{"id":415821,"date":"2023-02-17T08:49:41","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T13:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=415821"},"modified":"2023-03-01T09:52:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T14:52:47","slug":"jeff-bezos-could-make-7bn-move-for-washington-commanders","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/jeff-bezos-could-make-7bn-move-for-washington-commanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos could make $7bn move for Washington Commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NFL chiefs believe that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will make a big move to become the new owner of the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/washington-commanders\/\">Washington Commanders<\/a>, amid continued speculation over a takeover, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-415823 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/bezos-e1676641766645.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"355\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Bezos, a passionate NFL fan, has been seen at a number of games over the years and even pictured being sat with commissioner Roger Goodell on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The Commanders, formerly known as Redskins, are officially up for sale after controversial owner Dan Snyder hired the Bank of America to explore a deal after a number of controversies.<\/p>\n<p>Snyder has owned the franchise since 1999, but amid little success on the field, there has been a number off-field issues, including some serious accusations.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation was opened after reports of sexual harassment against female employees, with the franchise hit with a $10 million (\u00a38.7m) fine and Snyder was instructed to step away from the team.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports have also suggested that the NFL wants Snyder to sell, with the owner reportedly set to ask for as much as $7billion for the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nfl\/team\/denver-broncos\/\">Denver Broncos<\/a> were sold for $4.65 billion last year &#8211; the record for most expensive team purchase.<\/p>\n<p id=\"amp-readmore-target\">And NFL chiefs now reportedly believe a move will take place, with Bezos potentially swooping in to complete a $7bn deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFL chiefs believe that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will make a big move to become the new owner of the Washington Commanders, amid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":415822,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16777,17569,16853],"news_category":[16703],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The third richest man on the planet has been heavily linked with the purchase of the iconic NFL franchise","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/415821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415821"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=415821"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=415821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}