EXCLUSIVE — Recent reporting from ESPN that Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder has amassed blackmail to "blow up" multiple NFL owners is "just a fabrication with a bunch of anonymous sources," according to a lawyer for the team.
The report cited over 30 anonymous figures and alleged that Snyder has crowed to confidants that top brass within the league can't touch him because of the dirt he stockpiled on commissioner Roger Goodell and others. But attorney John Brownlee argued that the bombshell report lacked evidence and offered a point-by-point rebuttal of the story.
"It could be all just rumor and innuendo and hearsay because you just don't know. And that's the dangerousness of the ESPN article," Brownlee told the Washington Examiner. "Now, we're about 36 hours after it's released, and they still haven't provided any corroborating evidence of anything."
Brownlee contended that if dozens of sources believed that Snyder had engaged in the behavior described in the ESPN report or were fearful of reprisal, some corroborating evidence such as a text message, email, or recording would emerge.
A lawsuit against ESPN over the report is "under consideration," Brownlee added.
"We stand by our reporting," an ESPN spokesperson told the Washington Examiner in response to Brownlee's rebuttal.
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