I too thought it was extremely interesting that they mentioned the Saints first as ‘teams expected to be on the market in the next 5 yrs’.. Thanks BTW to the OP for starting a thread on this; i saw the ESPN article this morning and was hoping someone would start a thread about it, since i’m too lazy.
I dont know Gayle Benson personally and, while she may be a lovely woman— no one knows what anyone will do when literally Billions of dollars are dangled in front of their face... apparently she wasnt even a football fan until she met Benson circa 10 or 15 yrs ago, so i doubt there’s much loyalty there.. to the person who said ‘We KNOW she wont sell’— what makes you so confident? The Panthers team is expected to fetch around $2 billion , and i doubt that the Saints would be valued much less than that.. All’s i’m saying is that it’s an enormous amount of $$ to throw at anyone, much less someone who presumably doesnt have a ton of interest in running a football team... And who in La. has pockets deep enough to buy the team?? Sure you can throw out the usual 2 or 3 names, but there are many, many more people in other places with far deeper pockets.. I believe the Saints have a deal to remain in NOLA for the next 20 yrs or so, but those agreements arent worth the paper theyre printed on... i’m extremely concerned about what will happen after Benson passes away in the near future, if you couldnt tell.