Affidavit Exhibits 101-150 in 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 101150 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.

Exhibit 101
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Spent a long night working on a story for Sunday's paper, and have
interesting stuff to blog about tomorrow - someone remind me, please, by
posting a comment saying "Andyman" - but wanted to get this up tonight.
I had a copy of this article emailed to me from the American Enterprise
Institute For Public Policy Research. The resident scholar there, Kevin A.
Hassett, took an economist's eye to the NFL, and wrote an article
comparing the Redskins and the Patriots.
Here is the full link:
http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all,pubID.25173/pub_detail.asp
And here are some excerpts from the article to get you going
"It is nearly impossible to derive surplus from the veteran free-agent
market, since you are paying market wages. While injuries and
emergencies might require some veteran signing, the draft is the only
place to build a winning team.
So economics would predict that teams would uniformly put an enormous
effort into perfecting their drafts, and avoid sinking excessive dollars into
costly free agents. In fact, this model predicts very well the behavior of
one team, the New England Patriots. Their head coach, Bill Belichick,
who received his undergraduate degree in economics from Wesleyan
University in Connecticut, has been an artist at squeezing value-added
out of his draft picks, and has won three of the last five Super Bowls."
Later, he compared the Pats' approach to the Skins. He doesn't pull any
punches:
"Belichick keeps winning because so many others in the league behave
so strangely. Two economists, Cade Massey of Yale and Richard Thaler
of the University of Chicago, studied years of draft history and found that
teams make systematic errors that reflect a serious economic illiteracy.
Coaches and general managers place too high a value on the top few
picks, and too low a value on picks a bit further down.
The Washington Redskins are perhaps the leading exemplar of this
tendency toward irrationality. Last spring, for example, the Redskins
gave up key draft picks for high-priced veteran players. An especially silly
trade gave the Jets three Redskins' picks: in the second and sixth rounds
this year and in the second round next year. The trade left the Redskins
with only one pick in the first three rounds this year.
To compound this error, the Redskins filled their roster with mediocre,
high-priced veterans, dropping $35 million on safety Adam Archuleta,
$32.5 million on defensive lineman Andre Carter, $31 million on wide
receiver Antwaan Randle El, and $25 million on wide receiver Brandon
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The problem for economics is that teams like the Redskins continue to
exist, and are not driven out by competitive forces. They confound our
ability to model for two reasons. First, it is impossible to conceive of what
foolish thing the Redskins might do next. Second, their behavior can alter
the decision framework for the fully rational teams. If the Redskins are
going to bid up the prices of all wide receivers, for example, then a team
like the Patriots has to adjust (as they did) and load up on cheaper pass-
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The Redskins are not driven out of business because there is a high
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wisely run team cannot enter Washington and compete for Redskins
fans."
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season? Marcus's fumble recovery Sunday doesn't really count, does it?
Someone refresh my memory ... Caught some gossip show on VH1
while flipping channels and they were asking a "celebrity" - in this case
the woman who "won" Flavor of Love - about 'ol Kid Bro Sweets. Guess
there were some rumors out there that this female - Delisious (I think
that's how she spells it) - left Flavor Flav for CP. When grilled about
Portis, she said: "I don't know that man from a can of paint." Is that a real
expression, or is this woman particularly gifted at turning a phrase?
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This sounds scary - but how did it work for George Allen? What are the differences
between now and then, in practice?
There was no true free agency then, no salary cap either, but he traded all kinds of
picks for guys like Dave Butz (no Pro Bowls), John Riggins (no Pro Bowls then, I
believe), Calvin Hill (past his prime, but still good), Billy Kilmer, etc. I know I'm not
listing a host of other guys. His whole belief was in getting proven vets.
I'd like to see IF that can be measured against this era.
I still believe the Skins can make this work, but I'd rather see them build through the
draft for some consistency among the players, et al.
Posted by: BulletsFan | November 22, 2006 1:46 AM | Report abuse
Jesus Christ. We've got nerds debating why we suck now. Even worse than that,
we've got ECON nerds debating it!
I don't know how this franchise can sink lower than this. Can we just go back to
reliving the good ol' days with "Theatre Vision" Jacoby and the "Grimm Reaper"?
I'm never one to look to the past, but, honestly, this franchise's best days are back
when I was 18, discovering girls, learning about tequila, discovering girls, failing out
of class, and discovering girls.
I'm so close to being done with this, I can't even explain it.
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Wonkette. It is easily the biggest disappointment of my life to now.
Posted by: P Diddy | November 22, 2006 3:22 AM | Report abuse
JLC
Ouch! Now we have economists saying how bad we stink. This is unbelievable!!!
What really stinks is that Joe Gibbs and his staff,who work their guts out and are
super smart,to give their overpaying fans the worst underachieving product the NFL
has to offer.. Wait a minute, Arizona and the Raiders are in competition.. I won't
insult those franchises....
You would think that Danny, who is a smart business man, would look at his
business model and see that is has not worked since he purchased the franchise.
Why not bring in a REAL GM, Lord knows he can afford it...
Did you see that presser Joe had on Monday?? My God the man has no clue
what's going on!@#$%! I know where he wants to go and where he wants to be,
BUT HE HAS NO CLUE HOW TO GET THERE!!!! He looks lost, confused, and has
no clue how to get himself out of here. If he can not see that are defense flat out
quit last week, he has lost ever ounce of respect from the fans and his competition.
He has no clue as to what he is anymore. One thing he is not...... HEAD COACH!
@#$%! His personnel decisions have cost this franchise at least 3 to 4 years of
what should amount to super competition with Arizona and the Raiders for the top
pick in the draft, unless he trades those picks as well as a few number two's. Joe,
Danny, and Vinny have become the leagues B-tches!
Joe give up the GM gig and reduce the number of chiefs in your tee pee and go
back to what got you into the Hall of Fame... COACHING!!
If you need advice on what to do to succeed in TODAY'S NFL look at what the
successful franchises are now doing. Take a look at what Denver has done with
your former draft picks, take a look at what the NY Jets are doing with your former
draft picks, take a look at how the Steelers and Patriots have worked their deals.....
You might learn something SUPER SMART!!!
Oh, this might not sell jerseys......
Posted by: 229 | November 22, 2006 6:16 AM | Report abuse
Andyman -- Can you say a Redskin plan on ES to make the lemmings happy?
Posted by: DB | November 22, 2006 7:13 AM | Report abuse
Gibbs is team President, I believe Cerrato is player personnel. Which basically
means, Danny's lap dog/racquetball buddy/espn analyst needs to be fired.
Just look at how badly he and Snyder botched the 2000 draft and the restricted free
agent episode of 2003. But as he told the fans bad in 2002 "Don't worry, we have a
plan."
Posted by: Hire a GM | November 22, 2006 7:18 AM | Report abuse
OK that just made me sick. I am with P nerds clowning us now. Damn that is really
bad. This off season no high price FA. Coach Joe needs to b**ch slap double g and
tell him to put Rock in and throw his ego and system out the window.
Posted by: jm220 | November 22, 2006 7:49 AM | Report abuse

Macro and Micro
Econ meets Skins long term "plan"
Pay big but play small.

(5,000 geek words in 17 syllables! H-man is BACK!!!!)
:)
Posted by: HaikuMan | November 22, 2006 7:58 AM | Report abuse
http://www.mharrisdev.com/playoff_odds/week11.html

