LOOK: Robert Griffin offers unique, unusual solution to Washington Commanders ownership controversy
With the news coming Wednesday that the Washington Commanders could soon be up for sale, Robert Griffin III is considering becoming a minority owner. Not only that, but he wants to give some fans an opportunity to do the same.
Griffin, who was drafted second overall by Washington in 2012 and played the first three seasons of his NFL career with the team, sent out a tweet Wednesday morning laying out his plan.
“Who wants to be a Minority owner of the Washington Commanders?” he wrote. “I’m down to pay for a stake in the team and bring 10 fans along for the ride.”
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Griffin added in a second tweet that the 10 fans “won’t have to pay anything.”
At the moment, current Washington owner Dan Snyder has stated that he and his wife Tanya “remain committed to the team” despite the reports of a potential sale. However, with Snyder still facing investigations from both the NFL and congress for sexual harassment, it seems like an inevitability that his time has come to an end.
Whenever that happens, Robert Griffin will be there to make the day of 10 Commanders fans.
More on the Washington Commanders ownership situation
Washington Commanders owners Dan and Tanya Snyder have brought on Bank of America Securities to help facilitate potential transactions that the Snyders are considering, they said in a release on Wednesday.
The release came shortly after a Forbes story breaking the news that the embattled owners of the Commanders are in the early stages of potentially selling part — or all — of the NFL franchise.
“Dan and Tanya Snyder and the Washington Commanders announced today that they have hired BofA Securities to consider potential transactions.”
Snyder originally bought the franchise — at that point in time adorned with a slur toward indigenous Americans as a nickname — for a then record-setting $800 million in 1999. In light of Wednesday’s news, Front Office Sports tweeted that Forbes had recently valued the Commanders franchise at $5.6, meaning a full sale of the team would be the most expensive in the history of sports.
Pressure both from the public and fellow owners for the Snyders to vamoose from the league has grown in years and ratcheted up in recent weeks. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay has spoken publicly about how perhaps enough owners wish to eschew the owners of the lately scandal-ridden Washington franchise.
A number of investigations in recent years have apparently shed light on a toxic workplace — particularly for women — under the ownership of the Snyders, with the NFL infamously not generating a written report about the investigation into workplace issues done by lawyer Beth Wilkinson.
On3’s Andrew Graham contributed to this report.