In 2011, in an interview with Footwear News, Tanya Snyder, the Washington Football Team’s current co-CEO offered up the following quote. If it’s not the perfect metaphor for the entanglement that she finds herself in with the team’s loathsome owner, Dan Snyder, I’m not sure what would be. Endurance through difficult times in the service of the pair’s collective vanity has been a hallmark of Snyder-led ownership and management for the past 20 years, and Tanya’s willingness to “grin and bear it” has been essential to that enterprise.
The former Tanya Ivie was raised in a suburb of Atlanta, in a middle class household with three sisters.