Tom Brady and Mark Davis discuss ownership of the Raiders

Tom Brady and Raiders owner Mark Davis will meet to discuss a role for Brady as Las Vegas’ ownership partner, league sources confirmed to the athletic. Here’s what you need to know:

• Davis has been looking for a limited partner and was in talks with Magic Johnson a year ago. Johnson ended up being part of the Commanders new ownership group.
• Brady has previously purchased ownership stakes in the Las Vegas Aces of the WNBA and a pickleball expansion team in the MLP. Davis is also the primary owner of the Aces.
• Brady retired in February after a storied 23-year career, winning seven Super Bowls.

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What would this mean for your future as a broadcaster?

Sports television entities long ago bet on the idea that their stations cannot have some type of participation in the ownership of the teams. The question usually comes down to optics: Are you comfortable with your broadcaster calling games or talking about said team? Usually the answer is yes.

In Brady’s case, as ESPN reported, Fox has blessed the supply-based arrangement. That tracks historically with all networks. If he’s a tennis fan, for example, he’s long watched announcers break down matches while he actively coaches other players on the circuit. Brady, if he lands in the broadcast booth in 2024, he’ll be Fox Sports’ highest-paid and most famous front-line staffer. The company is not going to derail that simply because of an obvious conflict of interest.

My general rule of thumb, and you don’t have to follow it, is this: If someone has a financial stake in something, they should proceed with caution, not necessarily about what they say, but about what they don’t say. If Brady ends up with a part of the raiders, I’m going to gloss over everything he says about the franchise outside of gameplay analysis. But as to whether it will be a problem for Fox, there’s no chance. — German

background

Along with the Aces and the future pickleball team, Brady has been linked with nfl property. In 2022, after his initial retirement, there were multiple reports that Brady was in talks with the miami dolphins become a minority owner.

The Dolphins were later penalized by the NFL for this impermissible contact with Brady, as he was still under contract with the Dolphins. buccaneers. They were forced to forfeit the club’s first round pick in the 2023 NFL Draft and a third round pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.

Brady reportedly signed a 10-year, $375 million deal to join Fox as a broadcaster shortly after retiring.

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