ior pay. And in 1978, ABC gave Chuck Colson $10,000 to spill the
beans on Watergate co-conspirator H.R. Haldeman. Then Bernard Welch, a proliIic D.C. cat burglar who murdered
socialite Dr. Michael Halberstam during a robbery, took money Irom Life to tell how he stole rich people`s things.
Play Ball!: Michael`s reporting was on the money.
(D.C. stores reIused to sell the Welch issue oI Life.)
When Snyder took over the Redskins in 1999, he expanded the relationship the team had with Michael, who was Iar
and away the most important sports broadcaster in town at the time.
By 2000, Snyder had divided local broadcast iournalists into two groups: those who would play ball with him and
those who wouldn`t. TV stations that didn`t become 'media partners with the Redskins, meaning those that didn`t
agree to pay or barter with the team, could no longer use the name 'Redskins in program titles. Michael and WRC
became the leader in the partnership scheme, taking over the broadcasts oI preseason games. Historically, the
broadcasts were Iarmed out to D.C. stations, but Snyder created the Redskins Broadcast Network, which had him
owning all Redskins programming. WRC also began airing Redskins inIomercials on weekends, using Michael and
other employees oI WRC`s news departments.
Just because it`s sports, and because other Iolks are doing it, doesn`t make it right, says Schotz, SPJ`s ethics
watchdog.
'Maybe it`s commonplace or seen as more acceptable by some people, says Schotz, 'but this should be a cardinal
sin in iournalism. These days we don`t think as much as we should about disclosure. II there`s nothing wrong with
what you`re doing, then let your viewers know about |potential conIlicts oI interest|. II you don`t want to let your
viewers know, that should tell you something about it. II you are a legitimate news organization, you have to
disclose these arrangements. Otherwise, it`s iust deceitIul.
There were victims in the schemes Michael and Snyder worked out, too. Only one network aIIiliate didn`t Iollow
Michael`s lead and become a 'media partner with Snyder: WJLA-7.
Snyder punished the station Ior not going along with the system he`d set up. Beginning with newscasts in the 2000
training camp, while Michael and sportscasters Irom WTTG and WUSA were allowed to broadcast their live shots
Irom inside Redskins Park, WJLA Iolks were banished Irom the team`s headquarters.
'We spent the season shooting in the Redskins Park parking lot, recalls Iormer WJLA sportscaster Rene Knott.
'Those were the days.
Knott, who leIt WJLA in 2004 and is now a sports broadcaster in St. Louis, says Snyder`s actions were an attempt
to send a chill to area iournalists, but he doesn`t think the setup paid oII Ior the Redskins owner, at least in public
relations terms.
'I know what Dan Snyder did soured me on him, Knott says. 'Here he was a young guy, comes in and seems good
with the media, and then he does |the media partnership program|, and suddenly there`s all this distance between us
and the team. But we set up outside in the parking lot and kept rolling, because the Redskins are the team you`ve
got to cover, so you don`t want to be that Iar on the outside. As much as you want to send a message, you also don`t
want to be the guy not covering the team.
Knott admits that he was occasionally iealous oI the access Michael had to the Redskins, but says that he was
always a huge admirer oI Michael and didn`t hold the sportscaster`s relationship with Snyder and work with the
Redskins Broadcast Network against him.
'I don`t know iI George held his tongue or changed what he said about the Redskins because oI his arrangement,
Knott said.
But there were times Michael`s moonlighting gig seemed to impact his reporting. In 2005, Snyder launched a
bizarre and still mystiIying campaign against star linebacker LaVar Arrington. Arrington had iust come out oI a
nasty contract negotiation with the Redskins, aIter which he accused Snyder oI dishonesty and Iraud. Among local
broadcasters, Michael served as the lead attack dog in Snyder`s anti-Arrington campaign. Arrington was slandered
as dumb, lazy, and iniured during paid interviews Michael conducted on WRC with Redskins coaches Gregg
Williams and Joe Bugel. And on The Joe Gibbs Show, one oI the Snyder-produced inIomercials Michael worked
on, he asked Gibbs iI playing Arrington, a Iour-time Pro Bowler and the Ians` Iavorite player, was 'worth the risk.
Hearing that, viewers who were aware oI Michael`s employment under Snyder, and oI Snyder`s ugly Ieud with
Arrington, could wonder: Was that the real George Michael, or his wallet, asking the question? And when Michael
landed the only broadcast interview that Snyder granted during the 2007 season and let the reclusive and much-
despised owner get away without saying anything oI substance, Ians could question whether Michael got the
assignment and lobbed so many soItballs because oI the employee/boss dynamic.
Only George Michael and Snyder know Ior sure. WRC spokespersons declined to comment on station policies Irom
when Michael served as sportscaster. But one station oIIicial, who requested anonymity, said, 'WRC does not pay
anyone Ior interviewsincluding coaches.
Yet employees oI the station`s news department still work Ior Snyder`s Redskins Broadcast Network. So suspicions
about the station`s coverage oI the team remain. Lindsay Czarniak broke the story that Jim Zorn was Iired, tweeting
at 4:45 a.m. on Monday morning that the Skins had made the move. Maybe it was hard work that got Czarniak the
tip. Maybe it was a perk Ior her employment with the team. That`s the George Michael legacy.

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xcorrick
January 7, 2010
Wow, the WCP has broken another story! George Michael was a business man! WoW! So what iI Michael took
some payola to report (or not report) a story? It's iust phuccing sports!

Good Ior you George! Both Jim Vance and I will miss you!
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John
January 7, 2010
Disgusting. He was not a real iournalist then. Just another media whore.
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rick
January 7, 2010
are u saying czarniak gets money Im the redskins? any idea how much?

un-Irigging believeable, iI true.

i thot wrc -- vance et al -- was a stand-up broadcast. no more.
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Jah
January 7, 2010
Almost as classy as slandering a dead man....?
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Exactly
January 7, 2010
Jah -- totally agree. II this was known, why wait until the guy is dead to "break" the story. Your iournalism is may
not be checkbook but it's deIinitely a shade oI yellow.

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washingtonpost.com > Arts & Living > Style FOLLOW STYLE ON:
Redskins owner apologizes over TV dispute involving
cheerleader
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
It was the sort oI Ieel-good story
that local television loves.
A Marine lieutenant calls his
hometown station, saying he is
coming home early Irom a combat
tour oI Iraq and AIghanistan and
wants to surprise his wiIe -- with
the cameras rolling.
But because Lt. Denver Edick's
wiIe is a cheerleader Ior the
Washington Redskins, the easy
score turned into a turI battle in
which ABC, the network that
pitched the idea, wound up barred
Irom FedEx Field, while the team
handed the ball to the NBC station
in town, which happens to be its
broadcast partner.
And the Redskins Iormed a deIensive line against any
other coverage. A news executive involved in the
discussions says a Redskins oIIicial told him that iI
Kristin Edick talked to anyone Irom WJLA, the ABC
aIIiliate, she would be dismissed Irom her cheerleader's
iob.
"To threaten to Iire his wiIe -- that is obiectionable on so
many levels that I couldn't even count them," said Bill
Lord, station manager at WJLA (Channel 7). "When we
go to the PR department at any company and ask to do a
story, the last thing you expect is that they'll take the
story and give it to a competitor. That is iust Ilat wrong.
I'm always going to think that's unethical. It was
hiiacked."
The team denies that the director oI its cheerleading
squad spoke oI Iiring Kristin Edick. In a letter to Lord
on Tuesday, Redskins owner Daniel Snyder oIIered a
"personal apology" Ior the exclusion oI WJLA.
"I do regret actions taken by our representatives that
prevented your news organization Irom being able to
report on the surprise early return oI Lt. Denver Edick
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and his reunion with his wiIe Kristin, one oI our
cheerleaders," Snyder wrote. He said he is "making
many changes in personnel and policy" that he hopes
will ensure "that the Redskins are respectIul and Iair to
the iournalists that are covering our team." (Karl
Swanson, senior vice president Ior public relations,
resigned Monday but his departure had been in the
works beIore this controversy.)
Lord said he welcomed Snyder's letter and wants to
"rebuild the relationship," but "I also think he ought to
apologize to the lieutenant and his wiIe" Ior the pressure
applied on them.
David Donovan, the Redskins' chieI operating
oIIicer, said Edick initially contacted the
team, which learned later about WJLA's
involvement and alerted WRC (Channel 4),
the NBC station in Washington. "There have
been times when our broadcast partners are
aIIorded exclusive opportunities, but this
should not have been one oI them. . . .
Apparently, this was an over-exuberant
attempt to support one oI our partners,"
Donovan said in an e-mail.
Edick, in Iull-dress uniIorm, surprised his
wiIe Thursday evening at FedEx Field, where
the cheerleaders were conveniently
practicing. "My legs turned to Jell-O," Kristin Edick told WRC aIter iumping up to embrace
her husband. WRC aired the story that night, and the Redskins' oIIicial blog Ieatured the
video as well, saying: "Not really much to add to this one besides $ZZZZZZ."
Edick said Irom Quantico, where he is now based, that he was pleased by the story but
troubled by the dispute that developed. "I hope none oI this will get me or my wiIe in
trouble," he said. "The Redskins were absolutely awesome in everything they did."
WRC spokesman Matt Glassman said in a statement: "We went to FedEx Field to cover a
story. We did not request that it be exclusive and have no knowledge why another station was
denied access." He declined to comment Iurther.

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Edick, 28, is Irom the Asheville,
N.C., area. He was scheduled to
return Irom Iraq in January but
volunteered to extend his tour in
AIghanistan. When a military rule
barred him Irom staying in that
war zone longer, he got in touch
with WLOS, the ABC aIIiliate in
Asheville, which asked iI he could
stage the reunion with his wiIe
back home in North Carolina.
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impossible, the station asked
WJLA to send a crew to the
couple's reunion in Washington
and provide the tape, a common
practice among aIIiliates -- and a
winning story Ior WJLA as well,
because it involved the city's
Iootball Iranchise.
When reached Ior comment, Bryan
Luhn, assistant news director at
WLOS, said he suggested alternatives to the team aIter
learning that it would cooperate only with WRC. The
Redskins became broadcast partners last year with
WRC, which carries exhibition games and pre- and
postgame segments.
Luhn said he asked Stephanie Joiokian, the cheerleaders'
director, whether WJLA could interview Kristin Edick
and her husband aIterward, outside the stadium or even
at a restaurant.
"She could do that, but she'll no longer be a Redskins
cheerleader," Luhn recalls Joiokian saying. "She is
contractually obligated to the Redskins."
Luhn said he was "kind oI stunned by that. You'd really
Iire a cheerleader who's getting ready to see her husband
aIter a year and a halI in Iraq over media access? . . .
How can they not want coverage Ior this story? It's a
great story. It's Iree publicity."
The Redskins' Donovan said he spoke to Joiokian and
that "she told me this was absolutely not true. I would
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Edick, caught in the middle, said he Ielt that WJLA
reporter Jay KorII "was being rude" as the dispute
escalated. "I Ielt the guy at Channel 7 was asking me to
do things I wasn't comIortable with. He wanted me to
tell the Redskins that I wasn't going to surprise my wiIe
unless the Redskins let them cover the story."
KorII said that was untrue and that their conversations
were cordial. He recalled telling Edick that the Redskins
would not let his station cover the reunion "because
we're not their broadcast partners, we're not their buddies. They're basically stealing this story
Irom us."
At that point, KorII said, Edick asked iI there
was anything he could do to help. "Give them
a call and tell them you think this is unIair
and we should be in on it," he recalls telling
the lieutenant.
The Redskins barred WJLA's crew Irom
entering the stadium Thursday night. "That
was not a good decision," Donovan said.
At that point, said WJLA's Lord, a Vietnam
War veteran who was concerned that the
Marine was being unduly pressured, "we
decided it was time to punt."
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condition: that the tape not be Ied back to WJLA. This, oI course, kept its Washington rival
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By ELIZABETH OLSON
Published: March 18, 2007
A nunnv who suId LhuL DunIeI M. Snvder, owner oI Lhe WushIngLon
RedskIns, hud underpuId her won $qq,88o IusL week when u
MonLgomerv CounLv CIrcuIL CourL In MurvIund ugreed LhuL she hud
noL been compensuLed Ior overLIme hours she hud worked.
JuIIeLLe Mendoncu sued Mr. Snvder Ior $6o,ooo In overLIme LhuL she
suId she hud eurned whIIe curIng Ior Lhe Lhree chIIdren oI Mr. Snvder
und hIs wIIe, Tunvu. ThIs wus on Lop oI Lhe $16z,ooo she wus puId
durIng LhuL sume perIod, Irom AprII zoo Lo November zooq.
She LesLIIIed LhuL Mr. Snvder conIronLed her IuLe one nIghL In zooq, suvIng: '' puv vou
more Lhun mv RedskIns purk peopIe! cun'L uIIord Lo puv vou IIke LhIs!''
Mr. Snvder, who Is uIso chuIrmun oI Lhe umusemenL purk gIunL SIx Iugs, dId noL Luke Lhe
sLund. BuL hIs wIIe LesLIIIed LhuL Ms. Mendoncu couId noL huve worked uII Lhe hours she
cIuImed. Thev oIIered her u $6=,ooo suIurv, buL she reIused IL, preIerrIng Lo work on un
hourIv busIs, Lhe coupIe's Iuwver suId.
The jurv dId noL expIuIn how IL urrIved uL Lhe umounL oI Lhe uwurd, uccordIng Lo Ms.
Mendoncu's Iuwver, runk J. CovIeIIo, buL IL rejecLed her demund Ior dumuges oI $18o,ooo
In Lhe cuse.
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An Overtime Loss for Redskins Boss
By Amy Argetsinger and Roxanne Roberts
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
It's chump change Ior Redskins owner 'DQ6Q\GHU and
his wiIe, 7DQ\D. But a Montgomery County iury
yesterday handed a victory oI sorts to -XOLHWWH
0HQGRQFD, the Snyders' Iormer nanny: $44,880 in
overtime pay, aIter two days oI testimony about the
inner workings oI the Snyder household.
Mendonca was hired in April 2003 to work weekends
watching the Snyders' three young children, ioining a
staII that included a Iull-time day nanny, two
housekeepers, a house manager, cheI, driver and
personal assistant. Six months later her duties were
expanded to include nights, and she continued that
schedule -- nights and weekends, at $18 an hour -- until
she was dismissed in November 2004 in a salary dispute.
The 50-year-old native oI India testiIied that she was
instructed never to leave the children unattended and
was not allowed to eat, shower, watch TV or sleep
during her 12-hour shiIts -- which routinely stretched to
24 hours on weekends, she said. And during one 24-day
work marathon in the summer oI 2004, she claimed, she
didn't sleep at all. She was "watched constantly" by the
Snyders, she asserted.
Mendonca testiIied that Tanya sometimes stayed in bed until lunchtime unless she had
morning appointments. The kids, on the other hand, never slept well because the parents
allowed them to eat candy beIore bedtime.
Nonsense, Tanya Snyder said on the stand. She testiIied that she was swamped overseeing
construction on their new home in Potomac and was thereIore reluctant to Iire Mendonca,
despite the Iact she believed the nanny was padding her timecard and "completely taking
advantage oI the situation. . . . I would get billed every time she walked into Montgomery
County." (An attorney Ior the Snyders argued that Mendonca was "setting them up.") Tanya
said that she never expected anyone to work 24 hours a day and that she provided Iood and a
guest room -- and she denied that Mendonca was asked to watch Iriends' children when they
visited: "Just about everyone I know has a nanny," she pointed out, and they would troop into
the house along with the kids.
Over the 20 months that she worked Ior the couple, Mendonca was paid
more than $162,000. When the Snyders Iinally totaled her hourly wages, Dan Snyder said,
"You know, you make more than the Redskins Park people I pay" and oIIered her a salary oI
about $70,000 a year -- or two weeks' notice.

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Mendonca quit, and the couple received a
letter two months later asking Ior overtime
and damages, seeking $9 million to settle. At
trial, she sought $60,000 in overtime wages
and $180,000 in damages.
Is this the end? Maybe: The Snyders' lawyers
said they were pleased with the verdict. Or
maybe not: &DUH\'RQO\, a Iormer house
manager Ior the Iamily, said Mendonca "kept
lots oI notes" and asserted that "one day she'd
be on 2SUDK."
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Thanks to the NEA!
Ooh, who's the cute new guy on the Hill? Oh, oI course:
another Hollywood dude making his "lobbying" debut --
&KULV.OHLQ.
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and slicked-back hair, testiIied beIore the House
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showbizzy VIPs like :\QWRQ0DUVDOLV, seeking $176
million Ior the National Endowment Ior the Arts. Klein
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%XVK -- no, sorry, 'scuse us, that was actually Rep. 1RUP'LFNV (D-Wash.), during the
hearing. She was "amazing," said Klein, and she gave him "a Iull education on what it was
going to take to make it in the business."
Okay, time Ior us to haze the newbie
a bit. How does it Ieel to be asked about ex-Iiancee .DWLH+ROPHV all the time? Lo-o-ong
pause. Klein glanced away, tensed his iaw, reddened. "Today is all about Arts Advocacy Day
and, uh, I think it's best to stay on the subiect."
Klein said he planned to linger in town today, his 28th birthday, to visit the Smithsonian
museums. Cool -- anything else Iun? "I can't think oI anything I'd rather do than check out
some history and check out some art on my birthday."
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pneumonia in addition to the ghastly eye iniury she suIIered when she mistook a vial oI
perIume Ior a vial oI lens solution. The WAMU-FM talk show host, now on her second
round oI antibiotics, said her doctors think one led to the other. "The blow to the eye was
such a trauma to the body," she told us. "It's been a siege." Rehm, 70, hopes to be back on the
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So, there's a rumor these things are totally rigged -- whaddya think?
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Former Nanny for Skins Owner Wins Salary Dispute
Kate Ryan, WTOP Radio
ROCKVILLE, Md. - It's a touchdown in court for the former nanny of Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder.
A jury ruled in favor of Snyder's former nanny, Juliette Mendonca, in a salary suit brought on by Mendonca, who claimed she was never paid $60,000 for overtime.
On Tuesday, the court awarded the 50-year-old Mendonca $44,880 in unpaid wages.
Mendonca insisted she worked more than 100 hours some weeks when she served as a nanny to Dan and Tanya Snyder's three children.
Mendonca's lawyer Frank Coviello had argued that as an hourly employee, Mendonca, of Arlington, was entitled to overtime, but she was never paid.
The Snyders' attorney, Geoff Gavett, told jurors the suit was a case of overbilling and Mendonca could not and did not work all the hours she claimed to from April 2003 to November 2004.
About an hour after beginning deliberations, the six-member jury asked the Montgomery County Circuit Court judge for a calendar and calculator.
The verdict came in about two hours later.
A smiling Mendonca told reporters justice was served in the case.
One of the jurors -- who declined to speak on tape -- told reporters a lack of a contract and timesheets led the jury to believe there was a justified wage dispute and from there, they used their own
common sense and fairness.
Tanya Snyder showed no emotion when the verdict was read. Dan Snyder did not attend the two-day trial.
Coviello originally asked for $60,000 in unpaid wages and $180,000 in damages.
However, the jury did not award any money in damages to Mendonca.
On Monday, Tanya Snyder testified that Mendonca often showed up when she was not needed, and billed the Snyders for hours not worked.
Mendonca described herself as a dedicated employee, caring for the children day and night.
Tanya Snyder testified that the civil trial was never about Mendonca's ability to care for the Snyder children.
Snyder said she felt Mendonca was a competent nanny and she felt the children were safe in Mendonca's care.
Gavett said the Snyders offered Mendonca a salary, but she refused, piling on overtime hours once she discovered she was entitled to them.
Mendonca testified that an angry Dan Snyder confronted her around midnight in 2004 and with papers in hand he told her, "Do you know how much you make? I pay you more than my Redskins
park people! I can't afford to pay you like this!"
Mendonca said she was offered a salary of $65,000.
Snyder said they offered Mendonca an annual salary of $72,000 dollars, but Mendonca never gave her a straight answer.
Tanya Snyder testified she felt she was being taken advantage of while she was swamped with the job of constructing the Snyders' Potomac home.
At at one point during her testimony, a clearly exasperated Snyder said she felt she was being charged every time Mendonca set foot in Montgomery County.
(Copyright 2007 by WTOP. All Rights Reserved.)
Tuesday - 3/13/2007, 8:07pm ET
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Exhibit 158
Circuit Court of Maryland
Go Back
(Each Alias, Address, and Attorney for the Plaintiff is displayed)

(Each Alias, Address, and Attorney for the Defendant is displayed)

Case Information
Court System: Circuit Court for Montgomery County - Civil System
Case Number: 269099V Sub Type: OTHER LAW
Date Filed: 02/09/2006
Case Status: CLOSED
Plaintiff Information
Name:
MENDONCA, JULIETTE
Address: C/O FRANK J. COVIELLO, ESQUIRE
11720 CLOPPER ROAD
GAITHERSBURG MD 20878
Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff
Name:
COVIELLO, FRANK J
Address: 11720 CLOPPER ROAD
GAITHERSBURG MD 20878
Phone: 301-869-3484
Defendant Information
Name:
SNYDER, DANIEL M
Address: 11900 RIVER ROAD
POTOMAC MD 20854
Attorney(s) for the Defendant
Name:
GAVETT, GEOFFREY S
Address: GAVETT AND DATT, P.C.
15850 CRABBS BRANCH WAY #180
DERWOOD MD 20855
Phone: 301-948-1177
Name:
SNYDER, TANYA
Address: 11900 RIVER ROAD
POTOMAC MD 20854
Attorney(s) for the Defendant
Name:
GAVETT, GEOFFREY S
Page 1 oI 18 Case InIormation
6/13/2011 http://casesearch.courts.state.md.us/inquiry/inquiryDetail.iis?caseId269099V&detailLocMCCI

