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06.19.2021

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Brittany Bowlen looks to survive ugly family legal battle to take control of Broncos

The Bowlen family knew something that wouldn’t become public for many months. Super Bowl XLVIII, a 43-8 Seattle win, would be the Broncos' last game under Pat Bowlen’s leadership. With his health worsening, Bowlen had recently transferred control of the Broncos to a trust run by three people, including team President and CEO Joe Ellis, who would make decisions regarding the franchise until a new principal owner could emerge from among Bowlen’s seven children. By the time Pat Bowlen succumbed to his disease in June 2019, Brittany Bowlen had become the clear heir apparent in the eyes of the trustees, even though the succession documents do not say that explicitly. Now 31, Bowlen is a senior vice president with the team.

It doesn’t take account of all the investments we make in many things, the costs of delivering the Championships to the standard that we deliver it to -- which, of course, builds a value in our brand, which, particularly for the top-10 players, they’ll see the benefits of when you look at the kind of contracts that they will have personally. Our business model, really carefully balanced over 150 years, has delivered that value -- yes, to us, yes, to British tennis -- but also back to the players.
-- All England Lawn Tennis Club CEO Sally Bolton, on how a source of frustration for AELTC leadership is the player group’s proposed revenue share structure as the mode of deciding the total prize money pool.

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