Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast. I'm Dave Ziron.

This week we are talking to Hall of Fame journalist David Aldridge, who by the way is also someone born and raised in

Washington, D.C., went to Dematha High School in Maryland, so he knows this area, as one might

imagine, as the person who's the Washington War Chief of the Athletic, thrilled to talk to

David Aldridge.

And what we're going to discuss with Mr. Aldridge is what is the topic of this entire program.

And that is what looks like the eminent fall of the kingdom of Dan Snyder, the erstwhile franchise owner of the Washington football team.

So I'm going to start in case folks out there

aren't familiar with who this guy is. I think it's important that I start with a little essay here

about Dan Snyder, and then we'll take it right to David Aldridge, and he'll bring it home

and actually explain from his perspective why this is so momentous.

So people have to understand that in Washington, D.C., fans are leaning out of their office windows

and cheering themselves hoarse, and sports radio is playing celebration by Cool and the Gang.

What's the deal? Well, after a 24-year tenure that can only be described as the bad, the worse, and the ugly,

Washington commander's owner Dan Snyder is reportedly selling his team.

Perhaps not since the 2011 Arab Spring has there been such an outcry of relief at the end of an era of autocracy?

It would take a book to fully outline all of Snyder's reported pettiness, cruelty, and overall awfulness.

In fact, I wrote a book in 2012 called Bad Sports, How Owners Are Ruinning the Games We Love,

and I dedicate a whole chapter to Snyder,

and now my book is painfully out of date.

That's how much has happened over the last 10 years.

Now, even though people in D.C. are cheering his departure,

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