The Seattle Seahawks opened their 2026 preseason with a showing that was disappointing to many, especially on the heels of a 2025 season that ended with the Hawks hoisting a Lombardi trophy on the home field of a key division rival.
Regardless of how the preseason turns out, however, the upcoming sale of the Seahawks has been a key story not just during this past offseason, but for most of the nearly eight years since Paul Allen died, leaving control of the team to his sister, Jody Allen, by virtue
of her role as the trustee for his estate.
With a $9.612B price tag having been agreed to between the estate and future own Vinod Khosla, the official sale of the team became largely a matter of time and getting the correct approvals from the league and the other owners. According to a report Wednesday from Mark Maske of Front Office Sports, two of those approvals have arrived, with the NFL finance and ownership policy committees voting to unanimously to approve the sale.
As Maske notes, the approval from these two committees sets the table for the sale to be officially approved by league owners next week, setting the expectation that the transaction to close in September.
Assuming the sale is indeed approved by owners on Wednesday, August 26, there would be two weeks remaining until the Seahawks open the regular season at Lumen Field against the New England Patriots on September 9. It is possible that it could get done by then, but such a tight window would seem to make it unlikely.
Thus, the report that the sale is expected to close in September combined with the fact that the season opener is the only game Seattle is scheduled to play at home during the month would appear to set the table for the final home game of the Allen family ownership era to fittingly end in a nationally televised, season opening game celebrating the Seahawks victory in Super Bowl LX.