Address: GAVETT AND DATT, P.C.
15850 CRABBS BRANCH WAY #180
DERWOOD MD 20855
Phone: 301-948-1177
Issues Information
Issue: COLLECTION WAGES UNLAWFULLY WITHHELD
Issue: COLLECTION WAGES UNLAWFULLY WITHHELD
Issue: DECLARATORY JUDGMENT
Judgment Information
(Each Judgment is displayed separately.)
Date: 03/15/2007 Amount: $44,880.00 Satisfied 07/03/2007
Debtor:
SNYDER, DANIEL M
Date: 03/15/2007 Amount: $44,880.00 Satisfied 07/03/2007
Debtor:
SNYDER, TANYA
Document Tracking
Docket Date: 02/09/2006 Docket Number: 1
Docket Description: BILL OF COMPLAINT
Docket Type: Docket Filed By: Plaintiff
Docket Text:
COMPLAINT AND JURY DEMAND, FILED.
Docket Description: INFORMATION SHEET FILED
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S INFORMATION SHEET, FILED.
Docket Description: INSTRUCTIONS FOR SERVICE
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S INSTRUCTIONS FOR SERVICE, FILED.
Docket Description: CERTIFICATE REGARDING DISCOVERY
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S CERTIFICATE REGARDING DISCOVERY AS TO INTERROGATORIES
AND REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENT, FILED.
Docket Description: ORDER, SCHEDULING HEARING CIVIL TRK
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
HARRINGTON, ANN
Docket Text:
NOTICE OF SCHEDULING CONFERENCE AND ORDER OF COURT - TRACK III
(HARRINGTON, J.) , ENTERED. (COPIES MAILED/HANDED)
Docket Description: NOTICE, NEW CASE NUMBER
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
NOTICE SENT/HANDED GIVING NEW CASE NUMBER TO ALL PARTIES.
Docket Description: SUMMONS ISSUED
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
TWO 30-DAY SUMMONSES ISSUED FOR PERSONAL SERVICE AND PLACED IN THE
SHERIFF'S BOX.
Docket Description: SHERIFF'S RETURN ON SUMMONS: SERVED
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
SHERIFF'S RETURN ON SUMMONS: SERVED AS TO DANIEL M. SNYDER W/S/O
THOMAS R. RUDER ON 02/16/2006, FILED.
Docket Description: SHERIFF'S RETURN ON SUMMONS: SERVED
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
SHERIFF'S RETURN ON SUMMONS: SERVED AS TO TANYA SNYDER W/S/O
THOMAS T. RUDER ON 02/16/2006, FILED.
Docket Description: ANSWER
Docket Type: Docket Filed By: Defense
Docket Text:
DEFENDANTS' ANSWER TO COMPLAINT, FILED.
Docket Description: COUNTERCLAIM/CROSSCLAIM/CROSS BILL
Docket Text:
DEFENDANTS' COUNTERCLAIM AGAINST PLAINTIFF, FILED.
Docket Description: CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
Docket Text:
DEFENDANT TANYA SNYDER'S NOTICE OF SERVICE AS TO INTERROGATORIES
TO PLAINTIFF, FILED.
Docket Text:
DEFENDANT TANYA SNYDER'S NOTICE OF SERVICE AS TO REQUEST FOR THE
PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS TO THE PLAINTIFF, FILED.
Docket Description: MOTION, CONSOLIDATION OF CASES
Docket Type: Motion Filed By: Defense Status: Granted
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Reference Docket(s): Opposition: 18 Ruling: 28
Docket Text:
DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO CONSOLIDATE THIS CASE WITH NO. 268149-V,
FILED.
Docket Description: NOTICE, EXISTING SCHEDULE
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
NOTICE OF EXISTING SCHEDULE SENT TO NEW ATTORNEY
Docket Description: ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE'S CHECK SHEET
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
JAH'S CHECK SHEET (MOTION TO CONSOLIDATE WILL NOT BE SUBMITTED FOR
RULING UNTIL BOTH CASES ARE IN THE PROPER POSTURE/AT ISSUE. CIVIL
#268149 IS NOT AT ISSUE. COUNSEL/THE PARTIES MAY RESUBMIT THE
MOTION WHEN APPROPRIATE.) (COPY MAILED)
Docket Description: MOTION, DISMISS (PARTIAL - CASE NOT CLOSED)
Docket Type: Motion Filed By: Plaintiff Status: Moot
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Reference Docket(s): Ruling: 31
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO DISMISS DEFENDANTS' COUNTER-CLAIM AND
REQUEST FOR HEARING, FILED.
Docket Description: OPPOSITION TO MOTION
Docket Type: Opposition Filed By: Plaintiff
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Reference Docket(s): Motion: 14 Ruling: 28
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S OPPOSITION TO SNYDER'S MOTION TO CONSOLIDATE THE ABOVE
CAPTIONED CASES AND MS. SNYDER REQUESTS A HEARING FILED.
Docket Description: REQUEST, HEARING
Docket Text:
PLANTIFF'S REQUEST FOR HEARING ON THE MOTION TO DISMISS DEFENDANTS'
COUNTER-CLAIM FILED. (MOTION TAB #17)
Docket Description: AMENDED COUNTER COMPLAINT
Docket Text:
DEFENDANT'S AMENDED COUNTERCLAIM AGAINST PLAINTIFF, FILED.
Docket Description: MOTION, DISMISS (PARTIAL - CASE NOT CLOSED)
Docket Type: Motion Filed By: Plaintiff Status: Denied
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF, JULIETTE MENDONCA'S MOTION TO DISMISS DEFENDANT'S
AMENDED COUNTER-CLAIM, REQUEST FOR HEARING, FILED.
Docket Type: Opposition Filed By: Defense
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Docket Text:
DEFENDANT, TANYA SNYDER'S OPPOSITION TO JULIETTE MENDONCA'S MOTION
TO DISMISS COUNTERCLAIM AND REQUEST FOR HEARING, FILED.
Docket Description: LINE ENTERING APPEARANCE OF COUNSEL
Docket Text:
LINE ENTERING THE APPEARANCE OF BRIAN E. HOFFMAN AND CONTINUE THE
APPEARANCE OF JEFFREY R. SCHMIELER AND JONATHAN D. BLANK AS COUNSEL
FOR THE DEFENDANTS, FILED.
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
NOTICE OF EXISTING SCHEDULE SENT TO NEW ATTORNEY
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
NOTICE OF EXISTING SCHEDULE SENT TO ALL PARTIES.
Docket Text:
DEFENDANT, DANIEL M. SNYDER'S NOTICE OF SERVICE AS TO ANSWERS TO
JULIETTE MENDONCA'S INTERROGATORIES, FILED.
Docket Description: HEARING
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Docket Text:
HEARING ON DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO CONSOLIDATE CASE WITH #268149
*#14) (DUGAN, J.) PLAINTIFF'S COUNSEL MR. COVIELLO APPEARED.
DEFENDANTS' COUNSEL MR. HOFFMAN APPEARED.
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Docket Description: COURT ORDERS/DIRECTS
Docket Type: Ruling Status: Granted
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Reference Docket(s): Motion: 14 Opposition: 18
Docket Text:
COURT (DUGAN, J.) GRANTS DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO CONSOLIDATE CASE
WITH #268149 (#14) ORDER SIGNED.
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Docket Text:
HEARING ON PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO DISMISS DEFENDANT TANYA SNYDER'S
AMENDED COUNTERCLAIM (#21) (DUGAN, J.)
Docket Type: Ruling Status: Denied
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Docket Text:
COURT (DUGAN, J.) DENIES PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO DISMISS DEFENDANT
TANYA SNYDER'S AMENDED COUNTERCLAIM (#21) ORDER SIGNED.
Docket Type: Ruling Status: Moot
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Reference Docket(s): Motion: 17
Docket Text:
COURT (DUGAN, J.) ORDERS THAT THE PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO DISMISS
DEFENDANT TANYA SNYDER'S COUNTERCLAIM AT DOCKET ENTRY #17 IS
HEREBY MOOT. ORDER SIGNED.
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Docket Text:
COURT (DUGAN, J.) ORDERS THAT CASE 269099 SHALL BE THE LEAD CASE FOR
PURPOSE OF FILING.
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Docket Text:
COURT (DUGAN, J.) ORDERS THAT THE SCHEDULING ORDER PREVIOUSLY
DISTRIBUTION IN 268149 IS TO BE THE CONTROLLING ORDER IN BOTH
CASES.
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Docket Text:
COURT (DUGAN, J.) ORDERS THAT THE SCHEDULING CONFERENCE ON MAY 12,
2006 SHOULD BE REMOVED. (REMOVED PER DOCKET ENTRY NO. 40)
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Docket Text:
COURT (DUGAN, J.) ORDERS THAT THE MOTIONS HEARING ON MAY 12, 2006
SHOULD BE REMOVED.
Docket Description: ORDER, CONSOLIDATION OF CASES
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Docket Text:
ORDER OF COURT (DUGAN, J.) THAT THE AFOREMENTIONED MOTION TO
CONSOLIDATE IS HEREBY GRANTED AND THAT CASE #269099 SHALL BE THE
LEAD CASE FOR PURPOSE OF FILING AND WILL BE JOINTLY TRIED, AND THAT
THE SCHEDULING ORDER PREVIOUSLY DISTRIBUTED IN 268149 IS TO BE THE
CONTROLLING ORDER IN BOTH CASES, ENTERED. (COPIES MAILED)
Docket Description: ORDER, DISMISS (PARTIAL - CASE NOT CLOSED)
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
DUGAN, JOSEPH A
Docket Text:
ORDER OF COURT (DUGAN, J.) THAT THE AFOREMENTIONED MOTION TO
DISMISS IS HEREBY DENIED AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT THE MOTION
TO DISMISS THE COUNTERCLAIM (#17) IS MOOT.
Docket Text:
DEFENDANT DANIEL M. SNYDER'S NOTICE OF SERVICE AS TO RESPONSES TO
JULIETTE MENDONCA'S REQUEST FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS, FILED.
(LP)
Docket Description: HEARING, SCHEDULING HEARING
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
BEARD, DELAWRENCE
Docket Text:
SCHEDULING CONFERENCE (BEARD, J.). NO PARTIES PRESENT.
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
BEARD, DELAWRENCE
Docket Text:
COURT (BEARD, J.) DETERMINES SCHEDULING CONFERENCE SET FOR TODAY
WAS REMOVED AT DOCKET ENTRY #34 ON MAY 3, 2006 TO BE RESET ON A DATE
CONVENIENT WITH COUNSEL.
Docket Text:
DEFENDANT, TANYA SNYDER'S NOTICE OF SERVICE AS TO SECOND SET OF
REQUESTS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS TO PLAINTIFF FILED.
Docket Text:
DEFENDANT, TANYA SNYDER'S NOTICE OF SERVICE AS TO SECOND SET OF
INTERROGATORIES TO PLAINTIFF FILED.
Docket Description: MOTION, COMPEL DISCOVERY
Docket Type: Motion Filed By: Defense Status: Granted
Ruling Judge:
MASON, MICHAEL D
Docket Text:
DEFENDANT, TANYA SNYDER'S MOTION TO COMPEL AND RULE 2-431
CERTIFICATE FILED.
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S CERTIFICATE REGARDING DISCOVERY AS TO EXECUTED
RESPONSES TO DEFENDANT TANYA SNYDER'S FIRST AND SECOND SET OF
INTERROGATORIES, FILED.
Ruling Judge:
MASON, MICHAEL D
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S RESPONSE TO DEFENDANT TANYA SNYDER'S MOTION TO COMPEL,
FILED.
Docket Description: ANSWER TO AMENDED BILL OF COMPLAINT/PETITION
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S ANSWER TO DEFENDANT TANYA SNYDER'S SECOND AMENDED
COMPLAINT FOR DECLARATORY JUDGMENT, FILED.
Docket Description: ANSWER TO COUNTERCOMPLAINT
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S ANSWER TO DANIEL AND TANYA SNYDER'S AMENDED
COUNTERCLAIM, FILED.
Docket Description: ORDER, COMPEL DISCOVERY
Docket Type: Ruling Status: Granted
Ruling Judge:
MASON, MICHAEL D
Docket Text:
ORDER OF COURT (MASON, J./KALIL, M.) THAT DEFENDANT TANYA SNYDER'S
MOTION TO COMPEL IS HEREBY GRANTED AND THAT THE PLAINTIFF, JULIETTE
MENDONCA SHALL FULLY AND COMPLETELY RESPOND TO ALL
INTERROGATORIES AND REQUEST FOR THE PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS
PROPOUNDED BY TANYA SNYDER BY 08/03/2006, ENTERED. (COPIES
MAILED)
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S CERTIFICATE REGARDING DISCOVERY AS TO EXECUTED
RESPONSES TO DEFENDANT TANYA SNYDER'S FIRST AND SECOND SET OF
INTERROGATORIES, FILED.
Docket Text:
DEFENDANTS' NOTICE OF SERVICE AS TO NOTICE OF TAKING RECORDS
DEPOSITION DUCES TECUM, FILED.
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S NOTICE OF DISCOVERY AS TO FIRST SET OF INTERROGATORIES
PROPOUNDED TO DEFENDANT TANYA SNYDER AND A COPY OF FIRST SET OF
REQUESTS FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS, FILED.
Docket Text:
DEFENDANT TANYA SNYDER'S NOTICE OF SERVICE AS TO RESPONSES TO
JULIETTE MENDONCA'S REQUESTS FOR PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS, FILED.
Docket Description: MOTION, COMPEL
Docket Type: Motion Filed By: Defense Status: Moot
Ruling Judge:
BERNARD, MARIELSA A
Docket Text:
DEFENDANT TANYA SNYDER'S MOTION TO COMPEL AND RULE 2-431
CERTIFICATE, FILED.
Docket Text:
DEFENDANT, TANYA SNYDER'S NOTICE OF SERVICE AS TO AMENDED
RESPONSES TO JULIETTE MENDONCA'S REQUESTS FOR PRODUCTION OF
DOCUMENTS, FILED.
Ruling Judge:
BERNARD, MARIELSA A
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF JULIETTE MENDONCA'S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT TANYA
SNYDER'S MOTION TO COMPEL, FILED.
Docket Description: MOTION, COMPEL DISCOVERY
Ruling Judge:
BERNARD, MARIELSA A
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO COMPEL DISCOVERY, REQUEST FOR HEARING,
MEMORANDUM OF POINTS AND AUTHORITIES, CERTIFICATE OF GOOD FAITH
AND ATTACHMENTS, FILED. (ATTACHMENTS REMOVED AND PLACED IN EXHIBIT
ROOM)
Ruling Judge:
BERNARD, MARIELSA A
Docket Text:
DEFENDANT DANIEL SNYDER'S OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO
COMPEL, FILED.
DEFENDANT, TANYA SNYDER'S NOTICE OF SERVICE AS TO ANSWERS TO
Docket Text:
INTERROGATORIES, FILED. (LP)
Docket Description: NOTICE, HEARING DATE
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
NOTICE OF HEARING DATE, FILED AND MAILED. (HEARING DATE: 11-06-
2006)
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S CERTIFICATE REGARDING DISCOVERY AS TO NOTICE TO TAKE
DEPOSITIONS OF TANYA AND DANIEL SNYDER, FILED.
Docket Description: LINE ENTERING APPEARANCE OF COUNSEL
Docket Text:
LINE ENTERING THE APPEARANCE OF GEOFFREY S. GAVETT AND WITHDRAWING
THE APPEARANCE OF JEFFREY R. SCHMIELER AS COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANTS,
FILED.
Docket Description: MOTION, PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT
Ruling Judge: RUPP, NELSON W JR
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT, ATTACHMENTS AND
REQUET FOR HEARING, FILED.
Docket Text:
DEFENDANTS' CERTIFICATE REGARDING DISCOVERY AS TO NOTICE OF
DEPOSITION OF JULIETTE MENDONCA, FILED.
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
NOTICE OF EXISTING SCHEDULE SENT TO NEW ATTORNEY, FILED. (LP)
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S CERTIFICATE REGARDING DISCOVERY AS TO NOTICE OF
DEPOSITION FOR BOTH DEFENDANTS, FILED. (LP)
Docket Type: Opposition
Docket Text:
DEFENDANTS' OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY
JUDGMENT, MEMORANDUM OF GROUNDS AND AUTHORITIES, ATTACHMENTS
AND REQUEST FOR HEARING FILED. (ATTACHMENTS REMOVED AND PLACED IN
EXHIBIT ROOM) (LP)
Ruling Judge:
BERNARD, MARIELSA A
Docket Text:
HEARING ON DEFENDANT TANYA SNYDER'S MOTION TO COMPEL (#53)
(BERNARD, J.) MOOT. MR. COVIELLO APPEARED AS COUNSEL FOR THE
DEFENDANT.
Docket Description: ORDER, COMPEL DISCOVERY
Ruling Judge:
BERNARD, MARIELSA A
Docket Text:
HEARING ON PLAINTIFF'S MOTION TO COMPEL DISCOVERY (#56) (BERNARD,
J.) MOOT.
Docket Description: AGREEMENT PLACED ON THE RECORD
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
BERNARD, MARIELSA A
Docket Text:
COURT (BERNARD, J.) PLACES AGREEMENT ON THE RECORD AS TO MOTION TO
COMPEL ONLY.
Docket Description: PRE-TRIAL STATEMENT
Docket Type: Docket Filed By: Jointly
Docket Text:
JOINT PRE-TRIAL STATEMENT AND ATTACHMENTS, FILED. (L/P)
Docket Description: HEARING, SETTLEMENT/PRETRIAL HEARING
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
HARRINGTON, ANN
Docket Text:
SETTLEMENT/PRETRIAL HELD (HARRINGTON, J.). MR. COVIELLO APPEARED ON
BEHALF OF THE PLAINTIFF. MR. BLANK & MR. GAVETT APPEARED ON BEHALF OF
THE DEFENDANTS.
Docket Description: COURT POSTPONES HEARING TO
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
HARRINGTON, ANN
Docket Text:
COURT (HARRINGTON, J.) POSTPONES CASE FOR A TWO (2) DAY JURY TRIAL
ON MARCH 12, 2007 AT 9:30 A.M. DUE TO COMPUTER GENERATED TRIAL DATE
CONFORMED TO COUNSELOR'S AVAILABILITY. (CODE ZZ)
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
HARRINGTON, ANN
Docket Text:
COURT (HARRINGTON, J.) DETERMINES PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR PARTIAL
SUMMARY JUDGMENT (#62) IS NOT MOOT.
Docket Description: COURT SETS
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
HARRINGTON, ANN
Docket Text:
COURT (HARRINGTON, J.) SETS HEARING ON PLAINTIFF'S MOTION FOR
PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT (#62) ON JANUARY 2, 2007 AT 10:00 A.M. FOR
THIRTY (30) MINUTES.
Docket Description: ORDER, PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT
Docket Text:
ORDER OF COURT (RUPP, J.) THAT MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT
IS DENIED, ENTERED. (COPIES MAILED)
Docket Description: AFFIDAVIT OF SERVICE ON SUBPOENA: SERVED
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
AFFIDAVIT OF SERVICE ON SUBPOENA: SERVED AS TO JULIETTE BUCKNOR ON
JANUARY 6, 2007, FILED.
Docket Description: TRIAL BEFORE JURY/JURY SWORN
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
BEARD, DELAWRENCE
Docket Text:
TRIAL BEFORE JURY/JURY SWORN (BEARD, J.). PLAINTIFF APPEARED WITH
COUNSEL, MR. COVIELLO. DEFENDANT TANYA SNYDER APPEARED WITH
COUNSEL, MR. GAVETT.
Docket Description: JURORS' SEATING ARRANGEMENT
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
JURORS' SEATING ARRANGEMENT, FILED.
Docket Description: WITNESS LAID UNDER RULE OF EXCLUSION
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
WITNESSES LAID UNDER RULE OF EXCLUSION.
Docket Description: CLOSE TESTIMONY
Docket Type: Motion Filed By: Defense Status: Denied
Ruling Judge:
BEARD, DELAWRENCE
Docket Text:
AT THE CLOSE OF PLAINTIFF'S CASE, DEFENDANTS' ORAL MOTION FOR
JUDGMENT (BEARD, J.) - DENIED.
Docket Description: EXHIBITS ADMITTED AND FILED
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT #2 ADMITTED AND FILED. PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBITS #1 AND
#3 MARKED FOR IDENTIFICATION AND FILED.
Docket Description: TRIAL CONTINUED
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
BEARD, DELAWRENCE
Docket Text:
JURY TRIAL CONTINUED (BEARD, J.). PLAINTIFF APPEARED WITH COUNSEL,
MR. COVIELLO. DEFENDANT TANYA SNYDER APPEARED WITH COUNSEL MR.
GAVETT.
Docket Description: CLOSE TESTIMONY
Docket Type: Motion Filed By: Defense Status: Denied
Ruling Judge:
BEARD, DELAWRENCE
Docket Text:
AT THE CLOSE OF ALL TESTIMONY, DEFENDANT RENEWS MOTION FOR
JUDGMENT (BEARD, J.) - DENIED.
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
BEARD, DELAWRENCE
Docket Text:
COURT (BEARD, J.) DISMISSES JUROR #135A AND SEATS JUROR #139.
Docket Description: JURORS' SEATING ARRANGEMENT
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
AMENDED JURORS' SEATING ARRANGEMENT, FILED.
Docket Description: VERDICT
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
BEARD, DELAWRENCE
Docket Text:
VERDICT: IN FAVOR OF THE PLAINTIFF, JULIETTE MENDONCA, AGAINST THE
DEFENDANTS, DANIEL SNYDER AND TANYA SNYDER, IN THE AMOUNT OF FORTY
FOUR THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY DOLLARS ($44,880.00) .
Docket Description: VERDICT SHEET
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
VERDICT SHEET, FILED.
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBITS #3 THROUGH #8 ADMITTED AND FILED.
Docket Text:
DEFENDANTS' EXHIBITS #1 AND #2 ADMITTED AND FILED. DEFENDANTS'
EXHIBIT #3 MARKED FOR IDENTIFICATION AND FILED.
Docket Description: EXHIBIT SHEET FILED
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
EXHIBIT SHEET, FILED.
Docket Description: VERDICT SHEET
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S PROPOSED VERDICT SHEET, FILED.
Docket Description: JUDGMENT
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
JUDGMENT BY VERDICT ENTERED AND RECORDED IN THE JUDGMENT INDEX IN
FAVOR OF THE PLAINTIFF, JULIETTE MENDONCA AND AGAINST THE
DEFENDANTS, DANIEL M. SNYDER AND TANYA SNYDER IN THE AMOUNT OF
FORTY FOUR THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED EIGHTY DOLLARS ($44,880.00) .
Docket Description: NOTICE, ENTRY OF JUDGMENT MAILED
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
NOTICE OF ENTRY OF JUDGMENT MAILED.
Docket Description: PETITION, ATTORNEY FEES
Reference Docket(s): Opposition: 96
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S PETITION FOR ATTORNEYS FEES, INTEREST AND COSTS, GROUNDS
AND AUTHORIIES AND REQUESTS FOR HEARING, FILED. (MOOT PER TAB #97)
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
NOTICE OF HEARING DATE, FILED AND MAILED. (HEARING DATE:
05/16/2007)
Docket Text:
DEFENDANTS' OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF'S PETITION FOR AWARD OF FEES
AND ATTACHMENTS, FILED. (ATTACHMENTS REMOVED AND PLACED IN EXHIBIT
ROOM)
Docket Description: PETITION, ATTORNEY FEES
Ruling Judge:
BEARD, DELAWRENCE
Reference Docket(s): Ruling: 107
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S SUPPLEMENTAL PETITION FOR ATTORNEYS FEES, INTEREST AND
COSTS AND ATTACHMENT, FILED. (LP)
Docket Description: RESPONSE
Docket Text:
PLAINTIFF'S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT'S OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF'S
PETITION FOR AWARD OF FEES FILED. (LP)
Docket Text:
DEFENDANTS' SUPPLEMENTAL OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF'S PETITION FOR
AWARD OF FEES, FILED. (LP)
Docket Description: MEMORANDUM
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
JUDGE BEARD'S MEMORANDUM TO ASSIGNMENT OFFICE, FILED.
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
06/21/2007)
Docket Description: LINE
Docket Text:
LINE WITHDRAWING THE APPEARANCE OF JONATHAN D. BLANK AS COUNSEL
FOR THE DEFENDANTS DANIEL SNYDER AND TANYA SNYDER, FILED.
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
06/21/2007)
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
BEARD, DELAWRENCE
Docket Text:
HEARING (BEARD, J.) ON PLAINTIFF'S PETITION FOR ATTORNEYS FEES,
INTEREST AND COSTS (#94). MR. COVIELLO APPEARED ON BEHALF OF THE
PLAINTIFF WHO WAS NOT PRESENT. MR. GAVETT APPEARED ON BEHALF OF THE
DEFENDANTS WHO WERE NOT PRESENT.
Docket Type: Docket
Ruling Judge:
BEARD, DELAWRENCE
Docket Text:
COURT (BEARD, J.) DENIES PLAINTIFF'S PETITION FOR ATTORNEYS FEES,
INTEREST AND COSTS (#94).
Docket Type: Docket
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Ruling Judge:
BEARD, DELAWRENCE
Docket Text:
HEARING (BEARD, J.) ON PLAINTIFF'S SUPPLEMENTAL PETITION FOR
ATTORNEYS FEES (#94).
Docket Description: FINAL DISPOSITION (ALL ISSUES RESOLVED)
Ruling Judge:
BEARD, DELAWRENCE
Docket Text:
COURT (BEARD, J.) DENIES PLAINTIFF'S SUPPLEMENTAL PETITION FOR
ATTORNEYS FEES (#94) .
Docket Description: JUDGMENT PAID AND SATISFIED
Docket Text:
JOINT LINE TO MARK THE JUDGMENT AS SATISFIED AND PAID IN FULL,
FILED.
Docket Description: LINE OF DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE
Docket Text:
JOINT STIPULATION OF DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE, FILED.
Docket Description: LETTER AS TO RULE 16-306 SENT
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
LETTER AS TO RULE 16-306 SENT
Docket Description: EXHIBITS DISPOSED/REMOVED
Docket Type: Docket
Docket Text:
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AIter the Redskins` Oct. 18 loss to the Kansas City ChieIs, a top team oIIicial sat down with Coach Jim Zorn. The
message was that the coach would no longer be calling plays or have any real game-day duties. Then the oIIicial
presumably Vinny Cerratobrought up Zorn`s contract and said, essentially, 'This says we can do whatever we
want to you, sucker!
Yes, Snyder puts sucker clauses in the contracts oI even the bigwigs in the Redskins organization. Little Iolks, too.
James Rubin, an employment lawyer based in Montgomery County, knows all about that. A group oI six current
and Iormer Redskins ticket oIIice employees had come to Rubin last season alleging that Snyder wasn`t paying
them overtime wages. Rubin sent the team a letter outlining the situation and requesting the workers be paid what
they`d earned.
II his clients weren`t made whole by the team, Rubin would Iile a lawsuit.
No, you won`t, responded the Redskins. The team told Rubin that the Skins workers had signed away their right to
a day in court a real court, anyway. The Redskins sent Rubin copies oI the employment contract, which
contained a so-called binding arbitration clause. The ticket workers` only recourse, the contracts stipulated, would
be to take their dispute to the New Yorkbased American Arbitration Association.
That`s an organization that was hired by the Redskins. So the iudge and iury deciding their Iate would be paid Ior
by Snyder. And the Iaux trial would be held behind closed doors, with no public record oI the case. To show how
much conIidence the Redskins had in their hired court system: AIter receiving Rubin`s request Ior OT pay, the team
Iired any oI his clients who were still on the payroll.
Turns out that as a condition oI employment with the Redskins, the workers had given up their right to iusticeat
least, the sort oI iustice Americans take Ior granted. Rubin declined to discuss speciIics oI the situation, citing an
April arbitration hearing. Since taking the case, Rubin has added another six Iormer ticket oIIice employees as
clients. Their hearing will be held in the oIIices oI the Redskins` attorneys. Talk about a home Iield advantage.
That`s the closest they`ll ever get to a trial, says Rubin.
A spring study on the general awareness oI so-called binding pre-dispute mandatory arbitration clauses by a
coalition oI do-gooder groups, including Ralph Nader`s Public Citizen, Iound that 79 percent oI likely voters
believed they could take an employer to court even iI they had agreed to such a clause. Only 11 percent understood
that the right to use the courts could be taken away willy-nilly by an employer.
'People don`t know that they`ve signed that right away, says Graham Steele, a lawyer and lobbyist Ior Congress
OT on the QT: Rubin can`t talk about employment
case against the `Skins.
Darrow Montgomery
Watch, another Nader conIab. 'We`re talking about a process that is all secret, by design, oIten with no public
record, no published decision. Most people don`t know this situation even exists. And they can`t believe they don`t
have these rights.
And taking away employees` ability to sue, as Snyder does, is totally legal. Steele says that laws allowing
arbitration have been on the books since 1925, originally put in place to speed up the settlement oI disputes between
big corporations in matters like shipping. Banks and communications companies have been inserting binding
arbitration clauses into consumer contracts Ior years: II you have a credit card or a cellphone, you`ve probably
signed such a deal. Employers have caught on to the advantages oI putting mandatory clauses in employment only
rather recently, Steele says, and the Supreme Court`s decisions going back to the 1980s have strengthened their
ability to do so.
Steele says there`s a simple reason why Dan Snyder or any employer would Iorce arbitration on his workers:
because he can.
'It`s an incredibly unIair advantage Ior the employer, continues Steele. 'We`re not talking about situations where
arbitration systems are bargained Ior between a union and a corporation. We`re talking about clauses that are Iorced
on workers, oIten in situations where the worker isn`t even aware he`s signed them. Say it`s a towel boy who has a
claim against Dan Snyder: that means Dan Snyder has all the power once this goes to arbitration. Look at the
situation: The arbitrator gets all his repeat business Irom Dan Snyder, not Irom the towel boy. Why wouldn`t the
arbitrator rule in Iavor oI that company that gives him repeat business rather than risk getting blackballed? In public
courts, the Supreme Court has decided that iudges that have a Iinancial stake in the outcome oI a trial should recuse
themselves Irom that trial. But here, in private courts, with arbitrators, where that`s always the case, where the
iudges` always have a stake in the outcome, it`s Iine.
There is some movement to curtail the use oI binding arbitration in the workplace. That comes Irom the case oI
Jamie Lee Jones, who in 2005 was a 20-year-old employee oI Halliburton subsidiary KBR in Iraq. Jones claimed
that she was imprisoned against her will and gang-raped by co-workers while overseas.
When she came home and reported the rapes, Jones learned Irom legal authorities that U.S. courts had no
iurisdiction over whatever crimes were committed against her in Iraq. Then she was told that she had signed away
her right to sue Halliburton Ior civil damages. The best she could do was to go to an arbitrator hired by Halliburton
and ask Ior some money. 'Imagine you Iind out that the person who is iudging the case is working Ior the deIense
contractor itselI, says Jess McIntosh, a spokesperson Ior Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), who has taken up Jones`
cause.
Franken introduced an amendment to the DeIense Appropriations Act oI 2010 that would prohibit any deIense
contractors who receive U.S. government Iunding Irom Iorcing binding arbitration on their workers.
The Franken Amendment passed the Senate with 68 votes and has now gone to a conIerence committee. Franken
has no plans to expand his anti-arbitration movement beyond the deIense contractor realm, McIntosh says.
'Any attention we can get to the mandatory arbitration issue is good, says Steele. 'In America, with the economy
being the way it is, you shouldn`t have to decide between taking a iob that will put Iood on your table and having
the rights we all expect to have.
Though everybody admits the Jones case was heinous, the use oI binding arbitration continues to have supporters
outside the corporate realm. Chris Drahozal, who teaches arbitration law at the University oI Kansas, says that
research shows that binding arbitration hasn`t been as clearly negative Ior the common worker as the Nader group
and others allege.
'Data I`ve seen shows that workers win in arbitration cases at about the same rate they win in court, he says.
'They may win a little bit less as Iar as the amount oI their claim goes, but there`s also evidence that some
employees who couldn`t aIIord to bring a claim in court might be able to bring a claim in arbitration. So the studies
I`ve seen suggest arbitration may be a more accessible Iorum Ior workers. Employees win at the same rate, and they
win a little less, but they can get a Iorum that they might not otherwise have, so it`s a trade-oII.
Calls to discuss the trade-oII made by Redskins ticket workers went nowhere. David Donovan, the Iormer Redskins
general counsel and current chieI operating oIIicer, and team spokesman Karl Swanson didn`t respond.
Cerrato resigned under extreme pressure early on Dec. 18. Snyder held a press conIerence announcing the hiring oI
Bruce Allen as Cerrato`s replacement mere hours later. Perhaps Snyder didn`t want to give Allen much time to read
the Iine print in his contract.

Our Readers Say
1
Grumpy
December 29, 2009
See, only a true prick would do this.

'Ill Doouche', your Karma will never allow a winner here regardless oI who you bring in. You could spend your
millions on cloning Knute Rockne and you'd still go 9-7 at best.

All your money and still can't win...and too narcissistic to ask 'WHY'.
2
TripLBee
December 30, 2009
Why does anyone still root Ior the Redskins?
3
Grumpy
December 31, 2009
Because they love the team but hate the ownership. The team was here Iirst so the Ian loyalty is ingrained and
passed down.

$nyder doesn't want to win: he wants to win HIS WAY. II he Iollowed someone else's blueprint, he wouldn't get the
CREDIT and that iust won't do Ior him.

I recall another short, Iunny looking, midget dictator who also listened to NO ONE and lost a war and then killed
himselI. I wonder iI the Danny is a History buII?
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Lucy Tyson
January 11, 2010
There are so many Iolks that would love to be a part oI the "Redskins", in any way, yet this is the way that the
owner treats them?

How can he even Iace his Iamily, knowing that he is a crook! Snyder has nothing to do with 'our' loyalty. He
certainly is not a Leader oI Loyalty! What a ierk!

My mother was born and raised in DC. We have, and will continue to, LOVE the Redskins, regardless oI, 'who or
WHAT', owns them.
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Redskins found by arbitrator to owe back pay to their ticket
agents
By Dan Steinberg
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
A private arbitrator ruled this week that Redskins ticket
oIIice employees are subiect to Iederal overtime laws,
clearing the way Ior 11 current and Iormer sales agents
to attempt to recoup back pay Irom the Iranchise. A
private hearing on the case is scheduled Ior April 6.
Several Redskins sales agents Iiled a lawsuit against the
team in 2008, and the Iranchise contested the suit in a
private arbitration process, arguing that the employees
weren't subiect to overtime regulations because oI a
Iederal exemption Ior amusement and recreation
workers.
Arbitrator Brian S. Harvey sided with the plaintiIIs in
his decision on Monday, describing them as
"Iunctionally |aligned| with the ongoing administration
oI the business oI the overall Redskins enterprise" and
thus subiect to overtime regulations.
Harvey noted that the ticket sales employees spend
"signiIicant time" in collection activities, calling ticket
holders, urging them to make contractually required payments and working out payment
plans -- tasks related not to Iootball games themselves but to the team's overall business.
AIter a U.S. District Court in Louisiana ruled in 2008 that New Orleans Hornets employees
were not exempt Irom overtime rules, Redskins ticket agents were switched Irom salaries to
hourly wages with overtime. But the team declined to pay the employees Ior past overtime
hours aIter the switch, prompting the lawsuit.
"Up until now it's been a question oI whether these employees have been
entitled to overtime," said Rockville attorney James Rubin, who is representing the agents.
"That question has been put to bed. The trial now is no longer about whether they're owed:
it's about how much they're owed."
Rubin said he plans to call approximately 20 witnesses, including Redskins COO and
General Counsel David Donovan and ChieI Marketing OIIicer Mitch Gershman.
Not exempting ticket sellers Irom overtime rules "is a legal development that could impact
many sports Iranchises," Donovan said in a statement, "but the Redskins have already
implemented the changes that have been newly-deIined by the courts."Donovan said: "We
will immediately begin discussions with the plaintiIIs' representatives to bring this issue to a
close."
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The sides disagree on whether the new pay
structure accounts Ior commissions in
calculating overtime rates. Rubin has also
alleged that some oI his clients were
terminated by the team in retaliation Ior the
suit, which the Redskins have denied. Rubin
said one oI the retaliation claims has already
been settled.
The original claim requested more than
$185,000 in back overtime pay, unpaid
commissions, penalties, attorneys Iees and
interest.
Reaskins note. The team signed punter Josh Bidwell, who has played Ior Tampa Bay and
Green Bay. Bidwell, 34, was a Pro Bowler in 2005, when he averaged 45.6 yards per punt
with a 37.5 net average with the Bucs. He missed all oI last season because oI a hip iniury.
Punter Hunter Smith wasn't exactly surprised that the Redskins planned to sign Bidwell, who
played under General Manager Bruce Allen in Tampa Bay. And Smith hasn't ruled out
returning to the Redskins, a person Iamiliar with the situation said. Although Smith
apparently is not opposed to competing with Bidwell, he is exploring his options. It would
seem that Smith still has enough ability to start, and there are several teams without veteran
punters, including Denver, Green Bay and New England. Expect interest in Smith to increase
closer to training camp.
Staff writer Jason Reia contributea to this report.

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AIter years oI Iootball Iutility, Daniel Snyder is having trouble moving tickets, especially premium seats. Look no
Iurther than the side oI your local Metrobus, where ads tout seats in the hoity-toitiest sections oI FedExField.
There are still more signs oI sales desperation online, where the Redskins` website Ieatures a mini-inIomercial Ior a
spot called the Montecristo Club, located on the stadium`s pricey 1oe Gibbs Level. The video shows Iolks drinking
and lighting up and having a grand ol` time inside a bar.
Where the bus campaign merely raises questions about marketing choicesis the No. 42 bus route, which links
Mount Pleasant and Adams Morgan to downtown, really Iull oI would-be buyers?the Montecristo clip raises
more interesting ones. Like: 'Smoking in a bar! Ain`t that illegal in Maryland?
It sure was illegal a couple years ago. The Maryland Clean Indoor Air Act oI 2007, enacted to protect workers Irom
second-hand smoke, banned smoking in almost all workplaces.
The Redskins were aIIected by the act`s passage. Since its late-1990s opening, their stadium had hosted a cigar bar
called Club Macanudo, open exclusively to premium seatholders. But in 2008, Maryland and Prince George`s
County health oIIicials told the team it could no longer sell Iood or drinks there. Goodbye, cigar bar: hello, cigar
store. AIter the 2008 season, Club Macanudo closed.
But the stadium wasn`t without a cigar bar Ior long. Last year, the Montecristo Club opened up in the old Club
Macanudo space, and once again Snyder oIIered Ians the chance to smoke and drink inside FedExField, Ior a price.
Cigars, according to people who Iollow such things, are no longer trendy. A Feb. 9, 2009, Wall Street Journal story
on the state oI tobacco declared them an anachronistic remnant oI the mid-1990s, when everybody was making
money. 'When Wall Street crashed, a tobacco trendspotter opined, 'people backed oII Irom |cigar smoking|.
But Snyder`s smoke-Iriendly room adds value to his premium seats even iI cigars are pass. According to the
'Smoking Policy section oI the Redskins` oIIicial stadium guide: 'Smoking is not permitted in the seating areas,
lower level concourse, suites, portals, tunnels or restrooms oI FedExField...However, Club Level guests may smoke
in the Montecristo Club Cigar Bar. Bottom line: No distinction is made between cigars and cigarettes.
So buying a Club Level seat, which can cost several thousand dollars more per season than a general admission
ticket, gives nicotine iunkies the right to puII away without having to walk to some out-oI-the-way, open-air spot
like the exit ramps. In my Iew trips to the old Club Macanudo, back when cigars were supposedly in vogue, I saw
more people puIIing on Marlboro Lights than on stogies.
Hazy Regulations: Snyder`s cigar bar at FedExField
seems to skirt Maryland state law.
Photo by Darrow Montgomery
In 2008, I spoke with Alan Heck, program chieI oI the Iood protection program Ior the Prince George`s County
health department, about the impact oI the Clean Indoor Air Act. Heck, whose agency enIorced the smoking codes,
said the Redskins had been warned that selling anything other than tobacco products at the cigar bar would violate
state law.
'They know they can`t have any parts oI the bar operating, Heck told me at the time.
The Redskins tried getting the state law changed. Last year, House Bill 1483 called Ior an exemption to be added to
the Clean Indoor Air Act speciIically Ior 'an establishment commonly known as a cigar bar that...is located in a
proIessional sports venue. The measure was co-sponsored by two delegates Irom Prince George`s County, where
FedEx Field is located: Del. 1ay Walker, the Iormer Howard University Iootball superstar, and Del. Michael
Vaughn.
H.B. 1483 would have allowed exactly one establishment in the whole stateone operated by the Redskinsto
both sell booze and let customers smoke. But that bill died beIore ever getting out oI committee.
Yet the Redskins nevertheless reopened the cigar bar as a drinking bar. Team spokesman Tony Wyllie says they
only made the move aIter Prince George`s County regulators gave the go-ahead. 'We abide by whatever the county
health department tells us to do, says Wyllie. 'The health department dictates, and we comply to their wishes.
AIter seeing the promotional Iilm Ior the Montecristo Club, I went back to Heck and asked how the Redskins could
re-open a cigar bar with the Clean Indoor Air Act still on the books. Heck said the county had changed its
enIorcement oI that law with regard to the FedExField spot, but declined to discuss what inspired the change.
Erin Bradley, a spokeswoman Ior the Prince George`s County Health Department, says she was told by higher ups
within her agency that the county no longer regulates the Redskins cigar bar. The Montecristo Club 'does not hold
a permit to operate as a restaurant or bar, Bradley writes via e-mail. 'As such we do not regulate it. It seems to be
operating as a Tobacco shop.
And tobacco shops are indeed exempt Irom Clean Indoor Air Act oI 2007. However, the law also states that that
exemption is only given to a business where sales oI anything other than tobacco products are 'incidental.
Booze hardly seems 'incidental to the Montecristo Club. In promotional literature, the Redskins describe the ioint
as a 'martini lounge and a place where 'Club, Field Club, Loge, Suite, and Owner`s Club ticket holders can enioy
Iine cigars, Iood and beverages. The video Ior the Montecristo Club on the team`s website opens not with
smoking, but with a shot oI a bartender behind a Iull bar pouring a Bud Light Irom a tap into a glass.
The Ilip-Ilop oI county regulators with regard to Snyder`s bar baIIles tobacco watchdogs.
'There was no law change: |The Redskins| tried to change the law, but they lost, says Kathleen Dachille, director
oI the Center Ior Tobacco Regulation, a state-Iunded smoking regulation watchdog group that operates out oI the
University oI Maryland`s law school. 'We really need to tighten up regulations here, to get these things enIorced.
This isn`t the Iirst bye Snyder has gotten Irom Prince George`swhose county executive, Wayne Curry, was
inducted into the FedExField Ring oI Fame in 2002.
In October 2000, Ior example, he convinced the county to ban pedestrian traIIic into FedExField on game days,
claiming saIety concerns. The ban was thrown out aIter a class action lawsuit by season ticketholders, who argued
that the prohibition had nothing to do with pedestrian saIety and everything to do with Iorcing them to pay Snyder`s
highest-in-the-league parking Iees.
Now the county has given Snyder the green light to run a 'martini lounge where Iolks who pay a premium can
smoke inside his stadium. I direct Bradley to the Montecristo Club promotional video, and asked iI the spirits
retailing shown there Iit the legal deIinition oI 'incidental.
'The primary Iocus oI the Iacility is to sell tobacco products, Bradley responds. 'An inspection during last year`s
season revealed that the kitchen area was not in use. Even the reIrigeration had been turned oII.
So that draIt Bud Light that Snyder`s promotional Iilm opens with was not only incidental, it was at room
temperature? 'II you know that the establishment is operated as a restaurant or bar, please Ieel Iree to lodge a
complaint to with the Prince George`s County Food Protection Program, she says.
Our Readers Say
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Ghost oI Jack Kent Cooke
July 29, 2010
Well played, young man! Don't ever let up on that SOB, Davey Boy!
2
Snydersukscock
July 30, 2010
When will we ever be Iree oI this little virus known as "the Danny"?
3
Lawrence
July 31, 2010
II people want to waste their time, money, and health making danny richer let em.
You are iealous oI the Iact that he gets rich selling a second rate product Ior top dollar.
Its his toy and he doesn't have to share.
Do the whiners even have tickets?
No one is putting a gun to your head and Iorcing you to enter the bar.
Are the Macunados are really Phillys and the suckers don't know it.
Maybe
Bet that the delegates got comped some seats.
4
Anonymous
August 2, 2010
Maybe this is a slippery slope, but you could reasonably argue that the long-term health eIIects on workers would
be less signiIicant considering that this establishment is only open 8 days per year (and about 5 hours per day at
that).

