On TNF , Al Michaels states on camera that the league would prefer Snyder sell. Snyder is shown ON CAMERA while Michaels says this. It’s a brazen move, one that Michaels was surely instructed by someone in the league to make. The war is still cold but this , to me, will be remembered as the first official signal of the league’s intent to take down Daniel Snyder.

Michaels statement being so publicly humiliating tells me that the league is not intimidated by Snyder or the ensuing conflict to come.