{"id":439887,"date":"2026-01-31T00:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439887\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T00:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:56:07","slug":"seahawks-to-be-sold-after-super-bowl-lx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/439887\/","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks to be sold after Super Bowl LX"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE \u2014 The Seattle Seahawks will go up for sale after the Super Bowl, according to a report from ESPN.<\/a> <\/p>\n

They could set a record for an NFL team price: $7-$8 billion, according to ESPN’s report.<\/a> <\/p>\n

ESPN Reporters Seth Wickersham<\/a> and Brady Henderson<\/a> cited sources, saying sale discussions have taken place at ownership and league levels for at least the past week.<\/p>\n

Seahawks owner and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died in 2018 following a years-long battle with cancer. After his death, his younger sister Jody Allen took over as executor of the Paul G. Allen Estate and its two teams — the Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Trail Blazers. <\/p>\n

A plan was always in place from her late brother to eventually sell both teams and donate the proceeds to charity, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n

In May 2025, KOMO News reported<\/a> the Paul G. Allen Estate announced the Trail Blazers were for sale. In September 2025, an agreement was reached to sell the NBA team <\/a>to a group of investors led by Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon. <\/p>\n

It has widely been believed that the estate was required to sell the Blazers and Seahawks within a given period of time. The Seahawks situation was complicated by a provision in the deal to build Lumen Field that banned the sale of the franchise unless a new owner paid the state 10% of the sale price. That provision expired in 2024.<\/p>\n

Allen purchased the Seahawks in 1997 after a public-private partnership was crafted and approved by Washington voters to build a new stadium, which is now Lumen Field. The team made back-to-back Super Bowl appearances in 2014 and 2015, winning its only title in 2014 with a 43-8 win against the Denver Broncos.<\/p>\n

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KOMO News is working to gather more information and this story will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 The Seattle Seahawks will go up for sale after the Super Bowl, according to a report…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-439887","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\/439887","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=439887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}