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Jeff Bezos wants to buy an NFL team. Wait Derek Carr Jersey White , Jeff Bezos wants to buy an NFL team? Yes, the Amazon founder is reportedly interested in purchasing one of the NFL’s 32 franchises — assuming the NFL chooses not to expand between now and the time he ponies up the cash to make it happen.The man who turned a small internet bookstore into one of the world’s largest and most iconic internet companies is worth over $110 billion. That fact alone is why many current owners in the league support a potential partnership.But which team could Bezos potentially own? Certainly, Raiders owner Mark Davis is not interested in selling the team his father so famously “Committed To Excellence.” With Davis moving the team to Las Vegas, they may be more profitable than ever, but a negotiation at this stage would be a non-starter.Steven Bisig-USA TODAY SportsThe Seattle Seahawks and Denver Broncos are the two franchises currently most likely to be sold. Given Bezos’ story, taking over the Seahawks as a younger, more contemporary Paul Allen is an intriguing storyline. The Broncos are the franchise that obviously would most effect the Raiders. While Bill Simmons and others have noted that first-time team owners tend to struggle early on, there is little doubt that if Bezos were truly committed to the franchise (and not just using it as a cash grab) Womens Bo Jackson Jersey , he’d have the resources and ingenuity to turn Denver into one of the league’s prominent franchises once again. A third franchise is intriguing. Everyone knows the NFL is hellbent on getting an NFL team settled in London at some point. And there’s a team that only last week was said to be a possible match: the Chargers, currently of Los Angeles. The hard part would be getting Dean Spanos to sell the team. It’s doubtful that Spanos would just give it up, even if the league more or less ordered him to move the team to London.But the reality is, Bezos would be the perfect owner for a London team. As already mentioned, he’s is a big believer in spreading out the base of a major corporation, which of course, an NFL team really is nowadays. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Raiders have gotten final approval for their lease to remain in Oakland for at least one more season.The Oakland City Council voted Thursday to approve the lease for 2019 with an option for 2020. The Alameda Board of Supervisors had voted earlier in the week in favor of the lease that had been formally approved by the Coliseum Authority last week.The Raiders will pay $7.5 million in rent for the Coliseum and the practice facility in Alameda in 2019 and have a $10.5 million option for 2020 in case their new $1.8 billion Bo Jackson Jersey , 65,000-seat stadium in Las Vegas isn’t ready by then.This season likely will be the Raiders’ final season in Oakland after moving back from Los Angeles in 1995. in 1966 and were there through the 1981 season before going to Southern California.The team plans to start the 2020 season at the 65,000-seat stadium being built west of the Las Vegas Strip. Taxpayers are contributing $750 million to the project.The partially tax-funded stadium that will become the home of the Raiders in Las Vegas has recently faced delays with the delivery of steel components. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports substantial completion of the venue has been pushed back by less than a week to Aug. 4, 2020. The facility would host its first event soon after.In addition to the delivery issues, a report by an independent construction monitor hired by the stadium’s oversight board released Thursday says site visits revealed that “steel components that should have been completed have not yet been erected or detailed.”