General Discussion

So they sell the team....whoever buys it would have to be a multi-billionaire to afford it. My point was the original Rooney bought the team for cheap (even counting inflation), and could have had no way of knowing what the NFL would become. They became super rich more by circumstance than screwing poor people over.

And a lot of really rich people have charitable foundations where they give tons of money away (for all I know the Rooneys do too - they certainly have had causes they've supported before). David Rubenstein comes to mind. I didn't even know for the longest time how wealthy that guy was - as I usually see him interviewing historians and stuff like that on PBS and CSPAN. He's given away tens of millions of dollars to things like the Washington Monument restoration after the earthquake 15 years or so ago.