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Bezos’s NFL Dreams & S.B.F.’s First Campaign

Will the league let the man behind Thursday Night Football also own one of the teams in the game? Well, if you’re willing to pay 30x what you did for The Washington Post, anything is possible.

Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is widely considered a leading candidate to purchase a stake in the NFL’s Washington Commanders. Photo: Cooper Neill/Getty Images
Theodore Schleifer
December 28, 2022

Now that the tech titans have fallen short in their attempts to buy the NBA’s Phoenix Suns—which included an unexpected bid from an associate of Peter Thiel—the sports franchise hunt turns to Washington. That’s where Jeff Bezos, working with Jay-Z, is widely considered a leading candidate to purchase a stake in the NFL’s Washington Commanders from Daniel Snyder. The first round of bids were due December 23rd, the night before Christmas Eve, and at least some came in well north of $7 billion.