When this law was passed, the argument was that smoking in bars/restaurants harmed the people who worked there,
because they were leIt with little choice but to breathe secondhand smoke every day. Even iI you worked in this bar
during every game, it would take about 50 Iootball seasons to equal the amount oI secondhand-smoke exposure the
average Iull-time bartender/server used to rack up in a year.
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ASHBURN, Va. (AP) Brian Mitchell, one of the NFL's
top return men and holder of nine league records, will
sign a one-day contract next week so that he can retire
with the Washington Redskins.
Mitchell will reunite with coach Joe Gibbs for the
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Mitchell, 37, was a fifth-round pick in 1990 and spent 10
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Worst free-agent signings
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On Monday, Page 2 ran its list of the
worst free-agent signings in history. We
asked for your take, and you filled our
mailbag with plenty of disgruntled
opinions about the worst deals.
After going through more than 1,000
letters, we've listed a complete rundown
of the Top 10 vote-getters, along with
some of the best letters about each
awful acquisition. Be sure to cast your
vote in the poll at left to choose the
worst free-agent signing in history.
1. Mets sign Bobby Bonilla
(52 letters)
One of many bad signings in the early
90's by Al Harazin, "Bobby Boo" was
the worst. Little did the Mets know his
five-year, $25 million contract would
include such incentives as telling a
newspaper reporter he would "show him
the Bronx" and calling the press box to
complain about an error that he was
charged with (only to explain the call by
saying he was checking up on the PR
director's cold ... in the middle of the game?!!). These incidents were only
topped by his lack of production and overall surly attitude. Making it more
amazing and pathetic, the Mets reacquired him in 1999, only to have him
play badly, fight with Bobby V and take part in the card-playing incident with
Rickey Henderson during the NLCS. Now the Mets will be paying him off
for the next 20 years or so, making the Bobby Bonilla in New York
experiment an almost 30-year disaster.
Robert Kotick
Brooklyn, N.Y.
"Bobby Bonilla Comes Home." The
Mets signed Bonilla, fresh off of some
great seasons with the Pirates, in the
winter after the 1991 season. The deal
made Bobby the highest player in
baseball at the time...While Mets' brass
had envisioned full stadiums and playoff
appearances, what Bonilla brought was
five years as the laughingstock. Now
please tell me how in the world he was
allowed back on the Mets for a second
tour??
Tim Izzo
Mount Sinai, N.Y.
OUR TOP 10
Here's how the Page 2 staff
ranked the worst free-agent
signings in history:
1. Raiders sign Larry Brown
2. Sonics sign Jim McIlvaine
3. Indians sign Wayne
Garland
4. Orioles sign Albert Belle
5. New York Jets sign Neil
O'Donnell
6. Philadelphia Blazers sign
Derek Sanderson
7. Royals sign Mark Davis
8. Seahawks sign Nate
Odomes
9. Hawks sign Jon Koncak
10. Redskins sign Deion
Sanders
Dishonorable mentions: Nets re-sign
Jayson Williams; Phillies sign Danny
Tartabull; 49ers sign Gabe Wilkins;
Raiders sign Desmond Howard; Bucs
sign Alvin Harper; Celtics sign Travis
Knight; Buccaneers sign Bert
Emanuel; White Sox sign Jaime
Navarro; Padres sign Oscar Gamble;
Dodgers sign Don Stanhouse.
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In an effort to strengthen their team
offensively and at the same time
weaken the Pirates, who were on top of
the Mets in the previous years'
standings, New York signed Bobby.
Bonilla struggled mightily, battled the
N.Y. media, and after all that, the
Pirates still won the NL East without
him, only to send the Mets into a funk
that lasted until 1999.
Tony Toliferro
Trenton, N.J.
2. Pirates sign Derek Bell
(36 letters)
Usually when you think of bad free
agent signings, you have to think
Pirates. This year they signed Derek Bell to a two-year, $9.75 million
contract. So far this season he hasn't hit his weight -- in fact, he hasn't even
hit better than .200. He has a half a dozen base hits, half as many HR's as
Mike Hampton, and has landed on the DL twice this season. They sent him
down to AAA Nashville on a rehab assignment, and he batted .130 with
eight strikeouts in seven games!
D.J. Peckens
Yorkville, Ohio
The Pirates go from the stingiest team in the
league, letting go of Bonds, Bonilla, Jeff King,
Jay Bell, Tim Wakefield, and then give the
unproven Derek Bell a two-year, $9.75 million
contract? You've got to be kidding me! And you
wonder why the Pirates are in the cellar, year
in, year out.
Tucker Williamson
Chicago, Ill.
Pirates' classified ad that fits Derek like a glove:
Small-market baseball team moving to new-
fangled, old-fashioned ballpark seeks outfielder
on downside of career for injury-filled, weak-
hitting romance. Ballplayers in demand need
not apply; we'd rather negotiate against
ourselves to waste the concession, luxury-box
and ticket money we've spent the last five years
waiting for.
John Federico
Pittsburgh, Penn.
3. Red Sox sign Matt Young (25 letters)
The Red Sox (go figure) go out and sign 18-game loser Matt Young to a
multimillion-dollar deal. True to form, he goes 3-11 over parts of two years
with an ERA hovering around 5.00. Fittingly, he's remembered for one of
those losses -- a no-hitter! Only in Boston.
A. Clendennen
St Louis, MO
How about the Red Sox' Class of 1991 trifecta of Matt Young, Jack Clark
and Danny Darwin? Sox GM Lou Gorman paid millions to these aging
"stars," none of whom were with the Sox past 1994. Matt "Sigh" Young
continued with his control problems, eventually even unable to throw to first
base. Jack "The Wiffer" Clark was a complete bust, striking out with
Bobby Bonilla has had two tours
of duty with the Mets.
The Pirates can't be
happy with what they've
gotten from Derek Bell
this season.
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shadow of the deadly control he had in Houston and Texas. What a deal.
Tom
Gaithersburg, Md.
The man was so wild he couldn't make a safe pickoff throw to first. He was
such a loser he threw a no-hitter and lost the game because he was so wild
-- the no-hitter was later disqualified by Major League Baseball.
Scott Shuster
Boston, Mass.
4. Raiders sign Larry Brown (23 letters)
It seems the season of the conspiracy
theory, so here we go. The Larry Brown
and Neil O'Donnell MVP Conspiracy. I
admit I was pumped about the signing
when I first heard. I saw him pick those
two passes in the Super Bowl, and I
was a believer. After seeing him get
burned by NFL bench-warmers, I had to
go back and see what happened. I
popped in the tape of the previous
Super Bowl and then I realized that
O'Donnell was actually throwing the ball
to Larry Brown. There was really
nothing Brown could do but catch it. It
was more of a self-defense tactic than
an MVP-caliber play. They probably
split that Super Bowl MVP contract
money 50/50. Now where is Brown?
Probably surfing eBay trying to buy up
every video of that Super Bowl that is
left so he can burn them. He wouldn't
want any evidence coming out. As for
O'Donnell, he got greedy and had to rip off the Jets, too. Both of them are
thieves.
Fanatic
St. Louis
It's gotta be Larry Brown. I'll never understand how anyone in football could
have been fooled by a no-name guy who got hit in the chest by two Neil
O'Donnell "hot-read" miscues. Well, anyone except the Raiders, that is. I
think his most memorable act in silver and black was keeping Charles
Woodson's jersey number warm for him.
Chuck Tetreault
Brooklyn, N.Y.
5. Redskins sign Deion Sanders (22 letters)
The Washington Redskins' signing of
Deion Sanders has to rank as the worst
signing of all time. Not only did "Prime
Time" set the wrong tone in the
Redskins' locker room during the entire
season, but his performance on the field
came nowhere near justifying the
money they spent on him. His brash
behavior and foolish on-field antics were
an insult to all Redskin fans who had
grown accustomed to Darrell Green's
reserved brilliance at cornerback. As an
added kick in the teeth, his signing
necessitated the release of Brian
Cornerback Larry Brown went
from Cowboys' Super Bowl hero
to obscurity with the Raiders.
Mitchell, a team leader and loyal
Redskin during some of the dark years.
If I were Deion, not only would I not
want to come back to DC, I would be
afraid to come back.
Eric Bruskin
Arlington, Va.
What sets Deion apart from the other
Skins on the list is that, as far as we
know, every other player listed, whether
he be injured or just untalented, actually
wants to play. Deion dared the Skins to
cut him and said that when they do, he
will "jump up and click his heels
together because they'll be paying him
for doing nothing." The other players are
on the list for lack of production, but
Deion is simply stealing paychecks.
Tristan Harter
Potomac, Md.
6. Orioles sign Albert Belle (21 letters)
Albert Belle -- five years, $65 million. No
contest. The others on your list don't even
come close. Sure, from a talent standpoint,
there was a clear upside to signing Belle.
However, looking at how badly Belle fit
with the Orioles, Belle's talent as a slugger
just couldn't possibly have outweighed his
detraction from the O's persona. Belle was
surly and ultimately unproductive. His
attitude and behavior with fans were the
antithesis of "The Oriole Way," and a most
unfortunate contrast with the consummate
class act, Cal Ripken, who had to play on
the same team as Belle. Belle's career-
ending disability is unfortunate, and
perhaps unpredictable. However, the $13
million per year spent on Belle would have
gone a long way toward signing Robby
Alomar and Raffy Palmeiro, both of whom
have gone on to be productive (with
continuing All-Star performances) in Cleveland and Texas, respectively.
Belle's signing, and the signings of Mike Timlin, Delino DeShields and Will
Clark, coupled with the failure to retain Alomar, Palmeiro and Mussina (not
to mention Pat Gillick, who has gone from creating back-to-back World
Series champions as the GM in Toronto, to the start of a repeat
performance in Seattle) all should have placed the estimable Mr. Angelos
on your top 10 worst owners' list as well. Don't get me started on Mr.
Angelos....
Frank Bernstein
Palo Alto, Calif.
I don't wish a degenerative hip condition on anyone, but I was (like most
Orioles fans) glad when Belle was forced to retire. Don't forget that the day
the O's signed Belle, they lost Rafael Palmeiro to the Rangers. Raffy had
the three best years of any Orioles hitter ever -- yes, better than Frank
Robinson and Eddie Murray. The O's never made a serious offer to resign
him (a scenario played out again last year with Mike Mussina), because
they were busy wooing MLB's No. 1 head case. The O's front office
pathetic attempts to put a happy face on Belle's deal were appalling. We
kept hearing over and over that Belle was going to hit 70 homers a year in
hitter-friendly Camden Yards, but by that time, his awesome stats from
Cleveland were long gone.
Jeffrey Staggs
Baltimore, MD
Deion Sanders took the Redskins'
money and ran away.
A bad hip ended Albert Belle's
career early.
7. Lions sign Scott Mitchell (20 letters)
The world has never seen one player do less. Glad he made $11 million or
so to do it. Really, leave it to the Lions (my favorite team, and, yes, I seek
professional counseling for this) to sign a guy to a multimillion dollar
contract who only saw playing time in Miami when Marino was hurt. The
capper is, a healthy Mitchell was busy setting interception records. Not to
badmouth the guy, but for the sake of the NFL, I hope he has retired.
Brian J. Desmond
Valparaiso, Ind.
One of the NFL free-agent moves that started the whole salary fiasco was
the 1994 signing of quarterback Scott Mitchell. He never developed into the
player the Lions were hoping for when they signed him away at three years,
$11 million. He started a trend of teams overpaying for unproven backups,
and after one decent season for the Lions, he now can't even start for the
Bengals.
Dave Valenzuela
Buffalo, N.Y.
8. Sonics sign Jim McIlvaine (18 letters)
The most bone-headed and idiotic free-agent signing in history is without a
doubt the Seattle SuperSonics signing Jim McIlvaine. This move backfired
for 2 reasons. 1.)The obvious reason was that Jim was a lousy player. 2.)
This move angered team stars Kemp and Payton and caused a rift that the
team has never recovered from. Way to go, SuperSuckers!
John J. Anania
Orlando, Fla.
Jim McIlvaine killed the spirit and momentum of the Seattle SuperSonics
and thus is the foulest free-agent acquisition of recent times. After his
signing, team chemistry turmoil arose- Kemp would go on to balloon into
half (twice his size) the player he once was, George Karl would be asked to
leave the Emerald City, and the team would never again be close to the
level of play they once possessed.
Jason G. Stec
Central Point, Ore.
9. Browns sign Andre Rison (17 letters)
Art Modell had to beg, borrow and steal every penny he gave to "Bad
Moon". After all that, Andre did nothing on the field and Art ended up
moving the franchise because he said he was "financially strapped"! P.S. I
also agree with your honorable mention of WR Alvin Harper!
Tom Brennan
Cleveland, Ohio
10. Hawks sign Jon Koncak (16 letters)
Jon Koncak with the Hawks, without question -- but for reasons beyond
Koncak's limited on-court contribution. Unbelievably, Koncak was offerred
more money than Michael Jordan was earning. That single signing help
throw the entire NBA salary scale out of whack, and through raised ticket
prices and salary cap debacles, NBA fans have been suffering ever since.
M. Cocchi
Astoria, N.Y.
Jon Kontract was by far and away the worst free agent signing ever. The
Kak did nothing for the Hawks but roam the perimiter looking for a shot that
wasn't even his. Please don't make me mention his defense or rebounding
either. Just mentioning his name can make a Hawks fan cringe. On the
upside, he did pave the way for legendary white stiffs like Matt Geiger, Jim
McIllvaine, Shawn Bradley, and now Todd MacColluch to recieve contacts
they should only dream about.
Joe Arthur
Tucker, Ga.
Close behind: Celtics sign Travis Knight, Mets sign Vince Coleman,
Dodgers sign Darryl Strawberry, Yankees sign Ed Whitson, Red Sox sign
Jack Clark, Raiders sign Desmond Howard, Phillies sign Danny Tartabull.
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THIS 1UST IN: Dan Snyder's having trouble selling club seats!
OK, that's not iust in. He's had that same trouble since buying the team.
But Snyder's got more now than ever. He removed whole sections Irom the so-called 1oe Gibbs Level oI
FedExField this oIIseason, allegedly to make room Ior a new video system. He's relocated the Redskins Marching
Band Irom the general admission seats to this pricey level. Yet even with this drastically reduced supply, he's Iound
demand is so low now that he's Iorced to take sad measures I saw an ad Ior Redskins club seats Irom Snyder's
new "R You In" marketing campaign on the side oI a dirty Metro bus this morning in hopes oI Iilling the big
yellow patches we've been seeing Ior years during Skins TV broadcasts.
Snyder didn't invent the club seat concept 1ack Kent Cooke built 'em into the design oI the dump now called
FedExField beIore he died, when nobody knew who Dan Snyder was. And, even beIore Snyder came in and tried to
choke more dimes out oI Skins patrons, the club seats were hard to move. The club seats haven't sold out in the
stadium's 13-year history.
As it turns out, club seats have been a Ilop Ior the Redskins Iorever. You can look it up.
The Iirst attempt to gouge Skins Ians with club seats was made all the way back in 1980, and it was a doozy oI a
disaster. That's when the D.C. Armory Board, which owned and operated the Redskins home, RFK Stadium, sent
out printed invitations oIIering Ians the opportunity to have "the best seats in the house" iI they ioined up with a
new "Dining Club" they were setting up in what used to be the baseball press box. That space had been open since
1971, when the Washington Senators ran oII to Texas.
The dining club was billed as kind oI like a country club, minus the golI course and the pool. The only real draw, in
Iact, was membership gave what one observer termed "corporations and lobbyists" the ability to attend Redskins
games while bypassing the hoi polloi who'd been on the waiting list Ior season tickets Ior years. At the time, the list
was advertised as being a very believable 10,000 names long, though in some years the turnover was as meager as a
dozen new season ticketholders hence all the tales oI Skins seasons tickets showing up in divorce settlements
and wills. (As oI earlier this year, Snyder was still trying to convince people that CUE LAUGH TRACK
there are 200,000 Iolks waiting to buy Skins season tickets.)
The cost to ioin the club: $5,000, plus dues, which according to an estimation in a June 1980 Washington Post
story, would start at $300 a year.
Now and particularly then, that was a lot oI money Ior an 8-game package, considering that in 1980 tickets at
Redskins games had Iace values around $10. Then-Redskins owner Edward Bennett Williams was pissed about the
innovation, Ior one big reason: This was the Stadium and Armory Board's baby, and that agency wasn't going to
share in the dining club windIall with the Redskins, who as tenants had next to no say in what the landlord did.
"I got it in the mail, an invitation to pay $5,000 to ioin the Stadium Club," Williams told the Washington Post,
"which I promptly threw in the garbage." The owner also predicted the whole proiect would be a Iailure because oI
the price "I don't think it will have a lot oI appeal," he said.
Williams, a legendarily smart man, was right. By August, the Armory Iolks gave up on the dining club and
scrapped the program. At that time, only 50 people had signed up to ioin and put down the required 10 percent
deposit.
A Washington Post editorial aIter the scrappage said the dining club Iailed because it was unIair to Redskins season
ticket holders oI average means and to those on the waiting list. From a Oct. 11, 1980 piece:
"Based on the last actuarial tables we saw, an average healthy adult applying Ior season tickets today
will be eligible Ior a seat sometime in the 21st century, or at the age oI 100, whichever comes later.
That's why the gold-plated dining-club plan bombed it would have bumped 161 Ians out oI their
existing seats, while allowing 200 to 300 Ilusher Ians to leapIrog the list and buy their way in."
But, as Williams had Iorecast as the program was being announced, and as Dan Snyder has Iound out aIter years oI
being unable to Iill his club level, overpriced tickets will always be a hard sell.
Asked by the Washington Post in 1980 iI the $5,000 buy-in Ior the Redskins club seats was too high, Stadium
Manager Ken Hopkins said, "That depends on iI you're talking to Mr. RockeIeller, or iI you're talking to Ken
Hopkins."
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I think iI Snyder would market the Club Seats on a year-to-year contract, instead oI the 10 year behemoth that
he currently peddles, then there might be more takers. It's a complete ioke, now.
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Posted Jan 14th 2009 9:30AM by Matt Terl (author Ieed)
It's the oIIseason, a time that's generally about change. (Well, it's
about wild speculation, unveriIied rumors, exuberant-bordering-
on-irrational optimism, and change.) Changing coaches, Iinding
new players, working out new approaches to the game ... those
are the things we usually Iocus on once the players iet oII to
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So it's sort oI unusual that the best news to come out oI Redskins
Park thus Iar in 2009 is all about things that have remained the
same. Jim Zorn remains the head coach, bringing some rare
continuity to 1ason Campbell's NFL liIe. Greg Blache returns to
a deIense that Iinished the season ranked Iourth in the NFL in
yards allowed per game and sixth in points allowed. Clinton
Portis will be back aIter another stellar campaign.

And now the team announces that general admission season
ticket prices (upper and lower bowl) will also remain the same, Ior the third consecutive year. It may seem like a
small thing, but in this economic climate every little bit helps. The ticket waiting list remains as long as ever --
more than 200,000 people, according to chieI operating oIIicer Mitch Gershman -- so demand is still high.

Full press release aIter the iump.
NO INCREASE IN REDSKINS TICKET PRICES FOR THIRD STRAIGHT SEASON

ASHBURN, VA The Washington Redskins announced today that general admission season ticket prices
Ior the 2009 season would remain unchanged Ior the third straight year.

"We work hard to hold the line on price increases, and are obviously sensitive to the economic realities Iaced
by our Ians," said Mitch Gershman, the team's chieI operating oIIicer. "We have Iantastic Ian support as
evidenced by the more than 200,000 people on our waiting list Ior season tickets, and we try hard to maintain
price stability Ior the best Ians in the NFL."

Since 1999, the team has increased ticket prices only twice (2000 and 2006), a rarity among U.S. sports
Iranchises. General admission tickets currently range in price Irom $29 to $99. The team's season tickets have
been sold out since 1966.

Mailing oI season ticket renewals is scheduled to begin by the end oI January. Once again, Ians may access
their "My Season Ticket Account" link at www.redskins.com to directly manage their accounts, including
paying Ior tickets in a direct, secure manner.

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Paul said...
II there are 200K on the waiting list, how come I keep getting calls on my answering machine Ior the last 3 years
that season tiks are availible Ior me? I think I would be at the very back oI the wait list since I put my name on it 3
yrs ago. Also

"We work hard to hold the line on price increases, and are obviously sensitive to the economic realities Iaced by our
Ians," said Mitch Gershman, the team's chieI operating oIIicer. "We have Iantastic Ian support as evidenced by the
more than 200,000 people on our waiting list Ior season tickets, and we try hard to maintain price stability Ior the
best Ians in the NFL."

Danny Iired a pleanty last week!!! Guess hes not that sensitive to the enconomic times as Mitch Gershman.... And

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When Snyder hires a coach, he also hires the coach`s kid. Lately, every day at Redskins Park is Bring Your Boy to
Work Day.
You can look it up. The Iirst head coach Snyder hired was Marty Schottenheimer. And Schottenheimer quickly
named his son, Brian, as the team`s quarterbacks coach. That was Brian`s Iirst NFL coaching gig.
Then, when Snyder decided Schottenheimer was no good because he wouldn`t let the owner hire a general
manager, along came Steve Spurrierand Steve Spurrier Jr., who cashed Snyder`s checks Ior two seasons as
receivers coach. Steve Jr. hadn`t coached in the NFL beIore catching on with his dad.
AIter the 2003 season, Snyder called an end to the Spurrier Iamily plan. He brought the original Skins oIIensive
genius, Joe Gibbs, back Irom the coaching grave. Gibbs, already a Hall oI Famer, conIessed he was returning to
Iootball because he wanted to help his son start a coaching career. So Coy Gibbs ioined the coaching staII.
Coy`s main proIessional qualiIication, other than sharing DNA with the head coach, was a Iairly good year driving
Ior his dad`s team on NASCAR`s truck circuit. Yet his Iirst iob coaching Iootball at any level came with an NFL
team. Coy has been earning his keep as the Redskins` quality-control specialistwhatever that isIor two seasons.
And now comes Saunders & Son. Bob Saunders is more qualiIied than the sons that came beIore him: He was with
Father Duck on the Kansas City ChieIs staII, too: there he held the generic title 'oIIensive assistant.
Snyder has more coaches with loItier titles and bigger incomes than any other NFL owner. Next year`s Redskins
will likely surpass the 2005 staII as the biggest and best-moneyed in the history oI the NFL. This coach-hiring
binge indicates that Snyder thinks he`s Iound a Ilaw in the salary-cap system: Money paid to coaches doesn`t count.
And it appears that one oI the chits Snyder uses while recruiting coaches is the Ireedom to put Junior on the payroll.
By now, though, it`s looking as though the Iolks that Snyder`s using to exploit the system are exploiting Snyder,
too.
Nepotism hasn`t always had a good name in Washington. The Iederal government put an end to Iamily entitlements
aIter President Kennedy tapped his brother Bobby to be the attorney general. JFK`s body hadn`t been cold Ior long
beIore Congress passed a Iederal anti-nepotism statute that Lyndon Johnson signed into law. According to Title 5,
Part III, Subpart B, Chapter 31, Subchapter I oI the U.S. Code, 'A public oIIicial may not appoint, employ,
promote, advance, or advocate Ior appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement, in or to a civilian
position in the agency in which he is serving or over which he exercises iurisdiction or control any individual who
is a relative oI the public oIIicial.
Snyder`s predecessor, Jack Kent Cooke, leIt a decidedly anti-nepotistic legacy: He drew up his will in such a way
that made it impossible Ior his son, John Kent Cooke, to inherit the team when the old man died. Snyder, however,
took over the Skins around the same time the current presidential administration took over the countryand
nepotism enioyed something oI a comeback. Some would argue that George W. Bush, though the son oI an ex-
president and grandson oI a senator, got his iob the old-Iashioned way: He got elected. (Again, some would argue.)
But others in the executive branch sped along the Iamily route on their way to power: Colin Powell`s son was
handed the top iob at the FCC: a daughter oI Dick Cheney was given the title oI deputy assistant secretary oI state
Ior Near East aIIairs at the State Department: and a son oI Supreme Courter Antonin Scalia was named the lead
attorney at the U.S. Department oI Labor. An article in the August 2003 edition oI the Atlantic by Adam Bellow
describes our era as 'a nepotistic Golden Age.
Bellow says he Iinds 'a lot oI hypocrisy in the anti-nepotism crowd.
'It iust comes down to envy, he says. 'There`s no real moral principle behind it. They`d do the same Ior their kids
iI they had the chance, but damned iI they`d let you get away with it. (Bellow, now an editor-at-large with
Doubleday, is the son oI Nobel-winning novelist Saul.)
So perhaps Snyder, who is a big giver to Republicans and their causes and seems to take his cues on how to handle
the media Irom the White House, is iust being trendy by allowing the caretakers oI the Iootball side oI his operation
to give iobs to their heirs.
But trendy or not, nepotism remains a potentially destructive Iorce in the workplace, say personnel wonks.
'A lot oI us do what our parents did, says Kathryn Morris, an assistant proIessor at Butler University in
Indianapolis who has worked on several nepotism studies. 'But doing the same thing that your parent did is a bit
diIIerent than doing the same thing that your parent did Ior the same organization.
Morris most recently co-authored a study published last summer in the Journal oI Leadership and Organizational
Studies titled 'Keeping it All in the Family`: Does Nepotism in the Hiring Process Really BeneIit the
BeneIiciary? The researchers Iound that workers who were perceived to be the beneIiciaries oI nepotism weren`t
taken as seriously as others in the workplace, and she concludes that, in practice, a dad might not be doing a kid a
Iavor by handing him a iob. Though a Iootball coaching staII wasn`t monitored Ior this study, Morris says, she
believes her group`s Iindings should hold true even iI the workplace were a gridiron.
'Sometimes things that you think beneIit people really don`t beneIit them, she says. 'A Iamily-Iriendly policy like
|nepotism| can come along with these negative side eIIects that people don`t think about. People would assume the
beneIiciary oI nepotism would be less qualiIied, even iI they`re more qualiIied. And they would have to work
harder to gain the same credibility as the people they work with. In the case oI a Iootball team, I would think a
coach might have to work harder iust to get the respect oI the players.
Mark Blumenthal, a partner at the Chicago-based accounting and consulting Iirm Blackman Kallick who
specializes in nepotism issues, says that the golden age oI nepotism, iI it ever existed, died the day Bush nominated
Harriet Miers Ior the Supreme Court.
'This wasn`t even a blood relativeit was his personal attorneybut look at the reaction to that, and look what
happened to her, says Blumenthal, aIter hearing a description oI the Redskins` recent hiring practices. 'I`m not
saying she wasn`t qualiIied or was qualiIied, but the American public immediately was saying, He could have
picked anybody in the U.S., and we`re supposed to believe it`s a coincidence that he picked his personal attorney?`
'That`s obviously not the exact situation as a Iootball coach hiring his son, but you could make an analogy: II a
head coach is choosing his son to coach, it may very well be the son is the best-qualiIied person Ior that position,
and he better be. The players need to know you`ve got the person that`s going to help them win. So iI you`re going
to engage in nepotism, your kid better be a superstarnot iust average, not iust good. And it needs to be apparent
early on that the kid`s a superstar.
There`s no historical evidence that hiring Irom within the Iamily will pay oII Ior a Iootball team. It didn`t work Ior
Schottenheimer and Spurrier (combined record: 20-28), and the iury`s still out on Gibbs (an even .500 aIter two
seasons). Neither Bill Cowher nor Mike Holmgren employ any oIIspring as assistant coaches, and an inIormal
survey oI the staIIs oI all previous Super Bowl winners Iailed to turn up any championship team that Ieatured a
Iatherson coaching duo. (The 1969 New York Jets did have head coach Weeb Ewbank`s son-in-law, Charlie
Winner, as linebackers coach.)
The closest thing to a paternal pair among the Super Bowl winners was on the 1970 ChieIs, where Dale Stram, son
oI head coach Hank Stram, could be seen along the sidelines. He wasn`t there to help Dad plot X`s and O`s,
however.
'I cleaned cleats and brought water, Dale Stram says, with a laugh. 'I was iust a kid.Dave McKenna

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August 24, 2007 | By Mike Bianchi, Sentinel Columnist
Throughout history, the greatest kings always longed and searched for something more profound; something bigger, higher,
loftier.
King Henry VIII beheaded wives in search of a more fruitful one.
The Shakespearean King Lear searched futilely for the endless familial love of his three daughters.
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Elvis, the King of Rock `n' Roll, put on "Blue Suede Shoes," checked out of the "Heartbreak Hotel" and went chasing the
ultimate song.

FOR THE RECORD - **********CORRECTION OR CLARIFICATION PUBLISHED AUGUST 30, 2007**********
The credits with photographs on Page G6 of Friday's Football 2007 special section of Miami Dolphins running back Javarris James and Jacksonville
Jaguars running back Maurice Jones-Drew were transposed. Sentinel staff photographer Jacob Langston took the photograph of James, and staff
photographer Stephen M. Dowell took the photograph of Jones-Drew.
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King Alexander the Great, bent on world domination, perpetually searched for another land to conquer.
"There is nothing impossible to him who will try," Alexander once said.
And this is why I am here today as the crowned head of football -- the reigning prince of the pigskin. I'm here to try something
impossible. I'm here to make the great game even greater.
We all know football is the unparalleled king of American sports. But I am here as the king of kings. Move over Alexander the
Great and make room for Mikey the Magnificent.
Step aside, King Tut, for I am the one-and-only King Hut.
As omnipotent as the sport of football has become, I believe it can become even bigger and better. Giving Jeff Bowden the
Anne Boleyn treatment after last season was a good start, but this was only the beginning.
Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! His Eminence, the Exalted King Hut has polled his royal subjects and come up with a 10-point plan
to make America's royal game even more regal.
1. Coaches would only be permitted to hire their daughters.
We all know women are much smarter than men (see Hillary and Bill Clinton), which means it's a given that Bobby Bowden's
daughter, Ginger, would have been a much better playcaller than son Jeff. Then again, Bobby Bowden's statue would have
been a better playcaller than son Jeff, but that's beside the point.
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Seriously, think of all the hassles and heartache that could have been avoided if Bowden had never hired his son.
The Seminoles might never have fallen on difficult times, Bobby wouldn't have been put in the compromising position of having
to defend his overmatched son and Jeff wouldn't be considered the ultimate coaching lightweight who took the keys to Dad's
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It's not just the Bowdens either. Joe Paterno once had to demote his son Jay. A family feud nearly started when former South
Carolina coach Lou Holtz demoted his son Skip. And nepotism is also rampant in the pros, where the last three coaches of the
Washington Redskins -- Marty Schottenheimer, Steve Spurrier and Joe Gibbs -- all hired their sons as assistant coaches.
These days, it's hard to figure which sport has more nepotism -- football or NASCAR? Let's just hope the two entities don't
someday merge or next thing you know the TV cameras will hone in on the coaching box in Tallahassee and Kyle Petty will
have on the headsets.
2. Give New Year's Day back to college football.
OK, it looks like we're stuck with the incredibly inane BCS, but King Hut is going to fight to return New Year's Day to its former
place of prominence in college football. If we can't have a playoff, let's at least make New Year's Day a college football festival
once again. From 10 a.m. on, all the big bowls should be played on Jan. 1, with the national title game ending alone deep into
primetime.

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New Year's Day used to be the entree -- the filet mignon -- of college football. Now it's become a forgettable side dish -- the
carrot-raisin salad of the bowl season. New Year's Day is now dominated by second-tier bowls. Nothing against the Gator, the
Capital One and the Outback, but they aren't must-see TV. They're more like a PBS documentary on Lady Bird Johnson.
Used to be New Year's Day was reserved for bowls like "the Granddaddy of Them All." Now it's reserved for "the 14 bratty
grandkids of them all."
The Big Four -- the Rose, Sugar, Orange and Fiesta -- are now spread out more than the NBA playoffs. Last season, the Rose
and Fiesta were on Jan. 1, the Orange was on Jan. 2, the Sugar on Jan. 3 and the BCS Championship Game was nearly a
week later on Jan. 8.
New Year's Day used to be like the Mardi Gras of college football. What happened?
Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street has turned into a mind-numbingly-mundane Tupperware Party at Aunt Sally's house.
3. And as long as we're on the topic of bowl games, let's get rid of half of them.
Geez, what's the payout for some of these piddly, bargain-basement bowl games -- a buck-and-a-quarter and a coupon for a
free oil change at Jiffy Lube?
Do we really need seven SEC teams and eight Big Ten teams in bowl games? And do we really need bowl games played on
blue fields in sub-zero temperatures in Idaho?
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Bowl games are supposed to be a reward for a good year. But many of these games aren't rewards for great seasons, they're
sentences for terrible ones. The Florida State Seminoles didn't get invited to the Emerald Bowl in San Francisco last year; they
got banished there. You remember the Emerald Bowl, right? That's the bowl where Florida State had to share the same
sideline as its opponent (sorry, the game was so forgettable I can't even remember who the opponent was) because the game
was played in a baseball stadium.
Rule of thumb: If each team doesn't have its own sideline, you can't host a bowl game.
Let's cut the number of bowl games to 15 and get rid of the riffraff. Forget about teams with 6-6 records being bowl-eligible. A
winning record should be mandatory. Let's face it, if you don't have a winning record, you shouldn't be off vacationing in
Honolulu, you should be back home recruiting, lifting weights and trying to get better for next year.

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(Memo to conspiracy theorists: Is it just coincidence Jeff Bowden hasn't been seen since the Emerald Bowl and his playbook
was found floating in McCovey Cove?)
4. Realign the NFL geographically.
The greatest thing about college football is the regional rivalries. Why can't the NFL realize this and do the same? Put the
Dolphins, Bucs and Jags in the same division and you've got the entire state talking about bragging rights. Put the Texans and
Cowboys in the same division and that automatically becomes both teams' biggest game. Same with the Raiders, 49ers and
Chargers and Steelers-Eagles.
Say what you want about the national scope of games in the NFL; there is still nothing that stokes the fire like a good old-
fashioned backyard brawl for a conference, er, division championship.
Unlike college football, the NFL is bereft of monumental mega-games during the regular season. Which is why pro fans often
seem bored and blase. You want to infuse the NFL regular season with a jolt of juice? Then put the Jags and Bucs in the same
division and have them play a regular-season game in Orlando every year. You'd have a pro football version of Florida-
Georgia.
Call the King a hopeless provincialist, but a Bucs-Dolphins rivalry game is 100 times more intriguing than a Dolphins divisional
game against the Bills or a Bucs divisional game against the Saints.
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5. Make every SEC football field tilt at the same angle as the Gettysburg battlefield so every kickoff is the reenactment of
Pickett's Charge!
We're kidding, of course. Actually, isn't it about time that SEC schools and states separate themselves from the Confederacy
and get over a war that happened 150 years ago?
By the way, in case you haven't heard: The South lost.
Even though schools like Ole Miss have tried to move forward by discouraging Confederate flags and doing away with
controversial symbols (see "Colonel Reb" -- Ole Miss's white plantation owner former mascot), there are still way too many
vestiges of the Old South at SEC schools. At Ole Miss, fans still chant "the South will rise again" in a popular school cheer. In
South Carolina and Mississippi, the Confederate flag is still flown on statehouse grounds.

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"If anybody were to ever ask me about that damn Confederate flag, I would say we need to get rid of it," South Carolina Coach
Steve Spurrier said a few months ago.
King Hut seconds Spurrier's motion.
Symbols of the Confederacy only perpetuate a feeling of Southern discomfort on otherwise festive football Saturdays.
6. And speaking of Spurrier, King Hut wants to make him relevant again.
Oh sure, I know Spurrier has made South Carolina a team that can occasionally challenge the SEC powerhouses, but the
Gamecocks are still a middle-of-the-pack program. In his two years in Columbia, Spurrier has taken the Gamecocks to the
Independence Bowl and the Liberty Bowl. Come on, Steve Spurrier playing in the Independence Bowl is like Sinatra playing at
the Holiday Inn Lounge in St. Augustine. Steve Spurrier playing in the Liberty Bowl is like Sir Laurence Olivier doing Othello at
the Wewahitchka Supper Club.
Spurrier needs to be on the big stage, running up the score, running his mouth, throwing the football (and his visor) all over the
field. In his two previous college coaching stops (Duke and Florida), the most seasons Spurrier has coached without winning a
conference championship is three. Guess what? This is Year 3 for Spurrier at South Carolina, and he thinks his team has a
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"You have to set your goals realistically," he says. "The first two years, it was a stretch to say we had a shot to win the SEC. I
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Can you imagine Spurrier back in the Georgia Dome for the SEC title game? The only thing King Hut would relish seeing more
in Atlanta is Michael Vick scrambling through a rabid pack of pitbulls wearing nothing but pork chop underwear.
7. Quarterbacks have to call their own plays.
Isn't the point of coaching to teach your players to play the game on their own? This is the one advantage -- the only advantage
-- baseball has over football. In baseball, the catcher calls the pitches, not the manager. In baseball, the game is won by the
players on the field, not by some 45-year-old nerd in headsets up in the press box.
What's it say when Norm Chow is more important to the outcome of a game now than Norm Snead was then?

