All right,

All right, welcome in it is the MMQB podcast for Thursday, May 25th, ahead of the holiday weekend.

I'm Albert Breyer.

I'm in for Connor Orr this week. We're going to take you into the weekend with a few things from the owner's meetings. We're going to answer some of your mailbag questions. We'll get you out of here. It's going to be a quick episode. And so, yeah, I spent the last couple days in Minnesota,

both seeing the Vikings and at the NFL owners meetings.

And this is generally a quieter slower meeting.

This year that wasn't the case for a couple of reasons.

One is that there were a number of rules changes

that were tabled from the March meeting,

which we'll get to.

But we're gonna start with the sale of the commanders and

what's holding things up and why I think Washington fans have nothing to worry

about when it comes to this if you look at the price point of NFL franchises and where it's gone over the last few years, there's no question that the dynamic has changed.

It was four years ago now that David Tepper's sale or David Tepper's purchase of the

Carolina Panthers was finalized at 2.275 billion dollars. Last year the

high watermark moved up to 4.65 billion dollars with the sale of the Broncos to the Walton family and now the sale of the commanders is coming down at 6.05 billion dollars to private equity kingpin Josh Harris who

also happens to own a piece of Crystal Palace a Premier Premier League soccer team, the NHL's Devils, and the

NBA's Sixers. And this sale could wind up being a tipping point for NFL ownership.

Why? Well, it's because of that price point. There's a rule that the

NFL has had on the books for decades now that there really has to be one defined

primary owner and that primary owner has to be able to put up 30% of the

total purchase price in cash and when teams cost a half billion dollars or

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