Since the story was broken in early November that Washington Commanders owner Daniel Snyder hired Bank of America to explore potential transactions with his team, rumors and reports have circled the franchise.
There have been alleged deadlines, real bidders, mystery bidders and the drama surrounding if Snyder would allow Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to enter the bidding.
We’ve recently learned that Snyder has no problem with Bezos entering the bidding, and he’d welcome Bezos entering the process.
What we do know is there have been three bids on the Commanders: Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils owner Josh Harris’ group, featuring Mitchell Rales and Magic Johnson, Canadian billionaire Steve Apostolopoulos and Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta. Harris and Apostolopoulos have bids in the $6 billion range.
Now, according to a report from A.J. Perez of Front Office Sports, we could have a new deadline.
From Perez:
Sources said the current target to select a bidder is ahead of the start of the next owners meetings on May 22 — a day before the Commanders start their voluntary offseason workouts, also known as organized team activities.
Shortly after the Commanders were open for business in November, many believed the NFL owners meetings in March was the target date for a sale. As that date came and went, the NFL likely set a new target date for Snyder to pick a winner.