you don't have to worry about money
because Rob Walton
is one of the richest men in the world
and he becomes walking through the door by far. The richest
NFL owner. The richest one is David Tepper at like 16 billion
ish.
Rob, Waltons up near 70. Whoa, billion. I didn't know that.
Yeah,
so he can write their own gender peasants, how dare that
he can, he can write those checks and he all he has to do
is follow the family template because
his cousin is married
to Stan kroenke.
So Broncos, fans have to be feeling pretty good. About
here's the example and this isn't on the rundown either and
I didn't think to say we should put it on
there.
The thing we added yesterday to the reporting on the Broncos
sale. And this is 100% True people. Like why the hell would
he do this? But this is what happened. Josh Harris, who owns
the
New Jersey Devils in the Philadelphia 76ers
was willing to pay five billion right for the brawl. That
that's, that's exactly why I was saying. It's going to start
with a 5 because Harris was ready to put five on the table,
but and I don't know how this works. When you're talking
about a high-level Sports auction. He wanted to know
from the Broncos. If I put five on the table. Am I getting
the team? Yeah. I'm only putting five on the table if five buys
me the team.
But they don't do this, right? That's it. They couldn't read.
They wouldn't give that a sure do it blind.
Well, they don't well,
but study at the end of the day, they do whatever the hell
they want to do, right? If I'm trying to sell my house. I can
play whatever game I want
in trying to get the best offer that I can and that happens all
the time where it is. You're trying to sell, right? And and
now they've got a trust.
That is operating for the benefit of
the Pat Bowlen heirs and
they have to Sherry duties etcetera, etcetera. I don't
know what rules would bind them. The goal is to get
the best
offer that you can.
If you have a guy who's bidding on the team, who says I'm only
putting five on the table at five gets me the team but
you're committed to this auction process. What do you
do? Because what would happen? The reason I'm saying this?
Yeah, right.
Josh Harris new, if he put five on the table.
Rob Walton was going to put 51.
And if Josh Harris put 52 on the table, Rob Walton was gonna
put 53.
He was just going to B it up and bit it up and bit it up.
And because Rob Walt's, got it. Yeah, he was going to keep
putting it at the. So Broncos fans. You should be feeling
pretty good. You have an owner who is just going to keep
throwing money on the pile because number one, he wants
the team and number two. He
clearly wants the team
to be successful and the land at people like. Well, why
wouldn't Josh Harris just put his five billion on the team
and force Rob Walton to pay more?
Because Josh are still has his eye on buying a team.
Why drive up artificially
the final price of the Broncos won? If you may be buying
the next team that's available. Yeah, right. So the highest
price is 465. That's it.
When it's time to buy another team.
Maybe you do get it for five.
If you put five on the table now and the Broncos got 451,
you're paying more than 51 pretty good chance for the next
team that's available. So that's why he ultimately didn't
do it. So the point is
Broncos, fans should be feeling good, because maybe on one of
these future shows. We're going to be Talk about how Broncos
are paying this guy. And this guy, and this guy, and this guy
to hold a Super Bowl championship team together like
the ramp. So no doubt it. That's a big time that really
is. And again, we've seen some teams throughout history. When
you have these type of owners,
they win, you know, you can go to the Cowboys of the 90s that
would fit. The mold. Jerry wasn't afraid to cut checks and
had big-time money.
You can go to the 49ers of the 80s
and and DeBartolo,
that the there was no salary cap, then the 49ers were paying
their team. In the other pliers, it was like baseball
and he had the cold hard cash to make everybody happy and do
it that way. So we've seen teams out of plated that way or
had that type of owner. And of course we're seeing one right
now with the Rams that,
yes, money does count. It definitely does especially cash
on hand because we've discussed what there's the Raiders with
Khalil Mac or me back in the day, with the Broncos.
Sometimes teams don't have the cash right there
on hand to pay the player. Right away or give him
the start of his contract and that plays a part in. Oh wait, I'm
player. I don't want to
sign with you since you can't write me the check right now
and that affects the way the teams built for sure
or your dad with the Cleveland Browns Odell brown, right.
Exactly right. Going there. And they and then oh wait, they
look through their books and they went. Oh crap. We're broke
called ha ha call
call the moving vans. We gotta go to Baltimore soon,
and he ended up not going there. So, exactly.
Right. It's a major factor that I don't think fans sometimes
quite realize. I don't think I realized until really, if
number of years, after I got done playing
and have these conversations with coaches and front office.
People.
We just assume that all the NFL owners are so ridiculously
Rich. They can do whatever they want. Not all are so cash, Rich
liquid exact, they can
that they can say,
here's this giant pile of money, right? Any day of
the year, you know, the Buccaneers Don't give out significant.
Signing bonuses with offseason, cash flow. They wait till
the money comes in
from the league office
from TV and ticket Revenue. Right? Right. Yeah, they don't
they either they choose to or they can't in the offseason,
dig deep for big millions of dollars for signing bonus. No
doubt. Mike. It's funny. You're bringing this up and I had kind
of forgotten about this,
but yet, if I
know, you know what, this was Tennessee, I'm wrong about
this. The Tennessee Titans did something like that. A little
bit to your point. Where
I believe and I might be off of a few details here, but I'm on
the right path here where during the season, I got like
66 or 75% of my contract,
right? And got the money
and then at some point in the offseason when the cash came in
from the league and all the revenue like you're talking
about, then you got the other twenty five or thirty three
percent of your money
in a lump sum check there
so that again explains your point and certainly are real.
Thing in the NFL,
you said something there that I think if we worked on a little
bit fashion, the language just just a touch to make it
resonate. Right? Be good for your Tombstone. Yeah. I may be
off on a few details, but I'm on the right path.
Although by the time we put it on your Tombstone.
You're already you're already at the destination.
Maybe it's more of a t-shirt slogan. Yeah, let's do it.
Stone. Let's go with the T-shirt.