Al Michaels pushing Dan Snyder to sell Commanders on national TV is sure sign other NFL owners really do hate him
Early on Thursday, an ESPN report detailed Dan Snyder’s general awfulness as the owner of the Washington Commanders.
One of the major revelations was how Snyder apparently has “dirt” on Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Snyder even called the NFL a “mafia,” to which an anonymous owner said all the other owners “hate” him.
This was important context to interesting comments from "Thursday Night Football" play-by-play commentator Al Michaels during the broadcast of the Commanders-Bears game. As the two teams started the fourth quarter, Michaels went on a short tangent about how the rest of the league thinks Snyder should sell the Commanders.
Given that Michaels said these things as the camera specifically panned over to Snyder on national television and that Michaels himself might be the “golden voice” of the league — this is not a small development, to be sure:
Oh, man. You can count on one hand the number of times a play-by-play broadcaster says an owner should sell a team during a game in front of a massive audience. And by “one hand,” while I can’t confirm for sure, that number is probably more like zero.
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With Snyder apparently increasing the heat on key league officials, this is certainly a situation to watch if Michaels is spotlighting it on TV.