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The reason the Pittsburgh Steelers were a dynasty back in the 1970s was because they had the best players running around
on the field. The reason the New England Patriots are the NFL's premier franchise now is because Bill Belichick has the best
plays running around in his head.
Football has become too technical and too complex. Coaches and coordinators are sucking the spontaneity out the game.
Give King Hut the great Johnny U. kneeling down in the huddle and drawing a play in the dirt over somebody named Mike
Heimerdinger sitting in the press box and choosing a play from his computer printout.
8. No more games featuring Florida against Southwest Mississippi Truck-driving Institute.
Let's have college football do it like the NFL does it: Form some hoity-toity committee that will sit in its ivory tower and make up
a college football master schedule.
Imagine how exciting it would be if Florida, the defending national champion, opened up against Southern Cal, the preseason
No. 1-ranked team in the country. Instead we get Florida playing Pattycake State, er, Western Kentucky. And instead of Miami
opening with Marshall, how about Miami opening against former coach Butch Davis' North Carolina team.
An independent entity making up an equitable master schedule would serve three purposes: It would give fans exciting games
week in and week out, it would stop teams from powerhouse conferences from trying to schedule their way to a national
championship and it would force annoyingly arrogant programs like USF and Penn State to play their natural rivals from UCF
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9. Either resurrect State of Florida offenses or put them out of their misery.
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Isn't this the state that gave us such quarterbacking greats as Dan (Marino) and Danny (Wuerffel), Ward and Weinke,
Testaverde and Torretta, Kelly and Kosar? Isn't this the state that once gave us electrifying games, innovative offenses and
scoreboards lighting up like a possessed pinball machine?
These days, our offenses have become infallible insomnia cures. Forget about counting sheep; just count Florida State's blown
assignments. Is that an offensive formation the Bucs are running or are the players running from a grease fire?
All three pro teams in the state -- the Bucs, Jags and Fish -- have offenses that range from pedestrian (Jags) to pathetic (Bucs).
And the two most successful college programs over the last 20 years -- Miami and FSU -- underwent significant coaching
changes during the offseason specifically because their offenses were so horrendous.

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The Gators? Well, Urban Meyer's offense was OK, but let's be honest, UF won the national title mainly on the strength of its
defense.
King Hut can't take this tediousness any longer.
It's time for the offenses in this state to once again start scoring.
10. Get rid of the dancing girls, loud music and obnoxious mascots.
Every NFL Sunday throughout the league is essentially the same -- the same state-of-the-art stadiums with the same scantily
clad girls gyrating their same shapely bodies to the same 1980s Guns N' Roses stadium anthem while the same floppy-footed
mascot wiggles his belly and shakes his booty.
NFL stadiums have become part strip bar, part rock concert and part clown cavalcade.
That's why King Hut has always loved the Pittsburgh Steelers, whose old-school owner Dan Rooney told me once a few years
ago that he despises the artificial noisemakers and eye candy in today's NFL. Football is about the game, he says, not the
gimmicks.
"Obviously, every team has its own philosophy, but in Pittsburgh, the football is what counts," Rooney said. "People get on me
sometimes because we don't have dancing girls or mascots at our games. My response is, we don't need those types of things.
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"Good entertaining football is what people come to see. Football is what's king."
But, alas, even Rooney has caved in. For the first time in their 75-year history, the Steelers will add a mascot -- Steely McBeam
-- this season. It's a sad day. The Steelers with a mascot is like Van Halen adding a ukulele player.
We'll begrudgingly give Rooney a pass on this one, but only because we believe in his basic premise. We believe, "Football is
what's king."
And so it is and so it shall be.
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(Courtosv Wash|nqton lodsk|ns.)
1h|s wook, tho Wash|nqton lodsk|ns boqan ma|||nq |ottors to tho|r
qonora| adm|ss|on and prom|um c|ub soat t|ckot ho|dors, |ntorm|nq thom
ot s|qn|t|cant chanqos to tho |n-qamo v|doo oxpor|onco, hoad||nod bv
two 80 toot ta|| bv 100 toot w|do h|qh-dot|n|t|on v|doo boards, ono |n
oach ond zono. Voro dota||s horo.
low, thoro aro two wavs tans cou|d roact to th|s nows. (And no, drunkon
|nd|ttoronco |s not an opt|on. lt's tho ottsoason.) 3omo tans w||| sav |t's
about t|mo, that attor ||v|nq w|th a scoroboard n|cknamod 1ho l|to 3r|to
and a v|doo board that soomod sma||or than A|bort |avnosworth, tho
tranch|so owod soason t|ckot ho|dors th|s much and moro. 1hov'|| ta|k
about tho |ack ot out-ot-town scoros and |n-qamo stats, and tho 28-bv-
28 toot 1umbo1ron that hadn't boon updatod |n 18 voars, and tho h|qh-
dot scroons |n lh||ado|ph|a and 3a|t|moro, and tho |n-qamo oxpor|onco
at |odEx that 3ports l||ustratod ratod 28th out ot 82 toams |n 2007.
3ut bocauso l'm an opt|m|st, l'm choos|nq to tako a d|ttoront po|nt ot
v|ow. lodsk|ns tans th|s ta|| woro as anqrv as |oca| obsorvors cou|d
romombor. 1hov domandod chanqo. And whatovor tho roason, no
mattor how |ato tho hour, somo s|qns ot chanqo havo arr|vod.
|ans wantod a qonora| manaqor, and thov qot ono |n 0ocombor. 1hov
wantod 0an|o| 3nvdor to tako a stop back, and wh||o |t's oar|v, at |oast
thoro aro pub||c nods |n that d|roct|on. And thov wantod tho qamo-dav
oxpor|onco to |oavo tho 20th conturv: th|s |s a t|rst stop. lt vou domand
somoth|nq, and thon |t happons, vou can hard|v comp|a|n that |t on|v
happonod bocauso vou domandod |t.
3o what doos th|s |ottor announco? 1horo w||| bo tho |0 boards |n both
ond zonos, rop|ac|nq tho com|ca||v sma|| scoroboards, tho o|d
1umbo1rons, and two ond zono b|||boards. 1ho b|q scroons, wh|ch
shou|d bo |n p|aco tor tho prosoason, can bo sp||t |nto a var|otv ot
cont|qurat|ons: tor oxamp|o, d|sp|av|nq tho samo rop|av trom d|ttoront
anq|os s|mu|tanoous|v, or show|nq rop|avs and stats at tho samo t|mo.
1horo w||| bo 10 othor now scroons |n tho |owor bow|, trom tho qamo
c|ocks to tho t|mo c|ocks to tho out-ot-town scoroboard d|sp|avs, wh|ch
E-ma|| 0an w|th commonts, |doas and quost|ons | What tho hock |s th|s?
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c|ocks to tho t|mo c|ocks to tho out-ot-town scoroboard d|sp|avs, wh|ch
w||| bo oqu|ppod to a|so convov qamo stats and tantasv tootba|| tota|s.
Obv|ous|v wo nood to wa|t and soo how |t a|| |ooks, but thoso sound to
mo ||ko mass|vo upqrados.
l th|nk 0an 3nvdor's t|na||v roa||z|nq that ho doosn't havo an ond|oss
supp|v ot tans, so tho product on tho t|o|d has to bo |mprovod and tho
amon|t|os havo to bo |mprovod as wo||, sa|d V|ko 3rodor|ck, ono ot tho
tranch|so's most voca| cr|t|cs dur|nq tho past ta||. At |oast thov'ro
trv|nq, ho addod, wh|ch |s tho anq|o l'm qo|nq tor.
lt's about t|mo that thov actua||v qavo back to tho tans as opposod to
|ust tak|nq monov trom thom w|th noth|nq to show tor |t, sa|d 1od Abo|a,
anothor ot mv qo-to tan vo|cos.
1ho b|q boards w||| comparo |n s|zo qu|to tavorab|v to othor modo|s |n
tho c|oso v|c|n|tv. lh||ado|ph|a's l|nco|n ||nanc|a| ||o|d has two 27-bv-
00 toot scroons. 3a|t|moro's V81 3ank 3tad|um has two 24-bv-100 toot
scroons. Char|otto's 3ank ot Amor|ca 3tad|um has a 81.b-bv-77 toot
scroon.
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a|onq w|th tho po|o dancors and tho p|avott |ossos and tho k|ckor that
can't mako c|utch t|o|d qoa|s, but thov can koop a|| that.
(And vos, 0avo VcKonna has boon prod|ct|nq th|s tor wooks. And vos,
3r|an Vurphv qots crod|t tor broak|nq th|s ono.)
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Exhibit 1
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Click Click: Paul McCartney m FedEx Field
(Kvle Gustafson / www.photokvle.com)

Some things in liIe are always true. Seeing Paul McCartney in concert, even at age 67, is one oI them. Sir Paul
wowed a near-capacity crowd at FedEx Field on Saturday night with a mammoth, Beatles-centric 35 song set that
also included hits and album cuts Irom his Wings era and solo career. Yes, he played (by my very unoIIicial count)
at least 11 oI those 35 songs at the then MCI Center in 2005, but not even I am going to complain about that.
It takes a skilled and seasoned perIormer to turn a Iootball stadium into something cozier and more intimate, but it's
something McCartney and his band did with aplomb by making iokes, telling stories and doing everything possible
to make the crowd Ieel like they were a part oI the show. The stage set up, with a video screen behind the band and
two giant video screens on the sides oI the stage certainly helped. Playing to the DC audience, he dedicated
"Michelle" to Barack and Michelle Obama, introducing it by saying it was a song that "Barack might want to sing

to someone in his house." The most touching part oI the night came during "Something," which McCartney played
solo on a ukulele given to him by George Harrison, beIore the band came in with a crash during the later halI oI the
song. A old photo montage oI Harrison ran in the background Ior the duration. John Lennon and Paul's Iirst wiIe
Linda Eastmen also got songs dedicated to them. Sorry, Ringo.
Not all oI the nights material was Irom the distant past however, as Macca bravely played "Sing The Changes," a
song oII oI Electric Arguments Irom The Firemen, a McCartney side-proiect, late in the set. Many in the crowd
took the opportunity to make a trip to the bathroom beIore the big Iinale oI stone-cold classics still to come. High
points in the show included a very energetic "Paperback Writer," a rocking "Live And Let Die," complete with pyro
and Iireworks, and a slinky "Get Back."
During the show McCartney remarked that D.C. had been the site oI The Beatles Iirst show on U.S. soil, which was
at the Washington Coliseum in 1964. It's easy to see why Sir Paul remains such a popular perIormer over 40 years
later. His material is obviously second-to-none and he still displays that boyish charm that drew everyone in in the
Iirst place. Older Ians go see him to recapture what it Ielt like to be young, younger Ians want to experience
Beatlemania Iirst-hand -- but most oI all, everyone goes home happy.
Full set list aIter the iump.
Drive My Car
Jet
Only Mama Knows
Flaming Pie
Got To Get You Into My LiIe
Let Me Roll It
Highway
The Long and Winding Road
My Love
Blackbird
Michelle
Here Today
Dance Tonight
Calico Skies
Mrs Vanderbilt
Eleanor Rigby
Sing the Changes
Band on the Run
Back in the U.S.S.R.
I'm Down
Something
I've Got a Feeling
Paperback Writer
A Day in the LiIe / Give Peace A Chance
Let It Be
Live and Let Die
Hey Jude
Encore:
Day Tripper
Lady Madonna
I Saw Her Standing There
Encore 2:
Yesterday
Helter Skelter
Get Back
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
The End
via Setlist.fm
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Exhibit 12

Six Flags
Great Escape Lodge &
Indoor Water Park
Overview
Fast Facts
Multimedia
News Releases
Stay Connected
Contact
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Queensbury, NY
June 23, 2009

As part of its newly announced green initiative, Six Flags, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: SIXFQ) the worlds largest regional theme park
company, is partnering with one of Americas greenest mattress manufacturers.

Anatomic Globals brand of eco-friendly memory foam bedding, Ecomfort Mattress, is now the official mattress of the flagship hotel property
of Six Flags.

The Six Flags Great Escape Lodge & Indoor Water Park, located across from The Great Escape Theme Park is the first hotel to offer the
green mattress to guests. Anatomic Global President, Jeff Scorziell, believes that other resort properties are waking up to the benefits of
eco-bedding.

Hotels and resorts are increasingly aware of what they can do to be kinder to the environment, evident by such efforts as laundering
towels and changing linens upon request. Now, many hotels are turning to green mattresses and finding that they deliver more comfort
and innovation, as well, said Scorziell.

In addition to bringing in 450 new mattresses to furnish the 200-suite hotel, The Six Flags Great Escape Lodge utilizes programmable
thermostats to conserve energy and also provides eco-friendly amenities for bathrooms, eco-friendly laundry detergents and cleaners, and
corn-based serve ware for en-suite kitchens. The Lodge partners with local Earths Our Products in practicing a facility wide recycling
program making it easy for guests to recycle bottles, cans and paper goods. The Six Flags Great Escape Lodge & Indoor Water Park is
also a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Green Power Partner, having earned its Green Energy certification by purchasing New York
State Wind energy.

We believe that protecting the environment is everyones responsibility, said Bob Chesterman, Six Flags VP of Park Strategy and
Management. Weve made a commitment to introduce everyday sustainability solutions within our family of parks and this eco-friendly
product is another example of that commitment.

Six Flags Great Escape Park President, Don McCoy stated, The addition of the Ecomfort Mattress to the Six Flags Great Escape Lodge
provides our guests with both quality and comfort while perfectly aligning with our company's new green initiative.

Six Flags Great Escape Theme Park is also taking strides to reduce its carbon footprint. This season, at least two of the parks diesel
vehicles are slated to be converted to operate on vegetable oil generated in the parks kitchens. A recycling program with beverage
partner Coca-Cola has placed recycling bins in convenient locations for guests and team members.

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About Six Flags, Inc:
Six Flags, Inc. is a publicly-traded corporation headquartered in New York City and is the world's largest regional theme park company with
20 parks across the United States, Mexico and Canada.
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Founded in 1989, Anatomic Global, Inc. sets itself apart by raising the bar on the manufacture and supply of proudly made in the USA
environmentally-friendly mattresses and bedding. The company upholds a 360-degree green manufacturing commitment in three ways
by developing applications for its innovative and sustainable plant-based formulas; by leading the industry with its zero-air emissions
manufacturing process; and by applying the most efficient direct-to-store and consumer-direct delivery methods for a reduced carbon
footprint. In 2008, the company launched the Ecomfort Mattress brand of mattresses featuring its signature, patented EcoMemoryFoam
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Exhibit 1

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REDSKINS
Redskins' Revenue Reaches $300 Million
SEC Filing Details Snyder's Marketing
By Thomas Heath
Saturday, August 20, 2005
The Washington Redskins, the National Football
League's richest Iranchise, are even wealthier than
people thought.
The Redskins' gross revenue reached $300 million last
year, well above published estimates and nearly double
the $162 million that the Iranchise grossed beIore Daniel
Snyder bought it in 1999, according to a document
Snyder Iiled this week with the Securities and Exchange
Commission as part oI his attempt to take control oI Six
Flags amusement parks.
The Redskins' revenue is more than that oI the rival Dallas Cowboys and approaches the
annual gross revenue oI the New York Yankees.
While player payroll, administrative expenses, taxes, security and the mortgage on FedEx
Field likely will eat up more than $200 million, the Iranchise's stunning revenue perIormance
likely places it among the most proIitable teams in U.S. proIessional sports.
While Snyder's Iinancial success with the Redskins has been widely acknowledged, the SEC
Iiling conIirmed Ior the Iirst time iust how successIul he has been and opened a window into
how aggressively he has employed marketing and ingenuity to grow the business. The Iiling
also oIIers insight into how he plans to apply the same moneymaking techniques to Six Flags,
which owns and operates 31 amusement parks in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
Snyder, who made a Iortune in marketing
beIore age 30, brought a lengthy menu oI
moneymaking strategies with him when he
bought the Redskins and their privately built
stadium Irom the estate oI Jack Kent Cooke
Ior $800 million. He has added about 10,000
seats to FedEx Field, which now has a
capacity oI 91,665: it is the largest stadium in
the NFL. Snyder boosted the number oI
luxury suites Irom 199 to 208, installed 500
more loge seats, established an owners' club
class oI 35 super suites and added 1,488
"dream seats" ringing the Iield -- each oI
which he sells at premium prices. He built
escalators to make it easier Ior Ians to get to
their seats. He added restaurants. He automated concessions so Ians could buy more Iood and
beverages with greater Irequency.
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Snyder sold the stadium's naming rights to Federal Express Ior $200 million over 27 years,
placed advertising throughout the building, and instituted the exclusive Tailgate Club.
Snyder's eIIorts have not been without controversy. He angered many Ians last season when
he added thousands oI seats with an obstructed view oI the Iield. The Redskins have lowered
the price oI some oI those seats this season, team spokesman Karl Swanson said yesterday.
Snyder also tried to accept only the Redskins MasterCard Irom season ticket holders who
wanted to pay by credit card, but then withdrew the requirement aIter the credit card
company intervened. And despite all their Iinancial success, the Redskins have posted only
one winning season since 1999, the year Snyder bought the team.
The Redskins have raised the price oI general admission tickets twice since 1999, in 2000
and again in 2001, when they instituted a $4 per ticket surcharge Ior security Iollowing the
Sept. 11 attacks. "We worked hard to increase revenues through eIIiciencies, and not by
raising general admission prices Ior the last Iour years," Swanson said.
What the SEC Iiling showed, however, is that Snyder and his business partners have excelled
at making it easier Ior Ians -- and big name advertisers and sponsors -- to spend their money
on the Redskins brand.
Snyder expanded sponsorship revenue Irom $4 million to $48 million, the document said, by
oIIering businesses more opportunities to reach Redskins Ians inside FedEx Field and at
home. He reduced lines by automating concession stands with a "tap and go" payment
system, boosting Iood sales Irom $9 per person per game when he bought the team to $15 last
season, according to the proxy Iiled by Red Zone LLC, a holding company Ior Snyder's
various investments. This eIIectively means Snyder has increased concession revenue at
FedEx Irom around $8 million a year to nearly $15 million a year.
Snyder outsourced the concessions business to an operator with expertise in that area "while
maintaining control over the brands oI Iood and beverages that are sold at its stadium,"
according to the SEC document. In other words, Snyder was able to preserve lucrative
sponsorships with companies like Coca-Cola by requiring the Iood service company to serve
those brands, while getting the Redskins out oI the concessions business. The Redskins'
owner also sold the stadium's concessions equipment to a Iood service operator Ior $16
million, using that money to pay down the substantial mortgage that he once owed on the
team.
Snyder and his investors borrowed at least $495 million to buy the team and stadium in 1999,
$395 million oI which was tied directly to the team and stadium. Snyder also put up about
$120 million oI his cash. AIter at least two re-Iinancings with attractive interest rates, a $50
million lump sum payment and the sale oI a big part oI the team in 2003, Snyder has reduced
the debt on the stadium and the Redskins to around $250 million. Snyder now owns between
40 and 45 percent oI the team.
Snyder stated in his SEC Iiling that he has also started a "special events business line"
promoting concerts, parking lot entertainment and other events at FedEx Field that now
generate $2 million per year. He also has had help Irom the NFL, which distributes around 60
percent oI its more than $5 billion annual revenue to the 32 teams. National television
contracts alone bring in more than $100 million oI Snyder's $300 million annual revenue.
"This is a testament to Dan Snyder's ability to run and manage an entertainment-based
business," said Marc Ganis, a Chicago-based sports marketing consultant. "His success with
the Redskins has been nothing short oI phenomenal. It shows he knew what he was doing
when he paid a then-record $800 million Ior this Iranchise."
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8teeiers L. 12-10 6-8 : 0 0
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Jaguars L. 11-14 :-: :4 1 0
1otais 1-2 211 1 0
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!edd tellins gets a ebauee to earu tbe ro. 2
cuarter|ael soot |v startiugagaiust tbe kaveus.
1be kecslius tale to tbe iieicto |egiu
preparing ior tbe 200 seasou as traiuiugeano
|egius at kecslius larl.
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kecslius' uews -- ouiv ou wasbiugtouoost.eon.
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\av|e ii tbe kecslius were iile tbe latriots. auc eouteuciug ior
tbe 8uoer Bowi everv vear. tbis erecit earc tbiug wouicu't seen so
snarnv. Cr nav|e ii tbe kecslius were iile tbe laelers. auc
naliug tbe oiavoiis everv vear. tbis erecit earc tbiug wouicu't
seen cuite so suarlv. ueel. nav|e ii tbe kecslius were sinoiv
iiuisbiug a|ove .:00 ouee iu a wbiie tbis erecit earc tbiug wouicu't
seen so totaiiv ebeesv.
But tbe kecslius areu't wiuuiug.
\ear aiter vear. tbev areu't
wiuuiug.
Auc wbiie I'n uot ior a seeouc
cuestiouiug tbe owuer's cesire
to wiu or bis eonnitneut to
wiu. it just seens iile tbis is
uot tbe tine to teii vour iovai
iaus tbat tbev'c |etter use a
eertaiu liuc oi erecit earc to
oav ior tbeir seasou tielets.
"itb a wiuuiug tean vou eouic
sav. Abbb. tbat's just |usiuess.
"itb a iosiug tean vou sav.
1bat's eraooia.
8ee. uow it's uot ouiv tbat vou
bave to get vour nouev to tbe
tean noutbs auc noutbs
|eiore tbe seasou starts (so tbe
tean bas aeeess to vour nouev
ioug |eiore vou get auv orocuet
iu returu) -- uow tbere's a
soeeiiie erecit earc vou bave to
use to get it tbere so eariv. A
kecslius Lxtra loiuts
\asterCarc. wbieb aiiows vou
to receen tbose ooiuts vou
aeeunuiate ior vour ebarges to
aecuire a |uueb oi kecslius
giits. As iu wbooo-ce-canu-co.
Ci eourse. vou eau stiii oav |v
easb or ebeel -- at ieast ior tbis
seasou. But ii vou eboose to
ebarge vour tielets. vou oust
use tbis soeeiiie erecit earc.
1be kecslius sav tbis is goiug
to streaniiuetbe tieletiug
oroeess. Auc. olav. ii it nales
tbe kecslius a iittie extra
nouev ou tbe sice |eeause oi a
sweetbeart ceai witb tbe erecit
earc eonoauv. wbat's it to va.
bub'
It's oerieetiv iegai to co tbis. to
soeeiiv tbe netboc oi oavneut
ior sonetbiug. 1bere are oieutv
oi |usiuesses tbat wou't tale
erecit earcs at aii. tbev iusist ou
easb or ebeel -- oieutv nore
tbat wou't tale eertaiu tvoes oi
erecit earcs.
1bere are oieutv oi teans tbat
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1bere are oieutv oi teans tbat
oartuer uo witb soeeiiie erecit
earc eonoauies. auc oiier
nerebaucise. iile tean jaelets
auc 1-sbirts auc sweatsbirts as
iueeutives to use tbat liuc oi
earc. Coiieges co tbis aii tbe
tine. too. \ou reguiariv get
naii iron vour sebooi urgiug
vou to sbow vour sebooi soirit
|v siguiug uo ior oue erecit
earc or auotber.
But ii vou waut to |uv a ceeai
iron vour eoiiege. vou're uot
usuaiiv orobi|itec iron usiug
anothec |rauc oi erecit earc
|esices tbe oue vour aina
nater is iu |usiuess witb.
Lsuaiiv. auv liuc oi erecit earc
is gooc.
rot auv nore witb tbe
kecslius. 1bev are eonnittec
to tbis oue earc uow. Auc.
eousecueutiv. so are vou. 1beir
oartuers are uow vour oartuers.
M casa es su casa.
row nav|e tbat's just sbrewc
|usiuess. \av|e sboe-boruiug everv seat oossi|ie iuto tbat
staciun is just sbrewc |usiuess. \av|e seiiiug o|struetec-view
seats is just sbrewc |usiuess. Auc ebargiug au exor|itaut anouut
ior oarliug (|eeause tbere are uo oiaees to oarl eiose to tbe
staciun) is just sbrewc |usiuess. I'ii sav tbis. Dau 8uvcer is a
beeluva |usiuessnau. ue oaic nore tbau auv|ocv ever ior au rlL
tean. auc be's turuiug a |ig oroiit. Cieariv. be's a narletiug geuius.
Auc iet ne sav agaiu tbat I tbiul be's |eeu outtiug bis nouev out
tbere trviug iile erazv to aecuire tbe |est taieut ou tbe iieic auc ou
tbe siceiiue. lortis. 8ourrier. Ci||s. Coies. Deiou. Bruee 8nitb.
Jereniab 1rotter -- ob. be is trviug bis carucest.
But ior ne wbat tbis eones cowu to is a taste eaii. leooie wbo |uv
seasou tielets are reai iaus -- oartieuiariv oeooie wbo |uv seasou
tielets ior a tean tbat basu't wou scuat iu tbe iast ceeace or so.
Auc uow it seens tbat |eiug a reai iau isu't euougb. row tbev cou't
just waut vour iovaitv auc vour nouev -- uow tbev waut a soeeiiie
liuc oi vour nouev. Iu returu. vou wou't ueeessariiv get a gooc
tean. |ut vou nav |e a|ie to get euougb ooiuts to get a seat
uograce. \av|e iron o|struetec to eiear.
Ii tbe tean was wiuuiug. tbis nigbt uot |e so barc to swaiiow. It's
anaziug bow wiuuiug eau |e tbe sooouiui oi sugar tbat nales tbe
necieiue go cowu.
But uow it seens snaii auc oettv. auc cesiguec to go just oue wav.
tbeirs.
Cue oart sbrewc |usiuess. tbree oarts eraooia.
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nceseason.
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8teeiers L. 12-10 6-8 : 0 0
kaveus ". 11- Drl
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1be "asbiugtou kecslius are ior tbe iirst tine recuiriug seasou
tielet boicers wbo |uv tbeir seats witb a erecit earc to use a
kecslius Lxtra loiuts \asterCarc. a nove tbe eiu| saic wiii ease
tielet cistri|utiou auc iuerease iau iovaitv. |ut otbers saic eouic
eubauee tbe tean's oroiits over tbe ioug tern.
1be recuireneut tbat iaus nust use a kecslius erecit earc. wbieb
aiieets tbose |uviug tielets to lecLx lieic's 66.:00 reguiar
acnissiou seats. was auuouueec iast weel iu a ietter to seasou
tielet boicers. 8iuee 2000. kecslius iaus bave |eeu a|ie to use
auv erecit earc to |uv tbeir seats. auc bave aiwavs |eeu a|ie to oav
|v easb or oersouai ebeel.
1be tean wiii eoutiuue to
aeeeot easb or ebeels ior seats
uext seasou. tean oiiieiais
saic.
kecslius ebiei ooeratiug
oiiieer Davic lauleu saic tbe
Lxtra loiuts orogran. iu wbieb
eaeb coiiar ebargec to tbe
\asterCarc earus earcboicers
ooiuts tbat eau |e receenec ior
evervtbiug iron irauebise
jersevs to trios to roac ganes
witb tbe tean to seat uograces.
is cesiguec to streaniiue tbe
tieletiug oroeess.
1be kecslius rewarc orogran
is au exoeuse iten auc tbe
ebauge iu tbe oavneuts witb
resoeet to geuerai acnissiou is
exoeetec to bave iittie. ii auv.
eiieet ou oroiits.lauleu saic.
It beios oroeess our tielets auc
get tben out iaster.
kecslius soolesnau \iebaei
8itriel saic tbe vast najoritv oi
iaus aireacv oav tbrougb easb
or ebeel. |ut wouic uot give
soeeiiie uun|ers. ue saic. 1be
ouroose oi tbe kecslius rewarc
orogran is to |uiic |rauc
iovaitv auc bave iieic oasses
auc bave otber tbiugs tbat
iuereases vour iau |ase auc
o|viousiv booe to seii otber
kecslius-reiatec orocuets.
1be earcs. issuec |v ieague
soousor \BrABaul. aiso wiii
eua|ie tbe kecslius to trael
tbeir eustoners' soeuciug
ba|its. aiiowiug nore targetec
narletiug.
1be recuireneut eouic bave au
eveu greater. ioug-tern
iiuaueiai |eueiit to tbe
kecslius ii a sizea|ie uun|er
oi iaus su|seri|e to tbe earc
auc use it reguiariv. aeeorciug
to oue soorts iucustrv auaivst.
Au rlL oiiieiai. soealiug ou
eoucitiou oi auouvnitv. saic
earcs sueb as tbe kecslius
Lxtra loiuts \asterCarc
|eueiit teans iiuaueiaiiv.
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"bere tbe kecslius |eueiit is
|v ereatiug auotber |raucec
orocuet auc oiieriug tbe iaus au
iucueeneut to use it.saic
Cbieago-|asec soorts narleter
\are 8. Cauis. Ii nauv nore
oeooie sigu uo ior \BrA
erecit earcs. tbev iileiv wiii
use tben ior uou-tean reiatec
ourebases sueb as groeeries. ceoartneut stores or wbatever it is.
1bat eau bave a nocest iiuaueiai |eueiit to tbe tean tbrougb tbe
soousorsbio iee oaic |v \BrA.
kecslius owuer Dauiei 8uvcer bas earuec a reoutatiou arouuc tbe
rlL ior aggressive narletiug tbat bas turuec tbe irauebise auc
lecLx lieic iuto oue oi oroiessiouai soorts' |iggest
nouevnalers. 8iuee |uviug tbe kecslius iu 1))). 8uvcer bas
siguec soousors. accec nore oreniun seatiug auc iuxurv suites.
ooeuec kecslius nerebaucise stores auc siguec uo iaus ior vaiue-
accec itens sueb as tbe 1aiigate Ciu|. Last seasou. 8uvcer
iustaiiec 4.000 uew geuerai acnissiou seats. sone oi wbieb bac
oartiaiiv o|seurec views. as be |oostec lecLx's eaoaeitv to
)1.66:. tbe iargest iu tbe rlL.
1be kecslius bac au ooeratiug iueone oi s0 niiiiou ior tbe 2001
seasou. aeeorciug to lor|es nagaziue.
1be erecit earcs are oart oi tbe rlL's uew Lxtra loiuts orogran.
wbieb |egau iu tbe 2004 seasou. 1be rlL earus reveuue iron
ieague soousor \BrABaul ior tbe earcs auc cistri|utes tbat
nouev to tbe 12 teans. Aiso. eaeb tean eau earu iueone |asec ou
tbe uun|er oi iaus wbo sigu uo ior tbe earcs auc tbe irecueuev oi
tbeir use. aeeorciug to tbe ieague.
It eouic uot |e inneciateiv ceterniuec wbetber auv otber rlL
teans are recuiriug iaus to use a tean-|raucec erecit earc wbeu
tbev |uv tbeir tielets. 1be rew Lugiauc latriots co uot. |ut tbev
aeeeot ouiv Visa earcs. soolesnau 8taeev Janes saic. Baitinore
kaveus soolesnau keviu Bvrue saic tbe kaveus bave uo
restrietious oi auv liuc ou sueb ourebases.
1be kecslius saic tbev bac reeeivec iewer tbau 10 eonoiaiuts
a|out tbe uew recuireneut. tbougb severai iaus eoutaetec iate iast
weel saic tbev were uubaoov witb tbe svsten.
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Cue iau wbo bas usec ber erecit earc to |uv ber two uooer-ceel
seats tielets iu tbe oast saic sbe aooiiec ior tbe kecslius earc |ut
was turuec cowu auc wouic uow bave to oav easb or write a ebeel.
1bis is ricieuious.saic \aureeu Ciarl. ::. wbo worls oart tine
as au acniuistrative assistaut. I bave to eone uo witb easb uow
|eeause I cou't cuaiiiv ior vour kecslius \asterCarc'
Ciarl saic tbe kecslius sbouic
bave giveu nore uotiee ou tbe
ebauge. 8be reeeivec a ietter
uotiiviug ber oi tbe tielets iast
weel auc saic sbe bas uutii
\areb to oav tbe s1.140 ior
ber two seats.
8easou tielet boicer Dau
laceroislv saic be |ougbt bis
uooer-ceel tielets witb bis
erecit earc iu oast vears. |ut
uow wiii sinoiv write a ebeel.
I'n uot goiug to get tbeir
erecit earc.saic laceroislv.
wbo cicu't seen to eare a|out
tbe ebauge. I cou't ueec
auotber erecit earc.
8easou tielet boicer kiel
Baruev. wbo bas oaic ior bis
tielets witb a ciiiereut
kecslius erecit earc iu tbe oast.
saic be wiii oro|a|iv eaueei tbe
oic earc auc get tbe uew Lxtra
loiutsearc so be eau use it to
|uv bis tielets.
I cou't iile writiug a ebeel or
seuciug easb. so I wiii oro|a|iv
aooiv ior tbe uew earc eveu
tbougb it's goiug to |e bassie.
saic Baruev. a nortgage |roler
iron koelviiie. ue exoressec
sone auuovauee at wbat be
viewec as auotber iu a series oi
auuuai ebauges iu kecslius'
ooiieies.
rext vear I nav bave to |riug
tben goic.Baruev saic.
\ile Burle. 46. oi 8teriiug.
saic be bas uo iuteutiou oi
o|taiuiug a kecslius erecit
earc.
I wiii oro|a|iv write a ebeel or
go over tbere witb s1 |iiis auc
eouut tben out iu irout oi
tben.saic Burle. I nav |riug
cuarters over tbere auc croo
tben oii.
Crecit earcs iile tbe Lxtra
loiuts -- aiso luowu as eo-
|raucecor aiiiuitv earcs--
are eonnou anoug |usiuesses
seeliug to |roaceu tbeir |rauc
exoosure auc \BrAbas |eeu a
ieacer iu tbe iucustrv.
It's a erecit earc iile auv otber
erecit earc. witb tbe accitiouai
|eueiit to tbe eustoner oi
earuiug extra ooiuts.saic
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\BrAsoolesnau Jin
Douabue. Bv usiug tbe earcs. tbe tean eueourages iovaitv oi tbe
iaus. It uuites a eustoner. a iau witb tbe aiiiuitv oi tbe tean auc it
gives tbe iau au oooortuuitv to exoress tbat aiiiuitv witb a erecit
earc. It o|viousiv bas a |eueiit to tbe tean.
rlL soolesnau Briau \eCartbv saic be was uot sure wbieb rlL
teans recuirec iaus to use eertaiu erecit earcs wbeu ebargiug
tielets. |ut tbe ieague recuires iaus to use Visa wbeu ebargiug
tbeir tielets ior tbe 8uoer Bowi. lro Bowi auc otber rlL-
eoutroiiec eveuts.
Iucivicuai teans eau nale seoarate erecit earc ceais witb earc
eonoauies. as tbe kecslius cic witb \asterCarc. |ut aii teans
nust use \BrAas tbe |aul ior erecit. ebarge or ce|it earcs.
\eCartbv saic.
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Wodnosdav, |obruarv 2, 200b: laqo 001
1be "asbiugtou kecslius saic vestercav tbev wouic uo iouger
recuire seasou tielet boicers wbo |uv tbeir seats witb a erecit earc
to use a kecslius Lxtra loiuts \asterCarc. croooiug a ooiiev tbe
tean bac auuouueec ouiv a weel ago.
Au oiiieiai witb tbe erecit earc eonoauv saic it bac aslec tbe
kecslius to croo tbe recuireneut auc to aiiow kecslius iaus to
use auv \asterCarc wbeu tbev |uv tbeir seats. auc tbat tbe tean
bac agreec. \asterCarc geueraiiv coes uot aiiow nerebauts to
aeeeot ouiv oue tvoe oi its eo-|raucec or aiiiuitv earcs over
otbers. tbe oiiieiai saic.
1be rlL Lxtra loiuts orogran.
uucer wbieb tbe rlL's 12
teans issue erecit earcs witb
tbeir uanes ou it. is a uew
orogran. auc wbiie we bave uot
nace auv ceterniuatiou tbat
|tbe kecslius] were iu vioiatiou
oi tbe ruies or uot. we bave
aslec tben to aeeeot aii
\asterCarc earcs.saic
\asterCarc soolesnau Cbris
\outeiro. 1bev bave agreec to
co so auc tbev wiii aeeeot aii
liucs oi \asterCarcs ior tbis
ourebase.
kecslius soolesnau \iebaei
8itriel saic tbat aitbougb tbe
kecslius co |eiieve tbev were
iu eonoiiauee. at \asterCarc's
recuest tbev bave agreec as au
aeeonnocatiou to aeeeot aii
|raucs oi \asterCarc ior
oavneuts oi geuerai acnissiou
tielets. auc uot just kecslius'
|rauc \asterCarcs.
1be recuireneut tbat iaus use a
kecslius erecit earc. wbieb
wouic bave aiieetec tbose
|uviug tielets to lecLx lieic's
66.:00 reguiar acnissiou seats.
was auuouueec iast weel iu a
ietter to seasou tielet boicers.
8iuee 2000. kecslius iaus bave
|eeu a|ie to use auv erecit earc
to |uv tbeir seats. auc bave
aiwavs |eeu a|ie to oav |v easb
or oersouai ebeel. 1be tean
wiii eoutiuue to aeeeot easb or
ebeels. as weii as auv tvoe oi
\asterCarc. ior seats uext
seasou.
8one oiiieiais iu tbe erecit
earc iucustrv bac uotec tbat tbe
kecslius' recuireneut tbat iaus
use ouiv tbe kecslius Lxtra
loiuts Carc was bigbiv uuusuai.
Visa Iuteruatiouai. iu accitiou
to \asterCarc. coes uot aiiow
nerebauts to restriet tbeir
aeeeotauee oi oue tvoe oi earc
over auotber.
1bis wouic bave |eeu a |real
witb tracitiou.saic Davic
ko|ertsou. ou|iisber oi tbe
riisou keoort. a erecit earc
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ciseriniuatiou ior ourebases oi
goocs auc serviees ceoeuciug
ou wbat |aul issuec vou tbe
earc.
kecslius ebiei ooeratiug
oiiieer Davic lauleu saic iast
weel tbat tbe uew Lxtra loiuts orogran. iu wbieb eaeb coiiar
ebargec to tbe \asterCarc earus earcboicers ooiuts tbat eau |e
receenec ior kecslius jersevs auc souveuirs as weii as sueb
tbiugs as seat uograces. was out iu oiaee tbis oiiseasou to ease tbe
tieletiug oroeess.
1be eiieet oi tbe Lxtra loiuts earc ou tbe tean's oroiita|iiitv
wouic |e niuinai. aeeorciug to tbe kecslius. 1be Lxtra loiuts
earcs. issuec |v ieague soousor \BrABaul. beio narlet tbe
eiu|'s |rauc auc aiiow tbe tean to trael its eustoners' soeuciug
ba|its. aiiowiug nore targetec acvertisiug.
kecslius owuer Dauiei 8uvcer bas earuec a reoutatiou as oue oi
oroiessiouai soorts' nost astute narleters. turuiug tbe kecslius
auc lecLx lieic iuto oue oi tbe |iggest reveuue geuerators iu tbe
soorts woric. 8iuee |uviug tbe tean ior s800 niiiiou iu 1))).
8uvcer bac |oostec tbe staciun's eaoaeitv to )1.66:. tbe iargest iu
tbe rlL. ue bas ooeuec a cozeu tean retaii stores tbrougbout tbe
regiou. startec a iuerative 1aiiCate Ciu| auc accec otber reveuue
geuerators to tbe staciun auc eiu| |rauc over tbe vears.
1be kecslius are oue oi tbe nost iiuaueiaiiv sueeessiui teans iu
soorts. witb a resaie vaiue estinatec |v sone at s1 |iiiiou auc au
ooeratiug iueone oi s0 niiiiou ior tbe 2001 seasou. aeeorciug
to lor|es nagaziue.
1be kecslius saic vestercav tbat sone iaus nav bave
nisuucerstooc iast weel's naiiiug auuouueiug tbe \asterCarc
Lxtra loiuts orogran to sav tbat tbe tielet ourebases ou tbe erecit
earc wouic |e aeeonoauiec |v a 1 oereeut trausaetiou iee. 1bat iee
coes uot aooiv to \asterCarc erecit earc boicers.
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By LORNE MANLY
Published: January 7, 2006
Tuesduv wus u jovous duv Ior Lhe denIzens oI RedskIns NuLIon. resh
oII mukIng Lhe pIuvoIIs Ior Lhe IIrsL LIme In sIx seusons, Lhe
WushIngLon RedskIns removed one oI Lhe mosL uLLrucLIve heud-
couchIng cundIduLes Irom u LorrId murkeL bv re-sIgnIng Gregg
WIIIIums, Lhe Leum's deIensIve coordInuLor und ussIsLunL heud couch,
Lo u IuvIsh Lhree-veur exLensIon.
BuL Lhe good cheer dId noL spreud Lo evervone. The RedskIns
InIormed Lhe news medIu LhuL WIIIIums, wILh u pIuvoII gume uguInsL Tumpu Buv on
SuLurduv, dId noL wunL Lo do unv InLervIews. YeL IuLer LhuL uILernoon, WIIIIums suL Ior u
vIdeo chuL wILh RedskIns.com TV, whIch sLreumed IL IIve on Lhe Leum's Web sILe.
mmedIuLeIv uILer, Lhe NBC uIIIIIuLe In WushIngLon Iunded Lhe onIv oLher WIIIIums
InLervIew. The sLuLIon's sporLs dIrecLor Is George MIchueI, who uIso serves us hosL oI Lhe
''The RedskIns ReporL'' und ''The Joe GIbbs Show'' und us Lhe execuLIve producer oI
''RedskIns Gume PIun.''
CompeLIng reporLers compIuIned ubouL Lhe seemIng snub, u reucLIon LhuL Leum execuLIves
suId Look Lhem bv surprIse. Thev consIdered LheIr eIIorLs perIecLIv benIgn, even heIpIuI.
AILer uII, WIIIIums hud suId he dId noL wunL Lo LuIk Lo Lhe news medIu, und evervone couId
use Lhe IooLuge Irom Lhe RedskIns.com TV InLervIew. As Ior Lhe InLervIew wILh Lhe NBC
uIIIIIuLe, Leum execuLIves suId Lhev hud no InvoIvemenL In seLLIng IL up; MIchueI's Iong-
sLundIng reIuLIonshIp wILh WIIIIums und reporLIng husLIe heIped secure Lhe conversuLIon.
TensIons beLween news orgunIzuLIons und Lhe sporLs Leums Lhev cover ure noLhIng new.
BuL journuIIsLs who deuI wILh und observe Lhe RedskIns see Tuesduv's evenLs us u pIece oI u
medIu sLruLegv LhuL, more Lhun LhuL oI oLher Leums, seeks Lo conLroI Lhe messuge und
hurness LechnoIogv Lo speuk dIrecLIv Lo Iuns, whIIe IreezIng ouL or even pubIIcIv chusLIsIng
news orgunIzuLIons Lhev beIIeve huve sLruved Irom IuIr reporLIng.
The RedskIns huve run uL IeusL Iour sLrongIv worded urLIcIes on LheIr Web sILe uLLuckIng
The WushIngLon PosL Ior IuuILv journuIIsm und bud InLenLIons. And IusL AugusL IL boughL u
Iun Web sILe, one LhuL hud kepL u runnIng LuIIv oI uIIeged errors mude bv one oI Lhe PosL's
beuL reporLers. The IIrsL RedskIns execuLIve Lo uppeur on Lhe sILe uILer Lhe ucquIsILIon wus
Lhe Leum's owner, DunIeI M. Snvder, who used some oI hIs LIme Lo bush Lhe news medIu Ior
possessIng personuI ugendus und overusIng unonvmous sources.
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''The IucL LhuL Lhe Web sILe und George MIchueI's sLuLIon were Lhe onIv ones Lo huve u shoL
uL WIIIIums Is LerrIbIv LeIIIng,'' suId ErIk WempIe, edILor oI WushIngLon CILv Puper. ''I
vou're sILLIng In Ashburn In one oI Lhe execuLIve chuIrs, vou cun be perIecLIv comIorLubIe
LhuL noL u dIspurugIng word ubouL RedskIns nc. wIII be uLLered.''
MIchueI dIspuLed LhuL he hud receIved unv IuvorILIsm Irom Lhe RedskIns, und suId LhuL Lhe
news medIu und Lhe RedskIns deserved bIume Ior u dvsIuncLIonuI reIuLIonshIp. ''There Is
jusL u dIsLrusL 've never experIenced'' In neurIv = veurs In Lhe busIness, he suId. He udded
LhuL he LhoughL some oI Lhe coveruge oI Lhe Leum wus ''unwurrunLed, even muIIcIous.'' And
he suId he LhoughL much oI IL sLemmed Irom u hosLIIILv Lowurd Lhe Leum's brush voung
owner.
Snvder, u devoLed RedskIns Iun Irom chIIdhood who mude hIs IorLune In Lhe udverLIsIng
und murkeLIng busIness, boughL Lhe Leum und ILs sLudIum Ior un usLoundIng $8oo mIIIIon
In 1, when he wus q. And he quIckIv seL ouL Lo muke u vuIuubIe IrunchIse even more so,
Lo wrIng more Income ouL oI evervLhIng Irom seuLIng Lo concessIons und Lo burrow
RedskIns munIu deep InLo Lhe psvches oI us munv Iuns us possIbIe.
The IInuncIuI puvoII hus been ImpressIve. SInce Snvder Look over Lhe Leum, unnuuI revenue
hus soured Lo $oo mIIIIon Irom $16z mIIIIon, uccordIng Lo u SecurILIes und Exchunge
CommIssIon documenL IIIed In AugusL us purL oI hIs uLLempL Lo wresL conLroI oI SIx Iugs
nc.
AIong Lhe wuv, however, Snvder's regIme hus ruIIIed some IeuLhers. WheLher IL wus Lhe
uddILIon oI some seuLs wILh obsLrucLed vIews or un uborLed uLLempL Lo muke seuson-LIckeL
hoIders wIshIng Lo puv bv credIL curd use u RedskIns MusLerCurd, compIuInLs soon mude
LheIr wuv InLo Lhe news medIu, usuuIIv In The PosL.
n conversuLIons here uL RedskIns Purk, Snvder, hIs Lop communIcuLIons oIIIcer, KurI
Swunson, und Lhe recenLIv hIred execuLIve producer oI medIu, urrv MIchueI (no reIuLIon Lo
George), reLurned repeuLedIv Lo Lhe Lerm unIIILered Lo expIuIn LheIr medIu sLruLegv. TheIr
desIre, Lhev suId, Is noL Lo bvpuss or punIsh Lhe news medIu; IL's mereIv Lo hurness new
LechnoIogv Lo deIIver us much InIormuLIon us possIbIe ubouL Lhe Leum und ILs pIuvers -- In
reuI LIme -- Lo Iuns.
''The worId Is chungIng,'' Snvder suId. ''eL's be more modern LhInkIng. eL's gIve Lhem
more oI un u Iu curLe menu oI InIormuLIon so LhuL Lhev cun geL whuL Lhev wunL.''
SInce urrv MIchueI, u WesLwood One execuLIve Ior zo veurs und Lhe rudIo pIuv-bv-pIuv
unnouncer oI Lhe RedskIns, joIned Lhe orgunIzuLIon IusL veur, Lhe Leum hus rumped up ILs
muILImedIu cupubIIILIes und sLuIIIng.
WhuL excILes Snvder, MIchueI und Swunson Lhe mosL Is Lhe Web sILe, RedskIns.com, und ILs
growIng vIdeo cupubIIILIes. Everv news conIerence Is currIed IIve und In ILs enLIreLv;
IeuLures ubouL pIuvers' on-IIeId ucLIvILIes und oII-IIeId pursuILs ubound; und behInd-Lhe-
scenes IooLuge Is proudIv dIspIuved.
WhIIe pIenLv oI sporLs Leums produce LheIr own conLenL, whuL sepuruLes Lhe RedskIns'
medIu eIIorLs Is Lhe uLLempL Lo breuk some news IIrsL und Lhe uccusuLorv Lone LhuL hus crepL
InLo vurIous urLIcIes on Lhe sILe und oLher pubIIc commenLs ubouL Lhe news medIu. NumeIv
The PosL.
One urLIcIe, whIch dId noL currv u bvIIne buL whIch Swunson suId he wroLe, begun: ''The
ALSO IN THEATER
Behind the Cirque
A man with a plan
WushIngLon PosL, uppurenLIv more InLeresLed In sLIrrIng IuIse conLroversv where Lhere Is
none Lhun In reporLIng IucL '' AnoLher broughL In VInnv CerruLo, Lhe Leum's vIce presIdenL
Ior IooLbuII operuLIons, Lo pose u quesLIon ubouL journuIIsLIc eLhIcs: '' wonder someLImes
wheLher Lhev sLop Lo LhInk LhuL Lhev ure pIuvIng wILh peopIe's IIves und cureers.''
Snvder, Swunson und oLhers In Lhe RedskIns orgunIzuLIon suId IrusLruLIon wILh whuL Lhev
consIdered mIsrepresenLuLIons und opInIon InjecLed InLo news urLIcIes pushed Lhem Lo
respond In such u pubIIc IushIon.
''CoIumnIsLs, LhuL's LheIr jobs, LhuL's LheIr opInIons,'' Snvder suId. ''BuL when u reporLer
becomes u coIumnIsL, LhuL's noL rIghL. And LhuL huppens u IoL.''
Nunvo DemusIo, u RedskIns beuL wrILer Irom zooz unLII he IeIL Ior SporLs IIusLruLed In
OcLober, Iound hImseII on Lhe receIvIng end oI severuI oI Lhese pubIIc spunkIngs. n
prevIous jobs, he hud occusIonuIIv ungered owners, generuI munugers und oLhers wILh hIs
reporLIng, buL he suId Lhev wouId express LheIr dIspIeusure prIvuLeIv or cuII hIs boss. ''ThIs
wus LukIng IL Lo u whoIe new IeveI,'' he suId.
DemusIo ucknowIedges mIsLukenIv reporLIng LhuL u deIensIve buck, Rvun CIurk, hud been
cuL, whIch prompLed Lhe quoLe Irom CerruLo. BuL The PosL wus noL Lhe onIv ouLIeL Lo run
Lhe news. ''Rvun CIurk LoId me when upoIogIzed Lo hIm LhuL he dIdn'L undersLund whv
Lhev were bIumIng Lhe WushIngLon PosL urLIcIe becuuse he Ieurned ubouL IL on LeIevIsIon
Lhe nIghL beIore,'' he suId. ''The IncIdenL LoId me LhuL Lhe orgunIzuLIon wus noL pIeused wILh
Lhe Lone oI mv coveruge.''
Snvder suId: ''We huve noLhIng uguInsL Lhem. We jusL wunL Lhem Lo be uccuruLe.''
BuL whIIe Lhe RedskIns suv LhuL whuL Lhev puL on LheIr sILe Is unIIILered und uccuruLe,
EmIIIo GurcIu-RuIz, Lhe sporLs edILor oI The PosL, dIsugrees. ''OI course LheIr messuge Is
noL unIIILered,'' he suId. ''L's Irom Lhe poInL oI vIew oI Lhe Leum. L's goIng Lo be good news.
Thev're noL goIng Lo puL up neguLIve sLorIes. L's sImpIv un uLLempL Lo conLroI Lhe messuge.''
BuL he und oLhers undersLund u wIred presenL und IuLure wIII see onIv more oI LhIs
upprouch, II noL necessurIIv us vILrIoIIc. Murk Cubun, Lhe owner oI Lhe DuIIus MuverIcks,
uses hIs bIog Lo convev hIs unhuppIness. And In recenL monLhs, oLher Leums IIke Lhe
PorLIund TruII BIuzers huve pubIIcIv sLuLed dIsconLenL over coveruge.
''ThuL Ieup -- LhuL dIrecL communIcuLIon beLween Leums und LheIr Iuns -- Is goIng Lo
Increuse,'' suId Murc GunIs, presIdenL oI SporLscorp, u sporLs busIness consuILuncv bused In
ChIcugo. ''Teums wIII IncreusIngIv go over Lhe heuds oI LrudILIonuI medIu Lo geL LheIr spIn or
LheIr sIunL on evenLs ouL Lhere.''
PhoLo: RehIrIng Joe GIbbs, rIghL, wus umong Lhe boId moves mude bv DunIeI Snvder us
owner oI Lhe RedskIns. (PhoLo bv Doug MIIIsJThe New York TImes)

