D-Bag of the Week for 28/10/09

Published on: 28th October, 2009 @ 9:42 am by JeffG

Anyone with any kind of working knowledge of the NFL knows what kind of owner Dan Snyder of the Washington Redskins is.

He makes Al Davis seem logical, and Jerry Jones seem reasonable.

To his credit though, his rash and sometimes asinine personnel decisions are, in his mind anyway, an attempt at improving his club.

He comes across as a little dictator though (insert Hitler joke here), but his latest stunt is just too much.

As bad as the Skins are (and man, they are bad), the fans still come out in droves…filling both the stadium, and Snyder’s greasy pocketbook.  And when fans come to games, many of them bring signs, whether to cheer their fave players on with, or express dismay with the current regime (it’s more of the latter in Washington these days).

Well, at least they used to.  Apparently, the Redskins now have a zero sign policy, which was strictly enforced at the Monday nighter against the Eagles.  My guess is that Snyder and his cronies didn’t want the fans obvious displeasuer with him, Vinny Cerrato and Jim Zorn to be plastered all across the U.S. of A.

So Snyder did the only reasonable thing…he violated the constitution of the United States.  You know, that tiny part about freedom of speech.  Of course the team had a “reasonable” excuse for banning the signs…and by reasonable, I mean completely laughable.  The Redskins are banning signs, now get this, in order to protect fans from getting injured by said signs.

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

Maybe they’ve done studies that show sign-related deaths are on the rise.  Or maybe Dan Snyder is just fucking ridiculous.

The Redskins did have a sign policy in effect, basically saying that signs deemed offensive or inappropriate would be confiscated.

Now it’s all signs…because saying hi to your hubby in Iraq is both dangerous and offensive.

This is an actual sign that Dan Steinberg fished out of the garbage outside FedEx field.  Un-fucking-believable.

For a great read on the whole Skins sign-ban fiasco (including other confiscated signs), read Steinberg’s awesome column at DC Sports Bog (thanks for the pic too).

Dan Snyder, for showing your fans, and the world, what a spiteful little prick you are, I hereby proclaim you Douchebag of the Week.

Now go fuck yourself.

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