The new owner of the NFL champion Seattle Seahawks has sparked fury among its fanbase by refusing to rule out moving the team away from the city.Vinod Khosla spent a record $9.6 billion to take over one of the NFL’s most successful franchises earlier this year and was formally introduced to the city at the start of the new season.But just weeks later he has raised serious doubts about the team’s long-term future in Seattle during an interview.’I will never say never,’ Khosla told Dan Primack of Axios when asked about the possibility of the Seahawks relocating.’Will this team be in Seattle 500 years from now? But I have no current plans to change anything about the team, including the coach, president, operation or Lumen Field. It all functions well.’The issue could become important soon because the Seahawks’ lease at Lumen Field expires in 2032. Khosla’s comments have infuriated Seahawks fans, who are known to be one of the most passionate fanbases in football. Vinod Khosla has angered Seahawks fans by refusing to rule out moving them from Seattle The reigning Super Bowl champions have one of the most passionate fan bases in the NFLOne commented: ‘What an absolutely stupid thing to say to your loyal fan base. Unbelievably stupid.’Another posted: ‘Blatantly stupid to say something like that (regardless of context) in Seattle given their history with the Sonics sale. I can’t stand these guys already. Not exactly earning the public’s trust.’A third asked: ‘Is he intentionally trying to poison his relationship with the fans?”Boy this guy is really building something with the Seahawks fan base isn’t he,’ another added.A fifth responded: ‘The only thing you can’t really say to a fanbase that has had a team stolen from them. No idea why you say this or what you’d expect the reaction to be.’ ‘Proof that money can’t buy sense,’ another added.Another Seahawks fan posted: ‘There’s no way the league would allow the Seahawks to leave Seattle just as they didn’t allow the team to leave when Ken Behring tried to move them years ago. I’d be shocked more than I was when the Sonics left town.’Khosla, who will run the team along with his son Neal and wife Neeru, purchased the Seahawks from the estate of the late Paul Allen following the approval from NFL owners in late August.He was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and the founder of Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. His current net worth is $13.7 billion, Forbes reported this summer. The Seahawks are 2-1 after three games after their defeat by the Washington CommandersThe company invests in experimental technologies such as biomedicine, robotics, and was the first venture firm to invest in OpenAI, per Forbes.The Allen estate announced shortly after the Super Bowl win in February that it had begun the process of selling the team. The Khosla family had held a minority stake in the San Francisco 49ers and had been to Seattle as fans for the first time about a month earlier when the Seahawks knocked the Niners out of the playoffs with a 41-6 win.Khosla became a football fan soon after immigrating from India to Pittsburgh in 1976 to attend Carnegie Mellon. He fell in love with the Steelers initially and has watched games closely with Neal over the years.The Seahawks had been in the Allen family since 1997, when Paul Allen bought the team for $194 million from then-owner Ken Behring. Allen was critical in keeping the Seahawks in Seattle.Since Allen, cofounder of Microsoft, died in 2018 from complications of non-Hodgkin lymphoma at 65, the Seahawks and the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers were owned by his sister, Jody.The estate agreed last September to sell the Trail Blazers to an investment group led by Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon. The Trail Blazers remained in Portland as part of the deal.