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REDSKINS
Redskins' Workouts Under Scrutiny From League, Union
By Jason La Canfora
Friday, June 3, 2005
The Washington Redskins are being investigated by the
NFL and the NFL Players Association Ior possible
violations during oIIseason practices aIter video oI some
drills was made available on the club's Web site.
Representatives Irom the NFL and NFLPA said they are
looking into whether the Redskins conducted practices
that were too physical and in which oIIensive and
deIensive linemen engaged one another in live contact,
which is prohibited.
The practices, known as organized team activities, or OTAs, are voluntary and can last no
longer than two hours. Coaches are allowed to put players through drills without the use oI
pads, although helmets are permitted. Each team can use 14 OTA days during the oIIseason
and no more than Iour per week. According to the collective bargaining agreement between
the league and the players, "contact work (e.g. 'live' blocking, tackling, pass rushing, bump-
and-run), is expressly prohibited." The CBA also details that no "live contact" drills between
oIIensive and deIensive linemen are permitted.
Coach Joe Gibbs, who conIirmed that the team is being investigated, said he has used these
same drills since his original tenure with the team and, while admitting he uses one-on-one
drills between linemen, does not believe he violated any rules.
"What I think happened there," Gibbs said,
"was there was some shots on the Web site. It
was being narrated -- it wasn't being narrated
by a coach or anything -- and I think there
was probably some comments in there about
competitive drill work, and I think there was
enough there that several people wanted to
see our Iilm. We'll have to wait and see what
they say."
Carl Francis, director oI communication Ior
the NFLPA, said the issue came to light when
NFLPA employees saw the video on the
team's Web site and there is no timetable Ior
a determination to be made. According to
Francis, any one-on-one drills between linemen are prohibited. Investigations into these
matters are not unusual, although they usually arise Irom player complaints. Generally, one
or two teams per year are penalized. Last month, the Philadelphia Eagles lost a week oI
OTAs.
No Redskins have complained to the union, according to multiple sources.
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"Do you know how we caught them?" NFL Players Association Executive Director Gene
Upshaw told the Associated Press. "We saw it on their Web site."
Teams can be Iined Ior OTA inIractions and stripped oI Iuture OTA days: the staII places a
premium on this oIIseason work and has not altered drills since the investigation began,
Gibbs said.
The video in question, Iilmed about two weeks ago and part oI the team's recent "Redskins
UnIiltered" initiative, is no longer available on Redskins.com, Gibbs said. The media are
prohibited Irom viewing the bulk oI virtually all oIIseason and regular practices.
Gibbs said he was unaware that one-on-one drills were explicitly prohibited, and the coaches
use them to work on balance and pass-rushing techniques. "Our understanding was you could
do balance on one-on-one stuII."
Gibbs said he works closely with veterans to determine iI they are pushing the limits, at times
backing oII Irom certain drills at their urging. The team has suIIered no iniuries through the
Iirst three weeks oI OTAs.
OIIensive lineman Ray Brown, one oI the players' union representatives and a 20-year
veteran, said he was unsure iI these drills constitute "live contact" but does not Ieel they are
too physical. "We're Iootball players," Brown said. "We go practice and do what the coaches
ask, and iI players thought there was some type oI violation, I think guys would speak up. I
wouldn't think anything would come oI it, to tell you the truth."
Veteran oIIensive lineman Chris Samuels said that some players new to the organization have
commented on the intensity oI these OTAs but believed everything was within the rules.
Linemen "are locking up and iust working on our hand placement and technique," Samuels
said, "but we're not like Iinishing guys and driving guys to the ground or anything like that."
5HGVNLQV1RWHV The Redskins will eventually have to make cuts in order to create salary cap
space to sign their draIt picks, but Gibbs said that no such moves are imminent. Linebacker
Mike Barrow, who has not played since being signed last year because oI knee problems, is
expected to be cleared to participate in the June 17-19 minicamp, Gibbs said. Barrow, who
many believe will be let go because oI his age, health and potential $1.74-million cap
savings, is expected to report here soon to get medical clearance. Return specialist Chad
Morton, another potential cap casualty, still is not cleared to return to the Iield Iollowing
season-ending knee surgery. . . .
Gibbs said the Redskins are still pursuing Iree agent cornerback R.W. McQuarters, who is
likely to complete his visits to other NFL teams this week. McQuarters has visited the New
York Giants, Miami Dolphins and Detroit Lions as well as the Redskins. . . . SaIety Sean
Taylor, who has skipped the Redskins' oIIseason program, still has not contacted Gibbs or
conIirmed that he will participate in the mandatory minicamp. . . .
Gibbs announced that players will report Ior training camp July 31, with practice beginning
the next day.


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Last week, in iust his second outing as a sports radio host, Vinny Cerrato accused the :DVKLQJWRQ3RVW`s Jason La
CanIora oI tattling to NFL oIIicials about possible tampering violations. The Redskins` executive vice president Ior
Iootball operations said La CanIora was hoping to get the league to hand down sanctions and 'hurt the team.
Also last week, the team`s senior vice president and executive producer oI media, Larry Michael, went on his new
cable show5HGVNLQV1DWLRQto repeat Cerrato`s snitching accusations and to rail that La CanIora has a 'hateIul
spirit toward the team.
On 5HGVNLQV1DWLRQ, Michael had already created a humorless recurring Ieature to slam La CanIora`s work habits
called 'The Sourcerer. Now he was wondering aloud and without irony iI the team should ban the reporter Irom
Redskins Park lest he 'leak inIormation Irom this building to the opposition. Michael, who is also the team`s play-
by-play announcer, told Ians they, too, should be scared by La CanIora`s spying.
Anybody wondering why Cerratothe highest-ranking Redskins oIIicial not named Dan Snyderwould want a
radio show, or why Michael would add a TV hosting gig to his responsibilities, got those answers with the two-
pronged attack against La CanIora.
Even as the Skins were becoming the Ieel-good story oI the entire league, Cerrato and Michael, a pair oI bigwigs in
the Redskins Iront oIIice, were using the team`s surge, along with Snyder`s newest radio station and TV show, to
try to settle scores with a writer.
La CanIora and his boss, sports editor Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, declined to comment on the Ieud, though Garcia-Ruiz
posted a memo on washingtonpost.com saying basically the Redskins were conIusing reporting with snitchingLa
CanIora had merely asked the NFL whether there might be a conIlict between Cerrato`s on-air pontiIicating and his
behind-the-scenes personnel responsibilities.
Was Cerrato and Michael`s multimedia anti-media blitz, given the timing, bizarre and petty?
Jock Flap: Cerrato`s used his radio mic
to hammer yet another Post reporter.
Courtesy Washington Redskins
Sure and surer, respectively.
Was it surprising? Nahthis is what the Redskins do.
Under Snyder, the whole point oI buying into diIIerent media is to Iind new ways to attack the inIidels. La CanIora
is only the latest to get called out by team management.
'When the Skins get upset with the coverage, Irom my experience, they can try to go aIter you, says Nunyo
Demasio, a Iormer 3RVW beat reporter.
Demasio knows: Cerrato and the Skins oIIicials went aIter him in nearly identical Iashion a couple oI years ago.
You can look it up.
A Iew years back, Snyder installed 'Redskins UnIiltered, a news service in the 3UDYGD mold run by the team out
oI its Web site.
Cerrato utilized UnIiltered during its early days to blast Demasio. The biggest blast came aIter Demasio had
repeated what turned out to be a Ialse rumor that deIensive back Ryan Clark had been cut. Cerrato, with help Irom
other top Redskins oIIicials, used the error to make a larger attack on him and the paper.
'This guessing game to decide who will be cut has consequences, especially when |the 3RVW| goes with inIormation
Irom uninIormed sources, Cerrato was quoted in an UnIiltered article, which the 1HZ<RUN7LPHV later reported
was written by Karl Swanson, the team`s executive vice president Ior communications.
And in 2005, Snyder became the Iirst NFL owner to buy a Ian message board when he took over
Extremeskins.com, the biggest board in the burgundy-and-gold universe.
At the time, the team was peeved at the 3RVW`s coverage oI such things as the 'obstructed view seating Snyder had
installed at FedExField.
The Redskins had pulled a block oI season tickets Irom the 3RVW around the time that one oI the obstructed-view-
seats stories ran, so Snyder was getting hammered Ior what looked like an attempt to use his team`s tickets to
manage local reporting.
Snyder, whose interview history is spare enough to make Sarah Palin seem like an open book, served as the guest in
the Iirst 'chat posted on Extremeskins aIter he took it over. The day beIore the chat appeared on his Web site, the
3RVW ran a story on Snyder having cut down trees on protected lands along the banks oI the Potomac River.
He used his new bully pulpit to go aIter the newspaper. Snyder blasted 'corporations that had amassed tickets only
to get involved in 'mass scalping rings.
'I would encourage the local media to Iollow the example oI the national outlets like USA Today which reIuses to
use unidentiIied sources. Most obviously have personal agendas, Snyder also posted. 'It`s a shame that with
newspapers in a mass circulation decline the public has to pay the price oI unethical behavior as the papers try to
attract readers to stop the slide in readership and circulation.
Swanson also had a chat on the site that went aIter Demasio Ior using '650 unidentiIied sources in his Redskins
stories. He directed chatters to a thread called 'The Nunyo Files, which was a clearinghouse Ior attacks on
Demasio Irom Extremeskins members.
No slight is too insigniIicant.
In January 2006, the 3RVW ran a series called 'Waiting to XL: The lighter side oI the Redskins` quest Ior a Iourth
Super Bowl title, a small collection oI tales written by Eli Saslow leading up to a Skins playoII game with the
Seattle Seahawks.
Among the observations in Saslow`s oIIering was a report that the team lunch Ieatured burritos Irom Baia Fresh, a
'Iast-Iood burrito ioint popular among broke college kids whose average dish 'weighed in at 1,100 calories.
The Skins had iust ramped up use oI video reports as part oI Redskins UnIiltered. Michael, the team`s broadcaster,
took a crew with him to the team`s dining room and Iilmed a long and totally humorless piece in which one
Redskins employee aIter another insisted that players only were Ied healthy stuII and that Baia Fresh was not 'Iast
Iood.
So, as the Redskins were about to make their Iirst playoII appearance since the return oI Joe Gibbs, Michael was
consumed with making mountains out oI media molehills.Yet Ior all its use as an anti-media medium, the most
newsworthy chapter in the history oI the UnIiltered news service to this date came when Michael posted video oI
contact drills at early-summer 'organized team activity workouts in 2005.
Turns out such drills violated the league`s collective bargaining agreement.
An NFL Players Association oIIicial saw Michael`s video and reported what was going on to the league. The NFL
punished the team, without any call Irom La CanIora or any other 3RVW reporter, by revoking the Redskins` right to
hold any more voluntary workouts during the 2005 oIIseason. The Skins yanked the video oII the team Web site as
the penalty was announced.
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October 3, 2008
II you're still a Ian, you haven't been paying attention.
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Larry Michael is one oI the biggest dbags on tv. I used to love watching the Redskins shows on Comcast SportsNet,
but no longer. Even worse, they are turning one oI my Iavorite ex-Skins, John Riggins, into a media tool Ior their
agenda. He sounds more and more like a ierk with his head up Cerrato's butt every time I hear him talk. I'm
disappointed in him.
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The war between the post and the skins, I don't know/care who wins but its Iun to watch. I think Vinny C and Jason
LaC are iust dudes doing their iobs. In person I am sure they are nice enough men, on diIIerent sides oI a story.
Larry Michael is however the scum oI the earth and I am guessing a horrible human being, and we should run him
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conversation. Snyder was grilling Bowlen on Shanahan's attributes, and iI there were any questions in the mind oI
the Redskins owner, Bowlen cleared them up. He gave Shanahan a ringing endorsement, which doesn't bode well
Ior the Iuture oI Redskins head coach Jim Zorn. Snyder already knew much oI this himselI. He has known
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Exhibit 181

