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Originally Posted by Rain Man
Yeah, I'm not saying it's a good thing, but I have a hard time believing that it won't be a thing. Does the NFL have rules against selling to a corporation? I'm actually kind of curious why it hasn't already happened.
Microsoft just bought Activision for $68 billion. Spending $4 billion on a team would be nothing for them. Heck, Ballmer bought the Seahawks without even putting it on a credit card.
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Disney owned the Angels from 1996 - 2002 so it isnt unprecedented. .But it's a hard sell to shareholders. You invest in Google or Microsoft for them to do tech related stuff. You want them putting 4 billion into the tech things they do and thrive at, not speculatively invest in totally unrelated industries they would have no core competency in and no experience in, etc. Disney didnt own the Angels for long.