MEET THE TEAM THAT HELPED BRING THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN LEAD PURCHASER’S HISTORY MAKING HIGHER BID ATTEMPT FOR DENVER BRONCOS TO THE NFL

AFRICAN AMERICAN SPORTS INVESTMENT CONSORTIUM

James  M.  DeLeon

(215) 300-0585

E-mail:   jmmyde46@aol.com 

          PHILADELPHIA, PA (USA) –23 June  2022  --  The Walter-Penner Group which recently purchased the Denver Broncos, a National League Football team, for a record breaking US$4.65 billion dollars is comprised of members with headline-grabbing names – Mr. Rob Walton, the heir to Walmart Mr. Rob Walton; Mr. Walton’s daughter and son-in-law Mrs. Carrie Walton Penner and Mr. Greg Penner; and .prolific investment guru,  influential national leader in corporate and civic organizations, and African American Ms.  Mellody Hobson.  While much is known about the Walter Penner Group, very little is known about the reclusive first African American Lead Purchaser whose history making higher bid attempt for the Denver Broncos has helped to open the door to diversity and inclusion in the National Football League.  Until now, numerous members of the team that helped  bring the first African American lead purchaser’s historic higher bid attempt to purchase the Denver Broncos to the  NFL have been equally enigmatic.   While maintaining a low profile,  Pastor Dr Garth G. Gittens; The Honorable James M. DeLeon; Messrs. Markham Burton and John Hardy; and Allen L. Rothenberg, Esquire vigorously worked to help a reclusive African American billionaire throw his hat into the National Football League’s “team ownership ring” as the first African American lead purchaser of the Denver Broncos through an attempted bid which was much higher than the US$4.65 billion price tag paid by the Walter Penner Group for the football team.

          “Bringing the higher but late arriving bid for the Denver Broncos to the attention of the NFL which occurred on the heels of the African American Sports Investment Consortium’s  15 April 2022 announcement that it  had secured an African American lead purchaser  -- the NFL’s first African American leader purchaser – was unquestionably a team effort.   As a result of the vigorous efforts of among others, Pastor Dr. Garth G. Gittens, Markham Burton, John Hardy, and Allen M Rothenberg, Esquire, the African American Sports Investment Consortium, with the African American billionaire at the helm, was poised to shatter the NFL’s ‘ownership glass ceiling.’  I would like to thank Pastor Dr. Garth G. Gittens, Markham Burton,  and John Hardy for the efforts they expended on this project.  To Allen L. Rothenberg, Esquire, I am extending my very special thanks. Finally, I would like to extend a special thanks to our Publicist Team –AOI Events & PR, Bobbi Booker, Danielle Paige Jeter, and Diane Sears,” remarked  James M. DeLeon, a member of the African American Sports Investment Consortium and a retired  highly respected jurist in the Municipal Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas of the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania whose career spanned five decades. 

         For further information concerning the African American Sports Investment Consortium’s historic work which is helping to open the door for inclusion and diversity in the National Football League, contact the African American Sports Investment Consortium at (215) 300-0585.