Check out the link. For those of you pessimists out there, this shows Gibbs "loyalty
problem" has subsided at least somewhat: He is playing JC now despite....wait for
it...a 0.05% chance of making the playoffs.
And here you negative-nellys kept complaining that Gibbs wouldn't make the switch
until the Skins were commmmpletely out of it....
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Dan Snyder`s Iree-agent acquisitions in his early years seemed to show a Iondness Ior an 'II you can`t beat èm,
buy èm strategy with regard to personnel. That tack didn`t work out real well: Deion, JeII George, the Jets`
oIIense, etc.
Snyder hasn`t abandoned the concept, however. He`s iust taken it oII the Iield. He`s becoming the king oI all
media.
One oI the most novel steps came in August, when the Redskins announced they had acquired ExtremeSkins.com.
That was sort oI the Neon Deion oI Ian Web sites, the most popular and brashest such outlet in the burgundy-and-
gold universe. ExtremeSkins.com is the Iirst existing Ian site ever acquired by an NFL team.
Unique or not, the move was absolutely consistent with Snyder`s behavior since acquiring the Skins. The team`s
media manipulation started shortly aIter Snyder bought the team. He acquired established publications, including
the Redskins Journal, a Manassas-based independent Ianzine that predated the Internet.
He began producing a series oI television shows, most oI which involved putting area TV and radio sportscasters,
Iolks who are part oI station`s news departments and considered iournalists, on the payroll oI the team they cover
most. (Last month, the team debuted the Snyder-produced Redskins Late Night on WUSA-TV, leaving WJLA-TV
as the only maior-network-aIIiliated station in this market not broadcasting the team`s inIomercials.)
But whereas most oI Snyder`s encroachments into traditional media have been eIIected with next to no IanIare,
some Iolks are taking notice oI the ExtremeSkins.com takeover. Journalists not on the payroll, mainly. The Skins
site has become another weapon the team can use against anybody who publicly questions management`s moves
and is seen as much as an anti-media Iorum as a pro-Skins destination.
In an ExtremeSkins.com chat shortly aIter his acquisition, Snyder slammed the media Ior, among other things,
questioning the big-screen TV at FedEx Field and Ior using anonymous sources in newspaper stories about his
squad. ('I would encourage the local media to Iollow the example oI the national outlets like USA Today which
reIuses to use unidentiIied sources, Snyder posted. 'Most obviously have personal agendas.) When asked what
his biggest challenge has been since taking over the team, Snyder answered, 'The inaccuracies in the media. The
portrayal oI people and the use oI the coaches, the players and the owners to sell their newspapers.
During his own chat on ExtremeSkins.com, Karl Swanson, the team`s senior vice president and top Snyder
spokesperson, directed all visitors to the 'Nunyo Files, which was a running compendium on the site oI alleged
reporting mistakes by Nunyo Demasio, the Washington Post reporter who recently leIt the Skins beat Ior Sports
Illustrated.
A bizarre but widely believed legend among media types at Redskins Park holds that Swanson, Ior some time, has
been railing about the coverage oI the team in various postings to ExtremeSkins.com and other Web sites under the
handle 'andyman. This character has attained hero status among surIers oI ExtremeSkins.com Ior providing dead-
on inIormation about impending transactions, trashing the media all the while. When somebody on the
ExtremeSkins.com praised the work oI Bram Weinstein, the Redskins beat reporter Ior sports station WTEM-AM,
Ior example, andyman came through with 'He has no idea what`s going on at Redskins Park and neither do the
other reporters.
A recent posting on a sports-media Web site, SportsJournalists.com, seemed to out Swanson as a chat-room lurker:
it claimed that the Redskins oIIicial had screwed up by registering at that site while the board was hot Irom a Ilame-
Iilled thread about Demasio`s move to Sports Illustrated. II such a high-ranking team oIIicial, let alone one in
charge oI dealing with the media, were discovered to be a pseudonymous basher, that could stain the entire
organization. Swanson admits that he indeed registered at SportsJournalists.com, but he says he only was trying to
reach the moderator and denied having ever posted there or anywhere else as andyman.
'I know oI andyman, but I do not know who that is. I am not andyman, says Swanson.
Swanson says he thinks the real andyman is 'somebody who works at a copy desk oI a newspaper (which
wouldn`t really explain the character`s apparent anti-media bias).
Some media-bashers aren`t so loath to be outed. The poster who goes by Art is the Wilt Chamberlain oI
ExtremeSkins.comhe now claims more than 21,000 posts to the Skins site alone. Art has positioned himselI as
more oI a media attack dog than a watchdog: he goes aIter any iourno who utters a negative word about Snyder`s
operation with the Iervor oI a scorned Scientologist. Art is the guy responsible Ior the Nunyo Files, and he says
he`d be doing it even iI the Redskins hadn`t acquired the site.
'My name is Art Mills, and everybody there knows that Art` is Art Mills, he says. 'I`ve been attacking bad
iournalism Ior years, beIore the Redskins ever knew my name, and I`ll be attacking bad iournalism Ior years to
come.
Demasio says he gave his enemies Iuel by erroneously reporting that the Redskins were going to cut Ryan Clark
beIore the 2004 season, but he Iinds the continued attacks against him on ExtremeSkins.com rather amusing.
'As a iournalist, every mistake hits like a dagger, Demasio says. 'So I wish I never gave one bit oI ammunition.
But I still can`t Iigure out how |the Nunyo Files were| supposed to smear me, especially aIter the team bought the
site. II anything, it made me realize that the Washington Post got under their skins, no pun intended.
Eric Leichter, a North Dakota urologist and one oI the board`s previous owners, declines to discuss the Iinancial
terms oI the Redskins` takeover oI his board. But Leichter says he supports the site`s tone iust as much now as he
did beIore it Iell under Snyder`s management umbrella. In Iact, he ioined Mills and andyman in crashing Demasio`s
going-away party at SportsJournalists.com. Posting on the site as 'SkinBladehe uses 'Blade while bashing at
ExtremeSkins.comLeichter prodded anybody saying nice things about Demasio to 'stop swinging Irom Nunyo`s
sack.
The Skins have rewarded Mills, who lives in Minnesota, Ior his anti-media venom in a very weird way. Along with
getting paid Ior his contributions to the Redskins Web site, since Snyder`s takeover oI the site, Mills now gets to
watch the team`s games Iromyou guessed itthe press box, and all on the team`s dime. He recounts his
experiences on the site, which leads to such iournalism as the Iollowing, Irom the press box oI Texas Stadium in
Irving, Texas, posted iust aIter the Skins completed their Monday Night Miracle: 'Monday, Sept. 19, Brunell to
MOSS TDNow we`re obnoxious. Mediamembers looking at us. Screw them. YES BABY!!!!!!!! We sprint down
to sidelines now.
Allowing representatives Irom the Ian site, let alone brash media-bashers, to sit alongside working media in the
press box troubles Dave ElIin, the longtime Washington Times reporter who now serves as president oI the Pro
Football Writers Association.
'I wish they were not there, says ElIin. 'They have cheered in the press box, which is against every tenet oI the
press box. There are already disputes over Ian Web sites |being given press credentials| in other markets. But in
those other cases, the sites aren`t owned by the team. Here, the site is owned by the team, so we really have no say
who gets in the press box. It`s up to the team, and they choose to let in Ians disguised as iournalists. It`s a
distressing trend.
Mills, who says he used to be a working newspaperman beIore going into medical-equipment sales, is the opposite
oI apologetic when he hears that some iournalists question the validity oI a paid Ian reporting on games.
'We give Ians an eyes-wide-open, aw-shucks view that they can`t get anywhere else, he says. 'Our presence is
every bit as appropriate as the traditional media.Dave McKenna
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The horrors oI 9/11 had already been used by power brokers around these parts to sell wars and incursions on basic
liberties.
So why not some hats?
On the day`s IiIth anniversary, a Iew hours beIore the Redskins` season opener, ads appeared on Dan Snyder`s new
media plaything, the Triple X ESPN Radio network, imploring Ians to get their special baseball caps Ior Monday
night`s game with Minnesota. These hats would 'commemorate Sept. 11, said the spots, and they could only be
ordered via the Redskins` oIIicial Web site.
On the Iront page oI the team`s site was a picture oI the sacred cap, called a Pentagon Flag Hat, a black hat with the
team`s trademark curly 'R in gold with a patch in the shape oI the Pentagon and the colors oI the American Ilag
sewn on the side.
II the pull oI a 9/11 tribute wasn`t enough, Ians were told in the Web-site copy that the caps are 'expected to be
worn by the Redskins coaches during the Vikings contest. Anybody who wanted to commemorate the deaths oI
3,000 or so with a Skins hat would only have to pay $23.99.
That means the commemorative cap was a tad pricier than the You Can`t Handle the Skins Tee or the We Love Our
Coach Tee, products Ieatured alongside the 9/11 garment in the online catalog, which both go Ior $19.99.
There`s no mention anywhere on the site that even a single penny oI the Flag Hat`s $23.99 would go anywhere but
into Snyder`s pocket.
'Pre-order now! the copy implored.
Snyder`s waved the Ilag beIore. Flyovers oI bombers and iet Iighters are common at FedExField. America Supports
You, a Pentagon public-relations campaign to build aIIection Ior the war machine, is a big advertiser on Snyder`s
radio network. And Peter Pace, chairman oI the Joint ChieIs oI StaII, took time out Irom overseeing this country`s
war successes to be in the owner`s box Ior the Vikings game.
But the hawking oI the Pentagon Flag Hat puts those eIIorts to shame.
Coming Irom anywhere but Redskins Park, this sort oI Iinancial exploitation oI the biggest tragedy in American
history'Pre-order now!would cause iaws to drop. Around here, it`s iust business as usual. The team dropped
the 'commemorate Sept. 11 verbiage Irom its Web site aIter two days, but the hats were still Ior sale.
Welcome to another year oI the Dan Snyder Marketing Plan. The caps are evidence oI the tenacious scheme
responsible Ior putting the Redskins, with a value oI more than $1.4 billion, atop Forbes` recent list oI the most
proIitable Iranchises in sports. None oI the other NFL teams Irom other 9/11 death sitesGiants, Jets, and
Steelersput commemorative products Ior sale during the opening week oI the 2006 season.
Redskins spokesperson Karl Swanson says the commemorative cap was put up Ior sale because the team sold a
similar hat shortly aIter the 9/11 attacks. The sales Iive years ago, Swanson says, were used to 'raise money Ior the
survivors Iund.
II, as the adage says, patriotism is the last reIuge oI a scoundrel, maybe the unveiling oI the diabolical
commemorative Pentagon Flag Hat shows that Snyder is running out oI ways to gouge the populace.
Then again, maybe not. Jim O`Brien, a 30-year Skins season-ticket holder, says he didn`t think he could despise the
current ownership morenot aIter watching his end-zone row get more cramped during Snyder`s incessant
expansions oI the stadium, or Iinding it harder and harder to get in and out oI the stadium with all the corporate
tents blocking more oI the Everyman entrances and exits with each season.
But at the Vikings game, his awe and loathing oI Skins management were renewed during a trip to the stadium`s
concession stand. It all started when he ordered a bag oI peanuts. The 5-ounce bag wasn`t in burgundy and gold but
royal blue and white.
'I see this big logo on the bag Ior Independence Air, says O`Brien. 'And I`m thinking, Aren`t they out oI
business?
He went home and did some Googling and discovered that, yes, indeed, the airline is out oI business: Independence
Air began hinting at bankruptcy in 2005 and Ilew its last Ilight on Jan. 5, 2006. According to the bags Ior sale at
FedExField, the peanuts were packaged Ior the Redskins by a Charlotte, N.C., company called Strategic Presence.
Ed McLamb, who heads the Iirm, says that his company used to provide peanuts Ior Independence Air and Ior the
Redskins, in Independence Air bags.
'We haven`t done that since a little beIore Independence Air went out oI business, though, he says.
The Redskins have had peanut problems beIore. Three seasons ago, the team deviated Irom a tradition as old as
sports when it stopped selling peanuts in shells. At the time, Redskins oIIicials tried to calm angry Ians by saying
the move wasn`t made to reduce the cleanup budget but was meant to prevent Ians with peanut allergies Irom being
aIIected by stray peanut pieces.
O`Brien was among those angered when the shells disappeared, but the `Net searching really leIt him peeved.
'You gotta Iigure they didn`t place a peanut order Ior a couple weeks beIore the company went out oI business, he
says. 'So the Redskins are selling nuts that weren`t even made this year. Unbelievable.
Nut experts say that`s a little long in the tooth Ior salted, roasted legumes. Patrick Archer oI the Peanut Council, an
advocacy group Ior the American peanut industry, says that the recommended shelI liIe oI a Ioil bag oI peanuts is
'about three months.
'Beyond three months, they gradually start losing their Ilavor, Archer says, 'and eventually start turning rancid.
Swanson says the team`s Iood-service business is outsourced to a company called Centerplate Inc. In a prepared
statement issued through the Redskins, Centerplate spokesperson Gael Doar writes that the Independence Air
peanut inventory was purchased in November 2005. Doar adds that the suggested shelI liIe Ior the products was one
year and that the company nevertheless 'believed that we had disposed oI all oI the cases oI peanuts with this
Independence Air logo.
'We regret that this occurred, Doar wrote about the sale oI the long-dead airline`s nuts, 'we are currently
investigating the situation and we are conIident that it won`t happen again.Dave McKenna
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Wow. What a scumbag. He also sued a 73 year old grandmother long-time Redskins Ian because she couldn't make
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orcjects a|Wavs orca|se tc ouao uo |cca| eccnca|es, but as |r|n exo|a|ns, nc
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Wr|tes, thev |unne| acnev aWav |rca serv|ces, schcc|s, rcads and cther aun|c|oa|
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sent 13 oeco|e tc the|r deaths, ncted |r|n, Whc ||ves |n wash|nctcn, D.C. 1hat
saae Wee|, thev Were due tc brea| crcund cn a neW s300 a||||cn stad|ua |cr the
M|nnescta 1W|ns, and |t Was ent|re|v |unded cn the oub||c d|ae, deso|te the |act
that cWner 1|a |ch|ad |s the r|chest cWner |n aajcr-|eacue baseba|| and deso|te
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re|erendua sav|nc that the oeco|e d|dn't Want oub||c |unds cc|nc tc a stad|ua,
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and shcct|nc hccos. GrcW|nc uo |n
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the aa|n reascn Whv i Wrcte th|s
bcc|.
|r|n sa|d he sees acst cWners' bus|ness oract|ces as shcrt-s|chted, W|th d|re
|cnc-tera ccnsecuences. Attendance and v|eWersh|o are bcth dcWn, than|s tc
h|ch t|c|ets or|ces and recu|ar b|ac|cuts c| caaes cn te|ev|s|cn. As neW
cenerat|cns are |ncreas|nc|v a||enated |rca the|r |avcr|te teaas, the bcnds
betWeen ccaaun|t|es and |cca| |ranch|ses W||| Wea|en, and acre and acre
vcunc |ans W||| turn tc d|||erent |cras c| enterta|naent. i'a a b|c be||ever that
socrts |s |||e a haaaer, he sa|d. ?cu can use |t tc bu||d a hcuse cr bash
scaebcdv cver the head.
|r|cr tc h|s aooearance at |c||t|cs |rcse, |xoress soc|e W|th |r|n and cct the
sccco cn the Wcrst cWners, the ccnsecuences |cr cash-straooed c|t|es and What
|ans can dc tc ta|e bac| the|r teaas.
LxRLSS: whv d|d vcu dec|de tc tac||e th|s subject was there a acaent
When vcu just cct |ed uo
zLRLN: sccn a|ter i acved tc wash|nctcn, D.C., |n 1996, 1ac| kent Ccc|, the
cWner c| the keds||ns, d|ed. sccn a|ter that, Dan snvder becaae the cWner c|
the teaa. it's been a sad s|cht tc behc|d the Wav th|s |ncred|b|e bcnd betWeen c|tv
and teaa has been ercded and abused. i never thcucht i Wcu|d see the dav When
oeco|e i |ncW Wcu|d ta|| abcut What |t Wcu|d be |||e tc rcct |cr the kavens. 1hat
|s scaeth|nc that de||n|te|v |nso|red ae tc Wr|te th|s bcc|. whv has the teaa a|| c|
a sudden beccae Dan snvder's teaa |nstead c| wash|nctcn, D.C.'s teaa |eco|e
|n D.C. have been hand|nc th|s teaa dcWn |||e |aa||v he|r|ccas |rca cenerat|cn
tc cenerat|cn. what |s |t abcut cur aenta||tv that ncW savs |t's Dan snvder's
teaa And What |s |t abcut us that a||cWs that state c| a||a|rs tc ta|e o|ace
A|sc, the state c| a||a|rs |n urban Aaer|can has ccne tcta||v havW|re, and ncbcdv
has been he|d acccuntab|e. w|th ur|t|sh |etrc|eua, the |ea| haooened and oeco|e
are cutraced. Or W|th Gc|daan sachs. uut When |t ccaes tc socrts, |t's |||e
there's a cu|ture c| ant|-acccuntab|||tv. whv aren't We |cc||nc at socrts cWners
and as||nc Whv stad|ua |und|nc has beccae a subst|tute |cr anvth|nc reseab||nc
urban oc||cv |n th|s ccuntrv whv aren't We as||nc thea hcW thev have sc abused
the tvo|ca| |an that there's ncW th|s |ncred|b|e a||enat|cn betWeen |ans and teaas
LxRLSS: ?cu Wr|te a |ct abcut hcW |cca|s have been dcub|v h|t ||rst W|th
|ed|x||e|d and then W|th uat|cna|s |ar|. what |s |t |||e tc be a |an |n D.C.
zLRLN: it's a|acst |||e be|nc |n an abus|ve re|at|cnsh|o, Where We |eeo cca|nc
bac| |cr acre cn the exoectat|cn that th|ncs are cc|nc tc be scaehcW d|||erent
the next t|ae. 1hat's just nct the case. |eco|e th|n| that that's an cver-the-tco
ccaoar|scn, but |t's rea||v nct. i ||ve ||ve a|nutes aWav |rca Where the Metrc
Went c|| the trac|s, bv the 1a|caa |ar|-D.C. ||ne. u|ne oeco|e d|ed. ucW We |ncW
that scae c| thcse Metrc tra|ns cc bac| tc the Carter ada|n|strat|cn. 1hat
acc|dent haooened dur|nc the saae ca|endar vear that the neW uat|cna|s |ar|
coens at a ccst c| a||||cns c| dc||ars. 1h|s |s a cuest|cn c| or|cr|t|es, and What
thev're dc|nc |s trad|nc cn cur |cve c| socrts. it's Wrcnc and |t needs tc stco, but
|t's nct cc|nc tc stco unt|| |ans |et the|r vc|ce be heard.
LxRLSS: ?cu descr|be scae jaW-drcoo|nc th|ncs |n th|s bcc| |ed|x ||e|d
se|||nc beer |n the restrccas, C|av uennett acv|nc the scn|cs tc O||ahcaa. D|d
vcu ever cet desens|t|zed tc these crazv dec|s|cns
zLRLN: ucnest|v, nc. when i Was research|nc |t, |t seeaed tc ae |||e cWners
Were un|ncW|nc|v o|av|nc a caae c| Can vcu tco th|s |verv t|ae i Wcu|d read
scaeth|nc and th|n|, Oh, av Gcd, th|s |s bevcnd the oa|e. Dcna|d ster||nc,
cWner c| the C||ooers, just had tc Wr|te a chec| |cr the |arcest rac|a| hcus|nc
d|scr|a|nat|cn su|t |n the h|stcrv c| the un|ted states, and uuA ccaa|ss|cner Dav|d
stern dcesn't sav a daan th|nc, even thcuch h|s |eacue |s acre than 80 oercent
A|r|can-Aaer|can. And ncW he's be|nc sued bv uuA ua|| c| |aaer ||c|n uav|cr
|narcuab|v the createst o|aver tc ccae cut c| wash|nctcn, D.C. |cr rac|a|
d|scr|a|nat|cn, and cnce aca|n stern sav|nc ncth|nc. 1here's Merr|tt |au|scn, scn
c| uan| |au|scn, Whc |s |n |crt|and deaand|nc |unds |cr a stad|ua W|th|n a vear
c| h|s |ather crchestrat|nc the ban| ba||cut W|th nc sense c| shaae. i never
becaae ca||cused tc |t oart|v because i'a a |an and i |cve the caaes sc auch. it
just bccc|es av a|nd that thev Wcu|d ta|e scaeth|nc that oeco|e treasure sc
auch and decrade |t tc such a orc|cund decree.
LxRLSS: ucW dc these trends aoo|v tc a|ncr-|eacue teaas that have tc ccurt
a |cca| aud|ence auch acre accress|ve|v than the|r aajcr-|eacue ccunteroarts
Ccu|d thev bene||t |rca |ans' a||enat|cn
zLRLN: |rca What i hear, a ccuo|e c| th|ncs are ta||nc o|ace. M|ncr-|eacue
teaas have |arce|v been starved cver the |ast 20 cr 30 vears, as acre and acre
acnev has ccne |ntc aa|e sure the aajcr-|eacue orcduct |s as Wh|zz-banc as
ocss|b|e. i had a d|scuss|cn W|th |ete kcse abcut th|s, and he cannct be||eve the
decree tc Wh|ch o|aver deve|coaent has been decraded |n aajcr-|eacue baseba||.
ue sa|d that When he Was cca|nc uo thrcuch the a|ncrs, a |ct c| attent|cn Was
c|ven just tc teach|nc o|avers, but that |s nc |cncer a oart c| the aajcr-|eacue
bus|ness acde|. On the cther hand, i |nterv|eWed acre than 3,000 |ans |cr the
bcc|, and t|ae and aca|n oeco|e sa|d tc ae, || vcu Want tc see the true so|r|t c|
socrts, cc tc a|ncr-|eacue oar|s. un|||e |n the aajcr |eacues, Where thev
absc|ute|v deoend cn oub||c subs|d|es and sWeetheart te|ev|s|cn ccntracts tc
ccaoete W|th cther teaas, a|ncr |eacues st||| have that cua|nt |dea that vcur
||nanc|a| bcttca ||ne |s success|u| || vcu're outt|nc butts |n the seats. sc there's
acccuntab|||tv tc the |cca| ccnsuaer |n a Wav that i dcn't th|n| ex|sts |n aajcr-
|eacue socrts, Where the |ans have beccae scenerv.
LxRLSS: Are the trends |n stad|ua |und|nc svaotcaat|c c| |arcer eccnca|c
|ssues
zLRLN: in socrts, s|nce the ear|v 1990s vcu've seen an eccnca|c acde| Where
thev scc|a||ze debt and or|vat|ze orc||t. ?cu scc|a||ze the debt c| a stad|ua orcject,
but the orc||t cces tc or|vate hands. in a |ct c| Wavs vcu can |cc| at socrts as
be|nc a ||nd c| 1rcjan ucrse |cr enact|nc a set c| oc||c|es that ncbcdv Wcu|d
acree W|th |t || Were abcut anv cther bus|ness cr ent|tv. On the cther hand, vcu
ccu|d see |t as a harb|ncer tc the ban| ba||cuts that have just ta|en o|ace and tc
the ent|re eccnca|c reccverv o|an that has been enacted cver the |ast ccuo|e c|
vears.
LxRLSS: ?cu exoress a |ct c| ccncern that |uture cenerat|cns W||| have auch
|ess c| a ccnnect|cn tc socrts. ucW sc
zLRLN: 1h|s |s ancther ccnnect|cn betWeen socrts and bus|ness. ?cu st||| see
th|s a|| the t|ae de||n|te|v |n the Wcr|d c| |nvestaent ban||nc th|s |dea that
evervcne |s |cc||nc cut |cr a verv shcrt-tera orc||t as coocsed tc |cnc-tera
stab|||tv and |cnc-tera success. it's a|| abcut What's r|cht |n |rcnt c| vcur |ace.
1hat's nc d|||erent |rca What's cc|nc cn |n socrts r|cht ncW, esoec|a||v |n teras c|
hcW thev're aar|et|nc teaas. i soea| |n h|ch schcc|s a |ct, and When i as| hcW
aanv oeco|e are |ans c| aajcr socrts, |t shcu|d out |ear |n the hearts c|
ccaa|ss|cners arcund the ccuntrv. ?cunc ||ds are nct near|v as ccnnected tcdav,
thev're nct ra|s|nc the|r hands. tet ae cc thrcuch the orccess c| Watch|nc a caae
W|th a teenacer, Whc's a |aa||v aeaber. ue cets bcred because there are tcc
aanv ccaaerc|a|s, and ves, there are |ar acre ccaaerc|a|s ncW than even 10
vears acc. sc i sav, i have 1|vc, sc Whv dcn't vcu ccae cver a ha||-hcur |ater and
We can |ast-|crWard thrcuch the ccaaerc|a|s 1hen he savs, || We're cc|nc tc dc
that, Whv can't i just cc cn||ne and see the sccres i| vcu're a vcunc ||d, hcW are
vcu cc|nc tc Watch a wcr|d ser|es caae || |t dcesn't end unt|| a|ter a|dn|cht cn a
schcc| n|cht t|tt|e th|ncs |||e that have rea||v decraded vcunc |ans' ab|||tv tc even
ccnnect and |ran||v tc beccae hcc|ed cn socrts. 1here are avr|ad cther
d|stract|cns cther channe|s, v|dec caaes. 1here's a auch acre d|v|ded
enterta|naent dc||ar, but socrts |s dc|nc |tse|| nc |avcrs bv aa||nc |t as
|naccess|b|e as ocss|b|e tc vcunc |ans.
LxRLSS: what can a |an dc tc ccabat a terr|b|e cWner
zLRLN: 1here are a ccuo|e c| th|ncs. ||rst c| a||, i W||| sav that i'a cn the bcard
c| an crcan|zat|cn ca||ed the socrts |an Cca||t|cn. it's crcan|zed bv |ans sc thev
can have a vc|ce. i th|n| that |s cne th|nc We dc have tc dc We have tc
crcan|ze. 1he seccnd th|nc that i th|n| absc|ute|v, ocs|t|ve|v reccaaend |s that ||
cur teaa |s cett|nc anv ||nd c| oub||c acnev, We need tc start shcW|nc uo at cur
c|tv ccunc|| aeet|ncs and deaand|nc that there be scae scrt c| advccate cn the
bcards c| these teaas. i| teaas are cett|nc scae |cra c| oub||c subs|dv, there
shcu|d be scae |cra c| oub||c cWnersh|o as We||, sc that We dcn't have th|s
aac|ca| orccess Where the debt c| a stad|ua cr the debt c| a teaa |s scc|a||zed
but the orc||t c| the teaa |s or|vat|zed.
LxRLSS: Dc vcu th|n| th|ncs are cett|nc better cr Wcrse
zLRLN: in scae resoects, the trend that aa|es ae the acst hcoe|u| |s that |t
used tc be a teaa Wcu|d as| |cr a oub||ca||v |unded stad|ua, and |t Wcu|d be the
eas|est re|erendua vcte |n the Wcr|d. |ans Wcu|d turn cut and sav c| ccurse We
have tc suoocrt the teaa, |et's vcte |cr |t. it's a auch acre d||||cu|t orccess ncW.
||ra aajcr|t|es are ncW aca|nst oub||c subs|d|es |cr stad|uas. 1he eccnca|c
c||aate certa|n|v has scaeth|nc tc dc W|th that. 1here's a |ct acre ancer cut
there abcut th|s orccess, and that's |aocrtant tcc. |eco|e are stand|nc uo aca|nst
|t |n c|t|es arcund the ccuntrv. uv that tc|en, i'a verv hcoe|u|. what aa|es ae
uoset |s that even W|th th|s t|ae c| eccnca|c be|t-t|chten|nc and 10 oercent
uneao|cvaent, cWners haven't cctten the aessace. k|cht ncW the cWner c| the
M|nnescta v|||ncs, vc| w|||, |s threaten|nc tc acve the teaa || he dcesn't cet a
neW stad|ua. 1he san |ranc|scc +9ers are oc|sed tc beccae the santa C|ara
+9ers, because thev're cett|nc a sWeet stad|ua dea| cuts|de the uav. 1hat's an
cbscen|tv tc ae, the |dea that the +9ers nct be|nc |n san |ranc|scc. OWners are
||v|nc |n the|r cWn c|c|stered cast|e, and sc We have tc Wade |ntc the acat, sc tc
soea|, and aa|e cur vc|ces heard.
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So yeah, the picture quality is bad, and the audio is worse, but here's at
least a quick glimpse of Sergeant Antonelli, or Cerrato, or whatever we're
supposed to call him, in Kindergarten Ninja action.
Honestly, this scene is like some weird trippy dream I might have had
during the transition from the Beijing Olympics to Redskins season, a
real anxiety scorcher, where ladies with big hair are consoling crying kids
on the playground while telling a jean-jacketed Vinny Cerrato about new
Chinese narcotics, and Cerrato is replying in a take-no-free-agents tone,
all hard-like, closing with "Nobody messes with our precinct. Nobody."
All that was missing was Daniel Snyder swooping down in a black
helicopter to cover the kids with burgundy slime while Mark Brunell burst
out of the jungle gym in the 8 Car wearing the Mask of Zorn and throwing
Kleenex with all his might toward the ghost of Santana Moss, played
here by Icelandic handballers, as Jimi Hendrix and Katie Holmes
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"...First Ninja Scene"
There's more than one?
Posted by: ThisGuy | February 11, 2009 12:33 PM | Report abuse
In honor of this movie, I think we should all refer to Vinny as "Sarge" from now on.
Great find, Steinz.
Jenks
Posted by: Cricketslayer | February 11, 2009 12:35 PM | Report abuse
Chief Zee is highly disappointed that he wasn't in your proverbial dream.
Posted by: truthaboutit | February 11, 2009 12:40 PM | Report abuse
NOOOO!!!
Don't cancel dinner Sarge!
I can't work on an empty stomach!!
Posted by: truthaboutit | February 11, 2009 1:02 PM | Report abuse
no oscar for sarge? criminal.
Posted by: eggitmon | February 11, 2009 1:05 PM | Report abuse
LMAO HA HA HA
Posted by: alex35332 | February 11, 2009 1:06 PM | Report abuse
Definitely Vinny needs to be "Sarge" from here on out.
That was the suckiest part of the sucky acting that sucked its way through that clip
of cinematic suckage.
Posted by: wahoo2x | February 11, 2009 1:19 PM | Report abuse
He's a natural actor. With his giant eyeballs he always looks surprised.
Posted by: theskinnypost | February 11, 2009 1:48 PM | Report abuse
was this a porn?
Posted by: oknow1 | February 11, 2009 2:25 PM | Report abuse
I actually watched this movie with some friends as a joke a few years ago. Didn't
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realize it was Vinny.
From what I remember, the credits revealed that it had been paid for at least in part
by a local city council as part of a anti-drug initiative.
Posted by: ns269 | February 11, 2009 3:11 PM | Report abuse
Oh lord...Agent Steinz FOR THE WIN!
"Sarge" - muahahahahahahaha!
Posted by: EdTheRed | February 11, 2009 3:14 PM | Report abuse
You know how somethings are so bad they're good... well, this isn't one of them.
Posted by: KingME1 | February 11, 2009 4:38 PM | Report abuse
Nice Canadian Tuxedo Vinny!
I bet Bruce Allen never appeared in a creepy 80's movie as a ninja...
Can we pull the coup d'Redskins on Danny and Vinny and put Bruce Allen and Z in
charge?
Posted by: beatwhitey | February 11, 2009 6:35 PM | Report abuse
Steinburg,
where the hell do you find this stuff? This is awesome. I think Vinny missed his
calling. Classic stuff
Posted by: mcvacin | February 11, 2009 7:36 PM | Report abuse
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316111/
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Texans beginning in 2000 through last season. He headed all football Operations for the club. For four consecutive years,
Casserly's draft picks for the Texans earned Rookie of the Year honors (DeMeco Ryans, 2006 - 2nd round pick; Dunta
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Mathis, 2005 - 4th Round pick). No other team in this four-year period can boast that accomplishment. In the Texans' 2006
Draft, Casserly drafted four starters: Mario Williams, DeMeco Ryans, Eric Winston and Owen Daniels, and traded a
seventh round pick for a fifth starter, wide receiver Kevin Walter. This draft is now being acknowledged as arguably the
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keen eye for football talent. Washington went to four Super Bowls during Casserly's tenure, winning three. The 1991
Super Bowl championship team was voted the 14th best Super Bowl winning team, as highlighted in the NFL Films series
on Super Bowl winners. In 2002, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue appointed him to the NFL's prestigious Competition
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Washington hired Casserly as a scout the next season and during his early years as a scout. He unearthed free agents
Joe Jacoby and Jeff Bostic, who were original members of the famed "Hogs" offensive line and key components of
Washington's first two Super Bowl teams, as well as Nate Newton. Jacoby was selected to four Pro Bowls and Bostic
made one trip to Honolulu. The Redskins elevated Casserly to Assistant General Manager in 1982 and the club went on to
capture its first Super Bowl. Casserly also re-instituted the club's intern program in 1982.
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members and other significant positions in the sports world. In 1987 during the NFL players strike, Casserly put together
the Redskins' "replacement" team that went 3-0 before the strike ended, including a Monday Night win against a Dallas
team that featured a number of its star players. That experience was the subject of the Warner Bros. feature film, "The
Replacements," that starred Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman.
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later rounds of the draft. He used a fifth-round draft pick in 1990 to select Southwest Louisiana quarterback Brian Mitchell.
Washington then converted Mitchell into a running back/kick returner, where he later joined Jim Brown as the only players
in NFL history to lead the league in combined net yards four times. In 1996, Casserly plucked Auburn running back
Stephen Davis in the fourth round. Davis paced the NFC in rushing in 1999 with 1,450 yards. Casserly also drafted future
Pro Bowlers in wide receiver Keenan McCardell (12th round, 1991) and tight end Frank Wycheck (sixth round, 1993).
During the 1999 off-season, Casserly acquired veteran quarterback Brad Johnson who responded with a Pro Bowl
season.
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of the Year at mid-season. On draft day in 1999, Casserly acquired all of the New Orleans Saints 1999 selections, plus
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electronically bugged their oIIices during the season. According to the piece, coaches would turn up the stereo
during meetings with players, simply to Ioil the boss's eavesdropping attempts.
The allegations made in the Times weren't repeated in D.C. newspapers or given any serious TV or radio airtime in
this market. No surprise there.
In the media, there are two Snyders.
There's Steinbrenner Without a Championship Snyder, the bumbling boy meanie portrayed by most sportswriters
and sports-talk-show hosts working elsewhere. That's the Snyder who Iired Schottenheimer only because the
Redskins needed a general manager, then reconstructed the Iront oIIice without a GM. (Vinny Cerrato and Joe
Mendes were asked back to Redskin Park to handle personnel chores. In their last stints here, Cerrato couldn't Iind a
kicker and cut Brian Mitchell, and Mendes crunched the numbers and Iound enough salary-cap space so Snyder
could bring in Deion Sanders and JeII George. The 2000 squad assembled by Cerrato and Mendes Ior about $100
million went 8-8, the same record Schottenheimer put up with a Iar less monied squad.)
And then there's Earnest SuperIan Snyder, whose only Iault is wanting to win too much. That's the Snyder whose
excuse Ior Iiring Schottenheimer went basically unchallenged in local papers, TV news broadcasts, or on the only
sports-radio station in town.
The real Snyder probably preIers the local portrait. But he doesn't leave it up to chance that he'll get the all-puIIery,
all-the-time treatment Irom the image-makers on the D.C. sports scene. With Ken Lay's soIt dollars attracting so
much attention, the time seems right Ior a look at the ties Snyder has Iorged with those able to caretake his
reputation.
Andy Pollin Snyder hired Pollin two years ago to host a Sunday-morning TV show Ior the Redskins Broadcast
Network, the production company owned by the team. Most Ians don't even know the show, called Redskins Game
Day, exists. But putting Pollin, a tireless worker, on his team's payroll was a masterstroke. Pollin is the sports
director oI WTEM, meaning he pulls the strings behind the scenes at the only local sports-radio station. Pollin isn't
iust management, though. He's also on-air seven days a week during Iootball season. He hosts all-Redskins shows
on both Monday mornings and weekday evenings, plus a postgame show. He anchors a nightly roundtable Ior
WTEM, called The Sports Reporters, and co-hosts an aIternoon show on Saturdays that is syndicated on
ESPNRadio, as is the daily broadcast oI The Tony Kornheiser Show, on which Pollin plays sidekick to the host.
Pollin doesn't divulge to the listening audience the ties that bind him to Snyder during any oI these gigs. He
neglected even to mention his iob status with the Redskins when he brought the boss/owner into the WTEM studios
Ior what was billed as an interview last preseason. Pollin is careIul not to open the phone lines to listeners with
dissenting opinions, but his endless promotion oI Snyder and the Redskins was among the hottest topics oI the
message board on WTEM's Web site. The station recently pulled the plug on the board, however.
Pollin understands why listeners could "have a problem with me getting a check Irom the Redskins" Ior the TV
show, which he concedes has "no obiectivity." His radio gig, though, is another matter. "I've never been told by
anybody on the Redskins what to say on the radio or what not to say," says Pollin. Nobody told Pollin, presumably,
to take Wednesday's show to Redskin Park, where he helped Snyder launch the team's new line oI throwback
ierseys, which went on sale this week at the Skins Web site Ior $269.99.
George Michael Shortly aIter buying the team, Snyder made WRC the oIIicial station oI the Redskins Broadcast
Network, which made Michael the play-by-play man Ior the team-owned preseason telecasts. (In the NFL, the
individual Iranchises own the rights to all preseason game coverage, although the league controls regular-season
games.) Michael hadn't done play-by-play in years, and his breathless, let-the-words-Iall-where-they-may style
wouldn't seem to make him a natural choice Ior the iob. But iI Snyder was looking Ior a missionary to spread his
gospel, Michael was the best man. AIter more than 20 years at WRC--home oI the most-watched newscasts in the
city, ratings book aIter ratings book--Michael is now the only sports anchor who matters. His colleagues Irom
WRC's sports department, including weekend anchor Wally Bruckner and beloved and believed QB Sonny
Jurgensen, were also brought into the Redskins Broadcast Network productions. Michael disavows any conIlict oI
interest, insisting he controls every aspect oI the show. "Marty Schottenheimer |last year| got upset over something
I said and went to Daniel Snyder to complain, and we heard about it. But I said they can go somewhere else," says
Michael. Michael says he was unaware that the microphones he uses onscreen carry the trademarked Redskins logo.
Michael Wilbon The most proliIic oI sports columnists with the Washington Post (a paper I Ireelance Ior) and now
the co-host, with Kornheiser, oI a daily show on ESPN-TV, Wilbon iumped aboard Snyder's bandwagon beIore the
1999 season, when he became the color commentator Ior the Redskins Broadcast Network. On the iob, Wilbon lugs
a microphone carrying the Redskins logo. Wilbon says he was unaware that Snyder owns the Redskins Broadcast
Network, adding that his contract to work the games is with WRC. "I understand the appearance oI a conIlict, but
anybody who listens to the broadcasts and reads what I write knows I say what I'm going to say, period," he says.
"I'm only worried about what my work is. People can look at my work and decide on their own iI there's a conIlict."
The Post doesn't always condone such writer-subiect alliances lying down. Last week, aIter a Sally Quinn column
upset some readers who viewed the author as conIlicted, Post staIIers were sent a memo by Executive Editor Len
Downie Jr. reminding them that they "cannot belong to, be on the boards oI, contribute to or be paid by
governmental, political or advocacy organizations oI any kind." Promoting local sports Iranchises was not
mentioned. --Dave McKenna
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 1:00 PM
Washington Post staII writer Paul Farhi was online Tuesday,
Aug. 25, at 1 p.m. ET to talk about the latest news and topical
issues in the pop culture world oI TV, radio, movies and trends.
Today: The Redskins pre-season TV games have been
transIormed into Snyderland, a place where everything down to
the line-up announcements are sponsored, branded and squeezed
Ior every last drop oI promotional iuice. It's stunning, it's
amazing, and it might be the state oI the art oI sports marketing. Plus, reality TV turns (even more) lurid....

Paul Farhi: Greetings, all, and welcome 'round...So I watched the Redskins-Steelers preseason game on TV
Saturday night. Or rather (to tweak the old cliche) I watched an inIomercial and a Iootball game broke out. The
producer oI the telecast was "the Redskins Broadcast Network," but really, I think I was in a place called
Snyderland. The game itselI (and yes, it WAS iust a meaningless preseason game) seemed almost an aIterthought to
the main event, which was the endless salesmanship. Hardly a second passed that wasn't sold, sponsored, branded,
or (as the trendy people like to say these days) monetized in some way.
There were plain old commercials, oI course. But there were commercials within the game, too. The on-screen
score box carried a Papa John's Pizza logo. The GEICO logo was brieIly superimposed on the playing Iield. A
taped package, highlighting the history oI (real) Skins-Steelers games, was sponsored, too. Even the line-up
graphics had a sponsor. Plus, there were constant reminders to check out the team's oIIicial website (though oddly,
no plugs Ior Snyder's string oI local radio stations: maybe I missed those).
Even the announcers and sideline reporters were in on the act. Everyone was decked out in Redskins-logo shirts
(shame on Channel 4 sports anchor Lindsay Czarniak and Comcast Sportsnet reporter Kelli Johnson, who
apparently are now employed part-time by the Redskins as sideline reporters: isn't that a conIlict oI interest?).
I'm not naive. I know pro sports (and college, too) went all "Rollerball" a long time ago. And, yes, Snyder is Ior
squeezing every last dollar out oI his team (we've talked a bit on this chat about his mandatory $10 parking Iees Ior
concerts at FedEx). But this was struck me as kind state oI the art. I can't imagine any trick was missed.
Fortunately, the NFL doesn't allow corporate logos on players' uniIorms, or we'd be watching the Papa John's
Washington Redskins.
What grabs me, ultimately, is not the relentless huckersterism, but the almost authoritarian control over the
"message." Just as Snyder's purchase oI sports radio stations raised concerns about the independence oI those
stations, the team-controlled broadcasts suggest we've entered a kind oI North Korean-style control in pro sports,
with nothing oII-message permitted to enter the picture. It's not what's said that's a problem: it's what's NOT said
that's problematic. You'll never know what's wrong or bad or crummy (about the team, the coaches, the stadium,
and most assuredly, the owner) when the team is in charge oI everything you see and hear.
Let's hope there are still some independent voices out there, willing to report without Iear or Iavor on one oI

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Washington's biggest cultural institutions.
Okay, sermon over. Let's go to the phones...

WRC Washington Redskins Commercial TV: In recent years, Channel 4's Sunday "Redskins Game Plan" and
the Saturday coach's show at least gave the appearance oI being semi-news programs, but aIter watching last
weekend, I wouldn't even give them that much credit anymore. Channel 4 might as well move their entire sports
operation out to Redskins Park.
Paul Farhi: All oI those local Redskins TV shows are done with the cooperation oI the team, and are, in Iact,
"licensed" by the team in some way. I don't know the extent oI the team's control over the content, but you won't
see a lot oI hard-hitting iournalism on any oI those shows. Okay, you won't see any.

Ashburn, Va.: The stadium may be Iull Ior games, the merchandise may be selling, and the Redskins may actually
be turning a proIit, but it is still worth noting that now, more than ever -- especially with this season's stupid,
Draconian parking restrictions -- more and more and more people are simply Ied up, sick and tired, disgusted and
angry at the continually horrible, poor and patently oIIensive management oI this organization by Snyder. Everyone
hates him, everyone hates his terrible radio stations, everyone hates the horrendous prices Ior tickets, parking,
concessions and merchandise, everyone hates the personnel choices that the team has made, and everyone is iust
simply tired oI all oI the bad management. It's that simple. Simply put: It's time Ior Dan Snyder to sell this team to
someone else, and to restore The Washington Redskins organization to the level oI quality that existed under Jack
Kent Cooke. Snyder never should have bought the team in the Iirst place. And the same goes Ior a certain Mr.
Angelos up the road in neighboring Baltimore in regards to the once-great Baltimore Orioles.
Paul Farhi: Well, cool your iets, Ashburn. Not everyone hates him. From the looks oI things, a lot oI people don't
seem to have a problem (or at least aren't complaining about) the things you mention. Snyder and his organization
aren't leaving any money on the table, that's Ior sure. But people keep paying and paying. Until the rubber band
breaks and there's mass deIections to the Nationals (dream on), we have to assume people are making a rational, iI
perhaps even grudging, choice to spend their money this way.

Rockville. Md.: It's eerie -- and strange -- that everything that Snyder seems to be involved with decreases in terms
oI quality: the Redskins, local radio stations, Six Flags, Johnny Rocket diners, and everything else. Why does this
guy continue to be involved with these companies? Have you been to a Six Flags lately, or the one in P.G. County?
They're dirty, disorganized, over-priced, badly-managed, Iilled with poor service, Iood stands are shut down, water
rides don't work, roller coasters are constantly shut down, and there doesn't seem to be any security. They're
horribly run, also! And Six Flags used to be pretty good amusement parks. Not any longer!
Paul Farhi: Wow. Some real strong Ieelings out there about this, eh? Well, I haven't been to Six Flags in years, so I
can't comment there. From the outside, however, given the stock price, the company seems to have been beaten
down by the recession, gas prices, high debt, and other Iactors beyond its control. There MAY have been some
Iactors within its control, too. I iust don't know...

