Carolina Panthers to be put up for sale

[DR RAM]

Like Marshall?

http://www.businessinsider.com/nfl-network-employees-accused-sexual-harassment-assault-2017-12

Bad judgement if true. I wouldn't grope Jami.

 

[TSFH Fan]

Yeah, y'all know you want alleged details . . .

Excerpts from
Sources: Jerry Richardson, Panthers Have Made Multiple Confidential Payouts for Workplace Misconduct, Including Sexual Harassment and Use of a Racial Slur
https://www.si.com/jerry-richardson...mmqb&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social

Multiple female employees recalled to SI that Richardson asked them if he could personally shave their legs.

Richardson was also known for what multiple women call the “seatbelt maneuver.” He would invite female employees out to lunch, and in keeping with his reputation as a self-styled gentleman, he would open the car door for his guests. Once they were seated, however, he would insist on fastening their seatbelt for them, reaching across their lap and brushing his hand across their breasts before putting the belt in the clasp.

Friday was Jeans Day, when most staffers at the Carolina Panthers team offices would wear denim to work. The female employees knew what that meant. As the team’s owner, Jerry Richardson, made his rounds on the way to his spacious office, he would ask women to turn around so he could admire their backsides. Then, in his rolling Southern drawl, he’d offer comment, drawing from a store of one-liners he’d recycle each week. Among those in heaviest rotation: Show me how you wiggle to get those jeans up. I bet you had to lay down on your bed to fit into those jeans. Did you step into those jeans or did you have to jump into them?

But multiple former employees told SI that there were also occasional racial overtones in Richardson’s interactions with his workers. Pressed for specifics, they cite everything from Richardson’s expressed preference that black players not wear dreadlocks to an alleged request that an African-American employee apply sunblock to Richardson’s face. After drafting Newton in 2011, Richardson memorably asked the player, “Did you get crazy after the draft and go out and get any tattoos or piercings? Do I have to check you for anything?” Earlier this year, some Panthers expressed frustration when Richardson indicated that players addressing social issues could be subject to punishment.

Perceptions of casual racism hardened recently when, multiple sources told SI, Richardson directed a racial slur at an African-American scout for the Panthers. The scout left the team this year—but not, according to sources, before he sought the counsel of a Charlotte attorney who negotiated a confidential settlement on his behalf. Contacted by SI and asked if he wished to comment, the scout responded, “I’m not in a position to talk.”

Former employees allege that in addition to verbal harassment, Richardson engaged in improper acts. According to sources, on multiple occasions Richardson requested female employees to visit him during a workday in his suite inside Bank of America Stadium. The women would be escorted by Richardson’s assistant, who would then depart, leaving the owner alone with a junior employee. One former female employee recalls Richardson, who stands 6'3", arriving barefoot and asking for a foot massage. Says one such invitee: “The first time, you thought it was an important meeting with the owner. You [then] realized it was never anything that couldn’t be discussed over the phone.” Others talk of Richardson giving back rubs that lingered too long or went too low down the spine.

 

[DR RAM]

We didn't buy them, we won them.

 

[Corbin]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...diddy-in-owning-carolina-panthers?share=other

Richard Shotwell/Associated Press
Colin Kaepernick can't find an NFL owner to give him a shot, so he might just become one himself.

The free-agent quarterback tweeted a response to Diddy on Monday, saying he wants to become part of the rap mogul's ownership group in his bid to buy the Carolina Panthers:

https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7/status/942781096235884544
Colin Kaepernick

✔@Kaepernick7

I want in on the ownership group! Let’s make it happen! https://twitter.com/diddy/status/942572662311841797 …

8:38 AM - Dec 18, 2017

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Panthers owner Jerry Richardson announced he would sell the franchise at the conclusion of the 2017 season amid allegations of widespread sexual misconduct. Diddy tweeted he would like to buy the Panthers following the franchise's announcement of the impending sale.

"There are no majority African American NFL owners. Let's make history," he tweeted.

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https://twitter.com/Diddy/status/942596768067411969
Diddy

✔@Diddy

This picture was taken back in 2003. This is God’s work. It’s time!!

