Still rocking the hockey hairAll things considered, Phil Falcone would prefer playing a professional sport that no one watches anymore to being a billionaire. So he’s done the next stupidest thing: He bought a hockey team.
Some of a hockey team, anyway. He’s got a 40% chunk in the Minnesota Wild, the team that replaced his hometown team after they moved to that great hockey city, Dallas.
A due-diligence specialist once told me that what he called jock-sniffer syndrome was one of his key red flags. But Falcone, who seems to have a thing for dying industries, bought his stake in the Wild for an altogether more pathetic reason.
