{"id":63753,"date":"2018-05-17T00:45:13","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T04:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63753"},"modified":"2018-05-17T00:45:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T04:45:13","slug":"carolina-panthers-set-to-be-sold-for-nfl-record-2-2bn-to-hedge-fund-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2018\/carolina-panthers-set-to-be-sold-for-nfl-record-2-2bn-to-hedge-fund-owner.html","title":{"rendered":"Carolina Panthers Set to be Sold For NFL Record $2.2bn to Hedge Fund Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(The Guardian) The Carolina Panthers are being sold for an NFL-record $2.2bn. Hedge fund manager David Tepper has agreed to buy the Panthers from team founder Jerry Richardson, a source has told the Associated Press.   The purchase is subject to a vote at the NFL owners meeting next week in Atlanta. The price tag is the most ever paid for an NFL franchise, eclipsing the $1.4bn the Pegula family paid to purchase the Buffalo Bills in 2014.Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Tepper, 60, is a part owner of the Steelers and founder and president of Appaloosa Management, a global hedge fund based in Miami. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2018\/may\/15\/carolina-panthers-sale-david-tepper-nfl\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Guardian) The Carolina Panthers are being sold for an NFL-record $2.2bn. Hedge fund manager David Tepper has agreed to buy the Panthers from team founder Jerry Richardson, a source has told the Associated Press. The purchase is subject to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63754,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63753\/revisions\/63754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}