{"id":409919,"date":"2026-01-16T01:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409919\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T01:50:10","slug":"its-hard-to-believe-stephen-ross-got-15-billion-offer-for-the-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/409919\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s hard to believe Stephen Ross got $15 billion offer for the Dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dolphins owner Stephen Ross recently said he was offered close to $15 billion<\/a> for the team.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, I recently received an offer close to $15 billion for PFT.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy. Anyone can say anything about any offer they did, or didn\u2019t, get, for anything. The question is whether it\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

One source with direct knowledge of the value of teams doesn\u2019t buy that someone wanted to buy the Dolphins for that much money. (The most recent team that changed hands was the Commanders, at just over $6 billion.) The more realistic view is that someone like Ken Griffin likely offered Ross something in the range of $10 billion to $11 billion for the team and the stadium. If the Miami F1 race is included, another $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion could be added to that. (An employee of Griffin\u2019s company, Citadel, advises PFT that Griffin has not made any offers or attempts to purchase the Dolphins since 2023.)<\/p>\n

The broader point is this: Ross can do whatever he wants with the team he owns. He bought it. It\u2019s his. He was required to pass no test to buy the team. He simply had to show up with the biggest bag of cash.<\/p>\n

If he wants (and if the estate taxes can be satisfied without selling the team), Ross can keep it in the family. He can appoint whoever he wants to run it. And that person \u2014 currently, his son-in-law Daniel Sillman \u2014 will be required to pass no test to own and operate the team.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s true of every NFL franchise. The fans are stuck with the owner. As 49ers owner Jed York once said, owners can\u2019t be fired.<\/p>\n

Plenty of the bad teams stay bad for a reason. The dysfunction flows from the top. The cycle of G.M. and coach firings and hirings masks the reality that the owners can\u2019t be fired or hired.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it\u2019s the luck of the draw for the fans. And, unfortunately, they\u2019re stuck. They don\u2019t pick their favorite teams based on quality of ownership. Most don\u2019t (and can\u2019t, even if they want) abandon existing loyalties. They just have to wait for ownership to either figure it out, change their ways, or accept an offer they won\u2019t refuse.<\/p>\n

That said, there\u2019s no guarantee that whoever offered Ross close to $15 billion (if it happened) will do any better with a team that hasn\u2019t won a playoff game under his stewardship. Because there\u2019s no test for the next owner, either. And there\u2019s no device for forcing any owner out based solely on owning a team that never seriously contends.<\/p>\n

Through it all, Ross and all other owners keep making more money. And the values of their teams keep going up and up. And up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dolphins owner Stephen Ross recently said he was offered close to $15 billion for the team. Coincidentally, I…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-409919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}