Upon unveiling his new television network, Revolt TV, Diddy spoke with bloomberg.com about his plans to own an NFL team.
“I love sports, but I’m more of an owner type of guy,” Diddy said. “It will happen. I will become the first African American majority owner, not having a small stake, but actually owning an NFL team. I think it’s time for that. A majority of the players that are in the NFL are African American but there are no African American owners. That’s one of my dreams.”
Diddy also spoke about watching Jay Z transition from Hip Hop to sports with Roc Nation’s management of several athletes including Robinson Cano and Kevin Durant. According to Diddy, he has no plans of managing athletes due to his plans to own a team.
“When I see my friend having a sports agency I support him,” Diddy said. “When I get the calls, ‘Oh, we need to do Bad Boy Sports.’ I’m like, ‘No, that’s not my lane. I stay in my lane. This is my lane I want to do.’ I’m just me. I do my own thing.”
Diddy also explained how his relationship with Jay Z is one of mutual respect.
“We’re definitely friends, but we definitely push each other,” Diddy said. “We’re stronger working together and sharing information together instead of divide-and-conquer. It’s what we’re doing together to change the world. We compare notes. We keep in touch and we make sure that we support each other.”
Diddy and Jay Z were at the top of Forbes’ Cash Kings 2013: The World’s 20 Highest-Paid Hip-Hop Artists list. Diddy hit #1 with earnings of approximately $50 million, according to forbes.com. Jay Z was at #2 with approximately $43 million earned.
Diddy’s interview with Bloomberg can be viewed below.
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he gonna buy a whole NFL team just to give his kid a spot playing pro football
Well if him and Jay Z invest they can buy the Minnesota Vikings. Red McCombs payed $250 Million and now it would cost them $604 million to get that team.
they dont actually have that much money. net worth does not mean money in the bank
@anon
theyre not just going to cut a personal check for $600mm or whatever. They will get a loan.
Diddy need to come and buy the Dallas Cowboys from Jerry Jones! Yall should checkout thegrandreport, they have some good hip hop and viral videos on there
if mark cuban had enough money to buy the cowboys w/ the money they rake in every year, he would.
sounds like career suicide if he did.
Take over the Raiders Diddy.
You gotta love Diddys entrepanurial spirit, he’s a great model for all hustlers and I hope he does it in addition to a worldwide distribution company.
“they dont actually have that much money. net worth does not mean money in the bank”
^ I detect a little hate in that comment
Jay in sports, 50 in sports, Puffy thinking team like Mr Johnson did, how Magic doing it, Jordan.
They rubbing elbows with money. Investors. Just right opportunity awaits. You blocking the sunshine homie.
no hate at all, get your hate detector checked
Lmao, like he said, Networth does not mean money in the bank its assets-debt (thats in simplest terms, the calculation is more complex then that) but assets – debt in the jist of it.
Besides majority owner doesn’t mean he need to buy the whole team, Just a least 50% of it.
And F**k the NFL man lol, they are registered as a Non-Profit Organization, which means even though they are making a shit ton of money form merch and tickets and advertisement, our tax dollars are still paying for there shit. Cowboy stadium was subsided with tax payer money. That messed up
But More power to Diddy and Jay they are incredibly smart businessmen and i respect them for it.
Insight Amir,
thank you for having it, lol
A majority of the players that are in the NFL are African American but there are no African American owners.
Why nikkas always have to bring up the race card?!
Bitch its the truth!! Its a shortage of black owners in the NFL!
address the truth
that’s the actual form of racism
i feel sorry for anyone who plays for his team. shits gonna be BAD BOY 2.0. he gives you some fucked up contract and makes you a slave and then when you wanna leave he wont let you play for another team!
players union won’t allow that geek
Its a sport (NFL) not the music biz you fucking retard.
he couldnt think of anything good to hate on.
stop touching those lil boys diddy
yo they didnt hear it from me!
Y’all fuckers stupid …smh I hate this site
hes not making shit up… the feds were looking into P Diddy diddling underage boys!
Real Shit diddy. We def need more black owners in the nfl,nba, you sir are def the one to do it first ya kno.
The Ultimate Hustlers, Diddy and Jay, ironic that both of them is from NYC! The home of the Hustlers!!
Making money off people, thats the only thing Diddy is good for
I think he needs to be worth in over $1 billion first to own a team. It would cost his most of his earnings to own one at this point.
You don’t have to own 100% to be the majority owner all he needs is a 51% stake or the highest stake of all the owners involved. Also all of the NFL teams are not worth 1 Billion. I’d assume some like the Jags are more like 300-400 million range.
I normally hate Diddy but that’s a good look, black athletes been playing for these white owners for ages getting them richer, not that the players are getting crumbs but that shouldn’t be the limit. Los Angeles nfl team Los Angeles Los Angeles nfl team …
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The whole, city is mine, prettiest Don
I don’t like the way P. Diddy did Shyne with different lawyers
Why it’s mentioned in my rhymes? Fuck it, it’s just an intro
nas lost.
Daddy I wanna play pro football! Will you buy me a team?