Jay-Z’s NFL Deal Includes Majority Ownership In A Team
Hip-Hop’s first billionaire Jay-Z recently inking a deal with the NFL to run the Super Bowl Half Time Show and help them look like they care about social justice included him taking “significant ownership interest” in one of the teams, according to TMZ. Please let it be the New England Patriots because that will really rile up the remaining racists in Southie.
What does Jay-Z know about running a football team? Well, he’s a fan and he’s got a sports management company – ROC NATION.
We’re told Jay wants to become a part owner “because he’s a huge fan, already has a sports business and wants to continue to be a change agent for the NFL.”
So, does this mean he’ll be on the field slapping the players’ asses when they get a goal or whatever it is? Nope.
Our sources make it clear … “Jay is not an NFL agent and does not take part in the operations of the NFL players in Roc Nation.”
So, we’re talking skybox seats and trying not to check out any girls in case wifey notices which could result in her fans trying to burn down the poor gal’s house with their evil stan mind rays.
No word on which team but this is supposed to happen in the “near future.” Jay used to own part of the New Jersey Nets (that’s basketball) but he sold his share in 2013.
In other Jay-Z and the NFL deal news, remember the part where Hova’s sports company is entering into a social justice partnership with them? This sounds nice on paper but some people think there’s a name missing in all of this talk. Jay’s being accused of helping the NFL skirt around the Colin Kapernick issue, according to Vox. Kaepernick is the former San Fran 49er who left the NFL (and later sued and came to a confidential settlement with them) in 2017 after taking a knee on the field during the National Anthem out of protest multiple times that season.
They argue that the rapper, who has long funded impactful social justice causes and has used his platform to praise Kaepernick’s protest, is disregarding the fact that the NFL has still not signed Kaepernick to a team. And in Jay-Z becoming the new face of the NFL’s social change initiative, critics claim he is also disingenuously capitalizing on Kaepernick’s protest, using the NFL’s desire to deflect criticism to make more money for himself.
Here’s what Kaepernick’s girlfriend Nissa Diab had to say on Instagram.
And to put it more succinctly, Carolina Panther Eric Reid referred to the Jay-Z and the NFL deal as “kind of despicable” in a recent locker room interview.
So it remains to be seen how this will all play out. Most importantly, if Jay-Z does own part of the Pats, can he convince Julian Edelman to release some tasteful nudes as an “art” thing?
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