A third potential buyer has emerged for the Washington Commanders: Canadian billionaire Steve Apostolopoulos, who is apparently an investor and real estate developer.
Apostolopoulos would be competing against a group led by Tillman Fertitta (a billionaire in the hospitality industry, who owns the Houston Rockets), and a group led by Josh Harris (owner of the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils). Harris’s group brought in Magic Johnson as a potential co-owner a few days ago.
Maybe Commanders fans should be pulling for Apostolopoulos; considering that Jack Kent Cooke, the most successful owner in franchise history, was a native of Canada, maybe this is some sort of omen.
Given that the team has only had three owners, and of the other two, one was a racist and cheapskate, who refused to integrate the team until being forced to, and the other is Snyder, it’s not a high bar for Cooke to have been the most successful (or, at least, the least odious) of their owners.
I assume @SwissMan was referring to the team’s three Super Bowl wins during Cooke’s ownership, versus zero for the other two owners.
Yes, I did mean it that way. Admittedly, Washington did win two NFL titles (1937, 1942) under Marshall, but after the end of WWII, there was a quarter century of misery.
Relevant.
And he’s gone.
And now for the first time I’m starting to worry. He was one of the pieces that would have made them an instant playoff team with Rodgers.
Maybe they’ll let Rodgers choose the draft pick.
The Jets signed former KC WR Mecole Hardman about the same time as they traded Moore. Hardman was supposed to be the #1 receiver in KC after Tryeek Hill was traded last year, but that never panned out. He missed most of the playoffs because of injury, after a so-so season in which he had just 25 receptions and 4 TDs. He’s got incredible speed, and maybe the Jets will be a better fit for him.
Indianapolis Colts sign WR Isaiah McKenzie to a one-year deal.
I’ve been wondering what’s going on with Denzel Mims for a bit now. I thought he would eventually break out there but it just never happened. Trading Moore really makes me wonder WTF is going on in that WR room.
I am sure this is a typo but I really like it.
Um, yep, could be a typo.
Good catch!
This is so fucking weird.
Can anyone suggest a draft simulator that allows trades (in the free version) and actually runs a realistic draft simulation?
I’ve been using this one, and its trading platform is cool, but its simulations are wacky. It often leaves the top two QBs undrafted until the Bears pick at #9, which just isn’t going to happen.
I get obsessive about the draft this time of year and need a better (free) platform to scratch my itch. Suggestions?
LOL, agreed, that would be a weird parallel universe where that happens. 
Apparently, Peyton Manning has been giving advice and unofficially mentoring Will Levis ahead of the draft.
Future HoF LB Bobby Wagner has returned to Seattle, as many speculated might happen.
He’s very talented and was great last year, but he’ll turn 33 in June. $7M on a one year deal seems just about right.
Also, this was hilarious.
Gotta love Cooper.
Kupp’s comment about Wagner reminds me of 90s Bears CB Mark Carrier, who said one of the reasons he jumped to the Lions as a free agent was so he’d never again have to chase Barry Sanders.
More on the ongoing Packers/Rodgers divorce:
In recent weeks, Rodgers has said that he would have been happy to return to Green Bay, but that the Packers had not been direct with him, nor discussed with him how he might fit into their plans for 2023.
At the league’s annual meetings in Phoenix yesterday, GM Brian Gutekunst indicated that the last time the team had spoken with Rodgers was in a meeting immediately after the end of the season; he also indicated that the team tried to get in touch with Rodgers repeatedly, and were unable to do so.
I am so very much over Rodgers.