HOLY CRAP RANDY LERNER IS SELLING THE CLEVELAND BROWNS!.....and you know what? He did just that, to the tune of a billion dollars.
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August 02, 2012
CLEVELAND– The Cleveland Browns will be sold to Tennessee businessman Jimmy Haslam III.
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August 02, 2012
The Browns reportedly have been sold to Jimmy Haslam, a former minority investor (and fan) of the Steelers, for a price in excess of $1 billion.
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August 03, 2012
Now that Randy Lerner has sold majority ownership of the Cleveland Browns to Tennessee businessman Jimmy Haslam III, it’s time to take a look back at the Lerner Family, patriarch Al Lerner and the role he played in the Browns moving to Baltimore following the 1995 season.
Al Lerner should never have been chosen as the person to own the Browns when the team came back to the...
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August 03, 2012
Randy Lerner has reached a deal to sell the club to Tennessee truck-stop magnate Jimmy Haslam III -- a minority stockholder in the rival Steelers. Lerner will sell 70 percent of the Browns to Haslam now, with the other 30 percent reverting to him four years after the closing date, a person with knowledge of the sale told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because details...
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August 02, 2012
Randy Lerner, now former owner of the Cleveland Browns, has reached a deal with Jimmy Haslam. According to league sources, this deal is worth over 1 billion dollars. The agreement and paperwork were finalized Thursday morning with two phases. Haslam will take over controlling interest of the Browns for more than $700 million, followed by a payment of more than $300 million to...
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August 02, 2012
Randy Lerner has sold the Cleveland Browns to Tennessee business man Jimmy Haslam in a deal in excess of $1 billion. Both sides have been negotiating since Friday.
As the franchise has been struggling, it remains to be seen if any front office changes will be made.
The team went 4-12 in 2011, and has not made the playoffs since 2003.
There is hope for the future however, following...
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August 02, 2012
The sale of the Cleveland Browns from Randy Lerner to Jimmy Haslam was announced Thursday with a price tag in excess of $1 billion, including an initial payment of $700 million due this week. The sale must be approved by NFL owners and a special session could be called in August if the league doesn't want to wait until a scheduled meeting in October. "This is a very...
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August 02, 2012
Randy Lerner has sold the Cleveland Browns to Jimmy Haslam, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.
Fantasy Spin:
Haslam is a Tennessee businessman and the sale was in excess of $1 billion. It remains to be seen if the new ownership will make any changes in the front office.
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August 04, 2012
Photo Credit: ClevelandBrowns.com
Randy Lerner agreed Thursday to sell a majority stake in the Cleveland Browns to Jimmy Haslam (James A. Haslam III), CEO of the Tennessee-based Pilot Flying J Corporation, along with his family.
The sale is subject to a review by the NFL and a vote of the league’s owners at a later date.
“On behalf of my family and as trustee for the Lerner...
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August 02, 2012
Corporate photo of Jimmy Haslam from Steelers.com
The Browns are sold even if the ink isn’t dry. This much we know. What we don’t know is how it all came to pass. Let’s go through the timeline a bit.
January, Randy Lerner goes on Mike Trivisonno’s radio show to raise his profile. It seemed like Lerner was finally starting to get the need to have his voice heard.
February...
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August 02, 2012
Randy Lerner has sold the Cleveland Browns to Tennessee business man Jimmy Haslam in a deal in excess of $1 billion. Both sides have been negotiating since Friday.
As the franchise has been struggling, it remains to be seen if any front office changes will be made.
The team went 4-12 in 2011, and has not made the playoffs since 2003.
There is hope for the future however, following...
Via Waiting For Next Year
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August 03, 2012
When Jimmy Haslam III arrived in Berea, Ohio, the first thing he noticed was the water tower that stands proudly next to the Ohio Turnpike. The first thing that jumped out to him was the giant, orange Browns helmet that graces the side. A business man through and through, Haslam could only think to himself, “way to go.”
With as much of a southern drawl as anyone who has addressed...
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August 01, 2012
It has been reported by nearly every news source from one side of the country to the other that the Cleveland Browns are on the fast track to being sold to Tennessee businessman and minority owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers Jimmy Haslam.
For us Browns' fans the news was sudden but not particularly shocking since current owner Randy Lerner (who will reportedly remain a...
Via Cleveland Frowns
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August 03, 2012
Randy Lerner’s sale of the Browns to Jimmy Haslam has reportedly been finalized, with the billionaire gas station scion from Tennessee set to pay $700 million for 70% of the franchise now, then some $300 million for the rest in four years. But that was before anyone knew that we had these:
Read ‘em and weep, Jim. The Cleveland Browns are ours.*
Of course we’re real busy...
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August 04, 2012
Now that it has sunk in that the Browns have a new owner, I am extremely happy at the prospects. There are no guarantees that Jimmy Haslam is going to do this thing right, but it represents opportunity for Browns fans to have something that most didn’t even think possible a few short weeks ago. These newly owned Browns have potential for something new and different that hasn...
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