This week, the PGA Tour announced an agreement with LIV Golf and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund that essentially allows the Saudis to fund professional golf as a whole. The move has led some to wonder if the Saudis could eventually choose to throw their money into the NFL to buy a franchise. And one NFL insider isn’t ruling it out.
While the NFL currently prohibits foreign investment in its franchises, Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk thinks that could change if the Saudis offered enough money to the NFL.
“The LIV golf cash grab represents another new reality that can be parlayed into a ton of money. And if the Saudis keep putting more and more and more money on the table, eventually the league would change ‘no’ to ‘yes,'” Florio wrote for Pro Football Talk.
“It all starts with whether the Saudis want in. If they do, and if they’re willing to invest unlimited cash into the effort, there will eventually be a number that causes those who own the NFL’s teams to tell Goodell to earn some more of his own annual compensation package by being the pin cushion for any and all criticism that would flow from the many millions, if not billions, to be earned by simply doing business with folks who have a ton of money and are willing to spend it on football. If they want to.”
It may seem like a wild hypothetical right now, but professional golf is proving it’s not that far out of the question.