Cheap Seats Daily: Pat Bowlen to Dan Snyder: Take
My Ex-Wife, Please!
Posted by Dave McKenna on Jan. 6, 2010 at 11:21 am
Right beIore Christmas, I read an ESPN report that said Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen gave a "ringing
endorsement" oI his Iormer coach, Mike Shanahan, during private conversations with Dan Snyder. I thought that
was an odd leak, given that Bowlen iust Iired Shanahan a year ago, aIter Shanny lost a Iour-game division lead in the
last Iour weeks oI the season to the San Diego Chargers, a team coached by Norv Turner, who Snyder determined
long ago wasn't good enough to coach the Redskins. The endorsement also made Bowlen look tacky, lobbying Ior
one coach while Snyder still employed Jim Zorn.
But now it's all clear: Bowlen set Snyder up!
Turns out Bowlen was still paying oII Shanahan's huge coaching contract. The only way he could get out oI writing
more big checks to Shanny was to get some other NFL team to hire the guy he'd iust Iired. Kind oI like alimony
payments, where you keep paying until somebody marries your ex-wiIe.
CraIty Bastards
Search
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Win advance
screening passes to
see Frienas with
Benefits Win tickets
to Rock oI Ages Win
advance screening
passes to see
Transformers. Dark
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tickets to There Will
Be Laughter 4 Win
tickets to see Earth,
Wind & Fire Win
tickets to see The
Glitch Mob
Events
Street Box
Named Desire
Opening
Reception DC
Jazz Festival:
Jazz in the
'Hoods June 1-
13
Promotions
So, as soon as Shanahan signs the deal with Snyder that will be announced later today at Redskins Park, Bowlen's oII
the hook Ior a big chunk oI his ex's nut.
From the Denver Post:
Bowlen will be relieved oI roughly $7 million in expenses today when the Washington Redskins
announce Mike Shanahan as their new coach. Shanahan, who was the Broncos' head coach Irom 1995
until he was Iired aIter the 2008 season, completed a Iive-year deal Tuesday evening with the Redskins,
according to two sources Iamiliar with the negotiations.
Shanahan will receive approximately the same average guaranteed salary $7 million a season he
had during his Iinal contract with the Broncos. He still had three years remaining on his deal when he
was Iired nearly a year ago.
The Broncos will still owe Shanahan approximately $3.5 million per year in 2010 and 2011 to
essentially have him coach the Redskins. Then again, Bowlen will save roughly $3.5 million each oI the
next two years now that their Iormer coach is no longer unemployed.
Bottom line: Bowlen hoodwinked Snyder again!
And this deal is a clearer-cut hoodwink than that Portis-for-Bailey-plus-draft-picks hoodwink back in 2004!
BeIore moving on, let me repeat something Irom above: Shanahan was Iired by Bowlen a year ago Ior losing a Iour-
game division lead in the last Iour weeks oI the season to the San Diego Chargers, a team coached by Norv Turner,
who wasn't good enough to coach Dan Snyder's Redskins.
Got that?
(AFTER THE JUMP: Shanahan ana Allen wont keep fans from fleeing FeaExFiela? Sherman Smith savs the worst
came to pass? The Wall Street Journal aoesnt think the Skins are the worst team in the NFL? Ben Olsen wont be
leaving Unitea after all? The New York Times runs a saa correction to its George Michael obituarv?)
***
From the sound oI things, the mere hirings oI Mike Shanahan and Bruce Allen ain't going to be enough to retain
season ticketholders. The members over at Dan Snyder's message board, extremeskins.com, are polling themselves
about who's going to renew their tickets Ior the 2010 season.
The results are inIormal, but it should be considered that the extremeskins posters are the most devout Iollowers in
the burgundy and gold Ilock. And as oI last night, the respondents saying they ain't coming back outnumbered those
that would be buying season tickets again by a huge margin. Most oI the naysayers threw in some explanations about
why they're dropping out, and listed things like the on-Iield product, lousy game-day experience, cost, economy,
availability oI single tickets through StubHub and eBay, and, overwhelmingly, disdain Ior Dan Snyder.
My Iavorite post came Irom the extremeskins member who goes by stew, who told the board that he had dropped oII
the Redskins seasons ticket rolls in 2008, and couldn't be happier with the decision. From stew:
This was my Iirst year not renewing tickets, not buying merchandise, and not shopping at Redskins
sponsors stores. Honestly, its been great! I bought a 50 inch big screen, a PS3, and a new L shaped
sectional couch, with the money I would have spent on my season tickets. I have enioyed the hell out oI
my TV and PS3 and have received compliments on my couch... some oI which came while watching the
Skins lose.It iust isn't worth it right now. Snyder has his hands too deep in my team Ior me to let him put
his hands deep into my pocket. When his attitude and personality change... and there is prooI oI this, not
iust what people say, then I will rethink my stance on spending money on this team. Its liberating
knowing I am part oI his proIit loss, and there has been one. I am part oI what is getting Snyders
attention. II we draIIt a QB, I will know that Snyder still has his hands all over my team and I will not
support moves like that with my hard earned money. I still love the redskins, but I will not contribute to
Snyders proIits while he is destroying a Iranchise that I have been passionate about since my
childhood.The good thing about this mythical waiting list is that the games will never be blacked out...
the tickets are sold, no need to black out any games... I can watch them all Irom my 50 inch big screen
silly.
II the timing wasn't oII, I would have accused stew oI basing his liIestyle on my charticle on how to spend the
money you won't be spending on Redskins season tickets!
But, the thread and all its vitriol conIirmed one thing: Snyder needs to announce he's building a Jumbotron real, real
Iast.
***
Long recap oI the 2009 season in the Washington Post by all the Iolks on the Redskins beat. The best part comes
late, with a quote Irom Sherman Smith about how he consoled Jim Zorn at year's end:
"I told him all the reasons why people were telling me not to come here all came true," Smith said prior
to the Redskins' Iinal game.
***
Somebody thinks the Redskins aren't the horriblest oI the horrible. The Wall Street Journal ran a computerized
playoII oI the eight worst teams in the NFL, Iour Irom each conIerence, with the Detroit Lions ultimately being
crowned the WSJ's Misfit Bowl champion.
The computerized Skins were knocked out in the Iirst round oI the tourney by deIeating the St. Louis Rams, 24-21. I
wonder iI the digital Skins Ians booed the win.
***
Ben Olsen, perhaps the most popular player in D.C. United history, will stay on with the team even aIter his recent
retirement. United announced today that Olsen, a two-time MLS all-star and a member oI two oI DC's league
championship squads who retired as a player aIter the 2009 season, has been hired as an assistant coach.
***
You know things are messy when your Iamily's telling Iibs to the obituary writer. Get a load oI this correction that
ran in the New York Times over the weekend:
Correction: January 1, 2010
An obituary last Friday about the sportscaster George Michael, using inIormation Irom a Iamily
member, omitted three survivors. They are his daughter Cindi Howson, oI Sparta, N.J., a third grandson
and a granddaughter.
So one oI Michael's survivors denied the existence oI one oI his children and two oI his grandchildren aIter his
death? Man o man. The Associated Press's obit oI the WRC sportscaster leIt out Cindi Howson, also. So did the
Washington Post's oIIicial Michael obit, but writer Adam Bernstein avoided Iactual errors by inserting a bizarre
sentence, aIter naming two oI the children that Michael leIt behind: "A Iull list oI survivors could not be conIirmed."
There's a real sad story in there somewhere.
***
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1. Comraae Al Gonzales January 6th, 2010
12:11 pm
#1
The way Bowlen suckered Snyder twice in six years is hilarious. Shanahan can't win here - nobody can with
Snyder at the top.
The comment on draIting a QB is prescient. Unless the Skins draIt at least two O line players, nothing will
change. Shanahan might help Jason Campbell, who resembles Elway in many ways.
Also, it is ironic that Norv Turner's wins got Shanahan knocked out in Denver. Having John Elway & the
home Iield advantage at Mile High Stadium, winning only two super bowls is underachieving.
I'm surprised you didn't say anything about Shanahan bringing his kid along with him. What's next? Hiring a
coach who hires his sixteen-year-old son as an assistant coach? At least give us something new, like a coach
who hires his daughter...
The only hope Ior Skins Ians is that Snyder gets sued Ior selI-dealing with the publicly-owned Six Flags
company, loses all his money, & has to sell the Skins |& that tacky monstrous house|. I can't remember the
numbers Irom the stock scam Snyder ran, but iI he's hit with a - say - $600 million iudgment, well ... will we
see the MoCo sheriII levying on the Skins?
I hope so.
2. RobShaw January 6th, 2010
12:17 pm
#2
McKenna did you see Portis tossing JC under the bus? Reminiscent oI Tiki/Eli -

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Exhibit 18
broncos premium

Broncos owner
Bowlen saves $7
million as
Shanahan
completes deal
with Redskins

By Mike Klis
The Denver Post

Posted: 01/06/2010 01:00:00 AM MST

Updated: 01/06/2010 02:56:53 PM MST

Here it is, the first week of January and already
it's a prosperous new year for Broncos owner Pat
Bowlen.

Bowlen will be relieved of roughly $7 million in
expenses today when the Washington Redskins
announce Mike Shanahan as their new coach.
Shanahan, who was the Broncos' head coach
from 1995 until he was fired after the 2008
season, completed a five-year deal Tuesday
evening with the Redskins, according to two
sources familiar with the negotiations.

Shanahan will receive approximately the same
average guaranteed salary $7 million a season
he had during his final contract with the
Broncos. He still had three years remaining on
his deal when he was fired nearly a year ago.

The Broncos will still owe Shanahan
approximately $3.5 million per year in 2010 and
2011 to essentially have him coach the Redskins.
Then again, Bowlen will save roughly $3.5 million
each of the next two years now that their former
coach is no longer unemployed.

The fact Shanahan settled for about the same
money he made with the Broncos and turned
down a more lucrative offer from the Buffalo B
ills should quell speculation he was trying to
sell his services to the highest bidder. Shana-
han's primary goal in his quest for his third head
coaching job was to find a team with a vacancy
that had the best chance to win the Super Bowl.

With the Redskins, Shana-han will work in
concert with general manager Bruce Allen, much
as he did in Denver with Broncos general
manager Ted Sundquist from 2002-07. In that b
usiness partnership, Sundquist oversaw the
draft, contracts and roster construction, but
Shanahan had final say on every decision.

During that six-year Shana-han-Sundquist run,
the Broncos compiled five consecutive winning s
easons, three consecutive playoff appearances,
and a 58-38 regular-season record. The Broncos
went 13-3 in the 2005 season and hosted the
AFC championship game the last time they
reached the postseason.

One of Shanahan's first tasks with the Redskins
will be to evaluate Jason Campbell, Washington's
starting quarterback since the final seven games
advertisement

of the 2006 season.

Campbell enters this offseason as a restricted
free agent. Now that the Redskins have put
Shanahan in charge, don't be surprised if they
seriously consider taking University of Oklahoma
quarterback Sam Bradford with their No. 4
overall draft pick.

Bradford is considered the top quarterback
prospect despite suffering a left shoulder injury
that basically wasted his junior season with the
Sooners.

Shanahan, 57, has a 154-103 NFL head coaching
record, including playoffs. He had an 8-12 mark
from 1988-89 with the Los Angeles Raiders. He
guided the Broncos to back-to-back Super Bowl
titles in 1997-98, but with quarterback John
Elway retiring after the 1998 season, Shanahan
guided the Broncos to only one playoff victory in
their next 10 seasons.

Mike Klis: 303-954-1055 or mklis@denverpost.
com

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Copyright 2001 Scripps Howard News Service By DAVID WILLIAMS
(January 6, 2001 4:00 a.m. EST http://www.sportserver.com) When the
Washington Redskins' coaching job opened last month, Marty
Schottenheimer was adamant: He didn't want it.
Criticizing owner Dan Snyder's hands-on style, Schottenheimer said
he couldn't - he wouldn't - work in such a climate.
But Pepper Rodgers, Snyder's newest confidant, said that the team
knew better than to be offended. Instead, the Redskins pursued and
persuaded Schottenheimer, signing him to a four-year, $10 million
contract.
"That's show biz," said Rodgers, dismissing Schottenheimer's early
harsh words. "In my lifetime, if I had never talked to somebody who
said something ugly about me - including my kids and my wife, at
times - I wouldn't have anybody to talk to."
Rodgers, 68, who last month was named the team's vice president of
football operations, said he was an "adviser" to Snyder during the
coaching search.
Rodgers declined to discuss his role in detail, but said, "I was happy
to be a help to Dan. ... Everybody needs somebody they trust. We
have a good thing going here."
Rodgers, a longtime college coach, made his mark in Memphis by
coaching the USFL's Showboats and as point man for the city's
unsuccessful NFL expansion bid. He left Memphis last summer after
16 years, taking a public relations job at FedEx Field, where the
Redskins play.
That job - and a friendship that followed with Snyder - led to him
joining the Redskins' front office. Since Schottenheimer also was
named director of football operations, Rodgers's role - and his title -
could change.
Rodgers expects to remain with the team.
"If not," he said with a laugh, "that would be the shortest marriage in
history."

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Coaching World Needs A Little
Coordination
December 06, 2000 | By Skip Bayless.
Now coaching news sounds like a "SouthPark" episode. Eric
Cartman accidentally buys the Redskins on Teams.com. Cartman tries to hire Barbra Streisand as
coach. She turns down Cartman for USC.
In real life Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, 35, tried to talk former coach Pepper Rodgers, 68, into
replacing Norv Turner.
Once upon a time, USC wouldn't have hired anyone from Oregon to do anything but clean up after
Traveler, the Trojan horse. Now Athletic Director Mike Garrett, turned down by
Dennis Erickson and Oregon's Mike Bellotti, reportedly is set to offer his once-great job to former
Oregon State coach Mike Riley, whose are 1-12.

John Mackovic, fired twice as a head coach, left ESPN, where he was only slightly more
entertaining or enlightening than Dick Jauron, to coach the Arizona Wildcats. Next, Kirk Herbstreit to
Georgia and Lee Corso to the Chargers.
Bob Davie just went from last legs to a two-year contract extension because, sadly enough, nobody
expected much from Notre Dame, which went 9-2. AD Kevin White will regret such an expensive
vote of confidence. But right now could White do much better than Davie?
At this rate Buddy Ryan will get $5 million to coach Houston's new .
Gary Crowton, whose Bears haven't scored an offensive touchdown in five of their last seven
games, is about to follow legendary LaVell Edwards as BYU's coach. So who replaces Crowton?
Fired USC coach Paul Hackett, an old buddy of personnel man Mark Hatley's? Norv Turner, brother
of former Bears coordinator and current Illinois coach Ron?
Reality check: Anyone with the NFL coordinator credentials of a Hackett or Turner will view the
Bears opening as career suicide.
As an NFL head coach said: "The Bears are going to have a hard time filling that job. Nobody wants
to go where they can't win quickly and improve their head-coaching stock or where the head coach
might get fired."
If Jauron's team gets off to a 1-7 start next year--a possibility if he sticks with Cade McNown--how
could President Ted Phillips stick with Jauron? How could Phillips keep sticking it to season ticket-
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Maybe Hackett could have talked Hatley out of drafting McNown then. He wouldn't want to try
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England's place-kicker.
As usual, Jauron is missing the obvious. His most dynamic coordinator has been right under his
nose all along. His name is Jim Miller and he also plays quarterback.
Miller loves Crowton's spread scheme, run at a fast-break pace with fire-drill substitutions. Nobody
operated this offense better than Miller because he often checked out of plays Crowton called. More
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If Jauron wants to save his job, he'll elevate a Bollman or Studesville while making Miller
QB/coordinator. This isn't to say Miller is , but if his Achilles mends, he's Jauron's best
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Benched QB 1ohnson voices displeasure with Snyder
Posted: Wednesday December 06, 2000 7:06 PM
Updated: Thursday December 07, 2000 4:39 AM

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) -- Like
Norv Turner, Brad Johnson
Iigures his days with the
Washington Redskins are over.
So Wednesday, the quarterback
who lost his starting job to JeII
George took some early parting
shots at Dan Snyder and
renewed the debate over
whether the owner is too
meddlesome in player decisions.
As the rest oI the team adjusted to a pared-down daily routine and
simpler oIIensive scheme under interim head coach Terry Robiskie,
Johnson said upper management -- not Robiskie -- has made the
decision to start George the rest oI the season.
"I think that decision's made Irom up top. ... I think it's obvious,"
Johnson said. "I think JeII's going to be the starter the rest oI the way
out. In case something happens with him, then I'll be ready to go.
Otherwise, I'm just going to Iinish strong up here and deal with my
situation in the oIIseason."

Robiskie, speaking aIter his Iirst
practice as coach, did not dispute
Johnson's statement. He said the
decision to go with George was made in
talks among the coaches and Snyder --
and he deIended Snyder's right to have
such input.
"A lot oI people want to separate us
Irom Mr. Snyder," Robiskie said. "Mr.
Snyder owns the Iootball team. I know
that. I promise you there's very Iew
things in the building I'm going to say I
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want to change without calling him to
say I want to change it.
"II I wanted to change my desk, I'm going to call him and say I want
to change my desk. II I want to change quarterbacks, I'm going to call
him and say, 'What do you think oI me changing quarterbacks?' It's
his Iootball team. To try to separate it, we're wasting our time."
Snyder was not available Ior comment. His spokesman, Karl
Swanson, said Robiskie "makes all Iootball decisions, just as Norv
did. He doesn't need to ask anybody's permission."
Still, Robiskie's remarks may make it even harder Ior the Redskins to
lure a high-proIile head coach Ior next season. One thing is Ior sure:
The quarterback who led them to their only playoII appearance since
1993 does not plan on returning.
Johnson's relationship with Snyder has been Irosty since the owner
signed George to a huge contract in the spring and reIused to
negotiate a new one Ior Johnson. While Turner preIerred Johnson,
George was Snyder's chosen catch.
Johnson's contract expires at the end oI the season, and he restated his
intention to become a Iree agent.
"I still stand by what I want to do," Johnson said. "We tried to work
out stuII a long time ago, and it didn't work out on both sides. And
you've got to move on."
The only way the Redskins can keep Johnson Irom becoming a Iree
agent would be to designate him as a Iranchise player, but that would
require an upIront commitment oI about $6.5 million Irom a team
with almost no salary cap room.
Johnson was the primary reason the Redskins ended their playoII
drought last season. This year, the team is a disappointing 7-6 and the
oIIense is beset with injuries. Johnson recently missed three games
with a knee injury, and George went 1-2 in his place.
In Sunday's 9-7 loss to the New York Giants, Johnson was under
constant pressure and threw two interceptions. George entered the
game with eight minutes to play and nearly led a comeback victory
with a touchdown pass and another impressive drive that led to a
missed Iield goal.
AIter the game, Turner said George would start Sunday's game at
Dallas. Turner was Iired the next day, but Robiskie reaIIirmed George
as the starter -- at least Ior the Cowboys game.
"I took a beating. We had a hard time with blitz adjustments,"
Johnson said. "I've done some good things here. My record speaks Ior
it, the numbers speak Ior it. I've got a long career still in Iront oI me.
I'm not going to let one play or one game bring me down."
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Johnson's career record as a starter is 31-18. George's is 46-74.
Johnson said he would not mind working with Turner again.
"I wouldn't have a problem strapping it up with him again at all under
diIIerent circumstances," Johnson said. "Norv's a tremendous coach.
He's going to go one way, and I'm going to go another way, and you
never know where that road leads in the end."

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It`s a wonder that Parking Toaav magazine has never Ieatured Dan Snyder on its cover. For all oI his Ieats in
branding the Redskins as one oI sport`s most proIitable Iranchises, this mogul does his best work when it comes to
charging people Ior temporary automobile storage.
Area rock and soccer Ians these days are Ieeling Snyder`s parking genius, right in their pocketbooks. Paul
McCartney and Real Madrid v. D.C. United played at Snyder`s FexExField this month, and U2 is coming next
month. For every ticket sold to these events, Snyder has tacked on a parking charge, Irom $5 to $10, in addition to
all the other Iees (Ticketmaster and the like). This is in addition to the advertised admission charge.
So, iI you drove with Iive people to the McCartney show, you will have paid $60 Ior a parking spot in a
GodIorsaken portion oI Prince George`s County. And iI you took those same Iive people on the Metro with you,
you will have paid $60 to not park in a GodIorsaken portion oI Prince George`s County.
As Iar as I can tell, no other venue in the area automatically tacks on a parking Iee.
There could be a legal reason Ior that. Federal law takes a dim view oI what`s known as 'tying arrangements, in
which a vendor will sell a customer a product he wants only iI that customer will also purchase a product he may
not want.
The granddaddy oI tying litigation is Eastman Kodak v. Image Technical Services. That spat arose Irom Kodak`s
policy oI selling parts Ior its photocopy equipment only to people who used Kodak`s repair services. The Supreme
Court ruled that Kodak`s tie-in oI parts and service violated Iederal antitrust law, since, basically, it shut out all
independent repairers Irom getting any service work on the Kodak line.
In Snyder`s case, the product the customer wants is the event ticket: parking is the 'tied product, since charges Ior
it are Iorced on customers. Snyder`s bundling eIIort also shuts out a class oI possible vendors: independent parking
lot operators.
Folks who own property near the stadium might want to open their lots on Redskins game days to make a Iew
bucks. But under Snyder`s system, it`s unlikely they`d be able to sell parking spots to people who have already paid
Ior parking once.
Via email, Redskins and Snyder spokesman Karl Swanson deIends the parking surcharge as both an accepted
practice and a boon to event attenders. 'Including parking with the price oI the ticket is common at venues (see
Patriot Center), writes Swanson. 'We do it because having cars stop at lot entrances to pay the Iee, get change,
etc., dramatically impacts the smooth Ilow oI traIIic into the lots.
Fee Ior All: Snyder is getting parking payments Irom
pedestrians.
Darrow Montgomery
Patriot Center management, however, tells me that parking costs are included in the advertised ticket price oI its
events: Snyder adds a parking surcharge.
Snyder`s scheme could be seen as vindictive, also. These everybody-pays parking Iees come just as he`s Ieuding
with the Jericho City oI Praise Church overyou guessed itparking.
For years, the massive church, located adjacent to FedExField, has been leasing its parking lots to Snyder on
Redskins game days. He allowed Redskins season ticket holders who had purchased 10-game parking passes to use
the leased property.
But negotiations between the team and the church to continue the leasing arrangement broke down during the
oIIseason.
The staII at the business oIIice at Jericho City oI Praise tells me that the church will take control oI the lots on game
days, and charge $35, cash only. That amounts to competition, and history is pretty clear on what Snyder does to
parking competition.
In 2001, Snyder got Prince George`s County to ban pedestrians Irom walking to FedEx on game days. His lawyers
argued that the walk-in ban was necessary Ior the saIety oI ticket holders.
The beginning oI the end oI Snyder`s pedestrian ban came when D.C. lawyer and liIelong Redskins Ian J.P.
Szymkowicz went to a game and, having lost his parking pass, parked his car at Landover Mall, which sits across
Irom a main entrance to the team-owned parking lots. Police oIIicers at the main intersection wouldn`t let
Szymkowicz cross the street to go in.
Thus was born a class-action lawsuit that Szymkowicz Iiled on behalI oI Redskins season ticket holders. In it, he
alleged that the team and county oIIicials conspired to violate state antitrust laws.
The 'smoking gun, Szymkowicz told me during the litigation, came when he Iound a report by the Maryland-
National Capital Park and Planning Commission responding to the Redskins` request to add 5,000 new parking
spots to existing FedEx lots.
The report said that Redskins oIIicials conducted their own traIIic survey during a Monaav Night Football game
against Dallas in October 2000, and determined that 'approximately 1,560 patrons parked at Landover Mall.
None oI those Iolks paid Snyder Ior parking.
'Since that |survey|, the MNCPPC report stated, 'the Redskins organization has worked to discourage and
eliminate parking at Landover Mall, and the addition oI the subject lot is intended to support that eIIort.
So much Ior saIety.
In 2004, the courts ruled in Iavor oI Szymkowicz and threw out Snyder`s pedestrian ban.
Szymkowicz`s inIluence lives on. In 2007, Snyder tried to have a similar pedestrian ban instituted Ior his Six Flags
park in Agawam, Mass. Lawyers Ior the theme park chain told town councilmembers that such a ban was needed to
keep parkgoers saIe. That argument worked initially, as the council approved a plan that Iorced Six Flags patrons to
use the park`s lots. That rule put several private parking lots in Agawam out oI business.
Snyder, who took over Six Flags in 2005, tripled the cost oI parking in the Six Flags lots.
But the Agawam ban Iell apart when Michael Palazzi, one oI the private lot operators who had to shut down,
brought to the attention oI Agawam`s authorities Citv Paper`s story about the pedestrian ban Snyder put in place at
FedEx and Szymkowicz`s lawsuit to have it repealed.
The council quickly decided that money was the real motivation Ior Snyder`s move, and that the saIety argument
was as bogus in Agawam as the one the Redskins owner had made in Prince George`s County a Iew years earlier.
The council repealed the pedestrian ban by a unanimous vote. Palazzi, who had no political experience whatsoever,
then draIted a local teacher who was also a political novice to run against the incumbent mayor oI Agawam.
Using the mayor`s support oI Snyder`s parking scheme as the major campaign issue, Palazzi`s candidate pulled oII
the huge upset.
I called Szymkowicz, since he is the Tom Joad oI these matters, to see iI he was aware oI Snyder`s current parking
scheme, and iI he planned to do anything about it. He declined to comment on the latter query.
But he did say he bought tickets to the U2 show, Iorced parking surcharge and all.
Look out, Dan Snyder.
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Mike
August 13, 2009
So why didn't you ask Swanson how they justiIied adding a parking surcharge Ior Metro users.

Also, how they can justiIy charging a surcharge Ior EVERYBODY in a car (I understand that they can't know iI a
purchaser is a single driver or part oI a car pool, but it's still an incredible rip oII).
2
Graxczyl
August 13, 2009
Many years ago, probably in the late 1980's or early 1990's, there was a sign at a ticketron window at Hechts that
said "For your convenience", and continued saying something like "a parking Iee oI $3 (some amount, I don't
remember) will be added to each ticket purchased Ior the Merriwether Post Pavillion".

"FOR MY CONVENIENCE"???!!!

I don't know iI they still do it, as that turned me oII completely to the idea oI schlepping way out there Ior any
reason.

As Ior taking metro to an event at FedEx and having to pay to park anyway, you may as well drive (1 person to a
car) and park. Given the current state oI metro operations, you'd be lucky to catch the second halI oI the event, and
you might not get there to see any oI it. But metro thanks you Ior your patience.
3
Sean
August 13, 2009
"Folks who own property near the stadium might want to open their lots on Redskins game days to make a Iew
bucks. But under Snyder`s system, it`s unlikely they`d be able to sell parking spots to people who have already paid
Ior parking once".

I dunno about that. The car lot up the hill Irom FedEx was selling spots Ior $20, and that's where I parked Ior the
United vs. Madrid game. Until I read this article it hadn't really hit me that I payed $5 a piece Ior parking even
though we were in the same car, and THEN paid someone else $20 to actually park. And on top oI that people

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Walkways At FedEx Will Open For Fans
Panel Overturns Pr. George's Closure
By Joshua Partlow
Thursday, October 28, 2004; Page B01
Starting Nov. 14, Washington Redskins Ians will again be able to
walk to FedEx Field, aIter a Prince George's County panel last night
liIted restrictions on pedestrian access that had been in place Ior most
oI Iour years.
The Board oI Administrative Appeals decided that the county
Department oI Public Works and Transportation did not have
authority to close Iive roads around the stadium and prevent
pedestrians Irom walking to games. County and team oIIicials have
argued that closing roads and sidewalks was necessary to protect
Ians crossing busy intersections, but board Chairman Raymond
Krasnick said that did not make the policy legal.
"We couldn't Iind a legal
precedent Ior it," Krasnick said.
"Certainly saIety was a Iactor,
but we needed to Iind that the
county had the legal authority to
do it."
County code indicates that road
closures are permitted during
road construction or utility work
but does not explicitly allow
them Ior public saIety issues,
according to the board.
County Executive Jack B.
Johnson (D) said that he
supported the board's decision
and that the county would not
appeal.
"I agree that citizens should
have a right to walk to the
stadium," he said. "We'll work
with the Redskins to ensure that
people can get to the stadium
saIely." Johnson said that he
spoke Tuesday with Redskins
oIIicials and that they said they
would cooperate with such a
decision.
Yesterday's action opens
Redskins Road, a short stretch
that beIore the ban commonly
was used by Ians who parked
Iree at Landover Mall. Garrett
A. Morgan Boulevard, FedEx Way, Arena Drive and Hill Oaks Road
also will be opened in time Ior the game against the Cincinnati
Bengals.

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aIter a public hearing, the Department oI Public Works and
Transportation reauthorized the policy in June, prompting the appeal.
During two days oI testimony last month, a stream oI police and
county oIIicials argued that keeping pedestrians oII Redskins Road
with metal barricades and stadium security was Ior their own
protection. Since the stadium opened in 1997, two pedestrians have
been killed and 12 injured aIter being hit by cars on roads around the
stadium, police said. The post-game crowds that Ilooded down
Redskins Road toward Landover Mall were too much Ior police to
handle, said Cpl. Michael Rose oI Prince George's County police.
"They were overIlowing into the roadway . . . |and| oItentimes
would not listen to the police oIIicers," Rose said last month.
But some disgruntled Ians saw the restrictions as a way to discourage
Iree parking and Iunnel them into distant lots operated by the
Redskins that charge $25. Fans have also complained about long
delays waiting Ior shuttle buses Irom these lots. They have suggested
that the county could erect temporary Iencing or use more oIIicers to
control crowds. AIter the decision last night, they were ready to get
walking.
"The public road deserves to be open Ior the public. That's the
bottom line," said Jeremy Mobutu, 22, a relative oI Feltman's who
was involved in the lawsuit. "And when it is reopened, I'll be on it."

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Published: Tuesday, November 20, 2007, 3:44 PM Updated: Tuesday, November 20, 2007, 6:10 PM

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AGAWAM - Mayor-elect Susan R. Dawson and others are applauding the City Council's decision
last night to repeal an ordinance opponents have claimed unfairly restricted commercial parking
near Six Flags New England.

"I think that it was poorly planned," Dawson said of the ordinance, approved by the council in
June. "It was highly ineffective, and it wasn't well looked at in (terms of) how it would impact the
town."

The ordinance - drafted to ensure public safety, officials said - required those who want to use
their property for temporary parking to pay $250 for a two-year permit from the Zoning Board of
Appeals.

Some business owners and residents who charged visitors to Six Flags to park on their property
complained the new law was hurting them.

And some church leaders said they were told by police they needed a permit to allow parking that
was not church related. Dawson, who spoke in favor of the repeal last night, said that when she
takes over as mayor in January, "We're going to take a comprehensive look at real safety issues
in this town, and we're going to address them."

A recount of Agawam's Nov. 6 election, in which Dawson beat incumbent Mayor Richard A. Cohen
by 44 votes, is scheduled to be held Nov. 29.

The ordinance proposal was put together by Cohen with input from numerous city departments
and boards to ensure public safety, after Six Flags New England President Larry D. Litton told city
officials he was concerned about pedestrians walking along Main Street in front of the park.

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Deion is done
Sanders announces retirement from NFL
Posted: Friday July 27, 2001 7:27 PM
Updated: Saturday July 28, 2001 11:13 AM
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) -- Backed into a
corner, the world's Ilashiest cornerback
made a very quiet exit.
Deion Sanders retired Irom the NFL on
Friday, striking a deal and cutting his
losses rather than report to a Washington
Redskins team he had disavowed.
The announcement didn't come with any
Prime Time Ilash or sentiment or any
glowing words -- rather just as a one-
paragraph announcement in which
Redskins head coach Marty
Schottenheimer told how events unIolded with Sanders' agent,
Eugene Parker.
"It was evident Irom his comments that Deion Sanders did not want to
play Iootball," Schottenheimer said.
"With that understanding, both parties have reached a mutually
beneIicial agreement. Deion Sanders will retire as a National Football
League player, and a Iinancial agreement has been reached."
The announcement comes one day aIter Sanders leIt the Syracuse
SkyChieIs minor league baseball team, and two days beIore he was
obligated to report to the Redskins' training camp in Carlisle, Pa. Had
he not retired, he could have IorIeited up to $6.86 million oI his $8
million signing bonus by staying away.
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have Sanders returning an
amount less than $2.5 million oI
the $8 million -- and that the
Redskins will receive salary-cap
relieI next season Ior the
returned portion.
Attempts to reach Sanders and
Parker were not immediately
successIul, but Sanders
indicated a decision was
imminent as he cleaned out his
SkyChieIs locker Thursday
night.
"I've got to really get my head
together and Iigure out what I'm going to do and what I want to
accomplish," said Sanders, who hit a home run in his Iinal game.
Sanders had previously said he did not want to play Ior the Redskins
this season, but the seven-year, $56 million contract he signed last
year obligated him to report to camp unless he was playing major
league baseball. Sanders was in the majors earlier this year with the
Cincinnati Reds, but he was cut July 17 aIter batting just .173.
Sanders' abrupt retirement -- coupled with his baseball Iailure --
would appear to bring to a sudden end the two-sport career oI one oI
the most dynamic showman in sports in the last decade. Sanders
combined Ilair with talent: The seven-time Pro Bowl selection is
considered one oI the greatest cornerbacks oI all time, and is the only
person to play in both the World Series and the Super Bowl.
"In his generation, he certainly leads the pack," said seven-time Pro
Bowl cornerback Darrell Green, who lost his starting job to Sanders
last year but will now get it back.
"He's an incredible business man, whether you agreed with how he
carried out his business practices. The bottom line was he was an
excellent athlete."
But Sanders, 33, was
disenchanted and restless last
year as the Redskins Iailed to live
up to their Super Bowl billing. He
admitted his season wasn't up to
his usual standard and perhaps
not worthy oI the money he was
getting paid. During the World
Series, he stood in Iront oI his
Iootball locker and pined Ior
baseball.
"We didn't get what we wanted in terms oI winning a championship,"

