It's been brutal but there's finally a light at the end of the tunnel.
Snyder felt pressure but, IIRC, what started it all was allegations of sexual harassment, cheerleaders being taped without their permission if you get my drift and a dvd of the footage being passed around by Snyder and his cronies. Bullying, intimidation. Then underreporting ticket sales in order to pay less into an NFL fund. Withholding ticket deposits from fans...I mean, there's more and quite frankly it's so hard to recall it all.
Peter Angelos, John Angelos and Dan Snyder are monumental assholes. Dan Snyder, habitually, crossed lines that were legal. I don't know if Peter and John would do that or have done that. And that's why the NFL owners were putting the pressure on Snyder, they knew he was bad for business from a legal and PR perspective....a league that's historically been awful towards women couldn't stomach an owner who was awful to women. Plus with the notion that he'd withheld earnings from the rest of the league...yeah. They wanted him gone.
John Angelos bullying Kevin Brown? Like I said, tiddlywinks. Other MLB owners can't begin to pressure him to sell the Orioles because of that. Now...if sexual harassment allegations came to light or tapes of him using offensive/racist language...yeah, he's gone.