Jerry Jones made feelings clear on Jeff Bezos owning NFL team but $1.65bn move dashes hopes

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NFL owners have been desperate to get Amazon founder Jeff Bezos involved for years.“Someone like that,” Dallas Cowboys chief Jerry Jones told Sports Illustrated in 2018, “I’d carry him piggyback to get him to the NFL.”Bezos has declined to be a part of the last two NFL salesGettyA year later New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft told The Washington Post: “I’m sure that eventually it would be in everyone’s best interests if someone that’s as community-oriented as him gets involved in the Seattle situation.”The Seattle situation came to a head in July when The estate of Paul G. Allen agreed to sell the Seahawks to an ownership group led by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla for $9.6 billion.NFL owners are scheduled to ratify the NFL-record deal on August 26 and despite rumored interest early in the process, Bezos was not involved in bidding.It is not for a lack of interest in sports.NFL Weekly Newsletter - SIGN UP!talkSPORT is your home for NFL in the UK as we launch our biggest year of coverage yet!2026 promises to be an epic year for NFL on talkSPORT – and we want you to join us for the ride.MORE INFO & SIGN-UP HERE!This season will be our biggest ever with live commentary of 90+ games, including behind-the-scenes access to international games and all three London fixtures, plus bumper coverage of Super Bowl 61 at SoFi Stadium.Exclusive interviews, hard-hitting opinion, latest front-office drama and top breaking news – all delivered straight to your inbox each week.Amazon is investing heavily in media rights, with Thursday Night Football already locked up, and its owner recently joined an investment group which bought just under a third of English Premier League team Liverpool for $1.65 billion.Bezos was also conspicuously absent when the Washington Commanders went to Josh Harris for $6.05 billion in 2023.Other factors may have been at play there with controversy surrounding Dan Snyder’s tenure and the polarizing name change, not to mention need for a new stadium.Seattle, however, is a reigning Super Bowl champion with an excellent home field, and dedicated fanbaseIt is starting to look like Jones and Kraft won’t get their wish.“For now, he seems to have made that choice — because he could have bought a team if he’d wanted one,” a source told Front Office Sports. “If he wanted to buy Seattle, he could have outbid everyone.Bezos has moved to Miami in recent yearsAFPJones is used to getting his own wayGetty“If he wanted to buy the Commanders, he could have outbid everyone. There are no teams for sale. There are no teams on the horizon to be for sale. The other thing is: Does he want to?”The Seahawks could be the last team to trade hands for a while.Ravens and Dolphins not for saleBaltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti would rather sell up than pass the team down, but at 66, he is not done yet.In January he said he’d like to “win a couple” more Super Bowls and bow out in a decade.“He ultimately wasn’t interested in the Commanders,” an NFL team official told FOS. “He wasn’t interested in Seattle.“I just don’t know what other team is going to be for sale, other than Baltimore with Bisciotti. The private equity involvement has taken all the pressure off families for their estate planning.”NFL's Greatest......Ranking the top 10......Quarterbacks of all-time – Can anyone better Tom Brady?Wide receivers of all-time – Does Randy Moss or Jerry Rice come out on top?Running backs of all-time – Stacking Jim Brown, Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, Emmitt Smith and moreTight ends of all-time – How does Travis Kelce compare?Bezos moved from his long-term home in Seattle to Miami in 2023 and that may be the one team that piques his interest,Stephen Ross told Bloomberg in January that had rejected a bid worth almost $15 billion to sell the Dolphins, but wants the franchise to stay in the family.NFL valuations keep going up, but Bezos is the third richest person in the world worth $272.4 billion.If he truly wanted to buy a team, he would be able to make somebody an offer they can’t refuse.It appears his intentions lie elsewhere, and Liverpool may just be the start.