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George Steinbrenner III needed 20 years to figure out baseball. What he finally decided was that he would never figure it out at all.
Maybe Daniel Snyder, a different person in a very different sport, can reach the same conclusion with 10 years less pain.
At least Snyder and his Redskins have one advantage over the Boss and his Yankees: Steinbrenner went to three World Series and won two of them in his first six years as an owner. That success fooled him into believing he knew what he was doing.
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