Bowie, Md.: I thought I noticed last season, but wasn't sure...
Is Giant Food a sponsor oI Redskins' radio broadcasts, except when they play New York?
Paul Farhi: That doesn't make a lot oI sense. The Redskins' radio broadcasts are heard throughout the Washington
area, not in NYC. Why would Giant cut out when the Redskins are playing the Giants?

The Airless Cubicle: Paul,
As a young man, I spent much oI my time listening to the ponderous, canting tones oI Radio Moscow on my
shortwave radios. There were other communist countries I listened to as well, but stations Irom North Korea or
Albania were laughable because they were out oI touch with American thinking. They could not persuade us. There
was something about Moscow's voice that was not Iunny at all. They knew us well enough to Irighten us. Perhaps it
was the implied threat behind the speaker oI divisions oI armored soldiers and nuclear missiles aimed at myselI and
my loved ones. I developed a healthy distaste Ior systems in which all outlets spoke with one voice.
A Swedish critic, Sam Lundwall, remarked about Nineteen Eighty-Four something to the eIIect it doesn't matter iI
Big Brother's boot has a hammer or sickle or a Coca-Cola symbol on it. I don't agree with Lundwall completely:
Corporations don't intend to run all your liIe: they want to maximize proIits, which is a proper thing to do. It's the
means by which they do this which are distasteIul at times. You have master manipulators such as Enron: you have
polluters such as Union Carbide in Bhopal: and you have the B.S. artists.
B.S. artists are the most annoying. Dan Snyder is a B.S. artist. He intends to control the Redskins brand in all
things, including limiting opposing voices. Sometimes he bans them (like Washington Times reporters). Sometimes
he buys them out, such as buying WTEM aIter establishing the Ieeble Red Zebra network.
Worse -- then Snyder and his people produce a product that is mediocre at best.
Dan Snyder is not Leonid Brezhnev. He can't throw me into the Redskins Gulag. However, I am tired oI the
Redskins marketing iuggernaut. I don't want to go to Six Flags, eat at Johnny Rockets, or even buy a car Irom
Eastern Motors. I don't want to hear every Redskins player on every station with their own Iive-minute show. I hate
listening to Redskins broadcasts, because I Ieel what I hear is not wholly truthIul. II I end up listening to WTEM,
it's because the alternatives Ior programming are worse. (Note: The Cubicle is not in WJFK's eIIective signal
range.)
What am I to do? II I love the Redskins as a Iootball team, must I end up tuning into Westwood One's coverage or
even (gasp) the Giants and Eagles stations to Iollow the team?
The best thing Dan Snyder could do is to turn down the marketing knob Irom 11. II he can't do that without losing
money, then take the loss and sell the team!
Paul Farhi: Early Airless! We're honored...And thanks Ior classing up the ioint. We don't get many quotes Irom
Swedish critics on this channel!

Savage: I realize Mr. Modell a lot less popular in Ohio than Mr. Snyder is here, but living in southern Howard
County, it's nice to have a choice oI teams. Last year, I switched halIway through the season and watched a Super
Bowl contender.
Paul Farhi: I don't know a thing about the Ravens marketing operation. But they were a very good team last year...

Ex-D.C.: You still have the option oI ignoring them, right? Landover isn't North Korea, other than the bad Iood,
Iorbidding terrain, and (slightly) demilitarized zone.
Paul Farhi: OI course you do. But as I noted, the Redskins are a maior cultural institution around these parts, and a
cherished one. You have the option oI ignoring lots oI things. But why would anyone ignore one oI things they
love?

Montgomery Village, Md.: Paul -- Is it true that the crazy looking bald guy dancing in the Six Flags commercials
is really Fred Grandy? Sure looks like him. Maybe he learned to dance like that on the Love Boat or in Congress.
Paul Farhi: II so, Fred's got some dandy moves. Pretty good Ior a guy who sits behind a microphone Ior a living.

we have to assume people are making a rational, if perhaps even grudging, choice to spend their money this
way.: Well, it's almost like a drug. Once you get really hooked on a team, they've got you in their clutches.
Paul Farhi: Sure. And the Redskins (any sports team, really) are an emotional thing. People love them. It's
irrational, but they do.

Verklempt Pittsburgher: "I watched an inIomercial and a Iootball game broke out."
Well, at least YOUR team won!
Paul Farhi: C'mon, it's preseason, which is a ioke and sort oI a scam. It gets covered like it's almost the real deal,
and it isn't even close. Would you go see a movie where the stars show up Ior the Iirst 20 minutes and then sit
down, replaced by no names and wannabes? OI course not.

Springfield, Va.: Paul -- Have you seen the YouTube video making Iun oI Dan Snyder? It's a hilariously oIIensive
look at Red Zebra and WJFK going all sports. The same Hitler movie Iootage was used last year to spooI Hillary
Clinton as well.
washingtonpost.com: Redskins Owner Daniel Snyder Is Quite Upset (YouTube)
Paul Farhi: AIter all the "town hall meetings" on health care with the whackos comparing Obama to Hitler, I'm
having trouble with ANY Hitler comparison. Kind oI oIIensive....

Laurel, Md.: Paul, in the last 13 years, two new maior sports teams moved into the Baltimore/Washington area.
Do you know iI it was Frank Herzog's preIerence to be on WTOP and not doing sports any more, or did the Ravens
and Nationals not want him to be their voice?
Paul Farhi: Not sure he was even considered. Frank was not a baseball guy, and I doubt that he had any name
recognition in Baltimore, considering that he's spent almost all oI his career in Washington. And how well would
Ravens Ians respond to having the Redskins' ex-announcer as their guy? Wouldn't Ily...

Well, at least YOUR team won!: The way I look at it, you don't want your team to win during pre-season.
Especially iI they're the Redskins. II they end up beating the Patriots the Skins are going to be so overconIident
when the real season begins, I'll be aIraid to watch.
Paul Farhi: Yes, and it would raise expectations Iar beyond what the team may be able to support during the
regular season. I think everyone--coaches, players, broadcasters, sportswriters--should downplay the preseason
games more. OI course, that might kill the ticket sales, so I guess that won't happen.

"But why would anyone ignore one of things they love?": I dunno: ask my wiIe.
Paul Farhi: Hahaha! I Ieel bad Ior your wiIe...

Gaithersburg, Md.: Is "Mr." Snyder still involved with Tom Cruise's production company? Cruise's acting career
has been on a downslide too ... Perhaps the Snyder people are involved in choosing movie scripts?
Paul Farhi: I iust saw "Valkyrie" a Iew weeks ago. Not bad, really. And Cruise was more restrained than in
anything I've seen him in in decades. It was as iI he, or the director, were consciously trying to play down his movie
star-ness. Very cold--and interesting--perIormance by him.

Washington, D.C.;: Dear Redskins Ians,
I'm a Detroit Lions Ian. It could be so much worse. Count your blessings. Thanks.
Paul Farhi: 'NuII said.

Oakton, Va.: Oh, the Redskins aren't so bad. I saw an episode oI "Eureka" where the plot had to stop Ior 30
seconds so a character could describe in great detail all the Iine Ieatures oI her new Subaru. And Channel 7 iust has
to plunk down McDonald's coIIee cups in Iront oI their morning news anchors.
Paul Farhi: Yes, this is the way oI the world, generally speaking. And by the way: "The Washington Post--II you
don't get it, you..." etc.

Re: "Ravens": "Mr. Modell a lot less popular in Ohio" is an understatement oI huge proportion. Art Modell is
hanged in eIIigy when they Browns play the Ravens. In a survey taken during the brieI Browns-less Cleveland
interval, Mr. Modell came in second (aIter Hitler) as the most evil person in history. "Not popular" doesn't even
begin to describe it.
Paul Farhi: Hitler again, eh? Does anyone think we could save Hitler Ior real comparisons oI evil? Like, who was
worse, Hitler or Stalin or Mao? Or, was Hitler worse than any oI the Roman emperors? I think we need to up our
game a bit...

Pre-Season Champs: Best thing to come out oI Detroit in a while: last year's "2008 Pre-Season Champions" t-
shirt.
Paul Farhi: Excellent!

Haterade: Just my 5 cents, I loathe and despise Dan Snyder with the strength oI a thousand suns. I won't spite the
team because oI him, but perhaps that day will come.
He has made a once proud Iranchise an absolute laughingstock.
Paul Farhi: Well, that's going a bit Iar. 8-8 last season. Not exactly "laughingstock" territory...

Reality: Dan Snyder, Bill Gates: Same business model. Make every eIIort to stiIle competition so your mediocre
product will make as much money as possible.
Paul Farhi: Every business person wants an advantage, an edge. This is why there are corporate lawyers.

Arlington, Va.: I agree with you about pre-season games -- they are a scam, pure and simple, where the goal is to
separate Ians Irom their hard-earned cash and deliver a substandard product. I've never understood the appeal.
Wake me when the real season starts.
Paul Farhi: Roger that...

Modest Proposal: What would happen iI everybody simply stopped going?
One oI the beneIits oI watching the games at home is that you control your experience (plus, the parking's usually
Iree).
Let's start the movement now: a one-week boycott oI every Skins-related expenditure. Doesn't matter which game,
but you know it would get The Danny's attention.
Paul Farhi: Gosh, that's a tough one. There are thousands and thousands oI kids out there who know nothing oI our
adult complaints and grumping who iust love the Redskins. Want to deny them a iersey or a Redskins lunchbox? I
didn't think so...

Laurel, Md.: BTW, since Vick's an Eagle, which opponent should we hate most this season?
Paul Farhi: I hate to say this, because I know I'm supposed to compare Vick to Hitler, but I can't wait to see Vick
play. He was such a Iascinating athlete beIore he got himselI in so much trouble. I doubt he's the same guy he was
two or three years ago, but, man, what an athlete, and what a comeback story.

Anonymous: "From the outside, however, given the stock price, the company seems to have been beaten down by
the recession, gas prices, high debt, and other Iactors beyond its control"
High debt is not beyond a company's control. Who do you think borrowed the money?
You hear this all the time when companies Iile Ior bankruptcy -- "It's a good company, our balance sheet iust got
out oI whack." Translation, we borrowed too much when we bought this thing.
Paul Farhi: True. Fair comment.

Washington, D.C.: What has been the reaction to your article suggesting that newspapers abandon their Web sites?
washingtonpost.com: Build That Pay Wall High (American Journalism Review. June. Julv 2009)
Paul Farhi: Thanks Ior asking...That's been interesting. Lots oI supportive comments Irom people here. But lots
more pushback Irom bloggers and such. Makes sense, doesn't it? The people here are my Iriends and colleagues.
The people out there aren't. And, oI course, iI you're a blogger or online commentator, you are deeply, deeply
invested in the Iuture oI the web, not print.

Is it sports or business?: Sports or business, iust as easy to cheer Ior AT and T over Sprint, don't you think?
Paul Farhi: Funny idea. We have no emotional connection to companies like we do to teams, though we do have a
much more real and direct connection to companies. We invest in them, we use and pay Ior their services every
day. But root Ior them? Wouldn't it be strange and cool iI we did?
Go, Pepsi! Kick Coke's |bleep|! Etc.

Love it or Hate it: As a NASCAR Ian, KING oI product placement, so I'm not phased by extreme marketing. I
think we have this conversation every year when we start hearing about the Pets.com bowl and the Pizza Hut
pregame show.
Paul Farhi: Yeah, true sports Ians can compartmentalize this. Part oI the scenery to them and not a distraction at
all. I guess I'm not a true sports Ian. It tends to bug me.

On the Other Hand: "pre-season games -- they are a scam, pure and simple, where the goal is to separate Ians
Irom their hard-earned cash"
Regular season NFL games are to .... promote world peace?
Paul Farhi: At least regular season games are a semi-honest product. You're paying to see the best play. And the
best do play. You're paying because the outcome counts in the standings. And it does. You're probably better oII
watching training camp than watching a preseason pro Iootball game...

"I'm supposed to compare Vick to Hitler": An old episode oI Hill Street Blues Ieatured a Iailed standup
comedian by the name oI...Vic Hitler.
Paul Farhi: Mel Brooks has certainly gotten a lot oI mileage out oI his Hitler/Nazi parodies. I'm iust sayin'...

Spoiled kids: "The kids want..." isn't a great argument against a 1-week boycott, which is what the previous poster
proposed. (Not that boycotts are as eIIective as people think.) Parents would be smart to apply a 1-week -- at least --
cooling-oII period to most requests their children make. Save a lot oI money that way.
Paul Farhi: Parents would be wise to apply an entire childhood cooling oII period Ior the iunk their kids want. I'm
not that churlish--I was a kid once (I think)--but kids will be Iine iI they don't get all the iunk they want. In my
experience, it's only marginally related to overall childhood happiness.

RE: Modest Proposal: II everyone stopped going, Redskins Ians that is, the opposing team's Ians would buy up the
tickets on Stub Hub, which is the oIIicial ticket resale outlet oI the Redskins and who get a share oI the proIits Irom
the resales. Snyder wins again.
Paul Farhi: But that would create the additional embarrassment (iI making more money can be said to be an
"embarrassment") oI having FedEx Field Iilled with opposing Ians. Remember the Redskins-Steelers regular season
game in which the stadium was Iilled by Terrible Towel-waving Ians Irom Pittsburgh? That looked awIul on TV,
and was a true black-eye Ior civic pride...

Re: Bloggers: Why aren't bloggers more interested in helping newspapers make a go oI it on-line? II we lose the
big newspapers, what will they aggregate and/or comment on? I mean, CakeWrecks will probably still be in
business, but anyone whose subiect is current events will suIIer greatly with no original material to work with.
Paul Farhi: I generally agree with you, although sadly, newspapers have cut back so much that they are providing
less and less original material all the time. I can't imagine a world (or an internet) without the raw Iactual material
that newspapers provide every day, but I guess the bloggers don't really care about any oI that. They're mostly about
themselves and their opinions, with little thought given to where they're getting their basic Iacts.

pre-season anything: All preseasons are meaningless -- to Ians. To the people who are attempting to make the
Iinal cut -- it means something.
Owners, as good capitalists, saw an opportunity and the Ians bought it.
Paul Farhi: Yes. Entirely true. The marketing oI preseason NFL games is a pretty good basis Ior a Harvard
Business Review piece. They were never much until a Iew years ago...

Six Flags: To be Iair, Six Flags' incursion oI debt dates back to when it was owned by Time Warner and Boston
Ventures, an investment Iund.
Paul Farhi: Why is that "Iair"? It's like saying, "I bought the house knowing it had a termite problem. Now the
house is a shambles. But to be Iair, the termites were there beIore I bought it."

Falls Church, Va.: I've been a Redskins Ian since the 1960s. Enioyed the George Allen years and their ride to the
top with Gibbs. Enioyed the class act brought back by Gibbs II. Zorn seems like a decent guy. Snyder hasn't won
me over though. I've only been to Fedex Iield once, Ior a Giants game during regular season a Iew years back. It
was not a Iriendly environment Ior Ians in general or Iamilies in particular. Stadium was Iilled with what Brits call
lager louts -- rowdy or aggressive young drunk males. Parking expensive and inconvenient. I'll continue to watch
them on TV, especially iI they start winning. But the brand has suIIered under Snyder. I Iind it hard to believe the
operation remains so proIitable?
Paul Farhi: I've experienced the same things and iust Iigured it came with the territory (Iootball is an aggressive
game, and young guys live vicariously through it). Question is, what would you do about it? Tell people to be nice?
Stop serving beer? Seriously, what...?

Re: The Airless Cubicle: "You don't even realize that there is no world anymore! It's only corporations!" - Number
2 in Austin Powers may have been more right that he realized. The next step Irom extreme marketing may be the
withering away oI Iormal government in the polar opposite oI Marxism. In a carryover Irom maior league sports,
individuals will have to sign on as "citizens" oI corporations, ceding complete control over their lives.
Paul Farhi: I Ieel a sci-Ii novel coming on. Oh, wait. I think I've read (or seen) that one beIore...

Rockville, Md.: There are a lot oI Steeler Ians in the Washington area, because a lot oI kids who grew up there had
to come here Ior iobs.
Paul Farhi: Seriously? Was there a great Pittsburgh exodus? Was it any greater than the exodus Irom other cities?

Anonymous: "Funny idea. We have no emotional connection to companies like we do to teams, though we do have
a much more real and direct connection to companies. We invest in them, we use and pay Ior their services every
day. But root Ior them? Wouldn't it be strange and cool iI we did?"
Maybe iI there was a really cool computer company that would take on MicrosoIt we could cheer Ior it. Or a
supermarket that sold healthy Iood and did things the right way. We could cheer Ior them too.
Don't kid yourselI. People cheer Ior Apple and Whole Foods -- and a lot oI other companies -- all the time. II their
company "wins" their choices are validated.
Paul Farhi: Perhaps you're right. Those consumers iust don't gather in stadiums and arenas to cheer (well, except
Ior that Apple expo in S.F. every year). But there is a very obvious behavioral yardstick: Sales. People vote with
their wallets all the time.

Preseason Idea: Why not hold training camps at college stadia in cool summertime climes? We Floridians are
invaded every March by spring training Ians, so why couldn't the Skins train in, say, Vermont?
Paul Farhi: I guess the idea is two-Iold: 1) Hold camp near where the Ians are (in order to charge admission): 2)
Hold camp in a hot place to prepare the players Ior the Iirst (hot) month oI the season.

Pay wall: I've been reading the Post exclusively on-line since it became available. Prior to that, although I read the
copy available at work, I'd dropped my daily subscription (too much paper to dispose oI, too many hassles with
delivery).
I'd be willing to pay Ior Web access, even during periods when I don't have much time to spend on the site. But iI it
went dark, I'd iust depend on TV. You couldn't pay me to start taking a daily paper again.
Paul Farhi: Well, 620,000 people pay US to get the paper every day. But I recognize that other people Ieel
diIIerently. The thing about a pay wall, though: It will drive away lots and lots oI traIIic. Which means we will
deliver Iewer readers to advertisers. Which means they will pay less Ior the ads that they place. I doubt that the
additional subscription revenue will make up Ior the lost advertising revenue (which isn't all that great to begin
with). A lose-lose proposition...

Spons, OR: John Sterling: This Yankee Home Run brought to you courtesy oI Bank oI America. Now let's go to
the Pizza Hut out oI town scoreboard.
Or something like that, haven't listened lately. Although I do remember Mel Allen's Ballantine Blast.
Paul Farhi: Sure. But it's worse now.

Re: Citizen FedEx: There's a book by Max Berry called "JenniIer Government" where everyone's last name is
determined by who they work Ior (the title character works Ior the Ieds, but was Iormerly JenniIer Mattel and was
responsible Ior the greatest Malibu Barbie roll-out ever)
Paul Farhi: Yes. Also, "The Space Merchants," which I dimly recall reading many years ago...

To be fair: II you (knowingly) buy a termite-inIested house, you can't whine about termite inIestation. But you also
don't slap on new paint and install replacement windows -- you have to spend money eradicating the termites and
repairing the damage. I think that's the point: It's unIair to blame Snyder Ior any decline in the Six Flags experience,
since his business model has to be bringing it back to proIitability beIore anything else.
Paul Farhi: No, but he and his investors knowingly bought their shares understanding the risks they were taking
on. It's a little silly Ior anyone to complain about debt: that was a well-known risk Iactor...

Herndon, Va.: I don't think pre-season games are meaningless to Ians as they come at a time when most Ians are
starved Ior Iootball. A lot oI Ians think, "It may be pre-season, but at least it is Iootball."
Paul Farhi: Yes. But it's the Diet Coke oI Iootball, as Dr. Evil might have said...

"It's a good company, our balance sheet just got out of whack." Translation, we borrowed too much when
we bought this thing.: Also they never ask themselves iI their execs are too highly paid. Does anyone really need
to own 10 houses?
Paul Farhi: I hate to start a thread on that one. Yeah, no one needs 10 houses, but iI you create wealth Ior everyone
you're entitled to a piece oI that action, too, blah blah blah. I will say that high executive pay usually LOOKS bad.
It's terrible P.R. to have guys making so much when things are going south. But as a Iactor in the decline and Iall oI
a company? Probably not really a big deal, overall.

Pittsburgh Exodus: Paul,
You do realize that they no longer make steel in the Steelers home town?
Though BuIIalo probably gives Pittsburghers a run Ior their money on size oI the exodus.
Paul Farhi: Yeah, the Bills have a pretty large Iollowing here, don't they. And Tim Russert was practically a one-
man chamber oI commerce Ior BuIIalo. Must be a Iair number oI 'em in the Washington area...

Was there a great Pittsburgh exodus?: You'd better believe it! Big steel closed down in the early '80s, other
corporations moved their HQs out oI town, so young 'uns leIt in droves -- whether blue- or white-collar -- and D.C.
back then had tons oI iobs while being only a halI-day's drive away, handy Ior visits home. One oI the nation's
largest proportions oI senior citizens live in Pittsburgh, outside oI certain retirement communities in the Sun Belt.
Paul Farhi: Makes sense. And same reason Ior BuIIalo, I would surmise. Very interesting....

Olney, Md.: Yes the Pittsburgh exodus to the D.C. area has been an ongoing thing Ior 30 years. I am a product oI
the exodus. I leIt the burgh 30 years ago Ior career opportunities here. But you can never really leave the burgh, so
that's why there are many Steeler, Pens and even diehard Pirate Ians in the area. About the only thing we leIt behind
was that nasty Iron city beer.
Paul Farhi: A Iair number oI West Virginia transplants here, too, it seems, although that's closer. And Irankly,
they're probably Pittsburgh-loyal, too...

Edgewater, Md.: My question is why does Washington continue to use the most oIIensive nickname oI any sports
team? And please spare me the mindless comparisons to the Eagles and Falcons and other animals or names like the
Vikings and Celtics and the "Oh we're insulting them." It's especially oIIensive when I see that idiot dress up like a
Native American running around with war-paint on. He deserved to get his butt kicked in Philly years ago. A lot oI
Colleges and High Schools are getting it and have changed their names, but not the ProIessional Team in our
nation's Capitol. As Iar as marketing pre-season games and charging Iull price Ior them I've got no problem with it
since I would never go to one. You have a choice unless you're a Snyder-sucker season ticket holder -- but then
again you've still got a choice.
Paul Farhi: This is a very tiresome debate. And what I Iind particularly tiresome about it is that it is a debate at all.
I'll grant that there may be a Iew historical reIerences to Redskins that were not intended as slights or racist insults.
But the vast maiority oI them certainly were. It will take some courage to mess with all the people who love the
tradition oI the Redskins and don't want the name changed, but someone should get a spine and do it, regardless.

I feel a sci-fi novel coming on. Oh, wait. I think I've read (or seen) that one before...: Snow Crash, by Neil
Stephenson.
Paul Farhi: Thank you.

Corporate Teams: How about the New York Red Bulls (Iormerly Metrostars)? It's named aIter a certain
caIIeinated drink.
Paul Farhi: Yes. And in Europe, it's hard to tell what the actual names oI the soccer teams are because oI all the
corporate advertising on the ierseys. One popular team appears to be called the "Fly Emirates."

Washington, D.C.: Every team does the same thing in the preseason. IF they are smart, they have their own
broadcast operation which produces the games and sells them to the local aIIiliates. I'm not a Snyder Ian, but he's
not doing anything unique here.
I'm wondering who does sell the ad spots though. Do the Redskins buy the time Irom the TV stations and sell their
own advertising or do the TV stations pay Ior the rights and sell their own ad time?
Paul Farhi: I wondered about that, too. I've been trying to get an answer Irom Comcast Sportsnet, which is the
oIIicial "originator" oI the game. Will let you know iI I ever Iind out.

Harrisburg, Pa.: What up, P-Far? As a Iormer Pittsburgher, I can attest to the exodus, though it has to be said that
the Steelers travel extremely well. There are Steeler bars all over the country, and when you have a great team
coming Irom an area that has only recently been on the upswing, it means there are a lot oI Ians and emigres trying
to connect back to it.
As Ior the atmosphere at FedEx, Heinz Field (and the old Three Rivers) is unIortunately the same way. I Ieel Iine
because I'm wearing black and gold, but I worry Ior the out-oI-towners entering the not-so-Iriendly conIines. This
sounds like it's straight out oI "The Warriors," only not as cool.
Paul Farhi: Thanks Ior the enlightenment on the Pittsburgh Exodus, everyone!...As Ior abusing visiting Ians, that
may be the dumbest thing about sports, ever. So a guy is wearing a iersey oI an opposing team? Yeah, so? That's a
reason to heap scorn on him, and possibly beat him up? Sports Ians can be such morons...

Rockville, Md.: I heard that 'old man' in the Six Flags commercials is actually a Iemale dancer (with Oscar-worthy
makeup, apparently).
And step oII Iron City! They are going through bankruptcy AGAIN -- it's a shame.
Paul Farhi: This warrants investigation, too. I'm on it...

Lions fan again:: Give up the "what iI people stop going" thing. People will never stop going. There will always
be a draw to watch a pro-team, even iI it's to see the visiting team. The people who have been on waitlists Ior years
will still go. The worst is what my Iamily does. They still buy tickets though they don't attend games. It's when
season ticket packages Iail to sell (and that takes a lot) will the culture change. We've been waiting Ior that culture
change Ior about 50 years in the D.
Paul Farhi: Agreed. There's something generational about local-team worship. It's passed down Irom parent to
child. It connects us to each other in a way that other institutions do not. It's important to our identity, and in our
history. Which is why you hate to see that abused, in any way...

The Fresca of Football: What's even more galling is that tickets/parking/concessions cost the same Ior a preseason
as a regular season game. This is something that can't be laid at the Ieet oI Danny -- every owner agreed to this
scam. And Ians will take it. For some, like Giants, Steelers, and Pats Ians, this might be the only way to see a game
in the stadium, since season tickets are tied up in astronomically-long waits. Still stinks, though.
Paul Farhi: Seemed like a whole lot oI empty seats on Saturday. Maybe it was the rain, or maybe a lot oI those
tickets didn't actually sell. There's hope, I guess...

Random Thought: All this stuII I'm reading in the Post lately about CIA interrogations iust sounds like a slow day
in the oIIice Ior Jack Bauer.
Paul Farhi: Yes, the story about the interrogators (sp.?) using a gun and a drill to intimidate some suspect gave me
a bit oI a chill. Shades oI J. Bauer....

Albany, N.Y.: Re Redskins: I like the idea which would do the right thing AND honor tradition: Keep the name but
change the logo to a redskin potato.
Paul Farhi: Hahahaha!....You hippies make me sick.

