During Daniel Snyder’s 24 years as owner of the N.F.L.’s Washington franchise, the team plummeted in popularity and became a textbook example of a toxic workplace. The announcement on Thursday that he has reached an agreement in principle to sell the Commanders came only after years of Snyder insisting that he would not part with the team.
Some will see injustice in Snyder walking away with a $6 billion parting gift — 7.5 times the $800 million he paid for the team in 1999 — despite the damage he inflicted on a franchise that was once beloved in the nation’s capital.