I swear Dan Snyder has a personal vendetta to make sure the Redskins are perpetual assholes.
News broke today that the Redskins have claimed former 49ers linebacker Rueban Foster off waivers. While Foster is arguably the best young linebacker in football, he’s a terrible human being.
Foster was released by the Niners two days ago after being arrested on domestic assault charges. What’s worse, this is the third time the second-year linebacker has been taken into police custody and the second time it’s been on domestic abuse charges.
While details on the assault charge are still cloudy, it’s clear that Foster lacks the character to play in the NFL. So in other words, he’s the perfect Redskin.
Not only does the team have the most blatantly racist name in the NFL, but this is far from the first time this team has acquired morally bankrupt players under Dan Snyder’s ownership. The team spent a second round pick on Derrius Guice, one of the draft’s top running backs who’d fallen due to major problems with maturity and off the field issues at LSU.
The Redskins also signed Desean Jackson when he was thought to have potential gang ties and Junior Galette after being arrested on domestic assault charges.
Galette was also involved in a beach fight, where he struck a woman with his designer belt, in one of the weirdest off the field incidents I’ve ever seen.
Thankfully, the football Gods are just and none of these players ever made a real impact with the Redskins. Jackson posted decent numbers in Washington, but Galette never played a single down after tearing both of his Achilles’ tendons in consecutive seasons. Guice fell to a similar fate after tearing his ACL this preseason and missing all of his rookie season. We can only hope Foster follows a similar trend.
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