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Washington Football Team: A history of the franchise’s owners

LANDOVER, MD - SEPTEMBER 10: Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder watches warm ups before a game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins at FedExField on September 10, 2017 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)

Perhaps, in hindsight, it would have been wise for the current Washington Football Team owner to have used three names.

Were he known as Daniel Marc Snyder, he would be following in the tradition of the three men who ran the show for the Washington Football Team prior to his arrival: George Preston Marshall, Edward Bennett Williams, and Jack Kent Cooke.