Hogs Haven
He’s more than just “not Dan Snyder”; Harris is a proactive and strategic leader who is rapidly re-shaping the smouldering husk that he purchased into a model NFL franchise
Lots of people have said it before me and better than me, but as I was working on putting together the Daily Slop the other day, I couldn’t help but sit in stupefied amazement at how things have changed for the NFL franchise in Washington.
The bad old days of 2020 — could it be just 5 years ago? — are still vivid in some ways, but also fading like a hard-to-remember bad dream in the morning light.
I remember, in mid-July of 2020, reading a bombshell story about sexual harassment and a toxic workplace in the Washington Post and co-writing a blog piece about it with Bryan Stabbe at a furious pace (I was writing story text in Bangkok as he simultaneously added quotes and links to the story from his home in the US) because it felt like it couldn’t — as most blogs articles can — wait until the next day to get published.
Back then, we freshly-minted Washington Football Team fans collectively wondered aloud whether this could finally be the ‘beginning of the end’ of the toxic ownership that had destroyed the franchise and held us all hostage for over two decades, but none of us really seemed to believe it could happen because of the cockroach-like ability the owner had demonstrated to survive anything.
It turned out to be exactly what we all had hoped for — a giant step forward in a long process of fumigating the infestation of our once proud franchise.
Thirty-six months later, the sale of the team to Josh Harris & Co. was finalized.
In the 22 months since the sale of the team, a sea-change has taken place! Even just hitting on a short list of the biggest highlights is an exercise in amazement.
I think it’s fair to say that only the Philadelphia Eagles fans can argue that they’ve had a better run since January 2024 than Commanders fans.
As I was looking through the headlines across the various NFL media platforms to put together the Daily Slop today, I saw stories about the ‘27 Draft coming to DC, about the new stadium, Power Rankings for ‘25 that listed the Commanders among the expected playoff...
