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Redskins sold seats directly to scalpers


Kevin Greene

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One night last fall, thousands of fans walked into FedEx Field carrying gold towels. From the opening kickoff, it was clear that they were not part of the Washington Redskins burgundy-and-gold. The towel-waving throng cheered for the Pittsburgh Steelers, so loudly that on some downs the Redskins couldn't hear quarterback Jason Campbell call the signals.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/01/AR2009090103984.html?hpid=topnews&sid=ST2009090104025

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Good read!

This one part stuck out to me......

(The contracts with ASC were stamped with the signature of Mitch Gershman, the club's chief operating officer. But Gershman said he was unaware of the contracts until they turned up in the audit. "I did not personally sign any of those agreements," he said.)

This is why if you hold a job with responsibility you do not have a STAMP for your signature. Why is it now that people can always fall on the "I did not know" statement. You was in charge and it was your job! If someone that had access to your stamp did it without talking to you first, I say TO BAD FOR YOU!! You hired them to do your work for you and they did. Take the responsibility for the mistake and don't point the finger and get away with it!!! Stamp or Pen&Ink signature, it is yours!!

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Every team does it.

Seriously. The skins just suffer the bad fortune of being in the same city as the second best news organization still left in print media. WaPo always picks up these scandals in the DC area making us look a lot more crooked than every other sports city. Same thing happened with the whole University of Maryland/Under Armour thing. Every other school does it, UMD just happened to be in the WaPo's stomping ground.

But F*** the skins. They deserve this negative publicity after what they did to the Pro Bowl last year.

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Having read the story through, I think the real story is that the Redskins are suing fans who default on their seat contracts for RIDICULOUS sums of money (think tens of thousands), and then turn around and sell those defaulted seats to secondary ticket brokers for a profit, basically cashing in twice for the same ticket. So the skins can sue you for violating their contract policy, but it's fine and dandy for them to sell these seats to brokers, which is against their OWN policy.

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