A special committee of NFL owners has spent the past nine months investigating potential changes to league rules for team ownership, an attempt to grapple with a shrinking pool of potential team buyers amid soaring team valuations.
One of the possibilities on the table: allowing institutional wealth, including private equity, to invest in NFL franchises, which the league has never permitted.
Owners will likely discuss -- and potentially vote on -- the committee's research and findings at league meetings in Nashville this week.
"They've been very deliberate in the way they've evaluated different alternatives," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in March.