Stop me if you've heard this before: Yer Iootball team can keep it's name, iust change the logo and mascot to a
potato. Yep, it's in the bag.
Paul Farhi: Oh, there's two oI you out there? Why, I oughta...

Franklin Square, Washington, D.C.: AIraid to address this simple topic, I sent it earlier...
I know you don't have any direct contact, but what do you hear about Mr. Tony being back on the radio next month.
Seemed like a sure thing a Iew weeks ago but now, two weeks out, no promos, no indications oI contracts, nada.
Just wondering.....
Paul Farhi: It sounds like a done deal to me. No reason to doubt Mr. T's statements about coming back and
working Ior Red Zebra/Snyder...

Metro D.C.: I used to work Ior a company that recruited aggressively in central and western PA. OI course the
Iolks would get here and Iind that what they thought was a comparatively high salary came with an even higher cost
oI living.
Paul Farhi: That's gotta be shock, Ior everyone who comes here Irom iust about anywhere. Me, I came here Irom
San Francisco, where the cost oI living was and is ridiculous, so I was one oI the Iew who was pleasantly surprised
the other way.

LA, CA: You may be a bit premature with Vick and "comeback." Yes, he is/was a great athlete and I hope his
involvement with the Humane Society, sincere or not, reaches out to people who otherwise wouldn't pay attention.
But it takes a seriously sick sociopathic personality to torture, beat, electrocute and drown dogs to death. Prison
doesn't Iix that. I don't think I'll ever be able to watch him play again.
Paul Farhi: Yes, it wasn't a very pretty picture. And there's a reasonable argument about whether the NFL should
have taken him back. But: He's paid his proverbial debt to society, and has committed himselI to reIorm. Not sure
what else he can do at this point.

RE: Lions fan again: Every time I think oI a complaint about the Skins I'm going pause and Ieel sorry Ior this
Lions Ian.
Paul Farhi: It's so great to condescend to the less Iortunate, isn't it?

Laurel, Md.: "Paul Farhi: But that would create the additional embarrassment (iI making more money can be said
to be an "embarrassment") oI having FedEx Field Iilled with opposing Ians."
You been to an intra-division game at Camden Yards?
Paul Farhi: Yeah, but there are only a Iew intra-division baseball home games, out oI an 81-game home season.
When one-eighth oI your regular season home schedule is taken over by the opposing Ians, it don't look so good....

Paul Farhi: Folks, many thanks Ior the wide-ranging discussion, as always. You are all nothing but eclectic, which
I think (though not sure) is a compliment. Let's try doing this again next week, when (as Mr. Rogers used to say),
we'll have many things to talk about. Until then, my best to you and your respective teams oI choice. And as
always...regards to all! --Paul.

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Yesterday, during an interview on WFJK-FM, guest Al Koken urged listeners to stick with that
station iI it wanted to hear any Washington Capitals coverage, and to not bother tuning in to "Dan-1azeera."
Koken was reIerring to WJFK's rival sportstalker in this market, Dan Snyder's WTEM-AM.
Koken was a longtime host and the resident hockey guy at WTEM. His run there ended last year when Snyder
bought the station and, in his Iirst wave oI personnel moves, Iired Koken. From the sound oI things, Koken's still
bruised about getting cut by Snyder.
Bitterness aside, "Dan-Jazeera"'s dang Iunny.
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her vehicle.
z A local TV station claimed Redskins officials wouldn't allow interviews with tailgating fans in the parking lots
z Two fans wearing "Dumb" and "Dumber" shirts with photos of Snyder and VP Vinny Cerrato claimed security guards made them
invert their shirts.
z A fan claimed security guards and police ejected his group from the stadium after it chanted "We want Gruden" (in reference to
ESPN analyst and former NFL coach Jon Gruden) and "Danny sucks" near the ESPN booth.
z A man with a sign at his tailgate that said "Official Dan Snyder (stinks) tailgate" said security officials told him if Cerrato saw his
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Exhibit 11
VP Cerrato resigns, Allen hired to run 'Skins front office
CBSSports.com staff and wire reports
Dec. 17, 2009
ASHBURN, Va. -- The Washington Redskins overhauled their front office Thursday morning, hiring Bruce Allen as general manager after the
resignation of Vinny Cerrato.
Allen becomes the first person hired by owner Dan Snyder to hold the general manager title, a notable milestone after a decade of various front-
office arrangements that usually centered around Snyder and his good friend Cerrato.
Changes were needed for a team that is 4-9 this season, and Cerrato has been widely criticized for his roster decisions since getting the title of
executive vice president of football operations two years ago.
Snyder is also expected to be hiring a new coach in a few weeks, and Allen could be the bridge to that change as well.
The son of legendary Redskins coach George Allen, Bruce Allen was the general manager for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for five seasons. He and
Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden were fired in January, and the pair could renew their association if current coach Jim Zorn is fired as the end of the
season.
For players, the news was just the first of many anticipated changes.
"That's a start -- that's a change right there," cornerback Carlos Rogers said. "There's going to be change in personnel. There's going to be change
all over. It'll probably be more changes coaching-wise, so I guess that's the first change right now. You never know what Mr. Snyder got up his
sleeve. Personally, I'm worrying about me, and that's all I can worry about."
Tampa Bay won two division championships under Allen. He previously worked for nine years in the Oakland Raiders' front office.
"Bruce Allen is the personification of an NFL winner," Snyder said in a statement released by the team. "Our fans know his heritage; we know his
abilities. He is the right person to lead our club."

The Redskins said Allen would begin work immediately.
"This is an extraordinary opportunity with one of the world's most successful sports franchises,"
Allen said. "I love everything about this assignment; I know what it means to be dedicated to the
Redskins. I can't wait to get to work."
Cerrato has been Snyder's right-hand for most of the last 10 years, but even their tight friendship
couldn't overcome the team's recent struggles.
"We agreed that the franchise needs someone different in this position," Cerrato said in a separate
statement released by the team. "I'm thankful to Dan Snyder and other members of his ownership
team for the opportunities I've been given over the years. Of course, I am disappointed with this
year's results, but I strongly believe that with outstanding draft picks and encouraging performance
by our younger players, we have laid a strong foundation for the franchise."
Cerrato added that he has "had the pleasure of working with some great coaches such as Joe Gibbs, Greg Blache and Sherman Lewis" -- notably
leaving out Zorn.
Cerrato has been a favorite punching bag for fans in recent years, receiving criticism often in tandem with Snyder. One fan infamously used a pair of
signs to refer to the pair as "Dumb" and "Dumber" at a game this season.
Cerrato was one of the first major hires after Snyder bought the Redskins in 1999. He was fired in 2001 by coach Marty Schottenheimer after
Schottenheimer was given control of football operations. A year later, Snyder fired Schottenheimer and rehired Cerrato.
Although Cerrato's title changed over the years, he remained a significant front-office voice in player decisions. The results have been far from
encouraging: The Redskins have won only one playoff game since 2000.
Cerrato's power within the organization increased after Gibbs' resignation two years ago, and there have been plenty of hits and misses among his
player choices.
This year, Cerrato gave Zorn an offensive line without a single reserve who played in the NFL last year -- even though two starters were coming off
significant injuries. Both of those starters soon were out for the season, and the resulting scramble for a starting five hampered the development of
the offense.
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Exhibit 11
Letter Calling for NFL's Redskin owner to terminate current advertising relationship with
Diageo
September 25, 2002
Mr. Daniel Snyder
President
The Washington Redskins
21300 Redskin Park Drive
Ashburn, VA 20147
Dear Mr. Snyder:
As organizations concerned about the well-being of the children and youth of the Washington, D.C.
metropolitan area, we want to express our disappointment with you and the Washington Redskins
organization for selling advertising space for the promotion of hard liquor in Fed-Ex Field and during Redskin
football telecasts. We respectfully ask that you terminate your current advertising relationship with Diageo
immediately.
The Redskins unprecedented sponsorship deal opens the door to a deluge of hard-liquor promotion in
professional sports and furthers the liquor industrys aggressive efforts to reach millions of underage viewers
in the powerful broadcast media. Airing ads for Smirnoff Ice and Captain Morgans Gold (malt-based
beverages with liquor names and logos) during Redskin telecasts trumpets liquor brands and enables Diageo
to sidestep the networks voluntary ban on hard liquor ads. Redskin games are watched by a large number of
underage fans. These ads will become only the opening wedge of a new onslaught of hip, slick, appeals to try
liquor brands. Although perhaps legally permissible, we firmly believe that it is wrong to expand alcohol
marketers access to large audiences of young, impressionable children and teens.
Alcohol is the leading drug threat to young people in America, the one most likely to interfere with their
education as well as put them at serious risk for injury and death. Thousands of young people under the age
of 21 die of alcohol-related causes each year. Alcohol is a factor in the four leading causes of death among
persons ages 10 to 24: (1) motor-vehicle crashes, (2) unintentional injuries, (3) homicide and (4) suicide; and
underage drinking costs Americans $53 billion annually.
Studies suggest that attempts to prevent or delay drinking among young people should give attention to
alcohol advertising. In particular, efforts should be made to reduce the extent to which it appeals to children
and to reduce their exposure to it. Alcohol advertising may predispose young people to drinking. Children
who were more aware of beer advertisements held more favorable beliefs about drinking and had more
knowledge of beer brands and slogans. Most teenagers and adults feel that liquor advertisers want teens to
view their TV ads, and a majority say TV advertisers are trying to influence teens to drink liquor.
Extensive alcohol advertising (more than $1.4 billion in 2001 and more than $450 million expected this year
for "alcopops" alone) that glamorizes and normalizes alcohol consumption regularly reaches large numbers
of underage persons. In fact, alcohol ads even after 9:00 PM may reach as many as 22 million adolescents

12-17 who watch TV at this time. Those messages exacerbate alcohol problems by encouraging young
people to drink, ignoring most problems related to alcohol consumption, and developing expectations that
drinking is an important, valued, fun, and anticipated young-adult behavior.
It is bad enough that beer commercials steadily inundate millions of underage viewers during NFL games.
Opening the door to a new flood of liquor ads, enticing teens also to try liquor brands, may serve the
Redskins bottom line but represents an affront to the Washington Metropolitan community. The Mission
statement of the Washington Redskins Community Outreach admirably states:
"To be the voice that raises awareness of issues concerning youth in the region,
and to utilize the unique assets of the Washington Redskins organization and
its corporate and community partners to achieve measurable results that
improve communities."
The Redskins liquor-advertising deal with Diageo directly counters this noble purpose and does a
tremendous disservice to young football fans and the community. We are certain that many others in the
community share our views.
We respectfully request that the Redskins organization immediately end its relationship with Diageo, refuse
ads for liquor-branded products during Redskins telecasts, and remove any liquor-branded signage from Fed-
Ex Field. We look forward to working with you and the Redskins organization to do what is best for the young
people of the Washington area.
Sincerely,
George A. Hacker
Director
Alcohol Policies Project
On Behalf of:
The Virginia Council of Churches
The Downtown Cluster of Congregations
Montgomery County Community Partnership
Children Count, Washington, D.C.
-XPSWR

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Diageo has cut deals with two more National Football League teams, even as the spirits marketer's
controversial sponsorship of the Washington Redskins comes under scrutiny from the NFL and two advocacy
groups.
A Diageo spokesman said the company has pacts in place with the Miami Dolphins and the New England
Patriots, although they are of a smaller scope than the multiyear, multimillion-dollar deal it inked with the
Redskins (AA, Sept. 9). The Dolphins and Patriots did not return calls.
Diageo's deal with the Redskins includes signage in FedEx Field for its hard-liquor brands, including Smirnoff
vodka, though not its alternative malt brands such as Smirnoff Ice and Captain Morgan Gold. Anheuser-Busch
Cos. is the team's exclusive malt-beverage sponsor.
"This levels the playing field. Beer, wine and spirits are the same," the Diageo spokesman said.
"Approximately 25% of our signage within [FedEx Field] is dedicated to social responsibility, which is much
higher than you see in other venues and on TV."
Still, the NFL is reviewing the agreement to see if it violates the spirit of its sponsor guidelines. League rules
prohibit distilled-spirits companies, tobacco products, firearms, fireworks and lotteries from using the NFL
shield, team names or logos to market their products. Diageo has not used any NFL or team logos in its in-
stadium advertising.The shields will be used in social responsibility print and TV ads , and the company is
developing public service announcements with retired Redskins, according to the spokesman.
The NFL declined to make further comment.
The Redskins spokesman said he could not discuss the deal other than to say, "We're proud of our
relationship with Diageo. They're a world-class marketing organization."
Anheuser-Busch declined to comment, though it issued a statement: "Anheuser-Busch is the exclusive
sponsor of the Redskins for the malt beverage category, which includes flavored alcohol beverage products.
Our agreement with the Redskins gives us exclusive rights among malt beverages for stadium signage and
team logos."
One longtime Redskins watcher said the team is risking the wrath of A-B by taking on Diageo as a sponsor.
"The Redskins are embarking on a strategy that is short-term gain for long-term pain," he said.
uncertainty
Diageo will hold a press conference today in conjunction with the Redskins' appearance on Walt Disney Co.-
owned ABC's "Monday Night Football." Part of the sponsorship deal includes local TV, but the Diageo
spokesman said he was News Corp.'s Fox affiliate in Washington-which carries most Redskins games-would
not air the two 30-second social responsibility ads that will run during the game on the stadium scoreboard.
The ads support Diageo's Bailey's Irish Cream and Smirnoff vodka.
General Electric Co.'s NBC last year said it would carry network spirits advertising, but reversed the decision
under pressure. Viacom's CBS was said to have been ready to accept spirits ads had NBC not buckled.
Diageo's sponsorship with the Redskins has also drawn the attention of the Center for Science in the Public
Interest, a health advocacy group. "It's bad enough that pro sports is already saturated with beer," George
Hacker, director of CSPI's Alcohol Policies Project, said in a statement. "But it's really a major fumble for the
Washington Redskins to make matters worse by peddling hard liquor in front of their young fans."
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I've been seeing this series of idiotic commercials for Six Flags, featuring a
barking, accented Asian man. There are a whole bunch of these commercials
floating around, like the one below, and they're basically all the samethe
crazy Asian man's head pops up to tell you what is fun (Six Flags) and what is
not (i.e. puppet show). "More flags! More fun! Six Flags!"

It's no coincidence that this crazy dude happens to be an Asian man. The
campaign was apparently designed specifically with an Asian guy in mind. A
little while ago, I actually heard from one reader who went out on an audition
for this commercial:
Recently there has been a Six Flags commercial where they show an Asian man
randomly speaking in a stereotypical Engrish accent. I, in fact, did go to the audition for
that a few months ago. The casting call said nothing about speaking in a fobby accent.
When I got there, the casting guy said stuff like "think about those Charlie Chan
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was so disgusted that I left midway.
Charlie Chan? Your grandfather? What kind of ridiculous stereotyping is this?
Because, you know, shouting Asian guys are funny. It kind of reminds of that
Hot Pockets Dojo campaign from last year. It also reminds me quite a bit of
that Banzai show from a couple of years back, the one where the bald Asian
dude had a similar schtick. And we all know how awesome that was. That's
racist! (Thanks, Douglas.)

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Exhibit 11
The Japanese American Citizens League, established in 1929, is the oldest Asian American civil
rights organization in the United States. Our mission is to secure and maintain the human and
civil rights of Americans of Japanese ancestry and others victimized by injustice.
May 1, 2008
Mr. Mark Shapiro
CEO
Six Flags Corporate Offices
1540 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
Dear Six Flags representatives,
The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) is perturbed by the use of offensive Asian
stereotypes in your latest television commercial. In the most recent Six Flags ad campaign, a
disembodied Asian man yells the amusement parks tagline, More flags! More fun! Six Flags!
in a mock Asian accent.
Using such an outdated, debilitating stereotype only perpetuates the idea that Asians cant speak
English properly. Though we understand the commercial was made for the purpose of humor,
there is nothing funny about resorting to degrading jokes that prey on others for a cheap laugh.
Surely, there must have been a host of other ways to create a humorous television commercial
that did not rely on offensive, outdated stereotypes.
According to those who went in for the original casting call, we also understand that Six Flags
casting directors were specifically looking for an Asian man who could emulate Charlie Chan or
who could talk like [his] grandfather. Veritably, many of us have grandfathers who were born
here and speak with American accents.
The JACL urges you stop running this ad and to rethink future advertising campaigns. There is
never a need to go in for a cheap laugh at the expense of others.
Sincerely,
William Yoshino
Midwest Director
Japanese American Citizens League

Exhibit 11

Ads Gone Bad: Six Flags not so much fun
Posted Sep 10th 2008 8:00AM by Tom Barlow
Filed under: Consumer Experience, Marketing and Advertising

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memories of this ad in the comments, and be sure to check out our other
posts on marketing gone wrong.
Thanks to our unfortunate history with slavery and the subsequent
economic slavery imposed on minority Americans, we as a nation are
very sensitive to charges of racism. So sensitive, in fact, that advertisers
are often accused of such transgressions for the slightest intimation. Six
Flags (NYSE: SIX), the amusement park chain, found this out recently.
The park created what I thought was a clever series of ads contrasting
the humdrum routine of ordinary life with the thrills to be found at a Six
Flags park. For example, one ad showed a lumpy teen attempting to
dance, another a chortling woman teasing her cat with a laser pointer,
both compared to gleeful coaster riders at Six Flags.

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund found these ads offensive, however, because the head
of an Asian man's face appeared in a bubble, rating the degree of fun, rated in number of flags, of each recreation.
His accent (Japanese, I thought) and his simple but hyper-enthusiastic phrasing ("two flags," for the dancer and
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laser wielder, "six flags" for the coaster, followed by the tag line "More flags, more fun.") suggested a stereotypical
English-challenged outsider.
I guess my racism detector isn't that finely calibrated. I saw him as a positive character, the one who "got it" while
the "two flags" characters didn't. But then again, I'm a white middle-class American male. How many times do you
suppose I've suffered from racism?
Six Flags didn't seem too concerned about the implied racism, refusing to comment on it for the press.
Nevertheless, I expect coming ads for the chain will be very carefully constrained to avoid a repeat of this incident.
In this case, charges of racism
Hit the nail on the head
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Exhibit 11

Ads Gone Bad: Six Flags not so much fun
Posted Sep 10th 2008 8:00AM by Tom Barlow
Filed under: Consumer Experience, Marketing and Advertising

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This post is part of our Ads Gone Bad series. Share your thoughts and memories of this ad in the comments,
and be sure to check out our other posts on marketing gone wrong.
Thanks to our unfortunate history with slavery and the subsequent economic slavery imposed on minority
Americans, we as a nation are very sensitive to charges of racism. So sensitive, in fact, that advertisers are
often accused of such transgressions for the slightest intimation. Six Flags (NYSE: SIX), the amusement
park chain, found this out recently.
The park created what I thought was a clever series of ads contrasting the humdrum routine of ordinary life
with the thrills to be found at a Six Flags park. For example, one ad showed a lumpy teen attempting to
dance, another a chortling woman teasing her cat with a laser pointer, both compared to gleeful coaster riders
at Six Flags.

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The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund found these ads offensive, however, because the head of an Asian man's face appeared in
a bubble, rating the degree of fun, rated in number of flags, of each recreation. His accent (Japanese, I thought) and his simple but hyper-enthusiastic
phrasing ("two flags," for the dancer and laser wielder, "six flags" for the coaster, followed by the tag line "More flags, more fun.") suggested a
stereotypical English-challenged outsider.
I guess my racism detector isn't that finely calibrated. I saw him as a positive character, the one who "got it" while the "two flags" characters didn't. But
then again, I'm a white middle-class American male. How many times do you suppose I've suffered from racism?
Six Flags didn't seem too concerned about the implied racism, refusing to comment on it for the press. Nevertheless, I expect coming ads for the
chain will be very carefully constrained to avoid a repeat of this incident.
In this case, charges of racism
Hit the nail on the head
178
(4.7%)
Are utter nonsense
2945
(78.5%)
Could go either way
301
(8.0%)
Don't know, don't care
329
(8.8%)
See other examples of Ads Gone Bad.

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Lord knows what Windell Middlebrooks would have done iI he`d gone to FedExField Ior the RedskinsKansas
City ChieIs game. Middlebrooks is the Iace oI Miller High LiIe, that Albert Haynesworthlooking dude who drives
a beer truck in commercials and loudly removes his product Irom inappropriate vendors.
Well, at FedExField, they`ve been selling suds in the men`s rooms.
Yup. The men`s rooms.
A photo oI a beer man camped out inside a stadium bathroom was posted on the oIIicial Redskins message board,
ExtremeSkins.com, early last season, along with anecdotes Irom Ians that Dan Snyder`s salesmen were pushing the
product on an audience oI his peeèrs at various spots around the stadium. That Iirst batch oI visual evidence didn`t
get much attention outside the message board.
But then last weekend, the same guy who posted the shot a year ago put a video oI FedExField`s head hawkers on
YouTube. Commenters again chimed in to say they`d seen such sales at various men`s rooms during Skins home
games. AIter Washington Citv Paper wrote about the clip, it went viral, so to speak. The bathroom beer vending
gave the world another reason to mock the Redskins.
Even Iolks who regulate beer sales Ior a living were shocked and awed by what they saw.
'Our phones were ringing oII the hook last week, says Norma Lindsay, the chieI liquor inspector Ior Prince
George`s County. 'Everybodyus, the |county| health department, everybodygot involved. That sort oI conduct
is absolutely against code, because it`s a health issue. There`s every sort oI health inspector in the world at that
stadium Ior Redskins games, but nobody had ever heard oI that or witnessed it beIore. I can`t even imagine who
would want to buy a beer in the bathroom. That was Irightening.
'Oh, my lord, gasped Jill Pepper oI the TEAM Coalition as she watched the video oI the bathroom beer sales Ior
the Iirst time.
Stadium beer is Pepper`s bailiwick. The TEAM Coalition is a local nonproIit that, Pepper says, was Iormed 'to
promote responsible consumption and sales service oI alcohol at maior sporting venues.
There is a lot oI money in beer. Pepper says that based on previous research, the Iootball crowd oI 80,000 gathered
Ior the Kansas City game would have purchased at least $400,000 in beer that aIternoon. The desire to increase
those revenues can lead to bad behaviors. Pepper says her group oIIers training and certiIication programs Ior
stadium vendors in which 'responsible sales techniques are taught. Pepper says 20 oI the 32 NFL teams put their
beer vendors through TEAM training. The Redskins do not participate.
Dear John: FedExField vendors have lost a Iavorite
sales spot.
Pepper, whose primary mission involves preventing the sale oI booze to drunks, wasn`t ready to throw the book at
the bathroom vendor, however.
'Looking at that video, Irom the perspective oI what we`re trying to accomplish, I`m happy to see that the people
who are purchasing aren`t showing warning signs oI impairment, she says. 'They weren`t slurring their words,
they weren`t stumbling, they were standing up straight. They weren`t loud or overly aggressive. Those are the
things you are trained to look Ior.
All well and good. But couldn`t the willingness to buv beer in the bathroom be taken as prooI oI Iuckedupness?
'Well, iI you were going to stop by the concession stand Ior a beer anyway, you`d have to admit there`s a
convenience Iactor, she says. 'But, OK, selling beer in the bathroom doesn`t Iall in the category oI responsible
service. There`s no question that serving alcohol in the restrooms is something we would not recommend, iust Irom
a hygiene standpoint.
Barbara Hyde would agree with Pepper on the hygiene angle.
Hyde is a longtime spokesperson Ior the American Society oI Microbiology. She says her group has never beIore
dealt with men`s-room beer sales, or the vending oI any sort oI consumables in such quarters. But when the
FedExField situation was presented to her by a reporter, Hyde had a quick reaction.
'My immediate thought is, Eww'` says the microbiologists` mouthpiece.
Hyde`s disgust has some scientiIic backing. For starters, AMS regularly releases reports on how oIten Iolks wash
their hands aIter using the toilet. The studies use data collected in public restrooms. So what`s the most soiled
sample group ever Iound in all the years AMS has been trolling near the toilets? Those patronizing the men`s room
at an Atlanta Braves game. Fewer than halI the wizzers washed up aIterward. A Iootball crowd would Iollow the
baseball crowd, Hyde surmised. And even though swine Ilu paranoia might have resulted in a temporary and slight
uptick in male hygieneguygiene?Hyde says the increase wouldn`t be enough to make the men`s rooms saIe Ior
Iood vendors.
Hyde says bad bugs that hang out in bathroomsshe mentioned staphylococcal bacteria and E. coliiust love to
travel the 'oral-Iecal route. And once you get those beauties in your system, diarrhea is only an appetizer
compared to the ailments they can cause.
'A bathroom can be hazardous to your health, she says, 'particularly as guys, since the track record Ior guys is,
aIter they urinate, they`re quite disinclined to wash their hands. You pick up things Irom all over in the bathroom.
When they hear this, some guys say, I don`t think my hands are contaminated.` Well, they might not be picking
anything up Irom the act oI urinating, but you may be carrying around bacteria and viruses Irom other sources.
Even without the science, Irankly, I`m surprised anybody would be considering mixing any type oI Iood or
beverage with the bathroom setting.
The Redskins were not sanctioned by P.G. County Ior the bathroom beer sales. Lindsay says she`s conIident that
the men`s room vending is in the past at FedExField. Her agency has been in contact with the team and its caterers
since the story broke, she says, and they`ve assured her that the salesman in the video has been Iired. But, she adds,
iust in case, county health and liquor inspectors have all been brieIed on the situation, and Irom now on they`ll all
be spending more time in men`s rooms.
'We`re used to dealing with sales to minors, selling aIter closing time, sales on Sundays, Lindsay says. 'Nobody
ever thought oI looking in the men`s room Ior beer sales. That one`s going down in the books.


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Exhibit 1
FedEx Field Vendors

Caught Selling Beer
In Bathrooms

7:26 AM, Oct 23, 2009 | comments

LANDOVER, Md. (WUSA) -- A rough week

for the Washington Redskins may get even
rougher. A new YouTube video has
surfaced showing beer vendors selling suds
in a men's room at FedEx Field.

The video was posted to the "Redskins418"
page on YouTube.com. It was first linked
on the ExtremeSkins.com website by a user
named "Graceland." The video shows
vendors, in uniform, inside a men's
bathroom, selling beer. The video was
supposedly taken during the October 18th
loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.

"Graceland" told the Washington City Paper
these sales have been going on since last
year. "Graceland" even posted a story
about it, trying to bring it to the attention of
team owner Dan Snyder. At the time,
FedEx Field management apologized to
"Graceland," blaming beer vendors who
were not following the rules.

