Dan Snyder is reportedly miserable over the Washington Commanders playoff success

The Washington Commanders are one win away from reaching the Super Bowl for the first time since 1991 thanks to rookie superstar quarterback Jayden Daniels and a new ownership group led by Josh Harris.

If you’re wondering how that might make a miserable curmudgeon like the team’s former owner feel, fear not. ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham released a deeply reported profile of Dan Snyder’s life in NFL exile and found just what it’s like for the team’s deposed chairman to watch his former team’s sudden success from afar.

“He [expletive] hates it,” a companion of Snyder’s revealed to ESPN.

Per the report:

There’s still anger, and he remains “in denial” about what led to his ouster, said a person close to his inner circle. But there’s also something else: “Sadness — for himself,” that person said. “It’s killing him. … It’s devastating for him.”

That sound you hear is hundreds of thousands of Commanders fans experiencing long-awaited schadenfreude. If you’ve forgotten why, allow my colleague and D.C.-native Mike Sykes provide a helpful reminder:

This city has had to watch this man be truly reprehensible at every step of the way during his stewardship.

Remember, he refused to change his team’s racist name until sponsorship dollars were on the line. He sued season-ticket holders who couldn’t afford to pay after losing their jobs while letting his stadium fall apart.

Worst of all, he fostered one of the most toxic workplace environments in professional sports. One so bad that it required a federal investigation and an investigation by the NFL.

Snyder eventually gave up control of the team for just north of $6 billion dollars, but was fined an NFL-record $60 million on his way out the door as a condition of the sale. The Van Natta and Wickersham report includes new details on all the ways Snyder tried to tank the deal at the eleventh hour before ultimately relenting.

Since then, the disgraced 60-year-old has taken up residence in England, isolated from his former life as a power broker in America’s most popular sport. Even Jerry Jones, Snyder’s closest ally in the NFL, told ESPN he has not spoken with Snyder since the Commanders sale.

Snyder’s life in pro sports may not be completely over. There are rumors he may try to buy his way into an English Premiere League soccer team, though Van Natta and Wickersham found plenty of skeptics about such a move:

But other sources close to Snyder and in the Premier League believe he would never buy into a soccer club or any other professional sports team, for that matter. The reason isn’t because of finances, or prestige, or even baggage.

“He isn’t a fan of other sports,” one source said. “He’s a fan of the [Commanders]. That was the biggest thing.”

Now with Washington in the NFC Championship game, Van Natta and Wickersham found Snyder’s former employees celebrating the success for multiple reasons.

“Karma is real,” Melanie Coburn, a marketing director who testified about the team to Congress told ESPN. “For years, we endured the dysfunction and toxicity at the organization under Dan Snyder and blamed all the losses on the dark cloud he brought over the team. Turns out, we were right.”