Dan Snyder has reportedly agreed to sell the Washington Commanders to a group led by Josh Harris for $6.5 billion. On Wednesday, 106.7 The Fan’s The Sports Junkies welcomed Brian Davis — who purportedly placed a $7 billion bid for the franchise — to the show for an interview that is being described as “bizarre”. Brian Mitchell of the station’s midday show believes the Junkies deserve some credit for the interaction.
During the nearly hourlong interview, The Sports Junkies tried to ask the same question many have asked about the reported bid from Davis: where is your money coming from?
The question was the topic of a Front Office Sports article, which alleges that the money for Davis’ bid came from sources in Saudia Arabia, which Davis later denied.
“My money comes from white people . . . who are Jewish, Italian, and Sicilian,” Davis said at one point during the interview with the Junkies.
After the interview, several of the show’s members took to Twitter to point out the absurdity of the interaction, with Erick Bickel calling it “wilder than I ever thought”.
During BMitch & Finlay, the pair discussed the wide-ranging interview, with JP Finlay saying The Sports Junkies did great work in tough circumstances.
“There’s been reports about his offer, and I give him credit for coming out and talking about it,” Finlay said. “But after the interview, I called a few people I know in different circles, and by and large, everyone had the same reactions: there is no explanation for where the money is actually coming from.”
Davis — a former basketball player at Duke and Washington D.C. area native — made several claims about where the money came from. He said made $200 million selling intellectual property, but has a $50 billion valuation from an unnamed company.
“The Junkies did a good job pressing him, and he got a little flustered when they did, but don’t come and talk to people if you can’t answer real questions,” Mitchell said. “What I heard was ‘It’s my money’, then he said investors, and when they pushed him, it was ‘my partners.’ Well, still, somebody gave you money, and this intellectual property thing? Ain’t too many people in the world whose IP is worth that kind of money.”
“None of this adds up,” Finlay concluded.
