Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta is interested in buying the Saints

Treybad said

Take it there is no chance the city of New Orleans could buy the team?

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IIRC, current NFL CBA doesn't allow it. Green Bay's long-cherished and successful sort-of collectivist team ownership was grandfathered in in 1971 to get past any potential anti-trust exemptions that helped make most NFL/AFL owners near-billionaires when the 1966 AFL/NFL finally became complete in 1970 after Super Bowl IV.

Even the Packers have sort of a "Ownership Committee"--usually group of local Green Bay/Brown County businessman chairing it and behaving and acting like their NFL owners and the team's president acts as its " Owner" at NFL's annual owners meetings.