John Riordan: Sinking Snyder abandoned by his NFL allies

Synder is the controversial and corrupt owner of the recently rebranded Washington Commanders, formerly the Washington Football Team and, prior to that, for far too long, the Washington Redskins.

Dan Snyder speaks during the announcement of the Washington Football Team's name change to the Washington Commanders at FedExField. Pic: Rob Carr/Getty Images

Only for the fact that Dan Synder wasn't physically present to watch his name get dragged through the dirt in New York City on Tuesday afternoon, the autumn quarterly meeting of NFL owners had an unavoidably Five Families showdown in Wappingers Falls feel about it.

The latter fictional / semi-fictional summit was more emergency than scheduled; The Godfather’s most powerful don, Vito Corleone, had had enough after his son Sonny was ensnared by his own rage and brutally murdered at a toll booth. And so, for the sake of peace and profit, the warring Corleone and Tattaglia families needed Emilio Barzini to oversee an intervention.