If you’re looking for rich billionaires who might be interested in purchasing a stake in an NFL team — if not the entire team — you should look no further than Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
Amidst the news that three minority owners in Washington are looking to sell their shares, everyone has been delving into the bidding market and trying to figure out who might be some viable suitors. We even posited a few #HTTR celebrities here who might have an interest in becoming a minority owner. However, with 40% of the team likely up for grabs, which would total approximated $1.36 billion, you’re going to need some big-time money to take that on…
Enter Bezos.
“Jeff Bezos is gonna be the first name that pops up,” Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio said, via NBC Sports Washington. “It’s well known that he wants in and it’s well known that the owners of the other NFL teams wouldn’t mind having him in given that he runs Amazon and it’d be a hell of a lot easier to work out deals for the streaming rights to games if one of the guys that they’re a partner with is also the guy that runs Amazon.”
A story ran last year that Bezos was interested in getting into the NFL ownership circle, but it was likely to be hard to crack that group given the competition to get in and the low rate at which people leave once they’ve got an invite to the party. Now, with nearly half of Washington’s ownership potentially up for grabs, it seems like an ideal time for the man who is on track to become the world’s first trillionaire in the near future.
“He may just want to buy the full 100 percent,” Florio said. “I never understood why anybody with sufficient means would want to not hold the full equity. If you’ve got the money, why do you even want to have to deal with minority partners? What’s the point? If you’ve got the funds to buy the whole thing, and truly Bezos does, just give me the full 100 percent and everyone else can stand down.”
Of course, there is zero indication that Dan Snyder wishes to sell the whole team away from his family, despite a litany of fans’ t-shirts that would urge him to do so. But if Bezos is serious about this, and he makes a big enough offer? Who knows what could happen.
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