ATTN all @NFL owners, it’s time for diversity!! It’s time for Black ownership!!

The time is now. Let’s make it happen!!


Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry, who grew up in Charlotte, said Sunday he wanted in Diddy's ownership group as well.

Financially, the dream of a Diddy-Curry-Kaepernick ownership group seems farfetched. While he's amassed a fortune only rivaled by Dr. Dre in rap, Diddy's net worth is estimated at $820 million by Forbes. That will not be nearly enough to buy the Panthers, who are valued at $2.3 billion. Sports franchises in recent years have seen their sale prices far exceed their valuation, meaning it would not be a major surprise to see the Panthers approach the $3 billion mark.

Diddy would need to find an amalgam of similarly wealthy people that would allow him to serve as a majority owner, or be a minority owner under a far wealthier buyer.

Neither Curry nor Kaepernick have the financial clout necessary to push the bid over the hump. Curry earned $47.3 million in 2017 but has been wildly underpaid by NBA standards for most of his prime. He is only in the first season of a $201 million max contract signed this summer.

Kaepernick made just $39.4 million over the life of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers, which was reported at the time to be worth $126 million.

The 30-year-old has been out of football since opting out of that deal last offseason. No team has signed Kaepernick despite his throwing for 2,241 yards and 16 touchdowns against four interceptions last season—numbers far superior to many quarterbacks on NFL rosters. His protests during the national anthem are largely seen as the main cause of his continued unemployment. He has also filed a federal lawsuit against the NFL claiming owners colluded to keep him out of the league.


Richardson, 81, has owned the Panthers since their inception. A Sports Illustrated article published Sunday depicted a toxic work environment in which women were subjected to lewd comments, unwanted touching and payments for cosmetic services by the owner. He also allegedly used a racial slur when discussing a scout, who is black.

The Sports Illustrated article noted that Richardson came to settlement agreements on multiple lawsuits, which included non-disclosure and non-disparagement clauses. The NFL is currently handling an investigation of its own into the matter.

 

[HX76]

I wonder if Antoine Griezmann is part of the takeover group?

 

[Jacobarch]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

Dear Sweet Baby Jesus,

Let Kaep just go away into the night never to be heard from again.

Amen.

 

[Jacobarch]

to add to this, it will never ever happen. The owners have to approve. No way they let either of those clowns come close to it.

 

[Adi]

Nfl owner is an exclusive club , I'm sure they already have 10 billionaires on the waiting list

Collin just stop, you suck at QB and humiliated the leauge, really think they would let you in ?

 

[OldSchool]

I hope Diddy gets to buy it! Bringing in a minority owner is a good thing IMO. Of course his net worth is only about $800 million so that's about a third of what the team will cost so he'll be a minority minority owner. Then there is this which is laughable.


View: https://twitter.com/JimTrotter_NFL/status/942916831513231360

 

[Mackeyser]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

Dear Sweet Baby Jesus,

Let Kaep just go away into the night never to be heard from again.

Amen.

I'd rather people just let it go, but if not, then I'm gonna take the time to thoroughly disagree in the strongest terms.

L'Chaim

 

[Jacobarch]

I'd rather people just let it go, but if not, then I'm gonna take the time to thoroughly disagree in the strongest terms.

L'Chaim

That's your American right.

 

[RamFan503]

Well LA is off the market so....

 

[RamFan503]

As long as you weren't a woman within arms reach I suppose.

So.... they’re safe with you in arms reach?

 

[RamFan503]

Does he really have the pocket full of shells needed to be an owner these days?

 

[OldSchool]

Does he really have the pocket full of shells needed to be an owner these days?

No, he can be part of an ownership group but solo he doesn't have the Benjamins.

 

[RamFan503]

No, he can be part of an ownership group but solo he doesn't have the Benjamins.

I also don’t give him the benefit of the doubt that he has the Cajones of a Magic Johnson to put that together. Magic made the deal with the Dodgers because he is a brilliant businessman. Good luck to Pdiddy but.....