Initial comments to the YouTube.com video
posting back up the story of bathroom
beer vendors. One person, who identifies

himself as a FedEx Field beer vendor, says
bathroom beer sales often happen before
games, during half time, or even when
official sales have been cut off.

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Exhibit 12
Vendor recorded selling beer in the washroom at Redskins games
Posted: October 23, 2009, 7:15 PM by Erin Valois
Football, NFL, Redskins
Washington Redskins Ians have been getting a little extra service in the
bathrooms at FedEx Field.

The :DVKLQJWRQ&LW\3DSHU reports that the team's vendors were selling
beer to patrons while they made use oI the Iacilities last Sunday during
their game against the Kansas City ChieIs.
The report says a poster named Gracelander Iirst complained about the
washroom sales more than a year ago on the Redskins' oIIicial message
board ExtremeSkins.com.
|W|hat made me mad was when I went to the bathroom at the
start oI the 3rd quarter and this guy was in the BATHROOM
selling beers to guys who waited Ior the urinals. I Iound this
iust wrong on so many accounts.
While Gracelander later noted on the message board that stadium
management apologized Ior the behavior oI the vendors, the user returned
last Sunday and recorded video evidence oI the overzealous sales tactics.
A spokesperson Ior the Redskins was unable to conIirm iI the vendor had
been Iired but the oIIicial told ABC's Washington aIIiliate that
"appropriate action was taken."

The Redskins next play Monday night at home against the Philadelphia
Eagles.
In theory, setting up shop in the washroom is a good way to kill two birds
with one stone.

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vendor in the video was probably raking in the cash compared to his
colleagues, who were not as creative (or, you know, have standards).
It also brings up a lot oI questions as a vendor, would you try to get
customers on the way in or the way out?

Good customer service would dictate selling on the way out, when
someone is ready to Iill up again. But then, selling on the way in means
not having to wonder iI your patron took the time to, uh, wash up beIore
doing business with you.
But, really, is there any way to make it socially acceptable to buy beer in
washrooms? The guy in the red sweatshirt may never live down his
cameo, as he eagerly takes out his wallet in the iohn.

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R------s Fan Appreciation Day!*

Truth be told, I don't much care about the R#&$^%@s, or the NFL in general, for that matter.
I'm more of a baseball guy and by the way, did you know that the Nats have now won 5 in a
row? Now they are only 15 games back of the Mets! However, this blog has a long and
illustrious history of hating the Redskins.

Of course, the way the team is run by owner Dan "DB" Snyder makes it easy to mock and
criticize them. And I'm all about easy comedy, so let's take a look at what's in store for the fans
on FAN APPRECIATION DAY! By the way, thanks to Deadspin for pointing me towards this
horrible mockery of fan appreciation.

So, FAD is scheduled for August 5th, the date of the first preseason scrimmage for the
Racists, I mean Redskins. Preseason just screams "We appreciate our fans," doesn't it? And
get this; Admission is free! (Parking is $25 for cars and $75 for RVs and no you can't park
anywhere but the FedEx field lot, why do you ask?)

Now that you're in the stadium (for free!) what is in store for you? Here is the schedule that is
subject to change without notice.

z 10:45 a.m.: Welcome announcement from Larry Michael - Uh, who? Oh, the radio guy.
Okay.
z 10:50 a.m.: Performance by Redskins Marching Band - Sweet! Because if there's one
thing about high school football that totally translates to the NFL, it's band geeks. Do all
teams have marching bands, or is it just the ones with racist names? And will the band
be dressed as "Redskins" for the performance?
z 11:05 a.m.: Performance by Redskins Cheerleaders - If they really appreciated the
fans, the cheerleaders would perform lapdances.
z 11:20 a.m.: Vinny Cerrato addresses the fans - WhoTF?
z 11:35 a.m.: Performance by Redskins Marching Band - Because 45 minutes is just
enough time to forget how trite a marching band is.
z 12 noon: Scrimmage begins - Finally.
z 2:00 p.m.: Scrimmage ends - Do they keep score during scrimmages? If so, my money
is on the Dodgers.
z 2:10 p.m.: Joe Gibbs addresses the fans - Um, I think this is supposed to read GOD
addresses the fans, right fans?
z 2:15 p.m.: Gregg Williams addresses the fans - WHoTF?
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z 2:20 p.m.: Al Saunders addresses the fans- WHoTF?
z 2:25 p.m.: Performance by Redskins Cheerleaders - Encore!
z 2:40 p.m.: "Best Dressed" contests begin - This creeps me out. Here are the details:
There will be five finalists for each of three categories:

{ Best Dressed football player, under 12: Everybody loves kids dressed for
combat!
{ Best Dressed cheerleader, under 12: Because Dan Snyder enjoys the
sexification of pre-teens! This is a great place to meet all your local Redskins
fans/child pornographers!
{ Best Dressed fan, 12 and older: Whatever.

z 3:10 p.m. Event ends - Let's see....the event lasts 4.5 hours. Parking costs $25.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just pay an illegal immigrant $2.50 an hour to drive your car
around for 5 hours? Plus, you wouldn't need to worry about your car being stolen
because you could just have him deported if he tried any shit. See? Works out best for
everyone!

But wait! There's more! You can also get your picture taken with the Redskins' Super Bowl
Trophies! Hundreds of T-shirts will be fired into the air with cannons! There will be kiosks! Win
a free autographed mini-helmet!

Oh, by the way "Due to the structure of the scrimmage, there will not be any organized
autograph sessions with players or coaches." But hey, thanks fans, we really do appreciate
you! No, really!

*Fans are not actually appreciated. This is just a gimmick to distract our moronic fans from
realizing how we constantly bend them over and fuck them in the ass on our way to losing to
the Seahawks in the playoffs --- Redskins Management
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Holy shit. I'm dying here:

Let's see....the event lasts 4.5 hours. Parking costs $25. Wouldn't it be cheaper to just pay an
illegal immigrant $2.50 an hour to drive your car around for 5 hours?

OMFG, that is hilarious.
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stwasm
I don't know if you got the e-mail or not, but the Redskins sent me an invitation to the Redskins-Ravens scrimmage at FedEx Field on
August 5, which includes this season's Fan Appreciation Day. While admission is free, the organization is charging $25 to park at the
stadium! In all the fan appreciation day/draft day party events they've had, this is first time they're charging for parking. I think that's just
outrageous. This is how they thank us for living through the Norv Turner Era, our season with Schottenheimer and all the glory that
was Steve Spurrier? I think that's outrageous!
PleaseBlitz
Wow, thats pretty awful.

Thanks Danny. :rolleyes:
stwasm
How's that for fan appreciation?
PleaseBlitz
No kidding. What? He isnt making enough off of us?
nelms

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Wow, thats pretty awful.

Thanks Danny. :rolleyes:
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How's that for fan appreciation?
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Don't forget about the 30% season ticket price increase! "Mister" Snyder is pricing out a lot of his fans. Oh well, more power to those
that want to pay those outrageous prices.
ksun247
Not thrilled about the cost, but i'll be there. Down here in San Antonio, don't get to see the team up close, so i'll be happy to be there :D

:ravensuck
MissU28
well, last year tickets to the scrimmage were like 12 dollars a piece and it was up in bmore... I think this could end up cheaper...just
take a group of 4 and you'll each end up paying a little over 6 bucks to park... half the price it would have cost to go to the scrimmage
last year
jwebst1
Thanks again, Danny Boy
TheDoyler23
Are ppl allowed to tailgate as if it were a real game? Much of the cost could be due to the cleanup involved...or to help pay for the other
goodies. I kinda doubt that they're trying to turn a profit on it.
nelms
Uhhhhh, we're talking about "Mister" Snyder.
JimboDaMan
July-9th-2006 11:32 AM
July-9th-2006 11:33 AM
July-9th-2006 11:35 AM
July-9th-2006 11:36 AM
July-9th-2006 11:43 AM
July-9th-2006 12:06 PM
I don't know if you got the e-mail or not, but the Redskins sent me an invitation to the Redskins-Ravens scrimmage at FedEx Field
on August 5, which includes this season's Fan Appreciation Day. While admission is free, the organization is charging $25 to park
at the stadium! In all the fan appreciation day/draft day party events they've had, this is first time they're charging for parking. I think
that's just outrageous. This is how they thank us for living through the Norv Turner Era, our season with Schottenheimer and all the
glory that was Steve Spurrier? I think that's outrageous!
Quote:
I don't know if you got the e-mail or not, but the Redskins sent me an invitation to the Redskins-Ravens scrimmage at FedEx Field
on August 5, which includes this season's Fan Appreciation Day. While admission is free, the organization is charging $25 to park
at the stadium! In all the fan appreciation day/draft day party events they've had, this is first time they're charging for parking. I think
that's just outrageous. This is how they thank us for living through the Norv Turner Era, our season with Schottenheimer and all the
glory that was Steve Spurrier? I think that's outrageous!
Quote:
Originally Posted by TheDoyler23
I kinda doubt that they're trying to turn a profit on it.
Quote:
Who didn't make any money the last time when he charged for camp, either. The guy's got expenses putting on the game, he's cutting
everyone a break compared to last year's $12 a head, and still everybody whines about him being a miser. Fuss about $7 beers and I'll
fuss with you - even though that's pretty much the going rate these days, I don't have to like it. But you can pile seven guys into a
minivan and all get in for $4 a pop, and Snyder is Simon McGreedy? :doh:
SkinsForLife260
yea good way to thank the fans.
PleaseBlitz
Im going to rent a short bus and pile in 44 people. $.57 apiece. HA! TAKE THAT DANNY! :laugh:
gray
Like it or not football is a business and the way Dan Snyder pays our players and coaches you would have to expect the prices that go
along with this business. Even though it might seem extreme we didn't use to have a fan appreciation day !!!!! You got to take the good
with the bad !!!!! If you don't agree with the price don't go or as others have said fill up a van and split the cost. Dan Snyder has had
some bumps in the road but he cares about this team and wants to bring it back to the glory days !!! Just because he is a very smart
business man and wants to make money you can't fault him. Oh in case anyone forgot I think he did pay $800 million for his favorite
childhood football team !!!!!!

:rant: :applause:
nelms
He didn't make any money when he charged for camp because he didn't attract enough suckers to actually turn a profit. On fan
appreciation day, you would expect to not be gauged for parking your freaking car. I'm sure he can make up whatever he loses on fan
appreciation day during the season with the $6 hotdogs, $35 parking, and $110 lower bowl seat tickets.

Oh well, like I said earlier, if you want to pay outrageous prices like that, more power to you. This is capitalism and Snyder has every
right to charge what he wants to charge. I also have every right to tell him to show his season tickets up his ass, which is what I did
when I sent the Redskins an e-mail when they raised ticket prices again.
All times are GNT -S. The time now is 02:SS PN.
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Uhhhhh, we're talking about "Mister" Snyder.
Quote:
Originally Posted by JimboDaMan
Who didn't make any money the last time when he charged for camp, either. The guy's got expenses putting on the game, he's
cutting everyone a break compared to last year's $12 a head, and still everybody whines about him being a miser. Fuss about $7
beers and I'll fuss with you - even though that's pretty much the going rate these days, I don't have to like it. But you can pile seven
guys into a minivan and all get in for $4 a pop, and Snyder is Simon McGreedy? :doh:
Quote:
Originally Posted by JimboDaMan
Who didn't make any money the last time when he charged for camp, either. The guy's got expenses putting on the game, he's
cutting everyone a break compared to last year's $12 a head, and still everybody whines about him being a miser. Fuss about $7
beers and I'll fuss with you - even though that's pretty much the going rate these days, I don't have to like it. But you can pile seven
guys into a minivan and all get in for $4 a pop, and Snyder is Simon McGreedy? :doh:
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Posted: Tuesday March 8, 2005 11:56AM; Updated: Tuesday March 8, 2005 12:52PM
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It all will be over soon for Laveranues Coles.
Once he passes a routine physical Wednesday, his trade from the
Washington Redskins will be consummated and he'll officially be a
New York Jets wide receiver again. Given how much we've heard
about Coles' frustration this past season, there shouldn't be a
more delighted player in the NFL. There's no question he lucked
into the best opportunity he could find after his time in D.C.
Coles will be reunited with his close friend, quarterback Chad
Pennington, while playing in an offense that should be far more
aggressive with new coordinator Mike Heimerdinger calling the
plays. He'll play with a better supporting cast on a playoff-caliber
team. He also gets to be happy again. That's the biggest boon for
a player who described every week of last season as a "miserable"
experience and added that the most important lesson he learned
while in Washington was "trust nobody."
If you want to know how badly Coles and the Redskins needed a
divorce, consider this: Redskins owner Daniel Snyder threatened
Coles when the receiver's refusal to accept the trade without a
contract extension thwarted the deal last month. "He said that if I
stayed in Washington, he would turn me into another Terry
Glenn," Coles said. (Glenn, now with the Cowboys, missed most
of the 2001 season with New England as his public feud with head
coach Bill Belichick resulted in various fines, suspensions and
ultimately Glenn's benching). "He said he would send a flat-screen
television to my home because I'd be better off watching the
games there. That was his way of saying I'd be sitting for the next couple years until they cut me."
Snyder didn't return phone calls about that comment but it's easy to understand his irritation. He gave Coles a then
franchise-record $13 million signing bonus two years ago. He expected Coles to be an integral part of the offense for
many years. Now Snyder was watching the same player call his shots on the way out of town -- Coles eventually
secured a reported $15 million in guaranteed money over the next three years while forcing the Redskins to take a
huge salary cap hit -- and it stung.
But Snyder wasn't the reason Coles wanted out of Washington. Joe Gibbs was. Coles never felt comfortable with the
Hall of Fame head coach. He was wary of Gibbs as far back as training camp. Coles feared that the coach (who was
traveling and couldn't be reached for comment) would favor a conservative, run-first offense featuring Clinton Portis
-- and that's exactly what happened.
Though Coles caught a career-high 90 passes last season, he averaged a career-low 10.6 yards per reception and
Laveranues Coles never found the right
connection with Joe Gibbs' offense in D.C.
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scored only one touchdown (which Portis threw to him on a halfback-option pass). Coles never publicly aired his
bitterness but he privately bristled about Gibbs' strategies: the coach's unwillingness to move the receiver around in
the offense, the lack of downfield passing and the predictable nature of the system.

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Exhibit 12

Gibbs Keeps Redskins on Course
By George Solomon
Sunday, March 13, 2005
The Washington Redskins losing cornerback Fred Smoot to the
Minnesota Vikings last week, on the heels oI taking a salary cap
whack as a result oI the Laveranues Coles-Ior-Santana Moss trade
and the recent loss oI up-and-coming linebacker Antonio Pierce
to the New York Giants, has many Ians asking, "Who's in charge
oI this team?"
And the answer would be Joe Gibbs.
Gibbs, who earned his way into the Pro Football Hall oI Fame
coaching the Redskins to Iour Super Bowls, winning three, is now running a team in a time oI Iree agency so
diIIerent Irom his previous reign.
To those who question whether he can succeed at managing a Iranchise when his previous role here was mostly
coaching, Gibbs must want to ask, "Do you think running a NASCAR operation the last decade was simply about
replacing spark plugs and buying team iackets?"
Gibbs, 64, signed a Iive-year contract last year at more than $5 million a season to be team president and coach.
While his 6-10 team was a maior disappointment to him and the Ians, one can assume he has learned enough about
his players, coaching staII, his boss, the salary cap and Iront-oIIice personnel to be the right person running the
operation.
At least I think he's the right guy, even though keeping Pierce and Smoot at their prices would have been my choice
and Iollowing through on owner Dan Snyder's threat to deliver a Ilat-screen television set to an inactive Coles's
house in Virginia on game days might have been Iun.
But Gibbs watchers know how he operates: He didn't want to pay Smoot more than Iellow corner Shawn Springs,
even though Freddie wasn't seeking more than a million or two more than what the Redskins were oIIering and is
better than the apparent replacement, Walt Harris, or possible draIt pick Adam "PacMan" Jones oI West Virginia.
Nor did Gibbs want to pay Pierce more than Marcus Washington, whom the coaches believe is a better player. Nor
did Gibbs want Coles pouting in a Redskins uniIorm.
Gibbs is very much about loyalty. Could the Redskins -- aIter taxes, 401(k)s, rollovers, tax deIerrals, stretching out
salary and bonus money -- have satisIied Smoot and Pierce? Sure. But Smoot and Pierce made it clear this was
about money -- not even a lot in their world. And to me, that's the main reason both players are gone. Money over
team.
Coles was another matter. He was too much about Coles: one oI those modern pro athletes you'd preIer never to see
or hear Irom again, although one hopes he Iinds contentment somewhere in Chriswebberland when you really know
he won't.
Choose a side on this Gibbs stuII, iI you must, knowing once the race begins you can't cross the track.
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The ACC basketball tournament is at MCI Center -- the Iirst time in the area since 1987, and it may not return Ior
another 20 years. That means I'll be 84, Gary Williams would have sweated through another 12,000 white shirts and
Feinstein might have bought a new sweater.
Some observations:
What's my Maryland iournalism student, Erin Farrell, doing on the Iront page oI Friday's Washington Post, ignoring
my demand oI obiectivity, her hands clutching her head in agony as the Terps were eliminated by Clemson? Farrell
was one oI several hundred Maryland students with suIIicient student "loyalty" points to buy a student ticket Ior the
tournament. Suggestion Ior Maryland administrators seeking to curb postgame riots in College Park: Deduct loyalty
points Irom rioters. Suggestion to Redskins: Give loyalty points to Ians running across Landover Road.
Williams was reIreshingly candid about his team getting an NCAA tournament bid Ior a 12th consecutive year:
"You earn your way onto the court" and "whatever happens, happens" and "you get paid Ior what you do."
But losing three to Clemson aIter beating them 13 straight times has me asking: What's up with that?
Chinatown on Thursday night was iumping, a Iull house at the China Doll, owner Emma Lee calling business
"great" -- a surprise to me since I never thought the ACC was a Chinese Iood conIerence, especially compared to
the Big East. . . .
Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak walking Seventh Street, his presence prompting me to recall that Kupchak's back iniury
was signiIicant in the decline oI the Bullets. When was that? Only 25 years ago. . . .
WTOP ad salesman JeIIrey Wolinsky made his IiIth straight ACC tournament appearance, noting, "I'd rather be in
North Carolina, where I wouldn't be commuting back and Iorth to work." Meantime, our sidewalk drummers seem
to startle some ACC Ians, many oI whom look like they should be on the driving range at Pinehurst and not at a
college basketball game. . . .
Miami pep band in Tommy Bahama-like shirts, shorts and sandals, oblivious to sub-40 degree temperatures outside,
the school's enthusiastic dance team not reminding me at all oI the University oI Florida cheerleaders, circa 1960. . .
.
The Cavaliers' mascot clearly a winner, Virginia Ians excited by the team's 66-65 upset oI Miami's Tommy
Bahamas, and thrilled Elton Brown made 3 oI 5 Irom the line, while Pete Gillen lived to coach another night.
Short Hops
Nationals Update: Still no television deal, with Peter Angelos trying to milk every dollar in guarantees oI the worth
oI his Iranchise when it's sold, guarantee annual O's revenue and the better oI a two-team regional sports network.
At this rate, the Iirst Nats telecast will come around the all-star break, unless Bud Selig can close the door on this
man.
Single-game tickets went on sale, but Opening Night (April 14) tickets won't go on sale until March 26, until
owners oI mini-plans get their shots. Who said liIe is Iair?
HOK seems to be the Iront-runner to design the new waterIront stadium, with my suggestion that it take on the
appearance oI old GriIIith Stadium (which I never saw, but who cares?) gaining momentum and my suggestion it
be called National Park near Union Station (iust to tweak the boss in Baltimore).
Metro deciding whether to keep the subway running after midnight on game nights, iI the games go long, or there's
a rain delay. Duh? Even I, who gets conIused by the Blue and Orange lines, can Iigure out iI trains take you to the
game, they ought to take you home aIter the game. . . .
Farewell to Glenn Davis, Heisman winner oI 1946 and Mr. Outside on Army's Iabulous wartime teams, who died
last week. Great player. . . .
And, what's wrong with a congressional hearing on steroids with baseball players testiIying? Who should testiIy,
big-game hunters?
Have a comment or question. reach me at Talkback(washpost.com.
There is no doubt that Joe Gibbs has the last word on any moves involving the Redskins. And don't expect him to
put up with pouting or players who put money above the team.
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Just beIore game time yesterday, Dan Snyder, Iollowing Cheap Seats Daily's pro bono crisis PR counsel, dropped
the FedExField sign ban. Snyder had iust as quietly and cowardly put the ban in place beIore the Tampa Bay game
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'We have no intention oI trying to control our Ians` varied ways oI expressing their views on the Redskins
organization and the team`s perIormance, Iormer newspaperboy turned Redskins COO David "Yeah, That's the
Ticket!" Donovan said in the very brieI ban-liIting statement.
'We`ve disappointed our Ians so Iar this season, and I`m as disappointed as they are, added Dan Snyder. 'I
understand that some Ians want to express their Ieelings with signs and they should do so, as long as they stay
within the boundaries oI good taste and don`t block the view oI other Ians.
This gives the "He's learning as an owner" crowd something to throw out as they perpetuate that myth.
The "He's a D-bag!" set, meanwhile, gets plenty to work with here, too.
The timing oI Snyder's liIting oI the sign ban was grotesque, since it was announced too late Ior anybody going to
the Denver game to even get word. Much worse: The announcement also surely has something to do with the Iact
that Snyder's sponsoring a Ian sign contest this Friday with his sportstalker, WTEM, at Dave & Busters at White
Flint Mall as part oI a Redskins pep rally.
Snyder's station sponsored the same sign contest at the same venue beIore last year's home game against Dallas.
(AFTER THE JUMP: Sign policies show Dan Snvaers a hvpocrite? Dan Snvaer ran the same sign promotion at
Dave & Busters last vear? Dan Snvaer likes signs? You can call Albert Havnesworth lazv. but not cowaralv? Tank
McNamaras neither fair nor funnv? Dunbars season enas atvpicallv? Spingarns season enas tvpicallv? Will
someboav tell Mike Miller to stop aressing funnv until his aamn team wins?)
From a preview oI the 2008 sign sweepstakes: "A pair oI tickets to the game will be awarded to the winner oI the
best 'Beat Dallas' sign." The same prizes are used to draw Ians to Snyder's event this year.
Bottom line: Dan Snyder used to encourage Ians to make those dangerous, eye-poking thingamajigs. Like the
Geico sign giveaway promotion Snyder put on during the Monday Night Massacre revealed, iI signs put money in
Snyder's pocket, he likes 'em.
What a champ.
***
Who's not a coward? Albert Haynesworth.
Outta shape? Sure seems like it. Malingerer? Sure seems like it.
But not a coward. Haynesworth went down in a big heap in the 4th quarter and stayed there. It's a routine he goes
through pretty much every game. The replays didn't show where his iniury could have occurred, but he acted like he
was in a lot oI pain. But, as the cameras showed him being helped oII the Iield yet again, you could see that he was
wearing no protective pads in his pants.
"Albert doesn't even appear to be wearing knee pads," Dan DierdorI, the CBS commentator, commentated.
The pads weigh nothing. Not wearing them seems almost masochistic, or maybe it's intended to send a message oI
invincibility to opponents. A lot oI players these days are sending the same message. But why take up this no-gain,
more-pain habit? Especially iI you iust got paid 42 million large, like Big Al?
***
By gametime yesterday, the Redskins had earned "obiect oI pity" status Irom some quarters oI the Washington Post.
The paper's comic books blog, Comic RiIIs, had a poll asking readers iI Tank McNamara had "crossed the line" oI
Iairness to Dan Snyder in its Friday panels.
The strip in question Ieatured a mythical contract negotiation between Steve Largent, representing 1im Zorn, and
Snyder's management team. The debated line-crossing segment had Largent saying all time spent on the Redskins is
"garbage time." Forget Iairness. I'm more concerned that the strip didn't cross the line Irom unIunny to Iunny, yet
clearly did cross into "what-the-hell-are-you-talking-about?" territory.
In any case, the recent Tank material is nowhere near as brutal to the Skins owner as when the strip named Snyder
its "Sports Jerk oI the Year" in 2001.
***
Big news Irom Saturday's DCIAA semiIinals doubleheader, held at Cardozo's beautiIul stadium: Dunbar WON'T be
in the Turkey Bowl. The dynastic Crimson Tide got walloped by Woodson, knocking Craig 1efferies' squad out oI
the Thanksgiving Day championship Ior the Iirst time in a dozen years.
At the "Unsurprising" end oI the spectrum: Spingarn, which provides Iodder Ior my Washington City Paper
Education Issue column every year, ended the season as the worst team in the city.
In other words, Spingarn's Iootball program enioyed a typical year: Still another new coach was hired, not enough
kids to Iield a team show up when practice starts in the summer, the Green Wave goes on to lose every game,
mostly by blowouts, etc.
Spingarn cemented itselI as the bottom oI the bottom with last week's 55-0 loss to Woodson. That leIt Spingarn at
0-8, having been outscored by opponents 378-24.
Wait 'til next year.
***
With Saturday's latest Iourth-quarter disappearance against previously nosediving Detroit, the Wizards stuck to the
script oI their version oI "Sleepless in Seattle" "Winless in November." The line between Iatalist and realist was
obliterated years ago among Bullets/Wizards Ians. This Iranchise still wears lousiness iust like destiny. Given the
past and present, Mike Miller's game-day costume Irom his hair on down, it's an outIit loaded with look-at-me
accessorizing exudes nothing but silliness. My inner geezer is sure his get-up should go.
***
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UPDATE: Geico Redskins signs ok at FedEx Field

You know, I have to apologize. I stupidly have written several times in
recent hours that no fan signs are permitted at FedEx Field, due to fears
about obstructed views and fans being poked in the head.
But duh, that was just careless of me. Of course, you ARE permitted to
have certain signs, which I should have known.
Yes, that's right, you can have these signs with the little pointy sticks for
maximum head poking potential, and the opening-and-scrolling action for
maximum view obstruction potential, because the Redskins themselves
passed out these signs on Monday, along with towels for waving.
"I think I hit the guy next to me in the head about five times with my
towel, swinging that around," said one fan, whose sign was confiscated.
"It was ridiculous."
So remember, poster board is a no-go, due to safety issues. Pointy-
sticked Geico ads are fine. Don't hold up a piece of cardboard that might
block your neighbor's view. But feel free to block his view with a
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A few e-mails I got on this topic:

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signs are BANNED, then give out FREE SIGNS??? How much more
obvious can Snyder be?!?!?! I was disgusted by this."
* "You did not mention the approved signs handed out once inside the
stadium consisting of a burgundy plastic scroll like banner with Redskins
on one side and GEICO on the other. An errant TV camera could have
captured a fan (I saw none using them) holding up a sign in support of
the GEICO Redskins. Just one more commercially driven insult to injury
to a loyal fan base - I'm included."
* "If they are banning all signs and banners, why were they GIVING OUT
GEICO banners on Monday night? And if they are worried about injuries,
those towels are more of an eye-threat than someone holding up a sign!
Unreal."
Unreal? Nah. Just another day.
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to get out. Can the Lower Potomac Indigenous Peoples management be any more
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Posted by: playahatah | October 28, 2009 1:18 PM | Report abuse
I think I'd rather root for Geico at this point. GO GEICO!!
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Get Donovan back on the phone. I thought he controlled the stadium!!!
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his rotating cast of bumbling general managers and usually getting a
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Mr. Perceptive on Nov 15, 6:20 PM said:
Hey, you left out DOA slugs Dan Wilkinson, Sean Gilbert and Adam Archuleta.

