The Estefan’s Will Buy Part of the Miami Dolphins
Figures of the entertainment Gloria and Emilio Estefan will be announced this Thursday as minority owners of the Miami Dolphins, according to a person close to the negotiations between the Estefan’s family and the Miami Dolphins.
The source said Monday night that the NFL and the Miami Dolphins are trying to expand their connection with the growing southern Hispanic community of Florida and they are considering the Estefan’s as their ambassadors.
As many fanatics of the sport of its age in the south of the Florida, Emilio Estefan is a fan of the Dolphins since always and its favorite player is the quarterback of the Miami Dolphins Dan Marino, who is in the Hall of the Fame.
A note published Monday by the Dolphins affirms that Thursday morning there would be an “important announcement about the Dolphins ”, presented by the marriage Estefan and by the new majority owner Stephen Ross in the LandShark Stadium.
This recalls the way in which the Dolphins announced its business association with Margaritaville property of the singer Jimmy Buffett, that includes Land Shark Lager. Many expect that Buffett be converted also in minority owner as well.
Ross likes important people, as well as to do public announcements in a spectacular way. It began its negotiations with the Estefan’s three months away so that to assume a small participation in the Miami Dolphins. Now, he has related the Dolphins with two of the artists more famous in the south of Florida.
Buffett, whose music symbolizes the relaxed way of life of Gloria Estefan, whose music would be able to symbolize the southern ethnic metamorphosis of the Florida during the last 25 years. Emilio Estefan did not want to comment anything in these moments.
The spokesperson of the Dolphins Harvey Greene said that the team “will not have any comment to the announcement until Thursday ”. The NFL has been trying during the last years to introduce more the Hispanic market, since the Hispanic has become the minority of faster growth.
Players of Hispanic origin as the quarterback of Dallas Cowboys Tony Romo, the tight end of Atlanta Tony González and the offensive tackle Anthony Muñoz (also in the Hall of Fame) they have figured in advertising campaigns of the NFL they directed to the Hispanic, particularly to the Hispanic youth.
In fact, Gloria Estefan was in Nashville on Monday recording the song of presentation for Monday Night Football for this year with Hank Williams Jr. The song of Williams “Are You Ready For Some Football?” has become the official song for Monday Night Football since the program began to use it in 1989.
Linking to the Dolphins with the Estefan, they left a significant legend in the popular music during the decades of 1980 and 1990, continues the tendency of Ross of trying to illuminate to the Dolphins with the footlights of the show business.
Since he assumed the majority control of the Dolphins and then the Dolphin Stadium of hands of H. Wayne Huizenga, Ross put in contact with Buffett and changed the name of the stadium, also known previously as Joe Robbie Stadium and Pro Player Stadium.
Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine had numerous successes in the middle of the eighties, while the south of the Florida, Miami particularly, tried to redo its image after the disturbances and the crossfire for the cocaine on the starts of the eighties.
Gloria continued launching musical successes as a soloist, in English and in Spanish, while Emilio got a name as musical producer.
