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Rick Ross wants to own an NFL team with Dwyane Wade

Dwyane Wade said he was down before.

Rick Ross and Dwyane Wade rose to prominence around the same time. Wade won his first title in 2006 with the Miami Heat. Ross dropped his debut album “Port of Miami” later that summer.

They’re two pillars Miami culture and have built a friendship upon that. Their connection, potentially, lead to something major in the NFL world if Rick Ross has his way.

The rapper paid a visit to First Take on Wednesday, where he was asked about potentially owning an NFL franchise with Dwyane Wade.

Would he do it with Wade? Definitely, Ross said, if the opportunity presented itself.

“That was a conversation that me and D Wade had and, you know, it wasn’t nothing serious at the time…But would I? Of course I would. Is that something I would be interested in? Of course I would.”

This isn’t the first time Ross has said he’d do this. He talked with Wade for GQ last year and asked the Miami Heat legend if he’d be willing to do it. “I move forward on it. I move forward on it, 100%,” Wade said.

I can only imagine what this team would look like. Ross on the sidelines every game, uniforms decked out in Versace patterns and Wing Stop all the time, probably.

Sign me up.

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WATCH: XFL comissioner defends restricting contracted player from leaving for NFL

The XFL is still seven weeks from launch, but don’t expect any of the players under contract with the league to change between now and then.

The XFL is still seven weeks from launch, but don’t expect any of the players under contract with the league to change between now and then.

Commissioner Oliver Luck spoke at length with the Tampa Bay Times roughly two months from kickoff and defended the league’s policy on not releasing its players from their contracts if an NFL team is interested in-season.

The Detroit Lions inquired with the XFL about quarterback Josh Johnson in November, but Luck & the XFL said the LA Wildcats player would be held to his contract ahead of December mini-camp.

Luck said, “In the game of football today (…) your quarterback play is determinative. (…) we said, ‘No, we’re keeping him. He’s ours, he signed a contract. He’s committed to us.”

Luck said he also turned down releasing quarterback Landry Jones and Phillip Walker after Ben Roethlisberger’s season-ending injury.

The commissioner explained that in order for the XFL’s relaunch to succeed, stability is key, saying “Once a player signs a contract (…) then he’s under contract with us. We won’t release that player to the NFL until after our season. We need certainty. We can’t just have guys peeling off.”

Two quarterbacks that fans will *not* see in the XFL are polarizing former football stars Johnny Manziel and Colin Kaepernick.

Johnny Football was in the XFL’s draft pool, according to Luck, but scouts and coaches, “didn’t think he was going to help their team.”

Of Kaepernick, Luck said, “I think his salary demands are way out of our ballpark. He was never really a viable option.”

XFL comissioner defends restricting contracted player from leaving for NFL, talk Manziel & Kaepernic

The XFL is still seven weeks from launch, but don’t expect any of the players under contract with the league to change between now and then.

The XFL is still seven weeks from launch, but don’t expect any of the players under contract with the league to change between now and then.