Genius Danny Snyder's Redskins have handled more stiffs than an undertaker.
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@Mr. Perceptive: Archuleta has to be one of top three all-time clunkers. Lest we forget, there was also Dan Wilkinson, TJ Duckett, Sean
Alexander, Jason Taylor, Jeremiah Trotter, Brandon Lloyd, Ki-Jana Carter, Jessie Armstead, Tony Banks, Danny Wuerffel, Trung
Candidate, and on and on it goes...

Perhaps Synder should take a page from his bald doppleganger, 'George Costanza' on "Seinfeld," where hapless George determines his judgment is for shit and
decides to base all his subsequent decisions on the EXACT OPPOSITE of what he would regularly do. Were Synder to embrace this philosophy we would be in
the Super Bpwl in no-time flat! Till then, we're doomed......
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@Dexter Manley: "doppleganger"!?

Dexter, I thought you were illiterate!!!
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@Jimmy Johnson: And according to Mike Ditka he has the IQ of a grapefruit.
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The Redskins officially began the McNabb era with a 59-28 drubbing at the hands or should we say paws of Michael Vick and the Philadelphia
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team's anniversary theme, here Iollows a list oI Snyder's 70 most notable moments since taking over the Redskins
in April 1999. In the interest oI time, please hold your boos until the list is Iinished.
Snyder:
* made a big splash at his Iirst training camp with a helicopter arrival.
* Iired general manager Charley Casserly in 1999.
* hired Vinny Cerrato as personnel man in 1999.
* Iired Vinny Cerrato as personnel man in 2001.
* hired Vinny Cerrato as personnel man in 2002.
* hired Pepper Rodgers, his game-watching buddy Irom FedEx Field, as a personnel expert in 2000.
* may have heard Jay Leno ioke, "Native Americans once again are calling Ior the Washington Redskins to change
their name. It has nothing to do with racial insensitivity. They say the team iust sucks.''
* told ESPN.com during 2000 training camp that head coach Norv Turner "is going to be here a long time."
* Iired head coach Norv Turner with three weeks to go in the 2000 season.
* hired head coach Terry Robiskie during the 2000 season. (When asked iI it was true that, as team spokesman Karl
Swanson said aIter Robiskie's hiring, the head coach makes all the decisions on the Redskins, Robiskie said, "II I
wanted to change my desk, I'm going to call |Snyder| 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.")
* Iired head coach Terry Robiskie aIter the 2000 season.
* hired head coach Marty Schottenheimer beIore the 2001 season. ("I'm not as hands-on as it may seem," Snyder
said during Schottenheimer's introduction as coach. "This is Marty Schottenheimer's organization Irom the
standpoint oI the Iinal word.")
* hired Marty's brother Kurt as deIensive coordinator.
* hired Marty's son Brian as quarterbacks coach.
* saw his team lose the Schottenheimers' Redskins debut, 30-3, to the San Diego Chargers, Norv Turner's new
team.
* may have heard Jay Leno ioke: "You know you have phony mail when you receive a Publisher's Clearing House
Envelope and it says on it, 'Redskins--You may be a winner.'"
* went to college games to scout quarterbacks and talked about head coaches he'd like to hire.
* with Marty Schottenheimer still on the payroll, sparked ESPN reports that his team "is close" to agreement with
Steve Spurrier.
* Iired head coach
Marty Schottenheimer.
* Iired Marty's brother.
* Iired Marty's son.
* cut punter Matt Turk.
* cut punter Matt Turk's brother.
* .cut Iullback Larry Centers, now a Pro Bowler with BuIIalo.
* .signed quarterback JeII George. (During a Fox broadcast in September 2000, Terry Bradshaw said Snyder was
Ioolish to listen to Sonny Jurgensen's advice to bring in George. "Both Jurgensen and George have one thing in
common--they have never won anything," said Bradshaw.)
* .cut JeII George.
* .signed Deion Sanders. (Actual ieer heard during 2000 season Irom pregnant woman in the FedEx club level iust
beIore one oI Deion's many no-gain punt returns: "Do something, you piece oI shit!")
* .cut Deion Sanders aIter recovering almost none oI his massive signing bonus. A Washington Times reporter
observed that Snyder had paid Deion $8.5 million "to go to a Wizards game with him."
* .signed 36-year-old receiver Andre Reed.
* .signed 37-year-old receiver
Irving Fryar.
* .signed 36-year-old deIensive end Bruce Smith.
* cut Brian Mitchell.
* may have heard Jay Leno ioke: "What do the Washington Redskins and the Taliban have in common? Neither
will be around Ior the playoIIs."
* cut kicker Brett Conway in the middle oI the 2000 season.
* cut kicker Brett Conway in the middle oI the 2002 season.
* didn't cut Michael Westbrook beIore the 1999 season.
* .signed Danny WuerIIel, who, beIore coming to the Redskins, backed up Heath Shuler.
* .may have heard Jay Leno ioke, aIter guest Denzel Washington boasted that his son's high-school Iootball team
had won its last game 60-0: "Who were they playing, the Redskins?"
* .banned all pedestrian traIIic into FedEx
Field, except those
Ians who paid $25 to park at the Capital Centre lot and walk Irom there.
* .hired male cheerleaders.
* .broke the team's contract with Frostburg, Md., to move training camp to Redskin Park Ior the 2000 season.
* .may have heard Jay Leno ioke: "Eleven members oI the Washington Redskins Monday were exposed to a
mysterious white powder they had never seen beIore-- the end zone."
* .charged Ians $10 to watch training camp at Redskin Park, something no NFL team had ever done.
* charged Ians $10 to park at Redskin Park during training camp, something no NFL team had ever done.
* charged media Ior the right to report on practice Irom Redskin Park during training camp, something no NFL
team had ever done.
* saw the Loudoun County bomb squad called to training camp to blow up a package that was Iound to contain a
music box and a "pro-Redskins" Ian letter to the team's owner.
* was sued Ior deIamation in September 2000 by John Jenkins Sr. and John "Chip" Jenkins Jr., whose Iamily
business had tended the grounds at Redskin Park Ior nearly Iour decades, aIter telling Sports Illustrated he Iired the
pair because they were "trying to kill the players with their crappy Iields." The suit was dismissed the Iollowing
February.
* bought out the independently published Ian publication Redskins Journal.
* banished some Washington Times reporters Irom the pressbox to the basement oI FedEx Field aIter nonglowing
coverage.
* was awarded "Sports Jerk oI the Year" Ior 2000 by cartoon pundit Tank McNamara.
* may have heard Jay Leno ioke, "The San Diego Chargers Iired their coach, Kevin Gilbride, aIter the team
managed only two wins in the Iirst six games. Today, the Redskins said, 'Two games? We'll take him!'"
* booted Domino's out as OIIicial Pizza oI the Washington Redskins aIter asking Ior an exponential increase in the
endorsement Iee.
* opened 10 Washington
Redskins retail outlets, but none
in Washington.
* added two rows oI seats at Iield level, which oIIer, by most accounts, the worst view in the stadium. He named
them "Dream Seats."
* saw his team threatened by NFL oIIicials with the loss oI a draIt pick Ior blasting music whenever the Baltimore
Ravens were on oIIense during an October 2000 game at FedEx Field.
* began selling "replica" ierseys Ior 2002 season at about $300 a pop. The garments don't replicate any previous
Redskins iersey.
* may have heard Jay Leno ioke, "The Emmy Awards have now been canceled Ior the second time and might not
be scheduled now until next year. When the Redskins heard about this, they said, 'You can do that?'"
* hired Marvin Lewis to be his team's Iourth deIensive coordinator in Iour years.
* saw his team get routed on Monday Night Football by the Philadelphia Eagles at FedEx Field, as a brawl in the
stands resulted in Ians and visiting players getting pepper-sprayed by the cops.
* said he was 5-Ioot-9 in a Washington Post Magazine article.
* saw his QB Shane Matthews benched a week aIter he won Player oI the Week honors.
* saw his team lose to Dallas, 41-35, on Sept. 12, 1999, in his Iirst game as an owner. It was the Redskins' Iourth
loss in a row to their top rival.
* saw his team lose to Dallas, 38-20, on Oct. 24, 1999, the Skins' IiIth loss in a row to the Cowboys.
* saw his team lose to Dallas, 27-21, on Sept. 18, 2000, the Skins' sixth loss in a row to the Cowboys.
* saw his team lose to Dallas, 32-13, on Dec. 10, 2000, Skins' seventh loss in a row to the Cowboys.
* saw his team lose to Dallas, 9-7, on Oct. 15, 2001, the Skins' eighth loss in a row to the Cowboys.
* saw his team lose to Dallas, 20-14, on Dec. 2, 2001, the Skins' ninth loss in a row to the Cowboys. (Under
Snyder, the Redskins have never beaten the Cowboys.)
* announced that he'd like to own Washington's baseball team, too. --Dave McKenna
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face-to-face last evening and Spagnuolo spent the night in a guest house
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while if necessary, as neither side has a pressing need to do anything
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Things are moving well and harmonious, sources said, and several
sources close to the candidates believe that Snyder could make a
decision tonight and begin the negotiating process, with a press
conference possible Thursday or Friday. A source close to Steve
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courtesy phone call, while sources close to Jim Fassel, Spagnuolo and
Ron Meeks said they do not believe Mariucci to be as much of a threat
as the other candidates.
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After a trip down the Canyon of Heroes on Tuesday afternoon,
Steve Spagnuolo got another hero's welcome from the
Washington Redskins.
But the Giants aren't ready to let their defensive coordinator get
away without a fight.
According to a source close to the 48-year-old assistant, the
Giants have already told him they're willing to do whatever they
can to keep him if he ends up getting offered the Redskins' head
coaching job. That would include a raise, a contract extension
and possibly even the title of assistant head coach.

However, they're only willing to go so far and it doesn't appear that the Giants will do for Spagnuolo what the Dallas
Cowboys did last month for offensive coordinator Jason Garrett. To prevent Garrett from leaving for either the Atlanta
Falcons or Baltimore Ravens, the Cowboys gave him a new contract reportedly worth $3 million per season.
The Giants also will not promise Spagnuolo that they'll make him next in line to be the Giants' head coach.
Still, the Giants are hoping a sizeable, yet reasonable raise might be enough to convince Spagnuolo to avoid what
several members of the organization have advised him is a messy situation with a meddling owner in Dan Snyder who
already has hired two assistants - new offensive coordinator Jim Zorn and promoted defensive coordinator Greg
Blache. Both were given three-year contracts, regardless of who becomes head coach.
Of course, when Spagnuolo was hired away from the Eagles prior to the season, he wasn't allowed to hire any
defensive assistants with the Giants, so it's not believed that will be an issue for him. In fact, it's believed that if
offered, Spagnuolo would take the job.
Spagnuolo appears to be one of four finalists for the job, joining ex-Giants coach Jim Fassel, ex-49ers and Lions
coach Steve Mariucci and Colts defensive coordinator Ron Meeks. Fassel is believed to be the favorite. In fact, one
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to Washington on his private jet after the Giants' ticker-tape parade in Manhattan and victory celebration at Giants
Stadium. Spagnuolo met with Snyder and Redskins officials Tuesday night, before several more hours of meetings
and interviews that lasted into the evening yesterday. Snyder even let Spagnuolo stay overnight Tuesday in the guest
house at his estate.

Spagnuolo's defense held the most prolific offense in NFL history to just 274 yards and 14 points in the surprising 17-
14 Super Bowl win over New England. And his blitz-happy scheme kept the pressure on Tom Brady all night, sacking
him five times.
"For the most explosive offense I've seen in years to just be slowed down like that is quite impressive," Snyder told
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Wednesday, July 25, 2001
CARLISLE, Pa. The "Welcome, Washington Redskins" sign is up again outside Rillo's. The Super Bowl XXVI
championship plaque has been dusted oII at the G-Man. The grass at Biddle Field is Ireshly mowed.
Bubba and the boys are coming back to town . Sunday.
The economy oI this college town oI 20,000 has survived quite nicely thanks largely to car shows at the Iairgrounds
since the Redskins iilted their summer home oI 32 years and moved Irom Dickinson College to Maryland's Frostburg
State University in 1995.
"Our business has greatly increased each month. June and July were very strong, so it's hard to say how much oI a
diIIerence having the Redskins in town is going to make Ior us," said Heather KattouI, general manager oI the ComIort
Suites in downtown Carlisle. "But we are oIIering a special Redskins rate Ior Ians and media."
Neither Carlisle nor the Redskins, who broke their contract with Frostburg to train at Redskin Park last summer, were
quite the same without each other.
It was in Carlisle, aIter all, where Vince Lombardi began the Redskins' renaissance in 1969, where George Allen turned
them into contenders in 1971 and where Joe Gibbs molded three Super Bowl champions Irom 1982 to 1991.
"I always thought the Redskins would be back because this is where they trained when they were winning," said
restaurateur Joe Rillo, whose parents used to Ieed coaches and players at their home when the business was closed on
Sundays back in the 1960s.
Those were the days oI six-week training camps, oI boys will be boys hi-iinks, oI innumerable rookies standing on
chairs singing oII-key renditions oI college Iight songs and oI post-bed check exits out the back door oI Adams Hall to
the G-Man (oIIicially the Gingerbread Man).
Today, training camp is halI as long, there are only halI as many rookies to harass and many oI the millionaire veterans
are too busy checking on their stock portIolios or too worried about staying in top shape to have much time Ior
carousing in Carlisle.
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But while cornerback Darrell Green, trainer Bubba Tyer and assistant general manager Bobby Mitchell are the only
current Redskins employees who have summered at Dickinson, it might not take long Ior a new generation oI Redskins
to Iall in love with Carlisle.
"This is where my career started, so to me this is the most beautiIul place in the world," said Green, a 12-year Carlisle
resident, on the eve oI the Redskins' 1994 departure.
That Ieeling is mutual.
"When my husband and I were in Hawaii in 1983, we were asked where we were Irom, and we were proud to say that
we were Irom Carlisle, Pennsylvania, summer home oI the Super Bowl champion Washington Redskins," said Arlene
Merisotis, owner oI George's Subs and Pizza, iust down High Street Irom Dickinson.
"It's Iun when you see houses down the street Irom yours on ESPN," said G-Man manager Dan Miller, who Iondly
remembers Redskins greats Russ Grimm and Dave Butz as regulars at the establishment. "Having the Redskins and the
Ians here enhances the quality oI liIe iust by having a more metropolitan crowd Ior a month."
And the Redskins, who considered William & Mary, Gettysburg and Richmond among other colleges beIore coming
back to Dickinson, know that they're in good hands.
"We know what's involved in hosting an NFL training camp," said Dottie Warner, Dickinson's director oI event
planning. "We know what a team needs."
While the Redskins still will practice at Biddle and sleep at Adams (as well as at Drayer Hall), they will have a separate
dining area in the Holland-Union Building Ior the Iirst time and will dress and liIt weights in the spacious and air-
conditioned Kline Center instead oI in the cramped areas adiacent to Biddle.
There also will be a hospitality tent Irom which cronies oI team owner Dan Snyder and other VIPs can watch practice.
Snyder, who would helicopter to Frostburg to watch practice even beIore he sold his non-Iootball businesses, Iigures to
be the team's most devoted Ian in Carlisle. That's a maior change Irom the last Redskins owner oI the previous Carlisle
era.
The octogenarian Jack Kent Cooke would make an annual pilgrimage to Dickinson.
In 1989, Cooke was on hand Ior the Redskins' scrimmage, always held at Carlisle High School because Biddle didn't
have lights. Burly running back Gerald Riggs had been acquired Irom Atlanta that spring, and during the scrimmage,
Riggs ran out oI bounds, slammed into equipment manager Jay Brunetti's truck and dented it.
Shortly thereaIter, here came Riggs again, heading straight Ior Cooke, who was seated in a wooden chair along the
sideline. Redskins public relations director Charlie Dayton iumped up and hurled his Ieatherweight body in Iront oI
Riggs to prevent the collision oI player and owner. For his bravery above and beyond the call, Dayton became the Iirst
PR man to make the All-Madden team.
Still, Dayton might have been better oII than assistant trainer Keoki Kamau, who once returned Irom a preseason road
game to Iind that Tyer had stunk up his room (and all oI Adams Hall) with a dead chicken. Tyer once hoisted assistant
coach Jerry Rhome's bike up the Biddle Field Ilagpole. And Tyer and Grimm, a player and assistant Ior the team's last
14 years in Carlisle, used to compete to see who could stuII the other's truck more Iull oI popcorn or other equally
annoying substances.
Grimm, who probably loved Carlisle more than any Redskin, leIt Ior the Pittsburgh Steelers this winter, so Tyer is goin
to have Iind a new partner/target.
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John Maroon, director of public relations for the Baltimore Orioles, has resigned to become vice president and director of public
and community relations for the Redskins.
The hire comes nearly five weeks after new owner Dan Snyder fired 31 members of the administrative staff, including all five
employees in public and community relations. Two interns from the PR department handled those duties the first week of
training camp.
Snyder and minor ty owner Fred Drasner flew by helicopter to the Frostburg State University campus Tuesday afternoon to
watch the Redskins hold a joint practice with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Snyder refused to be interviewed.

Steelers owner Dan Rooney walked the sidelines during the practice and stopped to talk with the media. He was asked if he
could recall any NFL owner firing as many employees as Snyder did during a two- week period.
"I would probably have to say no,'' Rooney said with a smile. "He has a job to do and hopefully he's doing what he thinks he
needs to do. Hopefully it works out for him.''
NO ALARM BELLS. Snyder Communications, Snyder's parent company, is going through some rough financial times these
days. Its stock, which was initially offered at $17 per share three years ago, dropped 25 percent last Friday, another 6 percent
earlier this week, and currently stands at a 52-week low of $17.94.
Despite the dramatic drop, a company spokesman said it will have no effect on Snyder's ownership of the football team, which
he purchased for $800 million last month. Snyder, who owns more than 10 million shares in the company, financed the
Redskins by using cash reserves and holdings in other companies.
TEAM PLAYER. Cornerback Darryl Pounds, who has waited nearly four years to become a starter, realizes it is not going to
happen anytime soon. First-round draft pick Champ Bailey has already won one of the two starting positions, and 39-year old
Darrell Green still isn't showing his age at the other spot.
"I want what's best for the team,'' Pounds said. "I don't want to play on a losing team, so if Champ makes us better, that's a
great thing. The more games we win, the better we all look.
"When I came here in 1995, Darrell was 35. I figured he would retire in two years and I would be starting, but he's still going
strong at 39. He's amazing.''
ONE PER YEAR. Free agent strong safety Sam Shade, who started for Cincinnati last year, will be the seventh starter for the
Redskins at that position in seven years.
He follows Danny Copeland (1993), Martin Bayless ('94), James Washington ('95), Darryl Morrison ('96), Jesse Campbell ('97)
and Leomont Evans ('98). Evans will start at free safety this season.
"We looked at a lot of safeties before we signed Sam,'' coach Norv Turner said. "He's a big hitter, an outstanding tackler, and
we're really excited about him. You'd like to think with Sam being as young as he is (25) that we've found our strong safety for a
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practice against the Steelers but could be back on the field today. ... The two teams will meet in a scrimmage Saturday in
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(AP) Chris Samuels settled into his room at the Washington Redskins team hotel and was due at morning practice.
LaVar Arrington's bed and locker remained empty.

The Redskins announced Tuesday that they had agreed to terms with Samuels, a tackle Irom Alabama and the No. 3
overall draIt pick in April. The agreement was reached Monday night, and Samuels then reported to the hotel Ior
team meetings.

Financial details were not available, although CBS SportsLine reported that the contract covered six years Ior
$30.6 million, with a $10 million signing bonus and a voidable seventh year. The two sides had been hovering
around the $30 million mark Ior several days.

Samuels missed Monday's opening day oI training camp, which was limited to rookies, Iirst-year players,
quarterbacks and players returning Irom iniuries. The Iull roster reports Thursday.

Samuels is proiected to start at leIt tackle, although he will be asked to win the iob Irom veteran Andy Heck.

His arrival leaves No. 2 overall selection Arrington and Pro Bowl running back Stephen Davis as the team's
unsigned players. Arrington's contract is nearly complete, although it had been thought that his deal would be
Iinished beIore Samuels'.

"When you have high picks like that, there's a lot that goes into the contracts," Vinny Cerrato, director oI
player personnel, said. "You can be close on some things, but it takes a while to get everything together."

Davis is another matter. The NFC's leading rusher last season, designated as the team's Iranchise player, was less
than impressed with the Redskins oIIer oI a $5 million signing bonus, especially given owner Dan Snyder's
spending splurge that netted big bucks Ior Deion Sanders, Bruce Smith and now Arrington and Samuels.

Davis oIIered to sign a one-year contract in May, a variation on the one-year, $3.532 million tender that must be
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becoming a Iree agent again at the end oI the season.

A holdout or two won't be the only distractions at this camp. Snyder broke a contract with Frostburg State
University in Maryland and moved the operation to the Redskins' regular training Iacility

where the name has been changed Irom Redskin Park to Redskins Park and added "NFL experience" attractions to
create a carnival atmosphere.

The sounds oI coaches barking orders meshed with the racket oI iackhammers Monday as the Redskins Iinished
last-minute preparations Ior Thursday, when thousands oI Ians are expected to pay an NFL-Iirst $10 admission Iee
to watch practice.

Coach Nov Turner approved the change, but the players have mixed Ieelings. It's nice to be close to home and close
to Ians, but the Allegheny Mountains Ieel a lot more comIortable than the humid, insect-inIested Ilood plains oI the
Washington suburbs in July.

"I can stand out there in the heat because I don't do anything," kicker Brett Conway said. "For the other
guys, it going to be hot. ... We also have to get rid of the bugs."

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z First-year running back Norman Miller twisted his right ankle and is day-to-day.
z Cornerback and third-round draIt pick Lloyd Harrison had a good day, picking oII passes thrown by rookie
quarterback Todd Husak. To be Iair, the receiving corps was undermanned and began to wilt in the heat.
z Snyder invited veteran Curtis Buckley, who tore his Achilles' tendon in the spring and is out Ior the season, to
help coach the special teams.
z Snyder really knows how to make an entrance: Minutes into the aIternoon practice, his blue helicopter landed
iust beyond the end zone. Snyder, Cerrato and Hall oI Fame quarterback Sonny Jurgensen hopped out and took
their seats along the sideline.

