{"id":863300,"date":"2026-04-10T17:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/863300\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T17:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:29:30","slug":"broncos-owners-buy-massive-stake-in-mlbs-colorado-rockies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/863300\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos Owners Buy Massive Stake in MLB&#8217;s Colorado Rockies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-1463923711-e1775841320340.jpg\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"Greg Penner\"   decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Denver Broncos owner Greg Penner. <\/p>\n<p>When it comes to money and spending it on professional sports, there doesn\u2019t seem to be any limit for the Walton-Penner family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSources confirm <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" title=\"Broncos\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/nfl\/denver-broncos\/\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"221406\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Broncos<\/a> owners Greg and Carrie Penner are now MLB <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" title=\"Colorado Rockies\" href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/mlb\/colorado-rockies\/\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\" data-wpil-monitor-id=\"221400\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> largest minority owners,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mikeklis9news\/status\/2042633807367672106?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external nofollow\">Denver 9 News reporter Mike Klis<\/a> wrote on his official X account on Friday. \u201cDick, Charlie and Walker Monfort still have control. Penners still all in on Broncos but they now have roughly 40 percent of Rockies per sources.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Penners and Rob Walton bought the Broncos for approximately $4.6 billion in August 2022 and have led a massive turnaround for the franchise, which made it all the way to the AFC Championship Game following the 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockies have been 1 of Major League Baseball\u2019s worst teams in the last decade. They haven\u2019t had a winning season or made the postseason since 2018 and have lost over 100 games each of the last 3 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Penner Sports Group, which bought the Rockies, is different from the Walton-Penner Family Ownership Group, which owns the Broncos \u2014 a group that includes Rob Walton, Condoleeza Rice, and Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreg and Carrie Penner have bought a whopping 40% of the Rockies,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZacStevensDNVR\/status\/2042648810099282070?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external nofollow\">DNVR\u2019s Zac Stevens wrote<\/a> on his official X account. \u201cThis is HUGE for Colorado Sports!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/author\/tadame316\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Adame<\/a> covers the NFL for Heavy.com, with a focus on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Washington Commanders, Dallas Cowboys, Baltimore Ravens, Philadelphia Eagles and Denver Broncos. A veteran sports writer and editor since 2004, his work has been featured at Stadium Talk, Yardbarker, NW Florida Daily News and Pensacola News Journal.  <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/author\/tadame316\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More about Tony Adame<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore Heavy on Broncos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tLoading more stories\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Denver Broncos owner Greg Penner. When it comes to money and spending it on professional sports, there&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2062],"tags":[232,231,258,2426,7,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-863300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-denver-broncos","8":"tag-broncos","9":"tag-denver","10":"tag-denver-broncos","11":"tag-denverbroncos","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116381599823311378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}