Given his financial largess, there aren’t too many places billionaire Bill Foley can’t gain entrance.
The most exclusive golf courses? No problem. The finest restaurants? Right this way to your table, sir.
But until Wednesday, there was one place he was on the outside looking in — the NHL Board of Governors meetings. That changed when he made his final payment to the NHL on March 1 for the record $500 million expansion fee and became the 31st member of that exclusive group.
He was up early for the 8 a.m. meeting at Encore, had his own seat at the table, and for approximately four hours, Foley sat and listened to the various items on the agenda and actually participated.