It has been a battle of press releases over the past couple
of days. Whether it's the Commander's denying or Jason
Freedman, the former washing the Commander's employee making
counter allegations through his lawyer. Lisa Banks.
Bottom line is, here's what we know.
Here's the here's the
the current state of affairs, Jason Freedman, 24 years with
the team, testified to the US House committee on oversight
and reform as to financial irregularities within
the organization including this.
Ocean that there was
some sort of shorting of the visiting team
ticket fund. That's what we can discern
and infer from the
various statements and allegations that have been made
the Washington commanders. After initially being silent in
specific response to that claim have said it's false. You saw
Joe tack a penis statement, there and Tackle penis. Most
recent comment relates to the suggestion
that the commanders have defamed, Jason Freedman by
saying whoever
Would say that
that this happened would be committing perjury of
testifying even though they don't name him and he gets into
some weird lawyer stuff. But the bottom line is, we know
what the allegation is.
We don't know whether or not it's true.
And I sure would love to know
if it is or isn't true. And I'd like to think the league
would love to know
if it is or isn't true. And I can't help but Wonder at some
level whether or not the league doesn't really want to go too
far down this path because the league is supposed to be
catching these things. And if the league Didn't then it's
going to have egg to scrape off of
its face too. By the time this is all said and done.
Oh, yeah. I mean, you've got, you know, 31 other ownership
groups that I'm sure would really like the answer to this
question as well. I mean, I don't know if there could be
anything more
serious than one owner shorting, the other owners in
terms of their money, right? You're talking about
billionaires here.
They don't like it when people mess around with their money,
and I guess I think I'm saying that pretty kindly. So this is
a pretty serious thing. And like I just I can't imagine
that anybody would go to Congress and say something like
this unless they had some sort of receipt.
So I would love to know
what the evidence is here. And if there is any, because if
there isn't, then that, this is just even more of a mess.
Yeah, and, and at some point, you would think
that Washington would want the truth to come out. It's not
enough to say these payments and calculations are
independently. There has to be
something tangible that you can give us and maybe it gets
boring and maybe nobody's interested in presenting
the numbers. And maybe there is no way to verify the numbers. I
don't know. They could as I've said previously remove,
whatever, restriction,
Lisa Banks, who represents Jason Freedman, seems to think
applies to his ability to speak publicly and let him tell his
story, just let him tell his story. And if he defames
the Commander's or
team owner, Daniel Snyder, who have to deal with the
legal consequences, but If he has evidence, if he has
receipts, if he can back it up and show that it happened, then
I think that's something that we should be looking to, and
shouldn't the NFL. And a minimum be saying,
we will investigate this. We will talk
to Jason Freedman. This posture of head low mouth shut head in
the sand. Not saying anything, not doing anything. While this
controversy is boiling out. There. It is weird, and
I expect there to be more reporting.
What we have is front office, Sports is pushing from
the perspective of
the some. Wrong. And you're getting people from the team
side, I think leaking do they athletic
the counter to that and it puts the Publications in a tough
spot because they're just using what's being given to them. But
it sets up almost battle lines between the two Publications
where
front office Sports is coming off as team. Jason Freedman,
and the athletic is coming off his team Washington commanders.
And I don't think either side really
wants that to be the case, but that's kind of, how its
unfolding.
Yeah, it is especially I mean that's just the way it is based
on the reporting that we have right now. But yeah, I think
that we can anticipate that there's going to be some more
reporting out of this,
but I also would,
you know, I'd go with that. Guy was just saying with
the receipts and all that. If you worked for the Washington
franchise for that long
and, you know, presumably
is how litigious Dan Snyder is
it? Just can't? Imagine that you would go public about this
even if it was initially. Just to Congress right now. I mean
now we all know
what the allegation is, right?
There's got to be
something that you can prove if you're going to make this
allegation because otherwise,
you know, Dan Snyder is going to sue you in absolute hell. So
II don't, that's kind of where my mind's at with it. And, you
know, we'll see where the reporting leads.
Yeah. I mean, the reality is, is a good chance you getting
sued, even if you're right. So not only do you have to be
right, you better have
Legal defense fund
and the nerve to, because if there's any misunderstanding,
if there's any confusion, if you get anything wrong,
you got to worry about Snyder
coming after you, that is a statement of opinion. Not fact,
please don't come after me, Daniel Snyder for expressing.
My opinion, based upon
your history of filing litigation. Including the claim
that I think is still pending in India, over
a report from some website that I can't even remember the name
of the website that spawned all sorts of. Fights in the United
States in different jurisdictions, over trying to
get documents. And as far as I know, that's still going on
because I haven't heard anything about it in a while.