Breaking: Panthers Owner Puts Team Up For Sale After Sexual Assault Allegations. At Least 3 Other Owners Are Next.
In a letter published on the team’s website, Richardson didn’t address his alleged misdeeds but did say, “I believe that it is time to turn the franchise over to new ownership” and that he hopes that “everyone in this organization, both on and off the field, will be firmly focused on just one mission: to play and win the Super Bowl.”
Good.
Who else might be following Panthers owner Jerry Richardson out the door? https://t.co/NN6L0Tx19T pic.twitter.com/9m5v45RDu4
— Amber Boehm (@PKTechGirl_) December 18, 2017
Whether Richardson reached this conclusion on his own or whether he was pressured to do so, this had to happen. Yes, it’s stunning news. NFL owners don’t just sell their team at the drop of a hat. Scratch that. Pro sports owners don’t sell their franchises at the drop of a hat. The only such instance came in 2014 when the NBA’s Donald Sterling was forced to sell his Los Angeles Clippers after recordings of his racist comments were made public.
Given the nature of the accusations against the 81-year-old, there’s no way he could rightfully maintain ownership. Details still are trickling out about the nature of the accusations against Richardson. But he has already paid at least four former Panthers employees “significant” monetary settlements after using sexually suggestive language and behavior and after also directing a racial slur at an African-American scout, according to Sports Illustrated.
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