It's Cool to Be Rich: E. Stanley Kroenke

The newest fad for obsenely wealthy sports addicted billionaires in America is to just cross the pond and buy a sweet English Premiership team. The newest member of this club is E Stanley Kroenke, an obscenely rich man that somehow flew under my radar. Kroenke this week purchased a 9.99% share in the London based Premiership club Arsenal, which last year lost in the finals of the Champions League, aka their pretty good. They typically have a chance to win the premiership every year and rarely finish below 4th.

Anyway what I didn't know was how many friggin franchises this dude owns. First of all, he started a succesful Real Estate company, but his wife just happens to be a Walton, aka an heirass to the Walmart cash. So he's loaded. Anyway, he Co-Owns the St. Louis Rams, owns the Nuggets, Avalanche, Colorado Rapids of the MLS, Colorado Mammoth of the National Lacrosse League, and Co-Owns the AFL Colorado Crush team. Jeebus that's a lot of franchises. No way he pays that much attention to how the Colorado Mammoth are doing. Man it's cool to be rich.

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