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Jed York to Become the Official Owner of the 49ers

It will be interesting to see how the team changes now that York truly has the power to do anything he wants. Because he seems like someone who likes change.
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Soon, Jed York honestly can say he owns the 49ers.

Until now, he has been the CEO of the 49ers, an organization owned by his mother, Denise York. So technically, he didn't own it. He ran the day to day operations since 2010, but she still has had the power to make the biggest decisions. Finally, Jed York will have that power, as he's buying out enough of his mom's equity to make himself the principal owner of the franchise, a move that should become official this week at the NFL Annual Meeting in Orlando, according to Sports Business Journal.

It will be interesting to see how the team changes now that York truly has the power to do anything he wants. Because he seems like someone who likes change.

York is the one who hired Mike Singletary and fired him, then hired Jim Harbaugh and fired him, then hired Jim Tomsula and fired him, then hired Chip Kelly and fired him. All because York seemed to see himself as the heir apparent to Eddie DeBartolo Jr., who won five Super Bowls as the owner of the 49ers and had the highest standards.

I can't prove it, but I always got the impression that York wanted to keep Trent Baalke after firing Chip Kelly, and that the mother was the one who pushed for a complete reset, and ultimately decided to hire Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch and give them contract extension after contract extension despite losing Super Bowl after Super Bowl.

York was the one who said 10 years ago that the 49ers don't hang NFC Championship Banners. Now that he has full control of the team, let's see if he finally holds Kyle Shanahan accountable, because his parents never have, and Eddie DeBartolo probably would have fired him by now.

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Grant Cohn
GRANT COHN

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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