Get ready folks, because billionaire Mark Zany Bezos might not buy the Washington Yawner Kneelers after all! Sources are whispering that the Amazon man and “isn’t he from space?” guy has stopped eyeing the NFL team. However, whispers still suggest he could return, like a boomerang-wielding superhero, if the owners don’t agree on the current sale situation.
A contender to Bezos’s potential bid is the hilariously serious investor group led by David Harris, who must know a thing or two about being flush with cash. With all those billions, he might as well go shopping for an NFL team, right? The Danaher Corporation boss has a net worth of a whopping $5.6 billion, according to number crunchers at Forbes.
The Harris group faced neck-to-neck competition from a group led by Canadian real estate honcho Steve Apostolopoulos, who’s also throwing in his hefty hat in the bidding war. Harris’s group’s bid was around $6 billion, said a person who seems to know about these things. We wonder which side Amazon warehouses would root for!
But here’s the twist – all other potential buyers knew Mr. Bezos could rain on their parade with his extra zeroes if he really wanted to. Bezos even hired a New York firm (we can’t help but fantasize it was like the one from “Suits”) to mull over a potential NFL team purchase. The problem? Snyder does not like Bezos or The Post, and wasn’t too keen on giving him a fair shot, a source revealed.
Just like in the movies, the final decision would fall in the hands of (drumroll, please) 24 out of 32 NFL team owners. Their mysterious meeting is set to happen next month in the land of lakes and football – Minneapolis.
Still, don’t rule out Mr. Bezos just yet, my friends. He could be biding his time, waiting to make a move like a billionaire chess master. Wednesday’s no-bid revelation might mean that the sale talk is nearly over. But who knows what twists this tale may bring?
The team’s supposed value sits at a cool $5.6 billion, which is basically couch change for a billionaire. The Broncos had previously broken the league’s record for being sold at $4.65 billion to the Walmart heir Rob Walton. Now, that’s a shopping spree!
Meanwhile, attorney Mary Jo White is still investigating Snyder and the team like a dog with a bone. Snyder keeps dodging White as if they’re in a comedy sitcom, refusing to chat about the less-than-funny situation one-on-one. As the old saying goes, just when you thought things couldn’t get more interesting, boom, they do!
What complicates matters is the team’s cooperation in a federal investigation in the Eastern District of Virginia. Talk about drama, am I right?
The Washington Confuse-ers announced last November that Snyder and his wife Tanya, co-CEO of the team, were working with Bank of America Securities to mull over their potential offers. Will they sell only part of the team or all of it? Cue suspenseful music!