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Green said. "In his mind, in terms oI his perIormance, I think that was
a disappointment, but that cannot damper an incredible career like he
had."
Sanders was upset when the Redskins overhauled their coaching staII
during the oIIseason. He said he should have been involved when
deIensive coordinator Ray Rhodes leIt the team, and said he did not
trust Schottenheimer.
He then joined the Reds' organization, playing well at Iirst. He talked
oI the joy he would have when the Redskins would release him to
save $3.5 million under the salary cap, but that theory Iell apart when
he went into a baseball slump and got released by Cincinnati.
Sanders joined the SkyChieIs in the Toronto Blue Jays' organization,
but his .252 batting average meant he was running out oI options.
"He was going to have to play himselI here," Toronto assistant
general manager Dave Stewart said. "We didn't sign him to put some
people in the seats and he's hitting .130."
Stewart said the door was open
Ior Sanders to return to Syracuse
iI he wanted.
Sanders could either report to the
Redskins and be an unhappy
presence on the team or reIuse to
report and risk losing up to $6.86
million oI his signing bonus. The
retirement and Iinancial
settlement are a Iace-saving way
out, but -- barring a change oI heart -- it appears to spell the end oI a
Hall oI Fame career.
Sanders was the IiIth overall draIt pick oI the Atlanta Falcons in
1989. He spent one season (1994) with San Francisco, helped the
team win the Super Bowl and was named deIensive player oI the year
despite joining the team late because oI baseball.
Sanders spent the next Iive seasons with the Cowboys beIore
Redskins owner Dan Snyder lured him to Washington last year,
supposedly as the Iinal piece oI a Super Bowl team. Instead, the
Redskins went 8-8.
In 1996, Sanders played regularly on both oIIense and deIense Ior the
Cowboys, becoming the NFL's Iirst two-way starter since Chuck
Bednarik in 1962. He is the only player in Super Bowl history to have
both a pass reception and an interception.
A master punt-returner, Sanders holds the NFL record with 18
touchdowns on returns -- Iumbles, kickoIIs, punts and interceptions.
He has 48 career interceptions, including eight returned Ior TDs.
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On Redskins chat sites, it's been rumored Ior weeks that Dan Snyder minted commemorative coins during the
preseason to be sold as soon as Bruce Smith becomes the NFL's all-time sacks leader.
Redskins spokesman Karl Swanson admitted last week that "there are several items" oI record-related merchandise
being considered Ior retail by both the team and Smith's agent. When asked speciIically about the rumored coins,
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"The decision is Ior superstitious reasons not to talk about them or get into that," Swanson said, "until Bruce has set
a record that makes it possible to oIIer anything."
But at the SpringIield Mall's Redskins Store, a shop owned by the team, clerks aren't so superstitious. They say the
coins have been stocked on the premises "Ior a while."
"We're just waiting Ior him to get that last sack beIore we put them out," one tells me. A staIIer at the Arlington
Redskins Store, also a Snyder outlet, says they've got sack-record T-shirts in stock, too.
Smith, however, hasn't done his part to get these products to market. The halI-sack that scorekeepers bestowed upon
Smith Ior helping Renaldo Wynn Iinish wrapping up Brian Griese during the Skins' Nov. 23 loss in Miami leIt
Smith tied with Reggie White at 198 sacks. That means he hasn't yet met Swanson's criterion.
So the biggest drama remaining in the Redskins season concerns whether the Smithcentric wares will hit shelves in
time Ior the holiday season, iI ever. There doesn't seem to be much demand Ior Smith memorabilia around here
anymore, what with all the time he's spent oIIsides or on his backside this season. That ridiculous whining he did to
the press aIter playing his way out oI a starting job"I have goals that I would like to achieve," Bruuuce Almighty
said aIter the Skins loss in Dallasdidn't help the BuIIalo transplant's standing in these parts, either. To judge Irom
calls to sports radio and barroom banter, it seems a lot oI Redskins Ians just wish Smith would go away.
Besides being the oldest deck chair on the Titanic that is the 2003 Skins, Smith is also the last remaining relic oI
perhaps the sorriest chapter in the Iranchise's recent history. Smith came to the Skins aIter the 1999 season, as a
member oI Snyder's Iirst Iantasy Iootball class. In that oIIseason, Snyder splurged as no owner had splurged beIore,
and in so doing he put a target on himselI and his team that neither has been able to shake.
"It used to be just Dallas and the Redskins were rivals," Dallas Cowboys deIensive end Eric Ogbogu, who Iollowed
the Skins while growing up in Baltimore, recently told the hosts oI the evening sports-talk show on WOL. "Now
everybody and the Redskins are rivals."
Snyder, remember, gained control oI the team in the spring oI 1999, too late to compete Ior that year's crop oI big-
name Iree agents. (Snyder was leIt talking Irving Fryar out oI retirement during training camp.) But he jettisoned
General Manager Charley Casserly, took over personnel matters, and put to use everything he'd learned during
those years oI watching Iootball and eating chili in Iront oI the Iamily TV.
A reIresher oI Snyder's $100 million shopping spree:
There was, oI course, Deion Sanders. Snyder used Darrell Green to woo the Dallas cornerback during a dinner at
Olives, a downtown restaurant. To make room Ior Deion's seven-year, $55 million deal under the salary cap, the
Redskins released Brian Mitchell and put the "Iranchise" tag on Stephen Davis, marking the beginning oI the end oI
the big back's days in Washington. At Sanders' signing, Snyder said, "Nightmares oI the last Iew years oI Deion
scoring touchdowns against us will no longer happen." Indeed, they were quickly replaced by nightmares oI Deion
being perhaps the costliest bust oI the NFL's Iree-agent era. Sanders' run as a Redskin ended with him hiding out
with a minor-league baseball team in the Cincinnati Reds organization, saying he wasn't playing Iootball and he
wasn't returning any oI the $8 million signing bonus he'd copped Irom Snyder. That's still the team record Ior Iree
money, iI only until coach Steve Spurrier goes back to college.
And there was JeII George. Snyder gave George a Iour-year, $18.25 million contract with a $2 million signing
bonus. Snyder wanted George, an exciting loser joining his IiIth team in 10 years, to replace boring winner Brad
Johnson. The only memorable play oI George's Redskins tenure came when he was dragged across the Dallas turI
like a rag doll near the end oI the Skins' 8-8 season. Two games and two losses into the 2001 season, Marty
Schottenheimer (George's third coach in 18 games as a Skin) cut the quarterback, who at the time had zero
touchdown passes and a QB rating oI 34.6the worst in the league. George leIt with a 1-6 record as a starter with
the Redskins.
And there was Mark Carrier. Snyder gave the saIety a Iive-year, $15.9 million deal with a $3 million signing bonus
to leave the Detroit Lions. Snyder's sidekick Vinny Cerrato said Carrier would be "the quarterback oI the
deIense." (Perhaps the QB Cerrato spoke oI was JeII George.) Carrier had been Iined and/or suspended Iive times
Ior illegal hits beIore coming to the Redskins. It was more oI the same Ior Carrier once he put on a Redskins
uniIorm. In his Iirst game with Washington, Carrier was suspended Ior a helmet-to-helmet hit on Carolina's Wesley
Walls. His run here ended just as it began: The Skins cut Carrier beIore the 2001 season, in large part because the
league was threatening to suspend him again Ior a Ilagrant hit in the season Iinale against Arizona.
And there was, and is, Bruce Smith. Snyder gave the BuIIalo Iixture a Iive-year, $23 million contract that included
a $4.25 million signing bonus. Other than Smith, all oI Snyder's Iree agents Irom 2000 have been sent packing.
Smith has alleged that he was going to retire aIter last year, but was talked into playing again by Gerald Snyder, the
Iather oI the Redskins owner. (Conspiracy theorists could add up the Gerald Snyder connection and the
memorabilia production to explain Smith's Iree pass back to the lineup aIter slurring Spurrier Ior benching him.)
Smith certainly would be out oI here iI not Ior his pursuit oI the sack record. But he's put up with Iour head coaches
and Iour deIensive coordinators in Iour seasons here, all in hopes oI catching Reggie White.
There is a bogusness to the chase and the record at issue. The NFL has been recording sacks only since 1982,
leaving out generations oI quarterback killers, most notably Deacon Jones. And White's oIIicial NFL total oI 198
sacks came in 15 seasons, Iour Iewer than Smith (and it doesn't include the 23 1/2 sacks White got in his two years
with the Memphis Showboats oI the USFL).
Only 26 oI Smith's sacks have come in his three-and-11/16 seasons with the Redskins. The team is 27-32, with no
winning seasons and no playoII appearances, with Smith in uniIorm.
But iI Smith gets another halI a sack, Snyder will sell you a coin to remember him by. According to the staII at the
SpringIield Mall Redskins Store, it'll cost $19.95. Dave McKenna
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By Dave McKenna on July 21, 2006
On Tuesday, Dan Snyder`s team announced on both his brand-new XXX ESPN network and on the Washington
Redskins oIIicial Web site that this year`s Fan Appreciation Day will be held on Aug. 5 at FedExField.
The radio spots herald the 'Free stadium admission! The announcement posted on redskins.com trumpets the same
slogan but with an asterisk.
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At the business end oI that mark, in Iine print at the bottom oI the invitation, readers learn that 'car parking to Fan
Appreciation Day will cost $25. And that`s not going to get you valet service. There is no hint oI the heIty parking
charge in the radio spots.
Snyder`s antagonists would point out that nothing says more about his appreciation oI Skins Ians than paid parking.
This is, aIter all, the same guy who in his seven years oI ownership has devised such Iaux-Ian-Iriendly innovations
as Dream Seats and training-camp Iees.
But, as Snyder apologists could rightly point out, there`s not much more you can ask oI a human being than
consistency.
Yet, it`s his consistency that will cause Ians to be plenty suspicious about another oI the Redskins` recent
commercial moves: On Monday, with no IanIare, a small link to StubHub appeared on the team`s oIIicial Web site.
For the unIamiliar, StubHub is the CaliIornia-based burgeoning giant in the ticket-brokerage realm. The company,
which was Iounded in 2000, bills itselI as a 'secondary market seller. But to the lay sports Ian, StubHub is simply
the nation`s top clearinghouse Ior scalpers, a place where any ticket holder can put tickets to any event up Ior sale
and ask any price Ior them.
The StubHub link on redskins.com leads to a page dedicated to vending only Redskins tickets.
Beneath a Redskins logo, shoppers can choose between hundreds oI single-game tickets at prices Irom $21 apiece
(Ior an obstructed-view seat to a pre-season game with the Jets) to $1,000 apiece (Ior Dallas` visit on Nov. 5).
What`s more, even entire season-ticket packages can be had Ior between $799 per ticket (in Section 448) and
$60,000 Ior a block oI six in a lower-level suite. Prices Ior these tickets, most oI which are several times Iace value,
are set by the seller, not the team.
The logo isn`t the only indication that all the high-dollar reselling is taking place with Snyder`s blessing.
'The Redskins are currently stocked with talent all over the Iield as a result oI the aggressive attitude oI their
owner, Daniel Snyder, reads the copy under the heading 'About Washington Redskins Tickets. 'The team has a
tradition oI success that reIlects the very nature oI Washington, D.C., which means that Washington Redskins
tickets will continue to be a hot commodity Ior years to come. FedExField is situated near the heart oI all that
Washington, D.C. has to oIIer, so you can make your Redskins tickets a part oI any trip that will serve the whims oI
anyone and everyone in your party.
StubHub spokesperson Sean Pate wouldn`t give speciIics oI the deal but says the arrangement, which includes
cooperative promotional components, will be worth 'several million dollars to the team. StubHub charges sellers
15 percent oI the selling price as its Iee.
The Redskins/StubHub linkage could be dismissed as a sign oI the times. By now, most scalping transactions take
place not in their traditional homeon the sidewalks outside arenasbut over the Internet. AIter years oI trying to
Iight scalpers, a lot oI teams are now waving the white Ilag and aligning themselves with services such as StubHub.
Franchises including the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals are among those to have announced
agreements with StubHub in the last year. ('Cutting In the Middle Man, Nov. 4, 2005)
'We did this because we wanted a reliable, respectable marketplace where Ians can go to buy and sell tickets, says
Karl Swanson, Snyder`s spokesman. 'The same reason the...Wizards and Capitals did it. We`re late to all this.
Yet the Redskins, unlike the other major sports Iranchises in town, have in recent years been portrayed as being
vehemently anti-scalping. In early 2005, the Redskins took away most oI the Washington Post`s season tickets to
FedExField at a time when the paper and the team were Ieuding about the sports page`s coverage. The Skins`
oIIicial reason Ior yanking those seats was that it had nothing to do with the Post`s reportage. Instead, the team
asserted, the ticket recall was due to the discovery that some portion oI the Post`s ticket block was regularly being
resold at prices above Iace value, in clear violation oI the anti-scalping rules printed on the back oI every ticket.
Then, last August, Rick Snider oI the Washington Times reported that the Redskins had revoked the ticket
privileges oI a D.C. Iamily Ior selling them on eBay.
But despite those reports, Swanson now says, the Redskins have never tried to stop ticket holders Irom small-scale
scalping. And the alignment with StubHub shows the team`s anti-scalping stance isn`t as aggressive as the
aIorementioned incidents indicate.
'I can`t tell you what was reported, he says, 'but I can tell you that we all along said we weren`t concerned about
individuals who were selling game tickets on a one-to-one basis. We`re concerned about Iolks who put blocks oI
tickets Ior salethat`s it. Nobody has ever lost tickets without being warned in advance that their tickets will be
taken iI they`re being resold.
And while the team`s 2006 tickets will still have what sure seems like an anti-scalping disclaimer, Swanson says
there`s no plan to enIorce it to the letter.
'The back oI the tickets will now say something like, Sale oI this ticket above its Iace value at a location other than
StubHub may result in the loss oI tickets,` he says. 'But we won`t be monitoring StubHub to look to see who`s
selling tickets, just like we`ve never looked at the classiIied ads oI the Washington Post or City Paper or anywhere
to see who`s selling. We normally Iind out about tickets being sold Irom ticket holders who call and complain that
there are diIIerent people sitting in the seats next to them every game. We know there are people who sell their
tickets Irom the Dallas game to pay Ior the rest oI the season. That`s not going to change.
Swanson says the team even directed some Iolks to sell their whole season ticket packages on StubHub 'because oI
illness or something in the Iamily or other hardships.
Aside Irom the millions in revenue that the Skins will pull in, the deal could bring some public-relations beneIit to
the team`s owner. AIter perusing Web page aIter Web page oI Skins tickets selling Ior several times what Snyder
charges, it`s harder to call the guy a gouger.
Even when he`s charging $25 to park on Fan Appreciation Day.
'How can you say we gouge? Swanson asks, as iI he`s never heard such a charge. 'Our most expensive ticket is
$99! The most expensive Wizard ticket is |$1,500|! Look at the most expensive Capitals ticket! Look at the most
expensive Nationals ticket, and that`s times 80 games, not eight! Do the math! We`re cheap! We`re the best sports-
entertainment value in town!Dave McKenna
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(Last time.)
Let's take one more crack at this issue, because a lot of people have
written about this elsewhere, and I got a bit more info.
* First off, concerning StubHub. The Redskins are one of six NFL
franchises with promotional agreements with that company; the others
are the Bears, Bucs, Texans, Falcons and Bengals. The NFL and its
other 26 franchises have agreements with TicketMaster, similarly
promoting so-called "fan-to-fan" sales. The Redskins are in the middle of
a five-year promotional and marketing deal with StubHub that pays the
team six figures a season, but the franchise does NOT get a cut off of
individual sales, according to a StubHub spokesman.
The Redskins-Steelers game moved more tickets on StubHub than any
other NFL game this season: more than 7,000. But that obviously does
not account for the majority of Steelers fans in the building on Monday.
Also, 42 percent of the buyers were from Virginia, 25 percent were from
Maryland, 6 percent were from D.C., and only 9 percent were from
Pennsylvania.
One Steelers fan I talked to said he had never been to a high-profile road
game that was so black-and-gold. But I also talked to two veteran ticket
brokers who estimated the Pittsburgh contingent was no more than 15-
20 percent, which I said from the beginning even as others
hyperventilated the number upward. One of the brokers told me Steelers
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fans are "by far" the strongest traveling group in the NFL. My story about
some of this appeared in today's paper.
* Next, concerning Michael Wilbon. As I mentioned yesterday, he had
some harsh words for Redskins fans in his Tuesday column, calling them
"average at best." Some of those fans objected, rather strongly. And
Wilbon, of course, backed down from his slam on Redskins fans, right?
Ha! Hahahahahaha. From his chat yesterday:
New York: It bothers me that you felt the need to take a shot at Redskins
fans in your article this morning, calling us "Average at best". I'm one of
the FANATIC Redskins fans who gather every Sunday at a packed
Redskins bar on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The bar is filled
every Sunday with screaming Redskins fans and their babies in Portis
jerseys.
This is hardly average. I don't see any Jaguars, Cardinals or Rams fans
gathering every Sunday in an out of town location, packing a bar. The
Steelers happen to be one of the most popular franchises in sports and if
thousands of fans living in the DC area or making the trip want to buy up
a bunch of tickets - that's their right. The stadium holds 90,000, there are
always going to be tickets available one way or another. Redskins fans
are more than Average, your comment was insulting and inaccurate.
Michael Wilbon: You don't have ANY idea of what you're talking about.
Fans of all those teams pack bars in different cities all the time. How
would you know? Would you ever go to those bars? No, you go to a
Redskins bar, which is fine. So for starters, your premise is incredibly
flawed. Second, just because you are a fanatic doesn't mean Redskins
fans are any better than average. Steelers fans are, I think, the best in
the NFL...After that, Cowboys fans, Bears fans, Giants fans. All those
fans travel...Redskins fans bailed on their team last night and sold their
tickets to Stub Hub or whatever service. You think Steelers fans would
have done that? No. Broncos fans? Bills fans? No. I KNOW that doesn't
happen to the same degree in those cities. You think Philly fans would
have stood for that? No chance. Bears fans? No way. The Browns?
Nope...Sorry, you're not going to get me to kiss up to Redskins fans after
that sorry performance of support last night...At least 20,000 fans were in
Steelers garb waving terrible towels...Tony says it was closer to
30,000...There was no home field advantage. It was a neutral field last
night...Sorry.
Soothing words of reconciliation. Yes we can, America, yes we can.
* The Examiner casts doubt on the whole "18 million-strong waiting list"
thing, quoting Mike Sellers saying the stadium was "black and
burgundy" and "ridiculous."
* The AP lowered the hammer, too, with much more gusto than I had,
calling the invasion "embarrassing." From yesterday's story:
From his luxury suite at the 50-yard line, Dan Snyder witnessed
what had to be one of the most embarrassing scenes in his nine
years as Redskins owner. Consider: The Redskins entered the
game 6-2, one of the feel-good stories in the league. They had a
coveted prime-time home game. Their fans - often touted as "the
greatest in the NFL" - have sold out every home game since the
1960s.

Yet by the thousands they sold their prime, high-priced seats -
scattered not in one isolated section, but throughout the lower
bowl - to those of the opposite allegiance. It looked and sounded
like one of those college bowl games in which the tickets were
divvied 50-50.
* And now, the blogs. Pittsburgh fan Adam Gretz of FanHouse focuses
on the city's population loss and lack of other entertainment option in
explaining the traveling lunacy. "We're a sports town, and that's what
people around here do, and that's what we care about," he wrote.
* Ahern Inquirer says that 25 of the 30 seats in his row were taken by
Steelers fans, and asks "who are these people?" who sell their seats. "If
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you're not going to ever go to the Skins game, give up your season
tickets so real fans can go," is the conclusion.
* Caps Nut offers an interesting take on ticket donation tax write-offs, the
Skins' perpetual mid-week offers for ticket purchases, and Ravens
games being even worse, from a black and gold standpoint.
* D.C. Steeler Nation scoffs at Santana Moss's promise to find every
Steelers fan in D.C. "Oh noes! An undersized receiver is looking for us!
Everybody rrrrrruuuunnnn!" Moss was joking, if that wasn't obvious.
* Riggo's Rag calls for introspection and self-criticism during the bye
week. For the fans. "Has it really come to this Redskins fans? Do we
really have a soft fan base? I refuse to accept it, I know of many, many
diehard fans that would not let this happen....This cannot happen again."
By Dan Steinberg | November 5, 2008; 12:05 PM ET
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Think about it...this would have never happened at RFK. There were limited seats at
at that stadium and the majority of seats were consumed by die hard season ticket
holders for years.
Posted by: peej9999 | November 5, 2008 12:22 PM | Report abuse
-stadium too big
-too many people with 10-12 tickets
-too many people who keep rights but sell entire season to brokers
-monday night traffic is a disaster
but hey, those tickets were available to anyone to buy, the fact that skins fans didn't
buy them suggest demand is not so strong.
solution:
-elminate seats
-limit number of tickets for each rights holder
-facilitate the sale of full season tickets (not the rights, but the tickets) to folks on
the waiting list
chance of any of this happening? zero.
Posted by: dcsportsfan1 | November 5, 2008 1:05 PM | Report abuse
Let's see, ONE TIME this happens and everyone is FREAKING OUT, and it's
exacerbated by the fact it's on prime time. There are tons of factors that went into
this, and it being an anomaly rather than a trend it's not a stretch to blame these
factors. It IS a stretch to denounce a whole fan base for one poor showing. Which
was exaggerated anyways, and exacerbated by the imbalance of play on the field.
Wilbon just went from intolerably ignorant to complete scumbag on my scale. I
hope he gets shot in the femoral artery. Considering his recent behavior, that
wouldn't surprise me. Not saying he would bring it on himself, but it wouldn't
surprise me if he did.
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Posted by: ThisGuy | November 5, 2008 1:07 PM | Report abuse
This is not a one time event. Maybe the amount of away fans was a one off, but this
happens on a smaller (but more confrontational) scale every year when Philly
comes to Landover.
Posted by: Kev29 | November 5, 2008 1:16 PM | Report abuse
I'm the guy who wrote the comment from New York and Wilbon's response is just
proof that he's a pompous jerk who likes to pick on Skins fans. I've traveled down to
Landover for several Redskins games and have never had a problem finding tickets
on Stub Hub or eBay. The seller has never asked me whether I'm a Skins fan or
not so although it was frustrating to watch, it's not surprising to me that so many
Steelers fans showed up on Monday. To me this is a good thing for Non Season
ticket holders. I should also remind everyone that they were also louder, mostly in
the second half, when the Skins looked pitiful. If the Skins were beating down the
Steelers, I guarantee we would not have heard much about their fan presence. As
far as Wilbon's "know it all" response that every team has fans that pack out of
town bars - I'm pretty sure he's wrong, at least some teams (like Skins) pack more
bars than others. I'm pretty familiar with the Sunday New York bar scene. I know
there are Steelers bars and Dolphins bars and others, but I'd bet money that there
are no Saints bars or Cardinals bars in NYC. The know it all Wilbon should take his
attitude and move it back to Chicago where he can write about Bears fans all he
wants. Hail to the Redskins AND their GREAT fans! Go back to Chicago to
the "average at best" writer Mike Wilbon. Boswell and Shapiro are MUCH better
writers.
Posted by: ebberger | November 5, 2008 1:17 PM | Report abuse
Hey, Skins fans don't care anymore.
There is only one place where there is actual PASSION for sports in DC anymore.
It's called the Barra Brava.
Sorry, but they've taken over the bouncing stands and turned it into a DC United
trademark.
The Redskins trademark? Downward graphs and red ink.
Disagree? Drink the koolade and buy more Six Flags stocks while reading L. Ron
Hubbard!
Posted by: bs2004 | November 5, 2008 1:19 PM | Report abuse
Maybe Wilbon can point us to the nearest Cardinals bar?
The one in Lienart's basement doesn't count.
Posted by: kolbkl | November 5, 2008 1:27 PM | Report abuse
Its the fact that it did happen at a primetime game after the best start for a Redskins
team in nearly a decade that makes this so ridiculous. Wilbon's right, and the only
reason people are talking trash about him is that they know he's right. There is no
way that many opposing fans should take over any stadium. I don't want to hear
about Steelers fans living in DC, or traffic, or any other BS excuse. There is no
reason for that many "fans" to sell tickets for a Monday night game against one of
the best teams in the league. It was like going to an Orioles game when they play
the Yankees or Red Sox. The only difference is, the Orioles haven't had a winning
record in over TEN YEARS, so Orioles fans have nothing to root for. If you're not
going to go to a primetime game against a great team, then why in the hell did you
get the tickets?
I sit in 446 and had 3 steelers fans in front of me, 2 to my left and 2 to my right. I
had several offers from Steelers fans in the past couple of weeks to buy my tickets,
most for way above face. I never even thought for one second to sell my tickets.
And I don't want to hear about the price of tickets and affordability. If you can't
afford them, DON'T GET THEM. If anyone should be worried about the price of
tickets, its a 22 year old right out of college starting off in the government making
no money. If you can't go sell them to someone you know or go onto
Extremeskins.com or some other message board to get rid of your tickets.
Redskins fans, whether or not they went to the game Monday night, should be
embarassed. And hopefully Wilbon calling out all you so-called fans, will make you
rethink about selling your tickets to a Cowboys fan.
Posted by: MDTerps015 | November 5, 2008 1:32 PM | Report abuse
You're missing a key point here, which is that large numbers of Pittsburgh natives
live in the D.C. area (including me). There's been a literal diaspora of Western Pa.

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REDSKINS
Minus One, Redskins Play On
By Les Carpenter
Monday, December 3, 2007
All through yesterday's memorials, moments oI silence
and strings oI Sean Taylor highlights, the Washington
Redskins' deIensive players held close a secret unknown
to even Coach Joe Gibbs. It was a Iormation, devised the
day beIore by Gregg Williams, the team's assistant head
coach-deIense. Its title a jumble oI code save Ior the one
word Williams placed in the middle: "Taylor." They
would use it the Iirst time they were on the Iield.
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Drawn on paper, the play called Ior 10 living Redskins
to Iill their normal spots, with their dead teammate's
name and his No. 21 marked in the 11th. As Williams
handed it out Saturday night, he said that even though
just 10 players would be on the Iield, the one missing
would still be by their side.
"He was going to ride with us one more time," Williams
said.
History will not look kindly upon the success oI the
Sean Taylor Iormation. BuIIalo running back Fred
Jackson took a handoII and ran 22 yards. Nor will it
show the Redskins won their Iirst game aIter Taylor's
death Irom a gunshot wound Tuesday. Instead, a botched
strategic move by Gibbs, who illegally called two
consecutive timeouts to rattle BuIIalo Bills place kicker
Rian Lindell's nerves, allowed Lindell to kick an easy
36-yard Iield goal through a steady rain, giving
Washington its Iourth straight loss, 17-16.
As the game ended and what was leIt oI the 85,831 Ians,
who Iilled FedEx Field clutching white towels with
Taylor's 21 printed on the Iront, shuIIled through the
aisles, the Redskins' players jogged oII the Iield with lips
sealed and eyes staring straight ahead. Running back Rock Cartwright slammed his helmet on
the ground. Then they came into their locker room with Taylor's locker preserved behind
Plexiglas, his jersey in shoulder pads, ready to be worn, and heard Gibbs apologize to them
Ior the mistake in calling the two timeouts at game's end.
Redskins fan Kevin Smith, clutching a white
towel with Sean Taylor's No. 21 printed on it,
closes his eyes during a video tribute for the
slain defensive back before yesterday's game
against Buffalo. The entire team will fly to Miami
today to attend Taylor's funeral. (By Toni L.
Sandys -- The Washington Post)
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It was, many oI them would admit, a surreal
moment on a day that never seemed right.
"Someone said to me earlier, 'Didn't you
think you would have a Iairy tale ending?' "
guard Pete Kendall said. "I said win or lose it
was not going to be a Iairy tale ending."
Then he shook his head at the thought oI the
Iuneral today in Miami, which will be
attended by the whole team.
"This is only going to get harder," he added.
Yesterday the sun never shined at FedEx. A
damp cold Iilled the air as many Ians pulled Taylor jerseys over heavy sweatshirts and
jackets. The crowd seemed to arrive early, a constant mass gathering in Iront oI a Taylor
shrine near the team's store, staring at the collection oI photographs, homemade signs and
Ilowers spread under a makeshiIt tent. Then quietly it moved inside the stadium. Most oI the
stands were Iilled 20 minutes beIore kickoII when the scoreboard asked Ior silence and the
Redskins band played "Goin' Home" a spiritual adapted Irom Antonin Dvorak's Symphony
No. 9.
Some Ians dabbed at tears. A Iew cheered when a clip appeared oI Taylor saying the best part
oI liIe in the National Football League was "playing home," in Iront oI the Ians in
Washington. But mostly people were subdued. A banner that read "Forever on the Field. RIP
Sean Taylor" Iluttered Irom the upper deck. Among the many signs scattered through the
stands were ones that said "God needed a saIety" and "Heaven got one hell oI a saIety."
The mood did not improve as the game began. The Redskins' Iirst play, a completed pass to
wide receiver Reche Caldwell, drew a modest spattering oI applause. Even when the team
moved easily down Iield and kicked a Iield goal, the roar did not grow. In Iact, it seemed the
stadium never got loud, not until Washington scored the game's only touchdown, a third-
quarter run by Clinton Portis who was one oI Taylor's closest Iriends on the team.
But it wasn't until the day's last desperate Iew seconds, with Washington's game-long lead
suddenly in jeopardy at 16-14, that the noise grew. Yet this is when BuIIalo quarterback
Trent Edwards hit wide receiver Josh Reed with a 30-yard pass that gave the Bills hope and
set up a 51-yard game-winning Iield goal attempt. Then Gibbs called his two timeouts.
The Iirst was legal, coming just beIore Lindell struck the ball, and it Iorced the Bills' kicker to
have to line up and try it again. The second was not allowed under the rules. The oIIicials'
Ilags Ilew. The ball was moved up 15 yards and a diIIicult kick became simple.
Later, Gibbs would say he asked the oIIicial standing next to him on the Iield iI he was
allowed to call consecutive timeouts in that situation and said he was told he could. He said
the oIIicial asked him, "When do you want to call it?" But he also insisted the responsibility
was his. "To be quite truthIul, I made a decision there at the end that very likely cost us the
game. That's on me," he said.
As he leIt his oIIice beneath the stands and walked toward the interview room, Gibbs was
met by the team's owner, Daniel Snyder, who had been unusually visible all week, Ilying to
Miami on Monday to visit Taylor's bedside and delivering the news oI the player's death to
Gibbs and many others in the organization. As Snyder came toward the coach, Gibbs shook
his head solemnly and apologized Ior the timeout calls.
"That's okay," Snyder replied. "We're all in this together."
While a Iew players seemed agitated by the timeout mistake, many others said they didn't
blame their coach. It had been such a hard week. They were beyond such trivial things as
criticizing Gibbs. "We shouldn't have let them get down there where they could kick that
Iield goal," linebacker London Fletcher said.
He looked around the room, toward the locker tucked between the stalls oI Shawn Springs
and Pierson Prioleau, normally indistinguishable Irom the others but this time impossible to
miss because oI the glass covering that shined with the reIlection oI the room's lights.
Someone said the ending Ielt all wrong, as iI somehow the Redskins should have been
destined to win Ior all that had happened.

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"It's not even Iair," Fletcher said, agreeing. Then he laughed dryly. "LiIe isn't Iair."
On the other side oI the room, deIensive end Phillip Daniels heaved his giant shoulders,
sighed and said he was sure Taylor was on the Iield with them. He could Ieel his teammate,
he said.
"I just wish he could have knocked that last ball down at the end," he said laughing. "But we
don't blame him. We understand."

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The Coldest Shoulder
By Mike Wise
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Gregg Williams, the Ians' and players' choice to replace
Joe Gibbs, morphed Irom valued employee into dead
weight in less than two weeks, not worthy oI even a
phone call Irom Daniel Snyder as a parade oI potential
replacements passed through the owner's mansion.
However it happened, whatever led Snyder to his
decision, there is no justiIying how the situation was
handled so soon aIter the entire organization had gone
through the emotional hell oI Sean Taylor's killing.
For everyone other than Snyder, this job search hasn't
been about Gibbs at all. It's been about Taylor and how
the team and coaches banded together to reach the
playoIIs without him. The healing was still progressing
when Gibbs suddenly leIt. Williams was seen as the one
link that could keep the chain oI emotional recovery
together.
How else to explain the viliIication oI Jim Fassel, an
otherwise Iine Iellow with a Super Bowl appearance on
his rsum, on local talk radio shows and online chat
rooms, even the ones run by the team? Or the mass
anointing oI Williams, whose previous head coaching
experience consisted oI what everyone agrees was a
disaster in BuIIalo?
But Snyder was tone-deaI to all that.
It's one thing to leave every outside candidate in the dark
aIter they interview: it's quite another to not speak to the
coach who stood by Taylor aIter each one oI his minor
transgressions, proclaiming over and over, "I'm a Ian oI
Sean Taylor," while everyone else was doubting the
youngster.
Williams worked Ior the Redskins Ior Iour years,
responsible Ior the unit that carried the team Ior three oI
Redskins Executive Vice President Vinny
Cerrato, left, denied any ill will between him and
Gregg Williams. Meanwhile, owner Daniel
Snyder, right, keeps everyone in the dark. (2006
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them. Yet Ior 11 days aIter his last interview, he heard
nothing, the silence ringing Irom Ashburn, to Mobile,
Ala., where Redskins coaches were scouting an all-star
game, to the home oI every player.
Let's be clear: It's Snyder's team. It's his prerogative to
hire anyone he wants to coach the Redskins. He is right
to take the time he needs to make what he believes is the
right decision. Arthur Blank had more than a month to
get his ducks in line in Atlanta aIter Bobby Petrino leIt
him in a lurch. Whether it's Fassel now or Ron Meeks or
another mystery candidate, a vetting-out process is
crucial to Iind anyone replacing Gibbs.
It's no secret I believe Williams should have
gotten the job. I buy the notion that any oI the
crass, intransigent behavior that helped lead
to his termination in BuIIalo is gone. There is
no doubt he became a more diplomatic
thinker the past two years, one who could
adapt to his talent and didn't have to always
play the my-way game with his players.
And I'm not debating the departure oI Al
Saunders: he'd been walking on thin ice ever
since the day a team employee asked how the
players were grasping the oIIense and
Saunders replied, "The players aren't the
problem." Regardless oI whether he believed
his hands were tied by Gibbs's grind-it-out ways, Saunders's steadIast thinking that the
personnel had to adapt to him -- not Al to them -- was clearly part oI his undoing.
In spurning Williams, perhaps Snyder was scared he might be turning the reins over to the
second coming oI Marty Schottenheimer. Maybe he could not get the vision oI Williams's
very high opinion oI himselI those Iirst two years in Washington out oI his skull. Maybe
Williams talked himselI out oI the job. Maybe, in explaining how he would lead diIIerently in
team meetings, it came across as a knock on the way Gibbs structurally went about keeping
the Redskins a cohesive unit. While Williams believed he was making a strong case Ior his
own unique abilities, the people on the receiving end oI those words hear blasphemy.
Remember, Gibbs can do no wrong in their eyes.
The moment Williams said anything that didn't dovetail with Gibbs's ways, the my-way
coach may have been destined Ior the highway.

