I’m not disagreeing with you. It sounds like nobody is tangibly effected by how the organization handled this. Nobody would have attended if given proper notice so in that sense the late notice doesn’t matter.
The issue is that it is being used to deflect from the other stuff going on.
I just wanted to understand the source of the outrage. Thanks everyone for indulging me.
I don't really know what you mean by "tangibly effected." This isn't really an if/then statement problem, i.e. nobody is arguing that if they announced it earlier then they'd go. The physical act of attending or not attending the game is not what's important or the issue or that's causing so much heartache.
The core issue is that ST21 is a legend to this fanbase. He is the biggest "what if" in our franchise's history and one of the biggest what ifs in the history of the NFL. He is one of the only shining lights we have remaining since Snyder has ruined everything else. He was our Alex Ovechkin; a guy who was seemingly put on this Earth to do one thing and he was ours. He was the guy who could have been one of the all-time greats and who we saw growing up in front of us from a hothead kid out of Miami to a devoted father and fiance who was also a stone-cold killer on the field who could do things never before seen in the sport. And he was taken from us in heart-wrenching fashion that left people devastated.
When people talk about the WFT it's almost always negative commentary about how much of a mess we are off the field or how badly we suck on the field but when people talk about ST21, that's one of the only times that WFT fans can puff out their chest a bit and feel good about this organization. There's universal respect for him. He was above all of the other bullshit and was untainted by Snyder's curse.
And now it feels like that aspect has been torn away. Now it feels like he's an act in a clownshow that never stops. His jersey retirement feels like an afterthought and a distraction from all of the negative PR the team has received. He's been dragged into the mud and people are furious about it. ST was the one thing we thought Snyder couldn't take from us and yet he managed to f*** it up.