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49. Meet Dan Snyder's Team Of Legal Advisors

Woody Allen famously paraphrased Groucho Marx's sentiments that he didn't "want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members," which is smart for him, considering the controversy he's found himself in lately. However, the same cannot be said for Washington football team owner Dan Snyder.

Over at Think Progress, Travis Waldron has a lengthy but interesting report about the "epic battle" to save the Washington football team's name—the "most offensive team name in professional sports"—and in it, it reveals some of the "high-profile Republican advisors" Snyder has recruited to help him win this epic battle. Spoiler alert: It's, uh, quite a colorful team Snyder has assembled. From ThinkProgress:

Included in the email chain were Frank Luntz, the Republican messaging consultant famous for phrases like “climate change” and “death tax”; Ari Fleischer, who served as White House press secretary under George W. Bush from 2001 and 2003 and now runs a consulting firm called Ari Fleischer Sports Communications; George Allen, the former Virginia governor and U.S. senator who now runs the consulting firm George Allen Strategies; and Bruce Allen, George Allen’s brother and the organization’s general manager and executive vice president.

As you may recall, George Allen was last in the spotlight when he caught using a racial slur to describe one of his opponent's staffers on camera. Oh and then there's Lanny Davis, who has accrued quite the honorable client list over the years. Snyder has reportedly retained him "to help communications strategy." It is, as New York Magazine's Jonathan Chait puts it, "an entire roster of Beltway super-villains."

So yeah, I think it's safe to say the controversy surrounding the Washington football team's name isn't dying down anytime in the near future. Should be a fun season come August.

http://dcist.com/2014/01/meet_dan_snyders_team.php