Across the ownership expanse of today’s NFL, very little business comes without some kind of historic template.
Head coaches and general managers have been hired and fired on an assembly line for decades. Quarterbacks have risen and regressed. Precedent-setting legal cases have been won and lost. Fights with the league office or commissioner have raged and subsided. It has all played out while financial gain and franchise values have rocketed into the clouds, whether a product of immense success or despite abject failure. More often than not, there are volumes of blueprints available to the league’s billionaires club that detail each potential hurdle or pitfall.