Would you preferred Ben Navarro bought Panthers in 2018 ?

[WarHeel]

Was my original choice 

Anyone but Tepper…

[Panther'sBigD]

George Shinn was born in KANNAPOLIS, NORTH CAROLINA, but that didn't stop him from packing up shop and heading to New Orleans. Local connection doesn't mean poo when you can afford to live anywhere and probably have homes all over the world. 

 

[countryboi]

What does it matter, what happened for a reason 

[Waldo]

Looks like a less successful billionaire who made money off of predatorial practices of the poor. Other than being local, which means nothing to ME in the big picture with a person like that, he looks like another flavor of poo than the one we ended up with...just poorer. 

I'll save my love of ownership for when they get rid of the billionaires. Until then they are all aspects of the sport we fans have to suffer through and nothing more. 

 

[mrcompletely11]

Navarro is one shady ass cat

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

Yeah Tepper was basically guaranteed to be the next owner of an NFL franchise. God I wish he bought the Saints after Benson died

Edited October 26, 2022 by Sean Payton's Vicodin

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, Sean Payton's Vicodin said:

Yeah Tepper was basically guaranteed to be the next owner of an NFL franchise. God I wish he bought the Saints after Benson died

Wonder if Wal Mart guy would've bought the Panthers then.

As far as Tepper, I know the NFL told one of the other potential buyers (Michael Rubin, I think) that if he wasn't prepared to spend at least 5 billion he should drop out of the race. He did.

Tepper ultimately bought the team for less than half that.

[mrcompletely11]

10 minutes ago, Sean Payton's Vicodin said:

Yeah Tepper was basically guaranteed to be the next owner of an NFL franchise. God I wish he bought the Saints after Benson died

it was always going to be tepper, he was already vetted by the nfl and once they started digging into Ben N the more sleazy poo they saw and if you remember his bid stopped on a dime.   The NFL wasnt about to bring that poo into their house. 

[Mr. Scot]

I mean, when you have an "auction" where something is supposed to go to the highest bidder and it ends up going to the lowest, there's just a chance there's been some shenanigans afoot

[mrcompletely11]

3 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I mean, when you have an "auction" where something is supposed to go to the highest bidder and it ends up going to the lowest, there's just a chance there's been some shenanigans afoot

Its not that simple, Tepper paid cash.  No financing, no partners.  Straight cash.  That adjusts the price quite a bit

 

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/david-tepper-purchasing-carolina-panthers-franchise-for-record-setting-price-of-2-2b/

Edited October 26, 2022 by mrcompletely11

[Mr. Scot]

4 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

Its not that simple, Tepper paid cash.  No financing, no partners.  Straight cash.  That adjusts the price quite a bit

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/david-tepper-purchasing-carolina-panthers-franchise-for-record-setting-price-of-2-2b/

It's valid to add that Tepper had the cash when Navarro didn't.

But Michael Rubin likely had the cash too, and the NFL effectively bluffed him out of the chase.

[mrcompletely11]

Just now, Mr. Scot said:

It's valid to add that Tepper had the cash when Navarro didn't.

But Michael Rubin likely had the cash too, and the NFL effectively bluffed him out of the chase.

where are you seeing that at?

[UnluckyforSome]

There was some talk that Navarro made some good money in the aggressive debt collection business and that the league wasn't so keen on having that background in ownership. As a counterpoint to that, Haslam still owns the Browns after scamming transportation companies for years.

[Mr. Scot]

3 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

where are you seeing that at?

It was a story that came out during the ownership bids. Source was probably Albert Breer but I can't say that for certain. Breer was the one who had the best information during the process.

(heck, it's probably still posted on The Huddle if the archives go back that far)

Rubin now owns or partially owns an NBA team (I forget which one).

Edited October 26, 2022 by Mr. Scot