The Denver Broncos now sport the wealthiest owner in the NFL and the league's most diverse ownership group. Four of the six members of the Walton-Penner ownership group, which was welcomed into the NFL this week, are either women or minorities.
S. Robson WaltonENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos now sport the wealthiest owner in the NFL and the league's most diverse ownership group.which was welcomed into the NFL this week, are either women or minorities.
The ownership group includes limited partners Mellody Hobson, Condoleezza Rice and Lewis Hamilton. Hobson is CEO of Starbucks, Rice is a former U.S. Secretary of State and Hamilton is the winningest Formula One driver in history. Before Walton's group purchased the Broncos, the NFL's wealthiest owner was Carolina’s David Tepper, whom Forbes estimates has a total net worth of $16.7 billion. Walton’s estimated net worth is $60 billion.
“To see some diversity and to see strong, Black women in the ownership group, I mean, what an inspiration for so many people," said Simmons, who is biracial. "There's little girls out here whose dads play on the team and they can look up at the ownership of the Broncos and they can see someone that looks just like them. I think that's really great.
Hobson said when she was first approached about joining the ownership group, she encouraged Walton to also bring aboard her friend Hamilton. Rice, who grew up in Denver, joked that her late father John Rice Jr., who was a minister, dean of students at Stillman College and big football fan, “has to be thinking, ‘She finally got a really important job.’”
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