Last year, Tom Brady and the Las Vegas Raiders team owner Mark Davis revealed plans for Brady to buy a team and come aboard the franchise’s ownership group as a minority owner of the team. But that deal seems to be in a state of limbo, and Brady doesn’t seem to want to comment about it.
As Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk points out, Tom Brady seemingly ignored a question about the status of his ownership with the Las Vegas Raiders. During an appearance on Front Office Sports Today, Brady was asked “I know you’re interested in NFL team ownership at some point. What draws you to that, and where do things stand on that front?”
Brady answered the first part of the question at length.
“I love sports, and I love how it brings our community together,” Brady said. “I saw what happened — when I grew up in the Bay Area and the 49ers were incredibly successful, it changed how we all thought about football in the Bay Area growing up. And then I went to Michigan, and I was part of a great culture and environment there that the entire city would come together on Saturdays to watch Michigan football. And obviously the success we had in New England, and we had success in Tampa and we had parades and other athletes came out to support us and kids were wearing jerseys. And I think sports can just — it cuts through so much. Sports brings together people of every age, race, religion, culture, socioeconomic background. You know, it’s something to root for and cheer for. And I love being a part of sports because it’s so real and in the moment. We’re all so authentic to what we’re doing. And when we win it’s amazing, when we lose, man, it sucks. But you’ve got to deal with those adversities to help you build that resilience and grit.”
But he completely ignored the second part of the question about the status of his deal with the Raiders and the podcast just continued without mentioning it.
This is a pretty important question because NFL owners have been reluctant to approve Brady’s ownership stake in the team for several reasons including his upcoming deal with Fox in addition to the fact that he is getting a massive discount on the purchase.
We’ll have to see what happens with the sale, but it doesn’t seem like Brady is going to provide much insight.
