Li'l Danny's Thuggery

Perhaps due to his diminutive stature, Washington's football team owner and short-fingered money grubber Daniel "Li'l Danny" Snyder likes to use his wealth to push people around.  Years ago, he filed a lawsuit against the Washington City Paper, a small weekly newspaper that had used countless examples of Li'l Danny's avarice and arrogance in an unflattering article.  First, Li'l Danny had his lawyers send a threatening letter to the investors in the paper, suggesting that he'd bankrupt the paper and investors through costly, prolonged litigation. Eventually, Li'l Danny dropped the suit.

It seems that Li'l Danny can't stop himself.  Now, he's having his lawyers sue the five Native Americans who successfully petitioned the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to cancel the team's six trademark registrations.  Clearly the five Native Americans don't have the financial resources to match Li'l Danny's, and their lawyer has questioned why they're being sued instead of the PTO.  The answer's obvious:  Li'l Danny wants to crush any future challenges to the team's name, through intimidation and threats of individual lawsuits.  His thuggish tactics demonstrate why the public needs to oppose him and his attempts to roll over people that object to the derogative name for his football team.