Redskins Prefer Their Scalpers Over Their Fans

As though Redskins fans hadn’t enough reason to feel cheated by their ownership. Already subjected to one of the worst venues in the league for seeing a football game, ‘Skins fans are forced to follow a franchise under the iron platform shoes of a man hellbent on wrestling every cent from them, all while hoping to dictate how the local media covers his team. ↵

↵↵Now comes the revelation that ticketing employees have struck deals, against the team’s own policy, to sell thousands of tickets (both single game and season tickets) to about 15 companies comprised of “brokers”, or by a less euphemistic term, scalpers, who resell them at a marked up price online. ↵

↵↵Once the practice was reported by The Washington Post, the team went into recrimination mode, saying it was the work of some rogue party in the ticketing office (who has since been dispatched) and that Dan Snyder was reportedly “livid” when he heard the news. Which, even if true, doesn’t excuse a massive oversight that kept people sitting on a waiting list for tickets, always promoted by the Redskins to number in the tens of thousands, from rightfully getting their opportunity to buy them.↵

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↵↵⇥Donovan said someone in the ticket office could have diverted lower bowl general admission tickets to the brokers by using several account names. “Over the course of the year, if you’re so inclined, you could siphon off hundreds of tickets, easily,” he said. “There’s no reason that person couldn’t skate under the radar for quite a while.”↵↵↵And I’m sure fans would like to know which measures will be put in place to ensure that someone else couldn’t just skate for a while.↵

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