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Dorothy Gambrell

When a Team Jersey Isn’t Enough, Buy a Dolphin or a Titan Missile

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Sad the Patriots aren’t in the Super Bowl? Yeah, us neither. But if you want to show your allegiance to them, or any team, this extremely scientific survey can help. (To be very clear, though, you probably don’t want to be shelling out for a baby jaguar.) 

If your ambitions are to own an NFL team, there are a lot of hurdles. It has to be up for sale, and then you have to have, oh, about a billion dollars, be vetted by the league, etc. And would you even be getting a good deal? Assessing what a franchise should cost is difficult given that some individuals would pay whatever it took for the prestige of being in an elite club. Why go through all the hassle when you can just buy a ton of steel?  

 

 

To contact the author of this story: Dorothy Gambrell in New York at dgambrell1@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Bret Begun at bbegun@bloomberg.net, Joel Weber

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