Growing up in Maryland, Dan Snyder loved the Washington NFL team. His passion for the club only grew when his father scraped together the cash to buy tickets to take his young son to a game. That's according to an ESPN report on Saturday,

Daniel Snyder was owner of the Washington Commanders for nearly 25 years, and almost all of the team's fans could describe his tenure unanimously as not only unsuccessful but mostly. a miserable product to watch.

Snyder eventually gave up control of the team for just north of $6 billion dollars, but was fined an NFL-record $60 million on his way out the door as a condition of the sale. The Van Natta and Wickersham report includes new details on all the ways Snyder tried to tank the deal at the eleventh hour before ultimately relenting.