As the NFL conducts an informal review of Josh Harris’s tentative $6.05 billion deal to purchase the Washington Commanders, Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a televised interview that “progress is being made” toward a possible announcement by late May.
“We’re communicating with the team,” Goodell told ESPN at the network’s coverage of the NFL draft in Kansas City, Mo. “They’re working, obviously, on the transaction. That progress will hopefully lead to them being comfortable to announce some type of a transaction probably by the middle of May or late May.”
NFL team owners are scheduled to meet May 22-24 in Minneapolis. At least 24 of the 32 owners would have to ratify a sale. It’s not clear whether they will take an approval vote at that meeting.The owners on the NFL finance committee must vet the deal between Harris’s group and Snyder, if finalized. The committee would make a recommendation to the owners. The finance committee is scheduled to meet in New York in early May as part of a regularly scheduled set of meetings.
That person said there were “small holes” in Harris’s deal that Harris and his investment group could address relatively easily. Harris’s purchase of the Commanders almost certainly will be ratified, the person said then, if the deal is properly modified and the issues related to indemnification and the NFL’s second investigation of Snyder and the team can be resolved to the other owners’ satisfaction.“The league is doing their work,” that person said then. “That’s normal.
Harris is the owner of the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers and the NHL’s New Jersey Devils. He also is a limited partner in the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers and would have to sell that stake to purchase the Commanders. Harris’s investment group includes Potomac, Md., businessman and philanthropist
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