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So I saw that a few months ago, the NFL just allowed people who own other pro sports teams to own NFL teams. While that's great, how the hell have the Pegulas (who also own the Sabres (of the NHL)), pulled a fast one on Greedy Roger and friends? I don't know the details of the new rule, but hopefully it's backdated, otherwise we're in real trouble.

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I was under the impression that you couldn't own other sports teams IN OTHER MARKETS, but that it was permissable to own multiple teams in the same city/market. I could be way off base here.

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I think the rule was you could not own a non-football franchise in a different market that also had an NFL team. Owner of the Rams was in that situation since he owned the Rams in St. Louis/LA but also owned a hockey team or something in Denver (which has the Broncos.) 

 

Same city was always okay, however.

 

EDIT: From the NYT: "the owners extended by one year the deadline for Stan Kroenke, owner of the St. Louis Rams, to sell his stakes in the Denver Avalanche and the Denver Nuggets. When Kroenke bought a majority share of the Rams in 2010, he was given four years to sell his teams in Denver because they violated the league’s rules that prohibit owning teams in other cities where the N.F.L. also has a team."

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/09/sports/football/kim-and-terry-pegula-approved-as-owners-of-buffalo-bills.html

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Go and find any of a ton of threads on this.

 

The NFL allowed dual ownership as long as they were in the same market or another market without an NFL team.  The Pegulas were fine and never an issue.  It would have been an issue if the owners of Delaware North would have tried to buy the Bills because he is a part owner of the Boston Bruins.

 

The change is to allow guys in specific situations to dual own even if the market is shared with an NFL team.   The Rams owner is also a partial owner of the Colorado avalanche.  This is to allow him to consolidate so no one forces him out over a control issue.

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  On 12/18/2018 at 11:29 PM, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

So I saw that a few months ago, the NFL just allowed people who own other pro sports teams to own NFL teams. While that's great, how the hell have the Pegulas (who also own the Sabres (of the NHL)), pulled a fast one on Greedy Roger and friends? I don't know the details of the new rule, but hopefully it's backdated, otherwise we're in real trouble.

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The rules sllowed for ownership of another team in the same city. 

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  On 12/18/2018 at 11:32 PM, ocemur said:

It wasn't a secret when the Pegulas were negotiating the purchase. I'm thinking a check for 1.4 Billion smoothed things over.

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Those crafty Pegulas pulled a fast one on the NFL.

 

All those Packers owners have some Splaining to do. Rule violations left and right

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  On 12/18/2018 at 11:29 PM, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

So I saw that a few months ago, the NFL just allowed people who own other pro sports teams to own NFL teams. While that's great, how the hell have the Pegulas (who also own the Sabres (of the NHL)), pulled a fast one on Greedy Roger and friends? I don't know the details of the new rule, but hopefully it's backdated, otherwise we're in real trouble.

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Nobody pulled a fast one on anyone. The old rule allowed it if the teams were in the same city. The new rule removes this as a requirement.

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  On 12/19/2018 at 12:17 AM, Marv's Neighbor said:

Just Win Baby!

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Old Man Davis had the dizzy eyeglasses chain like my mother wore.  His empty headed son has the Moe Howard haircut and an idiot as his team’s football coach.

  On 12/19/2018 at 12:22 AM, Yav said:

Kim owns the Bills.

Terry owns the Sabres. 

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Sydney (the Pegula pup) owns Jerry Sullivan.  ?

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Had to add ?. ‘Got a face like a big apple pie’.
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  On 12/18/2018 at 11:29 PM, The Real Buffalo Joe said:

So I saw that a few months ago, the NFL just allowed people who own other pro sports teams to own NFL teams. While that's great, how the hell have the Pegulas (who also own the Sabres (of the NHL)), pulled a fast one on Greedy Roger and friends? I don't know the details of the new rule, but hopefully it's backdated, otherwise we're in real trouble.

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My understanding that an owner could own franchises in two different sports if it was in the same city.  That has been permissible for a while.

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  On 12/18/2018 at 11:33 PM, Logic said:

I was under the impression that you couldn't own other sports teams IN OTHER MARKETS, but that it was permissable to own multiple teams in the same city/market. I could be way off base here.

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That was my understanding.  It was assumed that Jeremy Jacobs would not be allowed to purchase the Bills as long as he was the owner of the Boston Bruins.

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