Trivia What sporting event is held every year on Memorial Day? Last Week’s Answer: The Cleveland Browns are only team in the NFL to neither host nor play in the Super Bowl.

The M&T Bank is extending its entitlement of the Baltimore Ravens home stadium five years early, and for an additional 10 years, through the 2037 NFL season. The Inner Harbor stadium has held the M&T nameplate since 2003. The extension comes as Maryland has allocated $600M for renovations at the stadium, construction of which should start this year.

The Washington Commanders President Jason Wright said that owner Dan Snyder selling the team will “provide a ‘substantial boost’ to the franchise whenever that time comes,” according to the Washington Times. Wright said that it will be reflected “on the business side” -- which he “expects to see ‘accelerate’ and be able to further invest on the football side of the building.”

The involvement of billionaire Mitchell Rales in the Josh Harris-led bid to buy the Washington Commanders gives owner Daniel Snyder a “deep-pocketed alternative" to selling to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and "provides the NFL and its team owners with an appealing mix of well-established local roots and an impressive record of business success,” according to the Washington Post. The news of Rales’s inclusion also “arrived at a critical...

The Utah Jazz were founded in 1974 as the New Orleans Jazz, an expansion team based in New Orleans, Louisiana; the Jazz moved to Salt Lake City in 1979.

With the potential sale of the Washington Commanders uncertain, the team’s stadium search appears “similarly stuck in limbo,” but “whenever the stadium discussion resumes, a three-jurisdiction race may become a real possibility,” according to the Washington Post. On Dec. 2, one month after owner Daniel Snyder announced he was exploring the possibility of selling all or part of the team, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told D.C. Mayor Muriel...

The return of the XFL on a crowded holiday weekend was lower than the debut/return of other spring football leagues in recent years. ABC, ESPN and FX averaged just under 1.3 million viewers for Week 1 of the XFL on Saturday and Sunday (doubleheaders both days).

After closing on the Arlington Park property, the Chicago Bears maintain a new stadium and development are "still big 'ifs,' dependent on the team getting property tax limits and public subsidies to help build infrastructure for the project," according to the Chicago Tribune. The team in an open letter said that the purchase was "'an important next step' to see if the plan is feasible."

Fox Sports officially sold out Super Bowl LVII ad inventory, selling its final in-game spot in the week before the NFL conference championship games. The network only has two spots left in its pre-kick show that runs right up until kickoff, and it currently is selling spots for an overtime that may not occur.

NFL exec Jeff Miller said that he "wasn’t aware of any conversations about converting conference title games into neutral site affairs," according to Yahoo Sports. Miller, the league's EVP/Communications, Public Affairs & Policy, said, “We haven’t had a conversation, that at least I’m aware of, about neutral site games." He added, “If the ownership wanted to pursue that, I think that they would. ... It’s not a new...