Sean Taylor Day Was Just The Latest Incident In A Long Line Of Shamelessness
I didn’t even really want to make this one but I didn’t have any better ideas and I can’t remember touching on Sean Taylor yet so here we are. I didn’t want to make it because it occurred to me when I had the idea that at this point, Dan Snyder being a vile piece of shit is basically one of my running gags. Possibly the most serious running gag I have. I’ve made more comics about him and the TEAM than basically any other owner. There are only so many ways you can talk about Dan Snyder being a piece of shit.
I think it’s just the absolute shamelessness of it all that really gets me. All the other owners, even Jerry, are competent at hiding their shamelessness or deflecting away from their evil deeds. Robert Kraft got jerked off in a massage parlor and look how quickly and easily that disappeared. John Mara has emerged as a big villain in recent years starting with the covering up of kicker domestic abuse, but he’s still adept at keeping things low. Most owners seem capable of staying out of the eyeline of the average casual fan and therefore out of the general watching eye of scandal. Snyder either can’t or doesn’t even try. His ownership has been transparently shameless. Everything the TEAM does is obviously self-serving. And it’s just scandal after scandal, shamelessness upon shamelessness, and he just sits there untouchable and it is infuriating.
There was no way the Sean Taylor memorial day was anything but a shameless attempt to distract people from the email scandal spawned from the WFT culture investigation. The instant the news dropped literally everyone recognized it for what it was, because Snyder doesn’t care or can’t hide his shamelessness. Dropping the news 3 days before a game that they are celebrating Sean Taylor? Right in the middle of a discussion about the cheerleader story? We all knew it was crap. Even if the family had been working on that day for some time, it felt like a rush job to drop the news on such short notice. Fans would have wanted to go to that and they waited till it was basically too late, and they cheapened the entire thing. Sean Taylor was a beloved figure on that team and the way they keep using him to gain cheap brownie points is gross. Just another incident in a long line of gross.
Snyder gets a ton of flack? Makes his wife co-owner and face of the franchise in an obvious attempt to have her absorb some blame.
Gets criticism about the name? Trots actual Native American people to stand out on the field and display heritage stuff. Changes the name solely after his large sponsorship deals are threatened, not after any moral discussion.
It’s all just so damn gross. Absolutely shameless franchise. It’s exhausting.
Sean Taylor’s family deserved better than this.
I really want one of Snyder’s bodyguards (he has them right? since he’s still alive?) to kick him in the balls.
Or give him the Caligula treatment.
Even worse was the fact that Sean Taylor’s family didn’t even know that it was going to happen when it was announced.
https://sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/sean-taylors-brother-found-out-about-washington-football-team-jersey-retirement-this-week-000803812.html
I really hope the FBI gets their act together and throws Snyder under the jail and gives the franchise to someone, anyone. Politicians could run this team better than Snyder has.
I think the world let out a collective “Bullshit!” when the NFL said that no other of the 650k emails contained anything of note in terms of offensive material.
I was really hoping Synder would have been shown in a hoodie.
If Gabe Taylor gets drafted by the Re-skins he has to pull an Eli, right?
Pat Tillman might be my all time favorite player not named Brian Dawkins
Thank you for drawing Pat with long hair. Thank you for drawing him like the guy he really was, rather than the GI Joe figure the Army & NFL painted him as after they murdered him.
It’s been seventeen years since my old man went off to war and the Pat Tillman story still makes my skin crawl. If anyone deserves to go to Heaven, it’s Pat.
If anyone deserves to go to hell, it’s the bastards who killed Pat and turned him into a propaganda piece.
Amen.
You missed the part about Pat Mahomes’ brother doing a TikTok dance in front of the memorial. Although, given how incredibly shitty the memorial actually was makes that less of a thing.
TikTok and pt mahomes’ brother suck. (Did I use the apostrophe right?)
This was absolutely awful. And people try to defend it by saying “the TEAM let people go to the number, this is on them” why can’t it be both? He’s still an awful person for doing some creepy dance on the number of the dead guy.