Sure, Dan Snyder might currently be one of the area’s biggest villains. But if he wants to catch up with former Redskins owner George Preston Marshall, he’s going to have to start doing a lot more than suing some journalists.

Marshall’s legendary refusal to integrate his team before 1961 is the subject of an captivating story by — who else? — Dave McKenna today. Marshall — who also had a penchant for micromanaging his team into the ground, like Snyder — is well known for his insistence on segregation. As McKenna documents, Marshall finally caved into growing pressure in 1961, though not without holding a grudge with involved him forming a charity which refused to lend support to “any purpose which supports the principle of racial integration in any form.” And as with most great stories, Marshall’s attitude is nicely summed up in one fantastic quote:

In a 2002 interview, [former interior secretary Stewart] Udall, who died last year, told me that Marshall was one of the most despicable characters he’d ever met.

“The guy hated everybody but the whores,” Udall said.

Makes sense — this was, after all, a man who once said that he’d “start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.”