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by Spencer Hall • May 4, 2010 1:40 PM EDT
If Daniel Snyder ran your funeral home, you would be chopped into pieces and charged by the section for burial. If he ran your local hospital, you would be operated on, and then offered anaesthesia, because this is how "value" is created. And as owner of the Redskins, he makes sure his franchise is full of "value," i.e. extortionate pricing for even the smallest pieces of the Redskin Fan Experience*.
You may assume this despicable approach to business would be the opposite of fun. Snyder's recent removal as the head of Six Flags, Inc. would confirm your instincts, especially since "fun" is the business SIx Flags is in, and Snyder's idea of fun would be selling starving babies formula by the dropful. Slate details how Snyder ran the company into the ground while lining his own pockets with bizarre sponsorship deals like this:
Perhaps Snyder's legacy as Six Flags chairman will be the sponsorship deal he cut in June 2009 with Anatomic Global, a bedding firm based in Corona, Calif. Just two weeks after Six Flags declared bankruptcy, Snyder announced that Anatomic Global was henceforth the "official mattress" of the company. Six Flags even began offering the mattresses for sale at its parks for $1,299 in queen size...
...because most people do their mattress shopping at family theme parks, you know. Dave McKenna's full saga on the Six Flags/ Snyder affair is here. The sad shaking of heads you can hear is from anyone who used to care about their beautiful baby boy the Redskins, who is now being mailed to them by kidnappers one body part at a time from an undisclosed location in Maryland in exchange for large cash installments.
*Please deposit five dollars into your computer for reading this.
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Hilarious title
You had me at zillion.
by thebigcali on May 4, 2010 8:34 PM EDT reply actions
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