Battling To Own The Denver Broncos, With Some Siblings in the Way

[AtlantaDan]

Story on the latest NFL ownership train wreck. Be grateful as Steelers fans our concerns with the Rooneys are along the lines of why AJRII does not fire Butler

Battling for the Denver Broncos, With Some Siblings in the Way

Beth Bowlen Wallace, Pat Bowlen’s daughter, says she is ready to take control of his N.F.L. franchise. The ailing owner’s trustees, who control the team, disagree....

In the summer of 2014, her father, Pat Bowlen, who has Alzheimer’s disease, turned over the reins of the team to three trustees, who set out benchmarks, some specific, some broad, for his seven children to meet before one could become its controlling owner.

Four years later, what originally looked like an orderly and sensible succession plan has turned into the latest intra-family battle over one of the N.F.L.’s premier franchises. A lawsuit has commenced, and the N.F.L. has been asked to arbitrate, a request that one of Pat Bowlen’s brothers, a former minority owner, called a delay tactic in a filing last weekend....

The N.F.L. is no stranger when it comes to familial fights over franchises. In 2014, Tom Benson, then the owner of the New Orleans Saints, disowned his daughter and her children, who then tried to have him declared mentally incompetent. He survived the legal challenge and his third wife, Gayle, took over the team after he died this year.

When Bud Adams died in 2013, the Tennessee Titans were given to his two daughters and his daughter-in-law and her two sons, without one party getting control. (His son, Kenneth, died in 1987.) The league pushed the Titans to have one permanent controlling owner. Ultimately, his daughter Amy Adams Strunk took over as controlling owner when her brother’s heirs backed her bid.

Perhaps the closest comparison is the case of Joe Robbie, the founding owner of the Miami Dolphins, who died in 1990. Robbie named three of his nine children as trustees to run the team, leading to a bitter dispute. When the siblings were hit with a $47 million estate tax bill, the team was sold to Wayne Huizenga.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/s...os-owners.html

Steelers avoided these messes because Dan Rooney became the son who took control while the Chief was still alive (firing his brother Art, Jr. in the process) and along with AJRII put together the ownership package around 10 years ago that consolidated control in the Dan-AJRII branch of the Chief's Rooney family tree

[silver & black]

yea, well...... F*** the Donkos!