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There are probably only six games leIt in the Redskins` 2007 season. That means there are probably only six games
beIore a beloved burgundy-and-gold legend leaves the scene Ior good. This Hall oI Famer has spent most Sunday
aIternoons this Iall appearing beIuddled by the simplest on-Iield action. It`s impossible to ignore all the accusations
that the game he once mastered has passed him by, and even diehard Skins Ians have stopped deIending his Ilawed
perIormances. Many hope he goes away beIore he puts a permanent hurt on his local legacy.
And, no, we`re not talking about Joe Gibbs here.
'What happens iI the Redskins keep the ball Ior 13 minutes? Iormer Skins linebacker and longtime color
commentator Sam HuII asked over the Redskins radio network`s airwaves during overtime against the New York
Jets last month.
AIter a pause to Iigure out what the hell he was talking about, HuII`s broadcast partners, Sonny Jurgensen and
Larry Michael, explained that iI the Skins somehow ran out the last 13 minutes without scoring, the game would
end in a tie.
'Well, let`s hope Ior that! HuII bellowed with gusto.
During his own playing career, HuII, 73, only played in one overtime game: the 1958 NFL championship game
between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants. HuII`s Giants lost that one. So perhaps he`s never gotten
over that loss. And a tie would indeed be better than his personal IiIth-quarter experience, which he`s reminded oI
whenever the Greatest Game Ever Played comes up.
AIter all, HuII`s reIerences have long Iallen deep into the last century. By way oI pointing out that the Skins
deIense against the Jets was underwhelming, he said Gregg Williams` crew was making QB Kellen Clemens, a
Iirst-time starter, 'look like Joe Namath. For years, he`s been dropping a Jim Brown reIerence or Iive into the
broadcasts.
Shades oI His Former SelI: HuII, in
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And, there are occasions when HuII`s old-school knowledge is quite charming. When Iormer Skins QB Billy
Kilmer dropped by the radio booth beIore the Cowboys game, Ior example, they reminisced about a brawl HuII
started with a late hit on Kilmer when he was a quarterback with the New Orleans Saints. That was, undeniably,
great radio.
But this season, such vintage charm has been buried under an avalanche oI those what-the-hell-is-he-talking-about?
moments. To radio listeners, it oIten sounds like HuII is watching a diIIerent game than the one they`re listening to.
During the Green Bay Packers game, Ior example, HuII decided Clinton Portis was having a great day, and he
wanted everybody to know about it.
'He`s averaging six or seven yards a carry! HuII shouted.
'Clinton has Iive carries Ior 13 yards, Michael said seconds later.
In the pre-game monologue beIore the Arizona Cardinals contest, Michael was going over the importance oI
winning the sixth game oI the season. '3-3 is not the way you want to end up today! Michael said.
HuII wanted in on that riII: '4-3! You want 4-3! he blurted.
'4-2, actually, Michael said. 'You want 4-2.
By the second halI oI the Cardinals game, even Jurgensen, a Iellow Hall oI Famer and HuII`s running partner Ior
several decades, had tired oI the oddball commentary.
'Watch the game! Quit driIting oII! he said as HuII asked, iI Skins linebacker London Fletcher had made a tackle,
long aIter London Fletcher had made a tackle.
And late in the loss to Philly last week, HuII was yelling that Jason Campbell had scrambled Ior a big Iirst down
even aIter the reIs had taken a measurement, determined Campbell was nowhere close, and had re-spotted the ball
and called Iourth down.
HuII has amassed an incredible amount oI goodwill in his decades as a Washingtonian.
BeIore the 1964 season, the Giants traded him to the Redskins. In New York, HuII had been a perennial Pro Bowl
linebacker on a team that always contended Ior championships. Here, he was the deIensive leader on a team that
had no deIense. The Redskins were awIul during HuII`s Iive seasons in a Skins uniIorm, Iielding a winning team
iust once, in 1969, his last year as a player.
Yet the popularity HuII earned on the Iield skyrocketed when he ioined the team`s radio broadcast team in the
1980s. For nearly a quarter-century oI Iall Sundays, Redskins Ians muted their TVs and listened to HuII and
Jurgensen and Iormer play-by-play man Frank Herzog. 'Sonny, Sam, and Frank, as the radio team was known,
became royalty around here.
Their chemistry was Iabulous, and their enthusiasm Ior the team and Ior each other was so obvious it made up Ior
whatever down-and-distance shortcomings could be Iound in their broadcasts.
Herzog`s signature TD call'Touchdown, Washington Redskins!usually came with Sam screaming 'Yes! or
the like and guIIawing in the background.
By now, however, the Ians` romance with simulcasting Redskins games is dead.
Technical and regulatory realities have helped kill oII the radio/TV tradition. Last season, Skins Ians in many areas,
including downtown D.C., had trouble getting a signal Irom any oI the three stations in Snyder`s Iledgling and thus-
Iar-disastrous Red Zebra radio network.
This year, Snyder solved the weak-signal problems by buying time on game days on WBIG-FM, which has more
virile radio waves. But because oI the state oI digital radio technology and the Iear oI FCC penalties should curse
words get on the air, the Skins radio broadcast is no longer in sync with the network television broadcast. Thanks to
the digital delay and the drop button, Ians with rabbit ears on their TV get a picture oI a play about nine seconds
beIore said play is called on radio.
But personnel matters have really killed oII the broadcasts` Iormer allure. Herzog was booted out oI the Redskins
booth in 2004 and replaced by Larry Michael Ior reasons that were never made clear to the audience. (One possible
clue: Shortly aIter Herzog got whacked to make room Ior him, Michael was also named 'executive producer oI
media Ior the Redskins, and in that iob has produced wacko videos Ior the team`s Web site to attack even mildly
negative :DVKLQJWRQ3RVW stories.)
Herzog now does Iill-in work as a reader at all-news WTOP, and he was working on that iob this weekend. So
while the Redskins pregame broadcast was being broadcast Irom Dallas, Herzog was telling listeners about the
Queen oI England`s 60th wedding anniversary and doing traIIic and weather on the '8s.
HuII`s decline has been as painIul Ior Ians as was Herzog`s dismissal, only more drawn out. Michael, who uses a
hack Radio Guy Voice in calling games, hasn`t come close to re-creating the chemistry Herzog had with HuII.
Michael is very good, however, at iniecting sponsored comments into his play-by-play. For listeners, that means the
team`s catchphrase has gone Irom 'Touchdown, Washington Redskins! to 'Love That Chicken Irom Popeye`s!
And the linebacker can no longer be heard screaming and guIIawing in the background.
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August 03, 2004 | By Jeff Barker | Jeff Barker,SUN STAFF
ASHBURN, Va. - The reverence of NFL fans is such that their favorite players often get to be known by their first names.
On the Washington Redskins, there was "Sonny" (Jurgensen), "Billy" (Kilmer) and "Coach Joe" (Gibbs).
So it was with the team's radio broadcasters: Sonny, Sam and Frank.
Head coaches came and went - six in the past dozen years alone - but the broadcast trio was, for many fans, a comforting
mainstay of their game day routines.
At least until this season.
WJFK-FM announced in February that it was replacing play-by-play man Frank Herzog, breaking up the team of Herzog,
Jurgensen and Sam Huff that has called Redskins games since 1981. The station said it wanted an in-house broadcaster
instead of Herzog, whose full-time job has long been with WUSA-TV (Channel 9) as its sports anchor.

Jurgensen and Huff will remain on the radio team and will be joined by Larry Michael, who had previously done pre-game and
post-game shows for the station.
The move has made it an odd summer for Herzog, who was at Redskins Park yesterday watching training camp. He plans to
provide the call for a preseason telecast on Aug. 21, but after that his broadcast future is uncertain. His contract with WUSA
expires at the end of November, and the station has said it is not renewing the pact.
One of the only upsides to being fired is Herzog says he gets to hear how much fans appreciate him.
"I heard from grandmothers and little kids and some movers and shakers," said Herzog, of Gaithersburg, Md. "I told my wife if I
would have known it would have been this great, I'd have gotten fired three years ago."
His signature call was "Touchdown, Washington Redskins!"
"I think it was in the second year I started to do that," he said. "I figured that getting into the end zone was a team effort."
Jurgensen and Huff are both ex-Redskins. But Herzog said the broadcast trio managed to keep enough distance from the team
that they were able to be critical when warranted.
"I never walked away happy just because the Redskins won," Herzog said. "I walked away happy when we had a good
broadcast. I think we built a reputation as a [no-nonsense] group."
Fans often said they enjoyed the trio's casual repartee, which sounded like the banter of the old friends that they are.
"It was a good chemical mixture, and good chemistry is hard to find," said Redskins fan Don Soules of Fairfax, Va. "I would
always watch the TV and listen to the radio."
NOTES: NFL officials briefed Redskins coaches, players and the media Sunday and yesterday on rules changes for the coming
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Washington Redskins React to Fans' Tough Luck With Tough
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By James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 3, 2009
It would be hard to Iind a more
loyal Ian oI the Washington
Redskins than real estate agent Pat
Hill. She's had season tickets since
the early 1960s, when her daughter
danced in the halItime shows at the
old D.C. Stadium, beIore it was
renamed in memory oI Robert F.
Kennedy.
In the hallway oI her modest home
south oI Alexandria, the 72-year-old grandmother points
out the burgundy-and-gold Redskins hook rug she made.
In her bedroom, she shows oII the pennants Irom two
Redskins Super Bowl games she attended, and she opens
a music box on her dresser that plays "Hail to the
Redskins."
Now, Hill says, her beloved Redskins are Iorcing her
into bankruptcy.
Last year, Hill's real estate sales were hit hard by the
housing market crash, and she told the team that she
could no longer aIIord her $5,300-a-year contract Ior
two loge seats behind the end zone. Hill said she asked
the Redskins to waive her contract Ior a year or two.
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Since 1962, Pat Hill has been a Redskins fan. She still is even though
they sued her and won when she couldn't make payments on a 10-yr
contract for Redskins season tickets. She's a 73-year-old realtor and
making $400 a month in social security after the housing crash. Hill on
her couch, among a small sampling of her memorabilia, uses tissues to
wipe the tears while she recalls the lawsuit. She's hoping Dan Snyder
will listen to her story and her willingness to pay when the recession has
passed. (Linda Davidson - The Washington Post)
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On Oct. 8, the Redskins sued Hill in Prince George's
County Circuit Court Ior backing out oI a 10-year ticket-
renewal agreement aIter the Iirst year. The team sought
payment Ior every season through 2017, plus interest,
attorneys' Iees and court costs.
Hill couldn't aIIord a lawyer. She did not Iight the
lawsuit or even respond to it because, she said, she
believes that the Bible says that it is morally wrong not
to pay your debts. The team won a deIault iudgment oI
$66,364.
"It really breaks my heart," Hill said, her
voice cracking as the tears well and spill. "I
don't even believe in bankruptcy.
"We are supposed to pay our bills. I ain't
trying to get out oI anything."
Hill is one oI 125 season ticket holders who
asked to be released Irom multiyear contracts
and were sued by the Redskins in the past
Iive years. The Washington Post interviewed
about two dozen oI them. Most said that they
were victims oI the economic downturn,
having lost a iob or experiencing some other
Iinancial hardship.
Redskins General Counsel David Donovan said the lawsuits are a last resort that involve a
small percentage oI the team's 20,000 annual premium seat contracts. He added that the team
has accommodated people in hard-luck circumstances hundreds oI times. He said he was
unaware oI Pat Hill's case.
"The Washington Redskins routinely works out payment plans and alternate arrangements
with hundreds oI ticket holders every year," Donovan said. "For every one we sue, I would
guess we work out a deal with halI a dozen."

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Donovan said the team has agreed to
reduce the number oI seats in a
contract, waived contracts Ior a
year, shortened contracts and
terminated contracts early. Most oI
the lawsuits are Iiled aIter people
"simply reIuse to negotiate with us.
They've been made an oIIer, but
they iust said no," he said.
"A lot oI it is a iudgment call you
make when meeting them, or on the
phone, about the legitimacy oI the
situation," he said. "It does happen
that we get lied to by people who
identiIy reasons Ior wanting to get out oI a contract.
They don't always tell us the truth."
He added: "I can't say everyone gets dealt with exactly
the same. I can't guarantee everyone gets dealt with the
appropriate level oI compassion, but that is our goal."
Many oI the sued Ians who were interviewed by The
Post said that when they requested relieI, they were
oIIered settlements that required them to make heIty
payments over time.
Among those sued are mortgage brokers, real estate
developers, government workers, plumbers, construction
contractors, lobbyists, lawyers and several car salesmen.
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Donovan said other teams sue their Ians. "I don't know
oI any pro Iootball team that doesn't," he said.
But spokesmen Ior the Iollowing National Football
League teams said they do not sue their Ians over season
ticket contracts: Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals,
Green Bay Packers, Houston Texans, Jacksonville
Jaguars, New York Giants and Jets, Seattle Seahawks
and Tennessee Titans.
The New England Patriots have sued multiyear premium
ticket holders. A Chicago Bears spokesman said, "In rare
instances, we have sued."
OIIicials with the Arizona Cardinals, Denver
Broncos, Minnesota Vikings, Dallas
Cowboys, Miami Dolphins, San Francisco
49ers and Indianapolis Colts declined to
comment on the query. Other teams did not
respond.
OIIicials oI most Washington area sports
Iranchises that have season ticket accounts
said they generally avoid such lawsuits. Nate
Ewell, spokesman Ior the National Hockey
League's Washington Capitals, said he could
not think oI a reason to sue a ticket holder.
When a season ticket holder Iails to make
payments, the team cancels the tickets and
resells them.
"Lawsuits are generally a last resort sort oI thing," said Peter Bich, president oI business
operations Ior Washington Sports and Entertainment, which runs Verizon Center, where the
Capitals and the National Basketball Association's Wizards play. "We're not in the lawsuit
business. That's not how we run our business."
Donovan said: "I wish we never had to sue anybody. Why would you ever want to do that?
But this is a business. And we rely on these contracts Ior our planning, and we do what we
can when somebody gets into a situation where they can't aIIord to pay."

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The Post reviewed lawsuits in which
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Redskin ticket holders Ior a total oI
$3.6 million. The team won
iudgments totaling $2 million Irom
34 season ticket holders, most oI
whom did not hire an attorney and
deIaulted by not making an
appearance in court.
The Post has documented 16 tickets
Ior individual games that were
taken Irom sued Ians and resold by
the Redskins. The tickets, IorIeited
by Iive Ians, were bought by an online broker, ASC
Ticket Co. oI Gaithersburg, according to a printout Irom
the Redskins ticket system. Some oI those sued
complained that the Redskins had "double-dipped" --
reselling the tickets while obtaining iudgments against
them Ior deIaulting on the contracts.
Donovan reiected the idea that the Redskins collected
twice on the seats, saying that collecting on the
iudgments has been diIIicult. "Getting a iudgment is not
getting paid," he said.
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Irom the premium ticket holder lawsuits in both size and
nature.
The companies include a lobbying Iirm that went out oI
business, a telecommunications Iirm and a Shenandoah
coIIee roaster owned by a man indicted on charges that
he ran a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. The Redskins
have won $8 million in iudgments in eight cases.
Only one deIendant is mounting a signiIicant deIense:
Atlantic Transportation Equipment Ltd., a Maryland
bus-maintenance company that rented a 30-seat skybox
suite Ior $149,000 annually to entertain clients and employees. The six-year contract was due
to expire next year, and the Redskins sued Ior the Iinal two seasons, or $269,000 aIter
deducting the deposit.
The case is set Ior trial next month. Attorney
Alan Silverberg argued in pretrial discussions
that the team Iound a tenant Ior the suite last
year and this year and should reduce the
damages sought by the amount collected Irom
the new tenant.
"It is basic, Iundamental law that |a landlord|
can't remain idle when premises are
abandoned," Silverberg said. "They can't sit
back and say, 'You breached the lease, and
you owe Ior the duration.' "
The team agreed to reduce the damages
sought to $74,371.
However, in the cases against the Iive Ians whose tickets were resold to ASC, the Redskins
have not reduced the amount they are seeking in court to reIlect the proceeds Irom resold
tickets. Donovan said the contract stipulates that the team can collect Ior the Iull term iI a
ticket holder deIaults. He also said the team cannot aIIord to leave seats empty while it
pursues iudgments that are diIIicult to collect.
Rodney Hubbard, 37, who deIaulted on a 10-year contract aIter a year, said he thinks that it is
unIair "to charge me Ior the rest oI the nine years iI I don't go."
For years, Hubbard bought tickets to individual games Irom his employer, a car dealership.
But in 2007, he realized a liIelong dream oI getting season tickets. He signed up to buy Iour
club seats on the 30-yard line Ior $15,000 a year.

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A year later, the economy tanked,
and so did car sales. Hubbard lost
his iob and tried opening a used-car
lot. But he couldn't make the
required Iull ticket payment, due in
April, Ior the Iall season.
Redskins sales agents said he could
pay in installments. He made one
partial payment oI $1,000 over the
summer. Later, he said, he scraped
together $3,500 in cash and drove
to the FedEx ticket oIIice. He was
told that he was too late. The seats
had been sold to someone else. And
he was in deIault, his debt reIerred Ior legal action.
Donovan said he did not believe that the team reIused to
take Hubbard's money. "I think that's ludicrous," he said.
"II he had shown up with his money, we would have
gotten him seats."
On Oct. 8, Hubbard was sued in Prince George's County
court. His contract speciIied that the team could collect
Ior the remaining years iI he deIaulted. The team only
sued, however, Ior the price oI two club seats, about
$7,100 a year.
For Hubbard, that meant $71,000. The Redskins won a
iudgment in the Iull amount when he didn't show up Ior
court.
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The iudgment has harmed Hubbard's credit rating, and
even iI he pays up, he won't get the tickets back. "Where
are the tickets when I pay it oII?" Hubbard said. "That's
not right. II that's the case, then nobody should sit in the
seats."
Records obtained by The Post show that one set oI his
tickets, Ior a St. Louis Rams game, were sold to ASC.
Fans Who Feel Misled
Alonzo
Webb, 60, an investigator with the
Department oI Homeland Security, said he
got his tickets Ior his son when times were
good. He bought a six-year contract Ior two
club seats at $5,700 a year. He worried that
he wouldn't always be able to aIIord them, so
he asked the sales agent whether he would be
able to get out oI the contract in bad times.
"I was told by this man, 'II you have issues, iI
you can't honor your contract, notiIy us in
writing, and we'll see what we can work out
with you,' " Webb said.
But when he had problems, the Redskins sued. He didn't contest the lawsuit and was hit with
a iudgment oI $15,721. He paid it with a credit card loan.
Donovan said he would be willing to give Webb tickets Ior the 2009 season at no additional
cost to Webb. "II he's paid his iudgment, I would be happy to get him tickets," Donovan said.
"I have no desire to take anyone's money and not give him something Ior it."
Webb responded, "I wouldn't want the damn tickets. It's iust the principle oI the thing."

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Dennis M. Butts, 62, worked as a
contractor Ior the team at Redskins
Park, the team headquarters. In
2006, he said he thought he had
negotiated a year-to-year contract
Ior Iour Touchdown Club seats at
$8,000 each, Ior a total oI $32,000 a
year. AIter the Iirst year, he said the
team inIormed him that he had
signed a six-year contract through
2012. He said the team told him
that iI he didn't buy the tickets
again in 2007, he would owe Ior the
entire contract.
The Redskins, Butts said, oIIered him a settlement under
which he would pay $32,000 and the team would take
back the tickets. He agreed but ended up not being able
to make the payments, he said.
The Redskins went back to court and won a iudgment
Ior the Iull six years, plus interest and legal Iees:
$209,351. Butts said he cannot aIIord to pay it.
Donovan said there is no evidence to support Butts's
story. "He signed up Ior a one-year contract, and three
months later he signed up Ior a six-year contract. I don't
know how it could be any clearer."
James Nesbitt, 62, also said he ended up with a six-year
contract he didn't want. An accountant who audits
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company Iinancial statements, Nesbitt accuses the
Redskins oI changing his contract aIter he signed it.
Nesbitt said that Ior years, he had general admission
seats in the upper deck while waiting to move to the
lower bowl, which is closer to the action. In 2006, he
said, the team oIIered him a deal: Sign up Ior two years
oI club seats, and we will move you to the lower bowl
aIterward.
AIter the Iirst year, he said he received a contract that he
was told was a "renewal." Because the contract came in
December 2007, he said, he signed it, thinking that it was Ior the next season and overlooked
that it said 2009.
The term sheet contained three boxes: Six
years, eight years and 10 years. He said he
did not check any oI the boxes.
Nesbitt told The Post that his secretary saved
a copy oI his original contract, which had
been Iaxed to the Redskins. It is signed, and
no box is checked.
This year, he said, he asked Ior his promised
lower bowl seats and was told there was a
problem: He had a six-year contract Ior club
seats. He said the team threatened to sue him.
Nesbitt, a member oI the board oI the WolI
Trap Foundation Ior the PerIorming Arts and other charities, said he considered Iighting in
court but decided to tap a connection with the Redskins, a colleague he knew who worked
with Donovan, the team lawyer.
The Redskins ultimately oIIered a compromise: II Nesbitt bought one more year oI club
seats, he could have lower bowl seats in 2010 iI they became available. Nesbitt agreed. He
avoided a lawsuit but is unhappy about the whole situation.
"I Ieel I was cheated and that the Redskins were highly disingenuous," Nesbitt said.
Donovan said he was "Iloored" to learn that Nesbitt was unhappy, particularly aIter Nesbitt
told Donovan in an e-mail that he was making "good progress thanks to you" and then e-
mailed team Vice President Jason Friedman "unconditionally accepting" the oIIer.
'Really Hard-Core'
William H. Hightower, 36, eagerly signed a six-year contract Ior two seats at $7,800 a year in
2005. By last year, aIter leaving the Iamily construction business, he couldn't aIIord the
tickets. He thought the Redskins would let him renegotiate.
"People can work out their mortgage, but these guys were like, 'No, we're taking you to
court,' " Hightower said. "I don't think they gave me a Iair shake, especially being what the
economy was. II it was high times and everyone was making money, I would understand."
The Redskins worked out a settlement: Hightower agreed to pay $12,000, and the team
agreed to Iorgo the $18,000 balance. He's paying $800 a month Ior tickets to games he will
never attend.
BeIore the season began last year, Reginald Woods, 50, a mortgage broker in Bowie, told the
team that he could no longer aIIord his two club seats, which cost him more than $5,000 a
year. He was in the third year oI a six-year contract. He said he oIIered to pay Ior 2008 iI the
club would allow him to go to the games and let him out oI the rest oI the contract. The team
sued Ior $25,000.
"I said, 'How are they going to charge me Ior tickets I never received?' " Woods said. "They
were trying to charge me Ior 2009, 2010 and 2011, and I was like, 'How can they do that?'
They never made any oI that stuII clear to me."
AIter the suit was Iiled, Woods agreed to pay Ior the 2008 tickets, although he didn't attend a
game. "All oI that could have been worked out," Woods said. "Their approach was really
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hard-core."
Donovan said: "For a mortgage broker, I think that's somewhat ironic. I doubt the bank was
iust writing oII mortgage loans that he placed."
In January 2008, a Montgomery County man wrote the Redskins to say that he was unable to
pay Ior his season tickets. The man said he was unemployed, had been in iail, could not Iind a
iob, was on medical assistance and was relying on his 73-year-old mother Ior rent.
Friedman wrote a letter oIIering a payment plan "to keep your account in good standing."
Friedman suggested that another option would be to transIer the contract to someone else.
In June, the Redskins turned the case over to outside counsel. David A. Slacter was retained
to represent the man under the Montgomery County Bar Pro Bono Program.
Slacter mailed the team's attorneys copies oI government records saying his client is a
diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic who "is not stable Ior work." Slacter wrote, "It is clear
there is nothing to be gained by pursuing" his client.
Slacter requested that his client not be named because oI his mental illness.
Two months later, the Redskins Iiled suit in Prince George's County.
Slacter ultimately persuaded a iudge to move the case to Montgomery, where the man lived.
The team did not Iollow up, and the case was dismissed.
"II people sign a contract and they don't abide by the terms, I have no problem," Slacter said.
"But once they were inIormed that my client had severe mental health issues, good business
sense -- iI not common decency -- dictates that you don't pursue it."
Donovan said he couldn't recall the case.
"There is no motivation Ior us to pursue litigation against someone who is iudgment- prooI,"
he said. "That is a waste oI our time and money."
Altered Situations
In 2006, Jorge R. Vasquez Sr., 47, was in iail Ior embezzlement and wrote to both the
Washington Nationals and the Redskins to say he could no longer keep his tickets. He had
three loge seats at FedEx and a six-year contract that began in 2003.
The baseball team wrote back to oIIer him Iree tickets, according to a letter he sent to the
court. The Redskins sued him $12,914.
The Nationals "were able to understand that my situation and status to continue to support
their team as a Ian had changed," Vasquez wrote to the court. "Instead oI getting sued in
courts, they extended their sympathy by issuing to me Iour courtesy tickets: now I have even
lost my home and the richest Iranchise oI the National Football League is pursuing 'their loss'
through court, while completely Iorgetting about the Iact that all I ever wanted to be was a
Fan."
The lawsuit was dismissed because neither party appeared in court, records show.
Real estate developer Randy Clarno, 51, oI Eagle, Idaho, wasn't so Iortunate. Clarno used to
Ily to Washington to attend Redskins games. He has been a Ian since he was 10 years old,
when he decided to cheer against his dad's Iavorite team, the Dallas Cowboys. "That's my
team," he told his Iather oI the Redskins.
He said that a business downturn last year Iorced him to lay oII 20 employees and that he
could no longer aIIord his two club-seat tickets, which cost $8,900 a year. He said he tried to
sell them, but "nobody wanted to buy them at the outrageous prices that they charge."
Now, Clarno's team has a iudgment against him Ior $80,837.
"The attitude that they are willing to kick ya while you're down is iust incredible to me,"
Clarno said. "I didn't treat any oI my customers like this. When you treat customers right,
they come back and they hang around you in the hard times. Especially guys like me."
Donovan said the team has the right to enIorce contracts with people who have the ability to
pay.
"This is a guy who didn't want to pay his bill," he said. "I don't have any reason to think he
couldn't aIIord to pay his bill. He iust declined to do so."
Donovan said that sometimes an agreement cannot be reached. "Everyone that you can
identiIy who is unhappy about the negotiation, I could Iind you 12 where the Ian was
appreciative and grateIul at the eIIorts we went to to work out the situation," he said.
Unshakable Loyalty
The phone rings repeatedly in Pat Hill's home oII Mount Vernon Memorial Highway. One
morning recently, her answering machine picked up a robo call. A recorded voice said, "This
is an attempt to collect a debt."
Hill said she never answers the phone. "They call all day like that," she said.
Her Redskins debt oI $66,364 weighs on her, but it is one among many.
In the past, Hill has helped others in need. She said she lent $20,000 to an Iraq war veteran to
keep his mortgage current so his Iamily would not lose the house.
"She's like an angel," said Muhammed Khan, a Iormer loan oIIicer who used to work with
Hill and attended Redskins games with her. "II she has a dollar in her pocket, she will help
somebody else. She's given $60,000 or $70,000 to pay other people's mortgages. People
would come to her."
In May 2007, Hill's real estate practice in FairIax County was booming. She had 20 real
estate contracts that promised her $200,000 in commissions. She said they all Iell through.
Now, Hill is struggling on $3,200 a month Irom a government pension, plus $400 a month
Irom Social Security. The monthly payment on her adiustable-rate mortgage is $5,019.
"I'm $100,000 behind," she said.
On Friday, she received a note Irom the mortgage company: She was reiected Ior a loan
modiIication. She has worked out payment plans with the utilities, and she still makes her car
payment.
Every Sunday in the newspaper, she looks Ior iobs. No luck.
She's trying to sell houses again. "I got a lot oI buyers," she said. "I can't get them loans."
And she has started to sell oII her Redskins memorabilia.
Hill used to have three TiIIany-style Redskins lamps. Now there's iust one. Two were sold
"not Ior very much," she said, to a pawnshop on Route 1 in Woodbridge. She also sold two
Redskins iackets to the pawnshop. "I iust needed the money so badly."
There was a miniature Redskins village, too, with a little Redskins Iilling station and a tiny
Redskins bakery and a Redskins choo-choo train -- all purchased Irom a cable shopping
channel Ior more than $1,000. She gave it to a Iriend to sell.
And she says she was humiliated when a process server arrived at her door notiIying her that
her Iavorite team was suing her.
Yet it hasn't dimmed her Iidelity. She brightens at the memory oI meeting Sonny Jurgensen
in the locker room 47 years ago.
"I iust love the Redskins."
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WALDORF, Md. (WUSA) -- After news of his father's
legal battles with the Redskins broke Wednesday,
Kiante Webb's telephone never stopped ringing.

A Washington Post headline alleged the team sued
dozens of its fans for backing out of multi-year
season ticket contracts. Webb's father, Alonzo
Webb, was one of those fans.

"That's the real shocking part," he said. "The
Redskins sue my father. What? A fan? That's like the Redskins sue
my best friend. I've never heard of it."

But now the whole world is hearing about it now, and talking about
it. Sports talk shows on the radio and on television are spending
hours on the topic following the Post's report.

"It starts with the ownership. It starts on top," said Webb. "And
that's not a good look."

