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SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks are going up for merchantability successful accordance with the wishes of precocious squad proprietor Paul Allen.
Allen's property announced Wednesday that it has begun the process of selling the team, which is coming disconnected its 2nd Super Bowl triumph successful franchise history. The NFL did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from The Associated Press, nor did Allen’s property person thing further to adhd beyond its little statement, it said.
Ahead of the Super Bowl, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell commended Allen’s property connected its clip owning the Seahawks.
“They’re successful the Super Bowl, and I deliberation from that standpoint they’ve done a truly important occupation successful the discourse of the spot and the execution of that,” Goodell said. “But yet the squad volition request to beryllium sold successful accordance with that. That volition beryllium Jody’s determination for erstwhile she does that, and we volition beryllium supportive of that.”
Investment slope Allen & Company and instrumentality steadfast Latham & Watkins volition pb the income process, which is estimated to proceed done the offseason. NFL owners indispensable past ratify a last acquisition agreement.
The property said the merchantability is accordant with Allen’s directive to yet merchantability his sports holdings and nonstop each property proceeds to philanthropy.
The Seahawks person been successful the Allen household since 1997, erstwhile Paul bought the squad for $194 cardinal from then-owner Ken Behring. Paul was captious successful keeping the Seahawks successful Seattle, which is wherever the squad is expected to stay aft the merchantability is finalized. The Seahawks person a lease astatine Lumen Field that runs done 2032 with 3 10-year options.
Since Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, died successful 2018 from complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma astatine 65, the Seahawks and NBA’s Trail Blazers person been owned by his sister, Jody. The property agreed successful September to merchantability the Trail Blazers to an concern radical led by Carolina Hurricanes proprietor Tom Dundon. The Trail Blazers volition stay successful Portland arsenic portion of the deal, which could beryllium completed this spring.
The past NFL squad to beryllium sold was the Washington Commanders successful 2023. A radical led by Josh Harris that includes Magic Johnson bought the squad from longtime proprietor Dan Snyder and his household for a grounds $6.05 billion.
It already has been an offseason of turnover for the Seahawks little than 2 weeks removed from their Super Bowl triumph implicit the New England Patriots.
The Las Vegas Raiders plucked distant violative coordinator Klint Kubiak and hired him arsenic their caput coach. The Seattle Seahawks are expected to prosecute San Francisco 49ers choky ends manager and tally crippled coordinator Brian Fleury arsenic their violative coordinator, a idiosyncratic with cognition of the hiring process said Sunday, speaking to The Associated Press connected information of anonymity due to the fact that a woody was inactive being worked on.
The Seahawks’ roster could look rather antithetic successful 2026, too.
Defensive starters information Coby Bryant, cornerbacks Josh Jobe and Riq Woolen and borderline rusher Boye Mafe volition go unrestricted escaped agents this offseason. Offensive standouts wide receiver/return specializer Rashid Shaheed and moving backmost Kenneth Walker III volition beryllium unrestricted escaped agents successful March, too.
Both Shaheed and Walker, who was the Super Bowl MVP, person said publically they would similar to instrumentality to Seattle adjacent season.
Should the Seahawks’ merchantability wrapper up by this offseason, though, the squad volition not beryllium owned by the Allen household for the archetypal clip successful astir 3 decades.
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