Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos has hired New York-based investment firm Allen & Company to evaluate a possible bid for the NFL's Washington Commanders, per Mark Maske, Nicki Jhabvala and Liz Clarke of the Washington Post.
The hiring appears to confirm Bezos' interest in placing a potential bid to purchase the Commanders from current owner Daniel Snyder, who bought the franchise in 1999 for $800 million.
Maske, Jhabvala and Clarke noted that the Amazon founder is at least interested in "conducting due diligence and potentially in moving forward in the process."
Snyder and his wife Tanya, Washington's co-CEO, announced in November that they had hired Bank of America Securities to consider potential transactions involving the Commanders.