His father's story began in 2004 with a six-year contract for club
seats in FedEx Field. In 2008, he fell on hardship and asked for the
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relief he says the Redskins initially promised him. Instead he was
sued along with a couple more dozen season ticket holders.

"I think he's fed up with the Redskins organization now," said the
son. "They're watching Raven games and getting Raven tickets."

"My parents are still watching the Redskins," he adds. "He's still a
diehard fan and still has his memorabilia at home but my father
says, 'I'll watch it from home. I'll cheer this way.'"

When the Washington Post broke the news story, the Redskins
responded with an acknowledgment that roughly 20 to 30 lawsuits
were filed. According to a press release on its website, legal action
was taken to enforce the long-term contracts of ticket holders who
defaulted on their obligations.

"For every lawsuit the team has filed, it has worked out payment
plans or renegotiated contracts with dozens of other suite and club
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holders were ever sued. Those fans account for nearly 70,000 of
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As we've discussed, The Washington Post ran a story Thursday saying the Redskins had Iiled 125 lawsuits against
season-ticket holders who asked to be released Irom multiyear contracts over the past Iive years. In several cases, the
Redskins won iudgments simply because the ticket holders didn't oIIer any opposition.

Redskins general counsel David Donovan went on Washington's ESPN 980 (owned by Dan Snyder) and attacked the
credibility oI the Post story -- even beIore it hit newsstands. Thanks to Jimmy Shapiro oI sportsradiointerviews.com,
you can listen to the audio. I think it's Iair to say the Redskins and the Post have had a contentious relationship
during the Snyder years. And that sort oI comes across in Donovan's patronizing words during Wednesday's radio
interview:

"The Washington Post, they need to sell newspapers," Donovan said. "God love them, their circulation is down. The
story they`re going to run tomorrow is going to create an impression in a lot oI peoples mind that we`re litigation
happy and that we are out there suing our club seat and suite holders to some enormous degree. We go to enormous
lengths to work with our Ians to make new arrangements. The ones Irankly we end up in litigation with are guys Ior
example that write us a check, get the tickets Ior the suite, eat the Iood, drink the beer, check bounces, we get another
check and that check bounces. What would you do, are we supposed to walk away Irom those? These are multi-year
agreements, 6, 8 10 years long sometimes Ior hundreds oI thousands oI dollars a year and we don`t think there`s
anything improper."

But the example given early in the Post story isn't someone who appears to be drinking beer and then bouncing
checks. It's an elderly woman who's in over her head. From what I can tell, the Redskins are trying to make this all
about the Post's eIIorts to make them look bad. Doesn't seem like a winning strategy to me. What do my Redskins
readers think? Do you care? You want me to get back to Iootball?
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The theme park was in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, one oI the hardest hit areas during Katrina and the Ilooding aIter
the storm. Though many oI the rides still stand, Six Flags says that saltwater Irom the Ilood has corroded them to
the point that they cannot be saved.

The only ride to survive the Ilood - Batman: The Ride, which was elevated above most oI the Iloodwaters - was
reIurbished and moved to Six Flags Fiesta Texas in 2008.

AIter viewing this video oI the rotting theme park, I'm wondering why the City oI New Orleans, which owns the
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Copyright 2006 The Times-Picayune Publishing Company
Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
July 1, 2006 Saturday
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HEADLINE: Six Flags wants out, offers the city a deal;
Park would give up 66 acres, $10 million to get out of lease
BYLINE: By Rebecca Mowbray, Business writer
BODY:
The company that owns Six Flags New Orleans does not want to reopen the flood-ravaged eastern New Orleans
theme park, and has sent a proposal to the city that would allow the amusement company to walk away from its 75-year
lease, according to documents.
Six Flags Inc. has offered to pay the city $10 million to cover rent to the city and to give the city 66 acres of land
the company owns adjacent to the park as well as city 20 percent of its insurance proceeds above $75 million. It is
unclear how much insurance money the park will receive. The amusement park has been closed since Hurricane
Katrina.
News of the proposal marks a change from Six Flags' public stance so far. Until this disclosure, the company said
the park would be closed for the 2006 season but it hoped to reopen the property and was working with its insurers. The
company now says it wouldn't make sense to open the park, which was not successful even when the city had nearly a
half-million residents.
"It's clear that the people of New Orleans weren't embracing the park" even before the storm, Six Flags
spokeswoman Wendy Goldberg said. "We think it presents a mutually beneficial solution to both of us. We thought it
was a win-win. The city would get land it could use for other purposes, as well as liquidity."
But Mayor Ray Nagin says that the city plans to hold the New York company to its agreement to operate the park.
"They're not excited about coming back into the market right now. If any company is trying to figure out an exit
strategy, they are," Nagin said this week in an interview at The Times-Picayune. "We have a pretty solid agreement
with them (requiring them to operate the park for 75 years). They're claiming they can exercise out of it, but they're
going to have to pay us."
Katrina was the last straw
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The storm, and any efforts by Six Flags to leave the area, are likely a death knell for the park, which opened in May
2000 as an economic development project for eastern New Orleans. Jazzland Theme Park, as it was originally named,
went bankrupt after just two seasons.
Six Flags bought the $135 million park at the discount price of $22 million out of bankruptcy, but even after the
company installed five new rides backed by a major advertising push, the park failed to deliver financial results.
While Six Flags refuses to detail the damage at the park, its rides and buildings sat for weeks in an estimated 12
feet of brackish water and the park is on the side of the city that suffered the greatest wind damage. The park now sits
idle, overgrown with brush, while a security guard watches the gate.
"We haven't gone into detail about the damage, just that we are working on it with our insurers," Goldberg said.
"It's a very complicated situation."
The prospects of resurrecting the park are further dimmed by a shakeup at Six Flags' corporate offices, where
Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder instituted a shareholder takeover of the company late last year and installed
a new management team, whose marching orders are to pare down assets to deliver better returns to stockholders.
"They'd be absolutely out of their minds to try to reopen that park," said Dennis Speigel, president of International
Theme Park Services, a consultant who has followed the Jazzland saga and the corporate troubles at Six Flags. "That
has been a marginally performing park since day one."
Financial woes
If the park closes, it will be a headache for the city, which is on the hook for the $20.4 million that remains on a
$25.3 million loan used to build the park through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section
108 loan program.
The payments on the loan are $2.4 million a year until 2017. Under the terms of the deal struck with the city out of
Jazzland's bankruptcy, the city pays $1 million a year toward the debt and Six Flags pays $1.4 million. HUD said the
city is current on its payments. Six Flags said it has continued to pay rent since the storm.
The rent arrangement is actually that Six Flags pays 4.77 percent of gross revenue or a minimum of $1.4 million,
and if the percentage formula delivers a number that is less than $1.4 million, Six Flags gets a credit of the difference on
rent in the years after 2017.
In its proposal, Six Flags said the city would be unlikely to earn any rent on the project even after 2017, when the
HUD debt is paid.
In each of the three years that Six Flags operated the park before it closed, revenue was less than $29.4 million --
the amount necessary for the percentage formula to exceed the $1.4 million base payment.
The park generated $24.5 million in revenue in 2003, the year that Six Flags installed $25 million in new rides and
heavily advertised their arrival. It generated $18.1 million in 2004 and $15 million last year, when the season ended in
late August instead of at Halloween.
With the prospect of revenue even worse for the park now that it's located in a flooded and gutted area in a city with
half its prestorm population, it's unlikely the Six Flags would ever pay rent on the park.
"Put simply, the marketplace has never embraced the park. There are a number of factors contributing to this
situation, all of which have been exacerbated by the displacement and damage of the storm, which impacted not just the
park, but the entire market area of the park," the proposal reads. "Given this performance, there would almost certainly
never be any rent paid for many years after 2017."
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will soon host a two-hour, twice-a-week radio show on ESPN 980? Well,
some ESPN 980 hosts heard it, and, well, let's just say they weren't
exactly rolling out the burgundy carpet for their newest colleague.
No, actually, let's not just say it; let's extensively quote from their opening
segment this afternoon in which they devoted 13 minutes to absolutely
crushing their new co-worker. And let's also note that, whatever the final
result of Daniel Snyder's local media buy-up, it has at least produced a
week of the most entertaining local sports talk I can remember. I'll keep
loving this right up until the day that Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin and
Brian Mitchell and all the rest are shipped off to the Marty
Schottenheimer Retirement Community.
Andy Pollin: Vinny Cerrato...is executive vice president of football
operations of the Redskins, a title he was given on January 22, 2008. In
the Redskins media guide this is how Vinny's job is described: "Cerrato
assumes all aspects of the team's football organization, including
personnel, directing the Redskins' draft, identifying free agency needs
and acquisitions, coordination of all pro and college player evaluations,
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Steve Czaban: Well I'll say Andy, that's a pretty big job....This is a big
title. Biiiig job right here. VP of football operations....
Pollin: Well apparently all those duties made him kind of bored, because
Vinny has now begun moonlighting on this station. And starting tomorrow
he will begin a regular 10 to noon show on this station called "Inside the
Red Zone with Vinny Cerrato."
Sound Effect: GOOD GOD!
Czaban, in ironic voice: Now Andy, wait a minute, doesn't he have
football operations to operate?
Pollin: You would think.
Czaban, in naive voice: Where will he find the time to do all that AND
do a radio show?
Pollin: He seems to have found the time in his busy day which includes
all these duties to host a show on Mondays and Fridays from 10 to
noon....Now I don't know anything about being the vice president of
football operations but I do know something...
Czaban: ...About doing a radio show.
Pollin: Yes. And I've done one for about 30 years, and the general rule
of thumb--as suggested by our boss, the CEO of Red Zebra, Bruce
Gilbert--is one hour of preparation for every hour on the air, at least that.
Czaban: Are you saying that Vinny's gonna have to spend at least two to
four hours prepping for this show on Mondays and Fridays?
Pollin: So I would think if he wants to do a good job its not four hours of
radio a week, it's eight hours of radio a week....As a Redskins fan for 40
years, 42 years, I am angry about this because I like to see my team, the
team I have rooted for, the Washington Redskins, WIN GAMES. And
management of the Redskins and ownership is telling us that positive
spin on what they are doing is more important than spending time
helping the team to win.
Czaban, in confused voice: Oh Andy, you don't know if it's gonna be
spin on the Vinny Cerrato Show. It might be straight talk, hard hitting,
"unfiltered"--as the team likes to say--insight into what's going on with the
team....
Pollin: On a Monday from 10 to 12, Vinny is liable to be talking to Bob
from Bowie or Steve from Silver Spring or Frank from Falls Church, and
might not know that Ryan Grant is available and needed at the running
back position.
Czaban, in churlish voice: Oh what are the chances that somebody
calls with a trade offer between 10 and noon, that would never happen.
He's got voice mail, he'll just pick it up after the show....
Pollin: At the end of the year, if the Redskins don't win the Super Bowl, it
is 100 percent completely fair to say that part of the reason they didn't
win it was because the general manager--I'm sorry, the vice president of
football operations--was spending four hours a week on the air flapping
his gums instead of seeking out talent to help the team to win games....
Czaban: All I say is this: I want some control of the team dammit. If
Vinny can do two hours on Mondays and Fridays, just give me a small
slice of the team to control.
Well, yeah, welcome indeed. Later, Czaban suggested that the reason
this show will suddenly debut in week three of the NFL weeks after Red
Zebra took over 980, is because the shows hosts have been too critical
in recent days. Well, if that's the case, today's program should have put
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Cerrato skipped Monday's broadcast oI "Inside the Red Zone with Vinny Cerrato," so this program should have
provided Ians their Iirst shot at the Redskins executive vice president, Iootball operations since the team's latest
crap-like perIormance in Baltimore and subsequent Portis/Zorn turmoil.
Last week, aIter a crap-like perIormance versus the Giants, Cerrato came on the air and allowed callers to vent. Boy
howdy, did they.
'I`m going to blame the person they say is in charge, one caller huIIed to Cerrato. 'II that`s you, you need to step
down or hire somebody who knows what they`re doing. You don`t know what you`re doing when it comes to
picking players.
But this time around, Cerrato spent his entire show turtling. He not only avoided Ians no open caller segments,
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Cerrato brought in the Washington Post's beat writers Ior Maryland and Virginia Iootball, Ior example. Why not
bring on the paper's Redskins beat reporter?
Jason La CanIora's the whole reason Vinny's got a radio show, aIter all.
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Washington Redskins By the Numbers: #14 - Brad Johnson
(Interview with Max Zendejas)
by Ken Meringolo on Jun 1, 2009 3:10 PM EDT in Redskins By The (Jersey) Numbers

It is at least a little fitting that we get to #14 on the heels of the departure of Jon Jansen. It gives us a chance to talk about how this franchise has handled
the jettisoning of players over the years.
Jon Jansen's dismissal continues to be a big story because, prior to his release, he was the longest tenured Redskin on the roster (can you name the
player who takes over that honor?) I don't know about you but since the news broke on Friday, I have not come across too many people who are beside
themselves in shock. The timing of the move is what ends up dominating the debate. It did seem at least slightly odd--middle of a Friday afternoon, before
June 1st. But if the team was serious about moving on without Jon Jansen, and they were genuine about Jansen having a chance to make it somewhere
else, you could make the case it made sense. After all, it only took him a day to find a home right? He was able to beat all the guys (assuming there will
be a few) who are about to hit the street this week. Don't get me wrong--I am sure that the team did not unnecessarily imperil its own situation to help Jon.
But clearly Jansen will have his opportunity to spend a whole summer with his new team in the hopes he can crack the lineup.
Secondly, this move says a ton about Jim Zorn, and the responsibility and authority he clearly has in this organization. While making the call to cut Jansen
was probably not the most difficult decision he ever faced, I have to believe there were people in the organization that were prepared to fight for Jansen to
have a chance to show himself in camp. Bugel comes to mind. I could be wrong. Everything coming out of Zorn since Friday has been all about his
evaluation process and the reality that Jansen simply was not wanted in the "competitive" phase of determining who the right tackle was going to be. I
take that to mean that Zorn felt Jansen was not in line to compete for the starting tackle spot, and the depth chart at other positions were and needed to
be manned by younger players.
So why have I hijacked the #14 post? Because today's #14 made an exit from D.C. that was handled in a completely absurd and utterly senseless way.
And I thought it worth mentioning that in light of the way things are being handled lately, there is a sense of direction that seemed lacking in recent years.
#14
Brad Johnson

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TDs, 13 INTs and a playoff win. The next year the team suffered a setback to be certain. An 8-8 record, and more INTs than TDs. We all remember when
Brad left town right? Jeff George ended up getting benched and we went with Tony Banks! Brad Johnson went to Tampa Bay and got a Super Bowl ring.
I know there were salary cap issues, and if I remember correctly, Brad Johnson was pretty fed up with the Redskins' organization. This was right at the
height of the insanity that was the Redskins franchise (though one could argue that this peak lasted for several years.)
Does anyone remember Brad Johnson flexing on the Jumbotron in the playoff win against the Detroit Lions (is there a better feeling in the world than
playing Detroit in the playoffs for a Skins fan?).
What about the year he came back to town starting for the Vikings...a game which I believe they won in OT? I never saw it myself, but it was rumored
that Brad wore his Redskins jersey as he left the stadium that night.
We do have some other notable #14's. Eddie LeBaron was drafted by the Skins in the 1950 NFL draft and played seven seasons (off and on) before
becoming a footnote in the great history of the Redskins/Cowgirls rivalry. George Preston Marshall had forgotten to protect his Pro Bowl QB in the
expansion draft and the Cowgirls took him. Inconceivable!
Finally, as you all know, we do our best to reach out to former Redskins who have worn these numbers and bring you some hard-hitting interviews. That
legacy continues today with our recent sit-down with none other than #14 himself, Max Zendejas:
Sugar: Max, thanks for sharing your time with us. Let's get right to it...what stands out about that 1986 team you played on here in DC?
Max: Well you take the good with the bad. Replacing a guy like Mark Moseley is tough, but you do your best. That team was full of winners, and it was a
winning team. I recently ran into Joe Theismann at a golf tourney out in Virgina.
[kind of an odd answer to the question...or not really an answer at all]
Sugar: Are there any stories that stand out to you from that year?
Max: Well I remember playing Green Bay and it was so cold. I said after that game that no matter what they paid me, I would never play in Green Bay.
The next year, I was playing in Green Bay.
Sugar: I recently had the opportunity to speak with Ali Haji-Sheikh and I asked him about the burgeoning problem the NFL is dealing with.
Max: What's that?
Sugar: I can pronounce pretty much every kicker's name in the league, and I could probably spell 90% of them correctly on my first try. What happened to
your once proud profession?
Max: (laughs) Haji-Sheikh...hehehe. Well, you know what is happening is that kids want to kick now. I run a camp for kids (
) and I am seeing just some incredibly talented athletes pursuing kicking. Back in my day, we were kind of flaky, hippie
guys. Now, kids want to kick the game-winning field goal, and they are going after it.
Sugar: Who was your favorite guy on the roster of that Redskins team?
Max: You know, that roster was jammed with good guys. I loved Dexter Manley, Mark Rypien, Gary Clark. I was very close with Eric Yarber (WR). Other
guys who made an impression on me were Charles Mann and Darrell Green, both very religious guys, both always doing everything they could to help out
a teammate.
Sugar: What are your thoughts on the current Redskins team?
Max: I do pay attention. The thing about the Redskins when I played there...they were used to winning. They were all winners. Those guys in the that
locker room simply went after wins like you wouldn't believe. Coach Gibbs, the hardcore fans. You did your job and all those fans waited for you after the
game to congratulate you and get your autograph. I wish I had stayed there longer.
Sugar: Last question: Who was the best Zendejas?
Max: (laughs) Well you know we were all different. Tony played the longest, working his way through the CFL, the Arena League and of course the NFL.
Luis was just a fighter. We were very competitive with each other. We would compete against each other constantly, with the loser having to buy
hamburgers. I was the only one of us who was drafted and I had the strongest leg.
So there you have it. "The Greatest Zendejas"...keep your eyes peeled for the major motion picture.

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by Parks Smith on Jun 1, 2009 3:18 PM EDT
biggest facemask in nfl history
From Richmond to the District
by Kevin Ewoldt on Jun 1, 2009 3:28 PM EDT up
Haha
I will never be able to get that image out of my mind where some DE facemasked him and his helmet was turned completely sideways. I cant
find the pic anywhere.
by smutsboy1 on Jun 2, 2009 1:48 PM EDT up
hahaha
by Kevin Ewoldt on Jun 1, 2009 3:30 PM EDT
And...
Brad Johnson is the only QB in NFL history to throw a TD to himself.
He was a Viking then.
by Ken Meringolo on Jun 1, 2009 4:54 PM EDT
is this real?
did we really interview Zendejas?
Haha
Yea, a guy that has only made 1 career NFL kick over 50 yards youd think would never return a call or answer his cell.
Jersey
what would you rather be your tailgate jersey for the upcoming seasonRedskins Zendejas or redskins Akers jersey?
by Ken Meringolo on Jun 1, 2009 5:13 PM EDT up
3-3 though in the stand-up dude department
Haji-Sheikh, Husak, and Zendejas have all been extremely cool and fun to talk to.
by mattfromwashingtonsportsjam on Jun 1, 2009 5:58 PM EDT
Brad
I was at that playoff game and it was awesome how the stadium erupted when Brad Johnson body slammed that d-lineman. I was so bummed that he
was let go. Norv finally had someone to run his offense in Johnson (took him long enough). We had an amazing team with Stephen Davis and Larry
Centers (man I loved that guy). So much potential cut short Great post, love this blog.
Larry Centers
was definitely fantastic. Thanks for the love and welcome to HH.
by VA_Skin on Jun 1, 2009 5:58 PM EDT
Max Zendejas
was probably the worst kicker in Redskins history.
"Sure itd be great to be playing with 10 good fingers, but 8 will do just fine." Jon Jansen
by smutsboy1 on Jun 2, 2009 1:48 PM EDT up
besides Suisham
Maybe
One thing I hate about Suisham is when he misses critical (sometimes easier) FGs during the game, only to redeem himself at the very
end of the game. Of course, we would never have needed that last FG if he didnt miss the 2-3 during the game. He does just enough to

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by VA_Skin on Jun 2, 2009 2:13 PM EDT up
keep his job, but not enough to be dependable. I dont know if my guts can take another season of his inconsistency.
by VA_Skin on Jun 1, 2009 6:01 PM EDT
Eddie LeBaron
is the shortest QB ever to make the Pro Bowl (1955) at only 57".
by SkinsCapsTerps on Jun 1, 2009 8:09 PM EDT
Thanks for the look back.
If you need a spelling challenge, start doing hockey posts.
by ZakInOmaha on Jun 2, 2009 8:23 AM EDT
Good choice
Great post and its right on the money. Brad Johnson has always been ignored because he didnt have the biggest arm but with a decent team he
performed very well. Id rather have a smart QB like him than someone who doesnt make good decisions but has a great arm like Jeff George. I hope
youre right about the organization having a direction because all the silly off season moves that have occurred since 1992 drive me crazy. I also hope
Jansen has some success in Detroit, not too much mind you, but some.
by travisjh86 on Jun 2, 2009 10:52 AM EDT
chris samuels
is the longest tenured redskin now i believe..

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The Wall Street Journal
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LENGTH: 1089 words
HEADLINE: Dividend Rock: Firms Reward Buyout Bosses
BYLINE: By Carrick Mollenkamp, Gregory Zuckerman and Laura Saunders
BODY:
Private-equity firms are on pace to suck a record amount of cash out of the companies they own, responding to a
robust borrowing market and a possible dividend-tax increase in 2011. But some investors are beginning to question
whether the frenzy has gone too far.
So far in October, private-equity owned companies paid out nearly $1.7 billion in dividends while adding about
$4.6 billion of new debt, according to Standard & Poor's LCD. That is on pace to top the $2.3 billion monthly record in
April 2007. This month's activity comes on the heels of nearly $2 billion of such dividends in each of the last two
months, S&P LCD said.
More deals are on the way. Thursday, Veritas Capital and a group of investors are expected to begin marketing a
$600 million debt deal for a company they control called Global Tel-Link that is expected to include a $173 million
dividend to Veritas and other investors, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., according to people familiar with the
deal.
The deals are being met with skepticism by some investors who contend borrowing to pay investor dividends can
weaken companies long-term.
In a sign of pushback, nylon producer Ascend Performance Materials on Wednesday shelved plans for a financing
that would have supported a $922 million payment to private-equity owner SK Capital. Credit-ratings firms had noted
that the company was struggling until 16 months ago, when SK Capital began a turnaround of the firm after buying it
for $40 million.
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SK's co-founder, Barry Siadat, said more than enough investors were willing to buy $500 million of Ascend's new
debt, which would have given his firm a dividend of that size, but the interest rate they demanded was more than he
thought reasonable.
Separately, Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday issued a report saying credit quality of U.S. companies
"could be nearing a peak." In an interview, Moody's managing director Mark Gray cited the rise in dividend deals as
among the reasons for concern.
While investors' appetite has raised demand for the deals, some have shied from them. "We are philosophically
opposed to dividend deals because issuers are borrowing money to generate a return to shareholders without enhancing
cash flow to service their debt," said Mark Shenkman, a veteran junk-bond investor and president of Shenkman Capital
Management in New York.
For their part, private-equity pros say cash-flow levels are on the rise for their companies, making it less risky for
them to make big dividend payments.
One driver behind the current deals, said Standard & Poor's, tax experts and some private-equity executives, is the
threat of higher dividend taxes next year. The Bush administration's tax cuts in 2003 decreased the top rate on
"qualified" dividends -- largely those held longer than 60 days -- to 15%. But that tax treatment could expire in
December.
A tax change could be pushed off, as there is increasing sentiment for extending the Bush-era tax cuts by a year or
two. But when lawmakers reconvene on Nov. 15, they also could choose to enact President Obama's proposal that the
tax break only be extended for couples making less than $250,000. In that scenario, the top rate on dividends could rise
by a third to 20% next year.
Whatever the case, "it's clear that dividend rates will never be lower, so these investors are cashing in some
holdings," said Robert Willens, an independent tax expert.
The private-equity dividends are causing a divide on Wall Street when it comes to payouts to investors. Unlike the
private-equity-controlled companies, cash-rich, publicly traded companies are, for the most part, holding back on
dividends.
"Private-equity funds are much more sensitive to taxes than public companies, pension funds, or mutual funds,
because their performance is measured after tax," Mr. Willens said.
Fund-raising done at least partly to pay dividends represents 8.7% of the total amount of leveraged lending and
junk-bond issuance this year, said S&P. Questions about dividends come on the heels of other worries that the junk
market could become overheated as investors such as mutual funds, money managers and insurance firm hunt for
hard-to-find returns.
Dividend supporters say that debt sold between 2003 and 2007 to back dividend payments for private-equity firms
and others defaulted at an annual rate of 5.9%, compared with 7.4% of debt of companies being acquired in leveraged
buyouts, according to S&P.
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. Of that, the company will pay
$105 million to shareholders including Six Flags Inc. and private-equity firm RedZone Capital Management LLC,
whose chief is Daniel Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins football team.
Moody's Investors Service gave the notes a B2 "junk" rating and noted the company's reliance on three annual
television shows, including the American Music Awards, plus the New Year's Eve special and the reality show "So You
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Dividend Rock: Firms Reward Buyout Bosses The Wall Street Journal October 14, 2010 Thursday
Think You Can Dance." Norman Chirite, managing director at RedZone, said it was a "solid rating" and said the
potential tax change wasn't factor. "It was just the right time," Mr. Chirite said, noting what he said were Dick Clark's
solid lineup of shows.
A Six Flags spokeswoman confirmed the transaction, as did a spokeswoman for Dick Clark Productions.
In July, New York cable operator Insight Communications sold $400 million in debt to finance a $300 million
dividend to private-equity firm Carlyle Group LP and other shareholders. About $100 million is being used to refinance
debt, according to Moody's, which gave the debt a B3 junk rating and noted that the company has "high financial
leverage."
A spokeswoman for Insight, which operates cable systems in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana, confirmed the
transaction. A Carlyle spokesperson said Insight still has low debt levels for a cable company, and that it is only
Carlyle's second U.S. dividend deal in the past year.
As for the deal Veritas is seeking for Global Tel-Link, which provides phone service to prisoners, it is expected to
leave the company with debt that is a substantial five times its cash flow. Veritas, which invested about $70 million
when it bought Global Tel-Link last year, is expected to receive about $80 million of that $170 million, according to
people familiar with the matter, who note that the business has a relatively stable cash flow.
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