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Washington Redskins), Home Depot, McDonald`s, Purple Heart, Toyota, and Wachovia. When Michael came back, he said the temperature inside
the stadium was 90 degrees, inIormation 'brought to you by Carrier. A quick sentence Irom Jurgensen about 'what`s at stake Ior the Redskins in the
Week 2 tilt was sponsored by Shula`s, a steakhouse chain. News that the only change in the Skins` starting lineup Irom the opening game would be
QB Mark Brunell was 'brought to you by AvcomEast.
Just another week with Redskins radio, which in recent years has become the broadcast equivalent oI a NASCAR Iender.
There`s nothing new about sponsorship in sports broadcasting. But Redskins games, where the on-Iield action is never allowed to get in the way oI a
paid plug, have taken the concept where no one has gone beIore. On Redskins radio, there actually are sponsors Ior sponsors: Several times during the
Dallas broadcast, Michael introduced the results oI the weekend`s other NFL games by saying, 'The GMRI scoreboard is brought to you by
McDonald`s Restaurants.
Michael is only in his second year as the broadcast team`s leader, and as Iar his play-by-play skills go, nobody has yet conIused him with Vin Scully
or anybody Irom the Buck Iamily or even with the guy he replaced in Redskins radio, Frank Herzog. But there`s not a more enthusiastic pitchman in
the business.
Most oI the words out oI his mouth are subsidized. Whenever Sonny and Sam aren`t talking, he`s jumping in with an ad. AIter a comment Irom
Jurgensen about Sean Springs` being the son oI an ex-Cowboy, listeners heard Michael say that Springs 'is a Redskin through and through. Springer
Mountain Farms Chicken is now the only chicken endorsed by the American Humane Society, available at Giant Foods. He interrupted Sonny and
Sam`s banter to say, 'I don`t know how you guys got here, but I drove my Nissan Titan all the way Irom Washington, D.C. Come test-drive the tough
2005 Iull-size Nissan Titan at your local Nissan dealer today. Then Michael wondered aloud whether FedEx, another big-time Skins patron, would
deliver the car back home Ior him, since 'FedEx can travel anything!
Much oI what Jurgensen says is bought and paid Ior, too. 'SJ-9 cigars are only available at Old Virginia Cigars! Jurgensen blurted out between plays
early in the contest. (The smoke`s designation reIers to Jurgensen`s initials and uniIorm number.) He also used airtime to relate that he`s really
satisIied with the home-theater system he got Irom Myer-Emco, and, later, the digital cable service 'provided by Cox.
When Cowboys running back Julius Jones took a hard tackle, Jurgensen said, 'He`s going to remember that hit Ior a while. He can read about it
tomorrow in the Washington Post. A week earlier, aIter the Skins broke up a Chicago Bears pass play, his comment was 'Nice deIense! The only
place you`ll Iind better coverage is in the Washington Post!
Sometimes Michael and Jurgensen Iorm a shilling tag team. A Iirst-halI Brunell incompletion Ior some reason incited Michael to tell the audience, 'II
you love bacon come into Subway. Eat Iresh.
'Eat Iresh! shouted Jurgensen.
The prevalence oI ads isn`t the on-air guys` Iault, oI course. Because oI Iinances, WJFK needs pitchers more than it does Iootball guys. In 2001, the
station paid $50 million Ior a Iive-year deal Ior the rights to broadcast Redskins games. The WJFK-Redskins alliance was by Iar the most lucrative
radio contract in NFL history. The money to pay oII Dan Snyder has to come Irom somewhere.
The WJFK deal with the team ends aIter this season, and no announcement has yet been made about extending the relationship. The bad news Ior
listeners is, the barrage oI game-time advertising isn`t likely to be stemmed anytime soon.
On the way to making the team the most valuable sports Iranchise in the landa report earlier this month Irom Forbes magazine put the Redskins`
worth at more than $1.2 billionSnyder has gradually assumed greater control oI the Redskins` news-delivery scheme. His team now produces
several shows Ior area TV stations, and he Iounded Redskins.com TV, a webcast news service.
So nobody should be surprised iI aIter this season Snyder takes the radio broadcasts in-house, too. He`s already made a move seemingly in that
direction by putting Michael on the Redskins payroll last spring as executive producer Ior the Redskins` broadcast properties.
That means he`s now in charge oI the well-camouIlaged inIomercialsamong them The Joe Gibbs Show on WRC-TV Channel 4 and Redskins Game
Day on WTTG-TV Channel 5now coming out oI Redskin Park. WRC doesn`t produce the Gibbs show, but host George Michael (no relation to
Larry Michael) never lets on that Snyder, and not the station`s sports department, is bankrolling the program. Advertisements Ior Redskins.com TV
are shown again and again between interview segments with Gibbs, during which the coach tells viewers that 'the only way to get the real story is
Irom the team`s news outlet, which seems like a direct slap at the integrity oI the reports Michael does Ior WRC. The height oI disinIormation,
however, comes when Michael directs e-mailers to send questions or Ieedback about the show not to the Redskins but to an NBC address:
CoachGibbs(nbc.com.
Lou Holder, who MCs WTTG`s Redskins smoochIest each Sunday morning, likewise Iails to inIorm viewers that he and others in the station`s sports
department who appear in the inIomercial are promoting the team, not objectivity, during their halI-hour onscreen. The Washington Redskins
copyright notice that shows up at the very end oI the program provides the only concrete evidence that this is propaganda, not news. The whole thing
reeks oI Pravda, however: Holder never mentioned the controversy surrounding the then-Iresh benching oI quarterback Patrick Ramsey during the
Sept. 18 edition oI Game Day. Instead, the Ieatured segment was an interview with TiIIani, a Redskins cheerleader. Holder grilled TiII about her
decision not to use body paint during the cheerleaders` most recent calendar shoot and questioned her claim that her Iavorite Iood is raw cookie dough.
'Cookie dough? Holder asked, with liIted eyebrows.
II the TV inIomercials are any indication oI what to expect Irom in-house radio broadcasts iI Snyder assumes control, the games will be just as taxing
on Ians next season as they are now. And that`s pretty darn taxing. Despite the Iantastic Iinish in the Skins win over the Cowboys, keeping track oI all
the paid spots leIt me too tired to stay tuned to WJFK Ior the postgame show.
Or, rather, the Mercedez-Benz OIIicial Post-Game Show.
Dave McKenna
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Heading into the bye week, the state oI the Redskins is not good. A retrospective oI the weeks that were...
Owner Dan Snyder is, clearly and unsurprisingly, the story oI the season. He set a sorry tone right oII by making
the Skins the Iirst team in NFL history to charge Ior parking and admission to preseason training camp. However,
the real gouging had yet to commence.
Just as he broke the Redskins contract with Frostburg State University to move camp, Snyder ripped up his team's
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Domino's reIused, Papa Johns became the oIIicial team pizza.
He added two rows oI seats to FedEx Field at Iield level, the worst view in any stadium and the cheapest seats in
everybody else's house, then had the gonads to dub them "Front Row Dream Seats" and charge an unIathomable
$3,000 per ticket. "Unless you dream oI Bruce Smith's ass," a buddy oI mine said at the time, "those ain't dream
seats."
At the Tennessee Titans game, season-ticket-holders in the upper deck complained that Snyder had added new seats
to their rows in the two weeks since the previous home game. Apparently, room Ior all the new revenue sources
was created by making the old revenue sources' seats smaller.
Snyder's attempts to control reportage show him to be either a PR genius or an idiot. He got rid oI two-thirds oI the
press box to make space Ior skyboxes. Print reporters who are not in good stead with management watch Redskins
games on television in the stadium's basement.
He Iorced local TV stations to become "partners" with the teammeaning pay big bucks to become Skins
sponsorsiI they wanted the same access they'd always had. Sportscasters whose stations won't get in bed with the
team are now Iorced to do their broadcasts Irom the Redskin Park parking lot. Snyder even went so Iar as to buy the
Ianzine Redskins Weekly just so he could regulate its content.
While the Skins were in the midst oI their recent Iive-game win streak, Snyder launched his worst gouging
oIIensive. He somehow convinced the Prince George's County Police to enIorce his plan to prevent Ians Irom using
public streets to walk to the stadium Irom Landover Mall, where parking is Iree.
In a press release about the pedestrian ban, Redskins President Steve Baldacci said the move had been made strictly
Ior saIety reasons and directed Ians to park instead at USAirways Arena and utilize the "saIe, Iree shuttle buses" to
get to FedEx Field.
Baldacci, however, did not mention anywhere in the release that the team controls the lots at USAirways Arena,
even though the venue is a mile distant Irom FedEx Field. Parking there costs $20meaning Snyder stands to
pocket tens oI thousands more Ian dollars in parking Iees Ior each home game.
Under his ownership, the team now tells Ians how and when to cheer"It's thirrrrd down!" and so Iorth. To judge
by the mood oI the crowd leaving the stadium aIter the Titans game and among sports-radio callers Iollowing
Sunday's loss in Arizona, there'll be no need to cue the booing when the Skins return home against the Giants in
three weeks.
Norv Turner, the only story that mattered in previous Redskins seasons, can't compete with Snyder Ior ink. But
Turner, it should be noted, has been his dependably unsatisIactory selI thus Iar.
In Iact, he may not be on the staII by the time you read this. Rumors have the OIIensive Genius soon Ileeing D.C.
on his own just to escape the OIIensive Owner, who allegedly tried bullying him into benching quarterback Brad
Johnson Ior higher-priced, higher-proIile JeII George aIter the Iirst Monday Night Football debacle against Dallas.
It's doubtIul there's a huge market Ior a guy with a 48-57-1 liIetime record as a head coach. The Iact that he's
currently leading the most expensive team in the history oI team sports to a 6-4 record shouldn't make him any
more attractive to owners around the league.
So, iI there is a god, the bye week should be Turner's bye-bye week. Against Arizona, the Skins showed that they
still have the worst two-minute drill in the league. OIIsides, procedure calls, and poorly run pass routes appear at an
epidemic rate whenever the game is on the line. It's been that way since the day Turner took over, in 1994.
The most Irustrating thing Ior Ians is Turner's tolerance oI mediocrity. In Tempe, special-teams coach LeCharles
McDaniel yet again provided plenty oI evidence why both he and Turner should be unemployed: a bad snap on an
extra point, two missed Iield goals, consistently horrible kickoII coverage, ungainly punt returns, blah blah blah.
"We didn't play at a level we need to in terms oI winning the game," Turner said aIter the Arizona loss. Great point,
coach.
Though the season ain't over, it's surely not too early to label Deion Sanders a bust oI historic proportions. Sanders,
an ancient 33 years old, deserves kudos Ior suckering Snyder into paying $56 million to bring his degenerating bag
oI bones here Irom Dallas. "The Way We Were" should be the soundtrack to his 2000 highlights package.
Only the quarterback pressure applied by the Skins deIensive line all year has saved Sanders Irom being Iully
exposed as washed-up as a cornerback. He's tried to make up Ior his physical shortcomings by cheating, but the reIs
no longer let him get away with it. A holding call on Sanders with about three minutes leIt, one oI many Ilags
thrown his way this season, kept the Cardinals' last drive alive.
AIter the Arizona game, the Skins radio network broadcast an advertisement Sanders had taped Ior the American
Service Center, a local Mercedes dealership, in which Past-His-Prime Time talks about the beauty oI returning
kicks Ior touchdowns. The blowhard hasn't brought it to the house all year: he's averaging just 7.3 yards per punt
return, not even good enough to crack the top-20 list among returners.
Sanders had two shots to live up to his selI-billing in the closing minutes against the Cardinals, but he got pancaked
on consecutive punt returns Ior no gain.
Now Ior Brian Mitchell's 2000 stats: Mitchell, who was let go by the Skins to make room Ior Sanders, is averaging
11 yards per punt return Ior the Eagles and has scored on a 72-yard punt return and a 91-yard kickoII return. He's
also averaging 8 yards per carry as a running back Ior his new overachieving team.
Mitchell's salary, according to the NFL Players Association, is $450,000. That's less than 1 percent oI the pact
Sanders got Irom Snyder.Dave McKenna
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Release Date: 05/01/2001

Frostburg State University has chosen to place the $750,000 paid
in settlement from the Washington Redskins in a new endowment
to be named the Cooke Memorial Fund in honor of the late Jack
Kent Cooke, former owner of the NFL team.
Cooke moved the Redskins' summer training camp from Dickinson
College in Carlisle, Pa., to Frostburg in 1995.
"The positive memories of Mr. Cooke remain vivid in our minds as
we think about the negotiation of a 10-year contract between the
Redskins and Frostburg State University. It seems appropriate to
name the fund in his honor," said Dr. Catherine R. Gira, FSU
president. Gira sent a letter to Cooke's son, John, informing him
of the University's decision.
Training camp was moved from FSU to Redskins Park in Ashburn,
Va., following the 1999 season, in the year following Daniel
Snyder's purchase of the team. Five years remained on FSU's
contract. The team will return to Carlisle for this summer's camp.
The Maryland General Assembly cleared the way in its last session
for the money to be placed in a private foundation. No decision
has been made on how the interest from the endowment will be
used. FSU received the payment April 26.

For further information on this release, contact:
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Frostburg, MD 21532-2303

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FROSTBURG -- Like a jilted lover who dries her tears and plants a determined smile on her face, this feisty Western Maryland
town and its university threw a party yesterday to tell the world they're going to be just fine, thank you very much, without the
Redskins.
Furious at the way the team's new owner moved the 'Skins summer training camp to Virginia without so much as saying thanks
and goodbye, Frostburg State University officials held a picnic just as they did for the Redskins for each of the five years they
practiced on campus. They deliberately timed their "Jack Kent Cooke-out" - named in honor of the late former owner who
brought the camp here in 1995 - for the first weekend of the team's new camp in Loudoun County.
"We wanted people to know Western Maryland is a place of true grit," declared Catherine R. Gira, the university president, to a
lively crowd of 200 gathered on the sunny campus. "We don't sit around licking our wounds."

And then the crowd tucked into some of the food named on a tongue-in-cheek menu: "(S)cornbread and Butter," "Fan-friendly
Fruit Salad (No sour grapes)," and "Iced Tea (Not bitter. Really, it's not!)"
The folks working the barbecue pit wore aprons that read "Hail to the Redskins," but "Redskins" was crossed out and
"Bobcats," the Frostburg State mascot nickname, was substituted. Among the winners when the aprons were raffled off was
Maryland House Speaker Casper R. Taylor Jr., the Democratic delegate from neighboring Cumberland who helped engineer
the deal that brought the Redskins' camp from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., to Frostburg five years ago.
A state study last year estimated that the Redskins' month-long presence brought $2.9 million to the Western Maryland town,
as fans flocked to Main Street restaurants and bars after catching an up-close practice or scrimmage. But Taylor said the
Redskins' presence brought much more than money to a place that is working to overcome a rust belt history of closed
manufacturing plants.
"I think it was symbolically very important," Taylor said. "It did wonders for the community's morale."
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After word leaked last year that Redskins owner Daniel Snyder was considering breaking the team's 10-year contract with
Frostburg State and moving to Northern Virginia, local officials pleaded with Snyder to reconsider. Gira, a Shakespeare scholar,
sent Snyder a videotape of highlights of the camps and a letter proposing a gala return in 2000 to rival the train ride and Main
Street parade that had welcomed the team in 1995.
The reply? "Silence," she said.
On Valentine's Day, Frostburg Mayor John Bambacus, who had welcomed the team's arrival as "the most significant thing to
occur in Frostburg in 100 years," sent the owner a box of chocolates to symbolize the community's romance with the 'Skins. He
didn't even get a thank-you note.
Taylor, too, tried to get an audience. "I got nowhere," he said.
Finally, just 12 hours before the Redskins called a news conference in late May to announce their move to the Loudoun County
complex, Gira got a two-sentence letter from a team lawyer saying that the relationship was over. Now the state attorney
general's office is negotiating a settlement in which the franchise is expected to pay to get out of the final five years of its
$331,000-a-year contract with Frostburg State.

Officials say the university, which expects the largest freshman class ever to enroll this fall, will not suffer much from the
economic impact. New basketball and dance camps are making up some of the slack. But in the competitive world of higher
education, it will be hard to match the publicity value of the daily television coverage Washington and Baltimore stations gave
the 'Skins camp.
"Every night it was live from Frostburg," said Gary Horowitz, vice president for university advancement.
In town, business owners were keeping their upper lips stiff, although they noted that the summer training camp was a nice
boost for the summer weeks when most of the university's 5,000 students are not around.
"We had the `Hog Dog' and the `TD Burger' and we had the whole place decked out in burgundy and gold," recalled George
Pappas, 49, whose family has operated the Princess Restaurant on Main Street for 61 years. Now that Snyder has snatched
away the team, he says, "I'm thinking of coming up with a weasel stew."
Pappas rolled his eyes at the news that fans must pay $10 to park and $10 more to get in to the Loudoun County practice
sessions. At Frostburg, parking was never more than $3 and admission was free.
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The Hampton Inn on the outskirts of town, which last year at this time might have had half the rooms occupied by Redskins
fans and press, was full last night even without the team. Sandy Andrews, 56, the executive housekeeper, said the place
doesn't lack for business but misses the fun.
"I got my picture taken with one of the old Redskins, Charlie Mann," she said. "I gave it to my son, who's a huge Redskins fan.
If they came here this year, he was going to ask Charlie out to a hog roast at his house. It's kind of sad they're not coming."
But Kirk R. Wilson, the mayor of Carlisle, has some advice from the central Pennsylvania town the Redskins left after 32
seasons to come to Frostburg.

"The withdrawal you go through this summer will quickly wane," he said. "There's life after the Redskins."
As if to suggest as much, Frostburg residents are abuzz about the visit this month of Ravens President David Modell, who
toured Frostburg State's facilities and fields with two staff members.
Taylor, who led the tour, said the team will not break its contract to hold its training camp at Western Maryland College in
Westminster, which runs for two more years, but is considering several alternative locations after that. And Frostburg, with its
cooler mountain setting, the dorms where air conditioning was installed for the Redskins, and its mostly idle practice fields,
would welcome a team.
"I think they were very impressed," Taylor said of Modell and his two assistants.
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coordinator with Baltimore, his last year with the team prior to accepting a head coaching position with the 49ers.
Well, Nolan shared a story Irom his days with the Redskins. Apparently he and owner Daniel Snyder did not get
along.
Early that season, aIter a Redskins loss, Snyder told Nolan that his deIensive calls were 'too vanilla.
Like the other coaches, Nolan had Iigured out by then that trying to explain Iootball to Snyder was
pointless, since he already had the game Iigured out. A Iew days later a gallon oI 31 Flavors ice cream
showed up on Nolan`s desk with a note that said, 'This is what I like. Not vanilla.
Nolan laughed and sent Snyder a note: 'Thanks Ior the ice cream. My kids enjoyed it.
'The Iirst time it was actually kind oI Iunny, Nolan said. 'I didn`t mind it at all.
The next time wasn`t as Iunny.
The Redskins lost on the road to Dallas, and Nolan went into his oIIice late Sunday night to start
looking at game tape. When he arrived, there were three giant canisters oI melting 31 Flavors ice cream
on his desk with another note: 'I wasn`t joking. I do QRW like vanilla.
Feinstein had the story conIirmed by other sources around the league. How great is that one? Leave it to Snyder to
take a Iun Iigure oI speech and turn it into literal meaning. II anyone wants to Iind out why the Redskins suck so
much, you don`t have to look any Iurther than the top. Now, whenever the Niners and Redskins meet, you know
whose side to wager on.
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Count on Snyder to make Oliver Platt's version oI George Steinbrenner seem mild.
when they Iinally met, the redskins beat them 52-7

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up hIs pIuvers und hIs Leum's chunces.
So where dId he Ieurn Lo be so posILIve?
n Lhe nuLIon's cupILuI, whIIe coordInuLIng Lhe RedskIns deIense In Lhe IuLe 1os.
NoIun cume Lo WushIngLon uILer spendIng LIme us Lhe New York GIunLs' deIensIve coordInuLor under Dun
Reeves.

Even Lhough Reeves und hIs sLuII were IIred uILer
Lhe 16 seuson, NoIun wus dubbed "Bov Wonder" bv Lhe New York medIu becuuse, uL uge ;, he uppeured
desLIned Lo be u heud couch. He jusL needed more experIence.
He wus hIred bv Lhen-RedskIns heud couch Norv Turner us deIensIve coordInuLor In 1;. WushIngLon wus
comIng oII u wInnIng seuson, und bousLed oI deIense sLurs such us cornerbucks ChrIs DIshmun und DurreII
Green und hud sIgned deIensIve LuckIes Dunu SLubbIeIIeId und Dun WIIkInson.
BuL In Lhree LumuILuous seusons, NoIun wenL Irom "Bov Wonder" Lo "WhIppIng Bov" Ior Lhe
underuchIevIng Leum. He wus IIred uILer Lhe 1 seuson.
He now cuIIs IL hIs mosL vuIued couchIng experIence, und IInebucker Derek SmILh, who pIuved Ior
WushIngLon uL Lhe LIme, udmIred NoIun's sLrengLh In IucIng Lhe Leum's LroubIes.
n 18, NoIun's second seuson, WushIngLon IosL ILs IIrsL seven gumes, und NoIun begun cuIIIng ouL pIuvers
In Lhe IIIm room.
I u pIuver wus IouIIng on u pIuv, NoIun wouId poInL hIm ouL und usk, "s LhuL (vour besL) eIIorL?" TvpIcuIIv
Lhe pIuver wouId suv no, und soon NoIun hud Lhe deIense IIvIng Lo Lhe buII.
"ThuL's whuL udmIred ubouL hIm mosL," SmILh suId. "He wusn'L uIruId Lo cuII unvone ouL."
The deIense showed ImprovemenL bv Lhe end oI Lhe ' seuson, when Lhe Leum IInIshed 1o-6 und won u
pIuvoII gume.
BuL NoIun IuIIed Lo convInce owner Dun Snvder, who hud un unusuuI wuv oI communIcuLIng. Snvder LoId
Lhe medIu LhuL NoIun's deIenses were "vunIIIu," und even deIIvered meILIng Ice creum Lo NoIun's oIIIce Lo
emphusIze Lhe poInL. BuL NoIun dIscovered LhuL Snvder wus Iur Irom u good humored mun.
"L huppened LwIce," NoIun suId oI Lhe Ice creum deIIverIes. The IIrsL LIme, rupIdIv deIrosLIng guIIons oI
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" wroLe hIm u noLe, suvIng LhuL mv kIds wouId enjov Lhe Ice creum und LhuL Lhe udvIce wus weII Luken,"
NoIun suId. "( wus) LhInkIng he wus kIddIng. Then Iound ouL he wusn'L kIddIng."
When NoIun sLuved conservuLIve wILh hIs deIenses, Snvder wenL IndusLrIuI. NoIun showed up one duv Lo
IInd u hund curL purked uL hIs desk wILh meILIng =-guIIon drums oI Ice creum.
WILh Lhe owner budgerIng hIm und Lhe deIense sLruggIIng, NoIun wus puInLed us Lhe mun who wus keepIng
WushIngLon's beIoved RedskIns Irom wInnIng bIg.

" IeIL u IoL oI LImes Lhev were droppIng IL uII on
me," NoIun suId. "L Lukes u IoL oI peopIe Lo conLrIbuLe when u Leum Is goIng good; IL Lukes u IoL oI peopIe
when IL goes (poorIv)."
NoIun hud one response: BrIng IL on. He never ducked Lhe medIu und wus quesLIoned so oILen he hud Lo
conducL news conIerences.
"So munv guvs wunL Lo puss Lhe buck und suv, 'L's noL mv IuuIL, IL's vours,' when Lhe reuIILv Is, 'GIve IL Lo
me,' " NoIun suId. "ThuL's whuL vou goL Lo do. Then IL reuIIv energIzes vou."
BuL IucIng Lhe IuII brunL oI Lhe crILIcIsm dIdn'L heIp hIm. AILer hIs IIrIng, he rebuIIL hIs repuLuLIon bv
servIng us deIensIve coordInuLor Ior Lhe New York JeLs In zooo, Lhen heIped reLooI Lhe BuILImore Ruvens'
deIense uILer u suIurv-cup purge IeIL Lhe Ruvens us Lhe voungesL Leum In Lhe Ieugue.
He wus BuILImore's wIde receIvers couch In zoo1 -- hIs onIv veur us un oIIensIve couch -- Lhen becume Lhe
Ruvens' deIensIve coordInuLor In zooz. Bv deveIopIng pIuvers such us suIeLv Ed Reed und IInebucker
TerreII Suggs, NoIun uLLrucLed Lhe uLLenLIon oI Lhe qers when Lhev wenL heud-couch shoppIng uILer IusL
veur's z-1q seuson.
Now, wILh u 1-q record und wILh Lhe worsL deIense und second worsL oIIense In Lhe Ieugue, NoIun Is uguIn
IucIng doubLers. NoIun's response hus been Lo be posILIve no muLLer how bud IL geLs.
"RIghL now, don'L wunL Lo suv IL's pIuvers, suv IL's InjurIes, becuuse, IIrsL oI uII, don'L beIIeve IL," NoIun
suId. PoInLIng Lo Lhe qers' Iocker room, he udded, "And II suId IL, how wouId LhuL sound Lo Lhe guv In
Lhere LhuL 'm LuIkIng ubouL? '(The heud couch) Is ouL Lhere suvIng suck becuuse 'm u buckup?' You don'L
do LhuL."
NoIun Is sLIII dIscoverIng whuL hIs pIuvers cun oIIer. He now uses Lhe exumpIe oI cornerbuck Bruce
ThornLon, who joIned Lhe qers' prucLIce squud uILer geLLIng wuIved bv Lhe Cowbovs IoIIowIng LheIr
seuson-openIng gume. or Lhe CoILs gume, ThornLon wus promoLed Lo sLurLer becuuse oI InjurIes, und he
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IImILed AII-Pro wIde receIver MurvIn HurrIson Lo Lwo cuLches Ior 1; vurds.
So NoIun wIII remuIn posILIve und see whuL Lhe comIng weeks brIng. n Lhe meunLIme, he hus noLhIng bud
Lo suv ubouL Lhe RedskIns or Snvder. n IucL, he seems LhunkIuI Lo Snvder.
"L wus hurd, buL IookIng buck on IL, IL wus Lhe besL," NoIun suId. " Ieurned Lo scheme Irom IL. He wus rIghL.
probubIv wus Loo vunIIIu."
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"Oh my gosh, how awesome!"
Rachel Zagaroli said, when I told
her that one of her best bingo
callers was now working as an
NFL consultant in Washington.
"I'm gonna have to send him a
note and say, 'What is going on?'
He never said anything to me at
all."
Zagaroli is the senior services
manager for the city of Novi, and
thus responsible for the Novi
Senior Center, where Sherman
Lewis was a prized volunteer
before he left retirement to join the
Redskins this week. When she
went back and glanced at his
application Thursday morning,
she discovered that it indeed said
he had experience coaching
football at three levels: high school, college and the NFL. But she never
knew this, never heard him talk about football, and never saw Lewis
carry himself like a guy with multiple Super Bowl rings.
"He has never ever said this; he's never talked about this, and I've talked
to him many times," she said. "This is the weirdest thing. He'll be hard to
replace. We will miss him, a lot, and the people will miss him, not only
the bingo people but the people he delivers meals to. Sometimes that's
the only person that they see during the day, and that can make a huge
difference in someone's life. And I think that's what Sherman does, he
makes a huge difference in people's lives."
(It turns out that Lewis was also a frequent volunteer for the City of Novi's
youth football camps and clinics and flag football programs, so he wasn't
hiding his football knowledge from his community.)
If the Novi seniors didn't know about Lewis's football life, his new bosses
in Washington didn't seem to know about his bingo life. Vinny Cerrato
was asked in a Tuesday conference call what Lewis has been doing
since he retired, and whether he's been active in football.
"Uh, ah, I don't, professionally, I know he hasn't been," Cerrato said. "His
son is the defensive coordinator at Eastern Michigan."
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A few reporters have made light of the bingo thing, which is to be
expected, but I can tell you from personal experience that you need to
have a certain gravity to pull that off. I once wrote a 4,000-word story
about bingo; serious players are fanatical, and they know when the caller
isn't keeping up his end of the bargain.
"When you're calling bingo, it's a leadership thing, it sure is," Zagaroli
agreed. "You're in total control. It sounds silly, but when you have your
bingo players here, oh my God, there's nothing else in life happening at
that time but bingo."
Lewis called games a couple times a month in Novi--coming in when he
wasn't scheduled if the center was in a pinch, helping to set up the
games, and most importantly, establishing a relationship of trust and
friendship with the seniors. He worked in front of a crowd of 40 or 50
players, and despite what Zagaroli described as a "gentle" calling voice,
he did it to perfection.
"He's one of our best bingo callers--he gets along with the people so
well, and he seems to love it, because he comes here all the time," she
said. "I'll tell you, if I have someone calling in there who they don't like,
they'll say, "We don't like this person.' They'll come right out and say it.
And they have never said that for Sherman."
The center only just found out that Lewis was leaving, so they haven't yet
found his replacement. It's one of the hardest jobs to fill, since it requires
such command, and since most people would rather play than call. I
suggested they try to find another ex-NFL coach, and Zagaroli joked that
this time, they would make a big deal about it.
"Just make sure it's known that he's an absolutely awesome guy, and
that he will be missed," she said. "I'm so excited for him. We're going to
be talking about this for a long time."
By Dan Steinberg | October 8, 2009; 10:31 AM ET
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Maybe Vinny can fill in, right after his radio show.
Posted by: disgruntledfan | October 8, 2009 11:15 AM | Report abuse
"We're going to be talking about this for a long time."

Well....maybe.
Posted by: freakzilla | October 8, 2009 11:31 AM | Report abuse
He worked at a Bingo thingamajig and didn't tell anyone that he was a former NFL
offensive coordinator for 3 teams and won multiple super bowls? This whole
episode seems to show that Lewis has absolutely no ego. Might be just what this
team needs (though just for the record, I don't think we need much. I like the team,
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coaches, execs, and owner that we currently have).
Posted by: Barno1 | October 8, 2009 12:11 PM | Report abuse
I used to play BINGO in NOVA at various fire houses, VFW's, etc.
It's seriously cut-throat. AND, nothing beats a good caller.
Much respect to SL, if he's got the voice.
Posted by: Bebunk | October 8, 2009 12:44 PM | Report abuse
"...He'll be hard to replace..."
Seriously, lady? You could have stopped after "We'll really miss him."
I know several people (many under the age of 10) who could call out a combination
of 5 letters and up to 40 numbers.
Posted by: nojunk4me | October 8, 2009 1:01 PM | Report abuse
disgruntledfan posted:
"Maybe Vinny can fill in, right after his radio show."
_______________________________
FRIGGIN PRICELESS!!! LMAO FOR SURE
Posted by: BenThere | October 8, 2009 3:27 PM | Report abuse
He seems like a great guy and all (not like "Kiss my rings" Cerrato), but, really?
We called a guy out of retirement calling BINGO and delivering meals on wheels to
try to salvage the season/future of a billion dollar sports franchise? This is the guy
who's going to take over as OC if (when?) Zorn gets axed? B19?
Interesting.
Posted by: grimesman | October 8, 2009 3:52 PM | Report abuse
Don't you worry Ms. Zagaroli, you'll have Lewis back in 13 weeks. Shanahan won't
be needing an offensive consultant ;)
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Arrival Has Zorn Cornered
By Mike Wise
Thursday, October 8, 2009
To hear the homespun version, Sherman Lewis was
plucked Irom the retired liIe oI a bingo caller at a senior
citizen's home in Detroit on Tuesday -- the land oI "N-
35" and "B-17" -- to come help Jim Zorn with O-27.
The Redskins have the 27th-ranked scoring oIIense in
the NFL. Daniel Snyder's temper is percolating. Because
the owner's diamond-in-the-rough choice as coach 21
months ago has not been able to suIIiciently polish
quarterback Jason Campbell, his general manager
decided to go on a Jurassic dig.
Sherm Lewis has not held an NFL job Ior almost Iive
years. He is 67. But he has more Super Bowl rings than
Joe Gibbs and knows more about an oIIense dubbed the
West Coast than Mississippi's own Campbell knows
about the GulI Coast.
Outside Ashburn, the hiring oI Lewis as an oIIensive
consultant is viewed as the beginning oI the end Ior
Zorn: consultants are hired all the time by multinational
conglomerates seeking "another set oI eyes."
By this logic, Zorn and oIIensive coordinator Sherman Smith, one oI the coach's Iew personal
hires aIter the team chaplain, look mighty expendable. In case you don't know Smith well,
he's the guy the owner and general manager avoid like swine Ilu -- a sure sign oI where they
believe Zorn's talents lie as a talent evaluator.
He's also the guy who was candid enough to
sound like he was not ducky about the new
hire when he spoke with reporters
Wednesday.
"I don't think he's going to tell us something
we don't already know," Smith said, later
adding: "We Ieel we have a handle on the
scheme. Z-man has been in the scheme, he
knows the scheme, we Ieel the scheme is
good. I don't think he's going to come in and
say, 'You need to run this route two yards
deeper,' or you need to do this or that. We
don't think that's the issue. Our players, we all
agree: We just have to do it better, not do
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anything diIIerent."
That doesn't sound like an open-minded coach: it sounds like one guy named Sherman who
had another guy named Sherman Iorced on him.
A conspiracy theorist might connect the dots and the timeline, which appeared Iuzzy on
Wednesday, like this: Lewis spends time with an old Iriend, Greg Blache, the Redskins'
deIensive coordinator whom he worked with Ior two years in Green Bay, beIore the Detroit-
Washington game at the team hotel. Blache is a motivator oI great renown, thought oI highly
by Snyder. II things go abysmally south the next three weeks, Blache is asked to take bullets
as the interim head coach until season's end. At the least, Blache has got a guy he knows with
a little play-calling experience to have his back in the event Zorn and Smith can't put Humpty
Dumpty back together again by the bye week.
By then, Lewis has almost a month under his belt oI learning personnel, plays and players.
Insular Ashburn says that's cynical thinking, jaded even. They say Lewis has worked with
Brett Favre, Steve Young, Joe Montana, Bill Walsh and Mike Holmgren -- so why not
Campbell and Zorn? Since Zorn is basically a young Jedi learning the ways oI the Force, to
the point oI his light saber needing new D batteries in the red zone, why not bring in Yoda Ior
reinIorcement?
Whom do I believe? Charley Casserly, the Iormer general manager oI the team, is normally a
close-to-the-vest man in his new liIe as a Iootball analyst on television. In his Iirst thoughts
aIter the hire, he called the addition oI Lewis the "kiss oI death" Ior Zorn.

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Arrival Has Zorn Cornered
II Charley Casserly says it, that's enough Ior me. (Full
disclosure: I host a radio show Ior a station that
competes with Snyder's sports-talk station.)
Look, both theories have merit. The bottom line: This is
a Snyder chess move. He can go either way.
II Zorn wins eight or nine oI his last 12 games with
Lewis's Iresh eyes, the brain trust can be viewed as
giving the still-green Z-man the help he needed to thrive
and become the Iranchise's bona Iide coach Ior the long
term.
II this team Ialls oII the map in three weeks and the coach is let go, the owner just bought
insurance to salvage the season. In gambling and the NFL, this is called hedging your bet.
And that's my main problem with the move. To players, the Ians and Zorn himselI, it shows
little Iaith in the man Snyder and Vinny Cerrato, the club's executive vice president oI
Iootball operations, believed wholeheartedly could pick up where Gibbs leIt oII.
Did you know Zorn is a Carolina victory away on Sunday Irom being the winningest coach,
by percentage, in Snyder's 10-year tenure as owner? He's at 10-10 aIter 20 games, his .500
percentage is tied with Marty Schottenheimer, better than Joe Gibbs II (.469), Norv Turner
(.450), Steve Spurrier (.375) and Terry Robiskie (.333).
Somewhere between the guy who bluIIed
Andy Reid and Wade Phillips out oI their
headsets almost exactly a year ago and the
deer-in-the-headlights guy everybody is
trying to portray Zorn as today is probably a
better-than-decent coach. When his roster
was healthy, did he need help a year ago at 3-
1?
For what it's worth, Wednesday in Ashburn
did not Ieel like help had arrived. Zorn and
Lewis weren't brought out to speak with
members oI the media jointly, to talk about
how they were going to work together. First,
the coach talked. Then his new consultant got
beIore the cameras, smiled, had a Iew nice
quips about coming out oI retirement and went back to scouring the halls and reporting his
Iindings to his superiors -- and don't think Ior one minute that Lewis doesn't represent another
direct pipeline to the owner.
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Fairly or not, Lewis Ieels like the cleaner. He's Harvey Keitel in "Pulp Fiction" and "Point oI
No Return," the guy who destroys or removes any incriminating evidence at the scene oI the
crime. II needed, that includes the bumbling perpetrators.
To avoid looking in the mirror, Snyder and Cerrato bring in a damage-control guy to ensure
the Zorn experiment does not become a reIerendum on their own talent-evaluation skills. But
I've got news Ior them:
Lewis is not going to save the head coach's job. Cerrato is not going to save Zorn's job: it's
too late, the roster is set.
Only Zorn's players can keep him here. And iI they can't do it -- iI this ultimately isn't about
Zorn's motivational qualities or his suspect play-calling -- what does that say about the people
who put the team together?
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