The Washington Commanders are going to be sold, 106.7 The Fan columnist Rick Snider tells JP Finlay definitively.
That's the bottom line and potential buyers can quibble over the remaining details.
Asked during an appearance with JP Finlay on 106.7 The Fan if a full sale is expected, Snider replied, "Yeah, I don't think there's any way out for Snyder."
"I mean, if he wants to keep a couple percent or something, but why would you even do that?" he said. "But he's got to sell majority control and if he doesn't want to, the NFL is gonna make him. This is a done deal as far as that part goes. He's not holding onto this team."
"I know people are worried about it and worried this will fall through, but it's not," he said. "It's gonna go forward, because the NFL wants it to go forward, whether it's Bezos or whoever. They're tired of all this stuff with Dan. I tell Dan take your billions, go to England and have a jolly good time. Leave us alone."
Finlay noted that there are other billionaires beyond Amazon founder Jeff Bezos who would like to purchase a team. That's when Snider ballparked a timeline for when we might expect to see a final sale of the Commanders.
"It's gonna get interesting," Snider said. "I think we're a week away from really starting to see what happens, and that's because the league is really trying to suppress it until after the Super Bowl. But what happens then is when they start to really weed it out, I expect the losing bidders to come a-calling to the media."
"This is what happened last time, too," he continued. "Because they want to know some inside stuff that maybe I or you know, and now all of a sudden we're gonna start horse-trading information. This is how it works and that's how it worked last time.
"I used to be in hotels with people you wouldn't imagine I was talking to, that wouldn't answer my phone calls for months. Suddenly, they want to get back in this game and got to find it out. That's when you find out who's real and what's going on. So I think we're a week or two away from that."
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