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

Snyder eventually gave up control of the team for just north of $6 billion dollars, but was fined an NFL-record $60 million on his way out the door as a condition of the sale. The Van Natta and Wickersham report includes new details on all the ways Snyder tried to tank the deal at the eleventh hour before ultimately relenting.

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

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

As the Washington Commanders get ready to play in the NFC Championship Game for the first time since January 1992, former owner Dan Snyder is apparently

Dan Snyder sold the Commanders for a record $6.05 billion, but he was reported to have made an effort to blow up the transaction.

Dan Snyder’s tumultuous ownership tenure, which began in 1999, was plagued by poor results on the field and various scandals off of it.