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Colts Sale Remains a Weighing

TL;DR

This paper has been printing the Colts sale as a weighing; Sunday has no closed deal.

MSM Perspective

Sunday has no Colts close in fetched copy.

X Perspective

Feeds treat a weighing as a sold franchise.

This paper has been printing the Colts sale as a weighing, not a close. [1] Sunday has no closed deal in fetched copy. A weighing is not a sold franchise. Silence from the league office is not a transfer. Print weighing. Do not print sold. Leave a named close to the edition that owns a close.

No Sunday purchase agreement is in league copy, so weighing remains the Colts word and silence is not a transfer.
A weighing is still a weighing. Sunday recap that treats league silence as a sold Colts is a feed, not a close.
No NFL transfer memo is in Sunday's league stack.
Sunday produced no Colts close, and the archive keeps the last named one.

Franchise valuations at current multiples make even minority stakes consortium affairs. No consortium has surfaced with a name attached. Weighing continues in silence, as these processes do.

Consortium affairs move at bankers' pace, not news cycles'. Sunday's pace is still. Silence structures the deal.

Structured silences structure the deal; Sunday produced no close. Minority stakes need consortiums. None has a name.

Sunday produced no close. Minority stakes need consortiums. None has a name.

No purchase agreement for the Colts has shown up in league copy. Bankers' pace produced no named buyer this weekend. League-office quiet is not a transfer of the franchise. The club is not printed as sold here.
Stakes need consortiums. None has a name. Sunday still has the Colts unsold.

Stakes need consortiums. None has a name. Sunday named no buyer.

Sunday still has the Colts unsold. Stakes need consortiums. Sunday named no buyer.

-- AMARA OKONKWO, Lagos

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