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Cheerleading incident with Daniel Snyder's team should've been catalyst for change. But this is Washington.

The story about the (currently nameless) NFL franchise in Washington came out, and details about life there as a female employee were disturbing.

Unwanted sexual advances. Disrespectful requests. A culture that enforced silence and encouraged nonsense.

No, not the much-hyped story that the Washington Post published Thursday about the organization, although it contains all of the above, and then some.

This was from 2018 when The New York Times, citing five former cheerleaders, detailed an outrageous work environment that should have humiliated team owner Dan Snyder into, well, something, anything.