No matter how riddled with parity we like to believe the NFL has become, there’s always at least one organization that better serves as the butt of a joke, than the banner franchise.
For twenty years, spanning the length of Dan Snyder’s tenure with the Washington Redskins, the burgundy and gold have taken the role of the former for seasons on end. Bruce Allen is regarded as “literally a joke” by executives across the league, and Snyder, through a vicious recurring cycle of self-destruction, has attracted the same reputation.
For all their failings, however, the Redskins, for the better part of the twenty-first century, weren’t the lowliest franchise in the league.