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Josh Harris has long eyed NFL ownership. It’s obviously a big part of why he followed the path Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and Panthers owner David Tepper blazed, in buying a minority share of the Steelers in 2020 before becoming a controlling owner elsewhere. So it’d be pretty hard to characterize his swing-and-miss on the Broncos in ’22 as a win.
But a year later, it sure feels that way for the 58-year-old titan of private equity. And when he and I talked Wednesday night, on the eve of the approval of his group’s $6.05 billion purchase of the Commanders, he wasn’t shy in sharing that.