Did anyone else know that JFK almost bought the Eagles?

[ReidsArmy]

usatoday – The Kennedy family, so famously associated with Boston, almost had a connection with Philadelphia. According to the NFL Network, the Kennedys were intrigued when the Eagles were for sale for around $4 million. John and Robert asked Edward to set up a meeting with Eagles ownership after principal owner James P. Clark died. The Cuban Missile Crisis got in the way, and the meeting never happened. However, the Philadelphia Inquirer raised these questions on how it would have changed the team’s history: Would the team have been moved to their Boston hometown? Would they have invested heavily? Would all-purpose Veterans Stadium still have been built or would the family have used its political clout to get a football-only stadium? George W. Bush was part-owner of the MLB’s Texas Rangers, but he wasn’t in the White House at the time. A president taking time out to buy an NFL team today would create quite an outcry. Barack Obama is a big fan of the Chicago Bears, but there would likely be hearings if he tried to make a bid for the Bears while still in the Oval Office.

[Irish George]

Yes. Did you kn ow Bill Veeck almost bought the Phillies?

...and why that would have been significant?

[slag]

He would have hired McCarthy's grandfather

as a pinch hitter?

[Irish George]

BWAH...besides that...

The Phillies were one of the last teams to sign a black player. But had Veeck's group been successful in their bid, they likely would have been one of the first. Veeck's partners included Eddie Gottlieb, who owned the Philly Warriors and the Stars of the Negro Leagues; and Abe Saperstein, founder and owner of the Harlem Globetrotters.

Veeck wound up buying the Cleveland Indians instead and signed Larry Doby as the first black American Leaguer and brought 40-something Satchel Paige off the Negro Leagues to help the Indians win the AL pennant.

[Loki]

But would he have changed a diaper in the owner's box during the World Series?