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I feel like the reason that we don't see NFL teams bought or sold very often isn't because owners don't want to sell them, but because no one wants to buy them.
It costs minimum six billion dollars to buy an NFL team, and no one with that kind of money wants to bankrupt themselves to own an NFL team. So realistically you need at least ten billion dollars. That's 123 people in the United States since the rules say you need to buy it as an individual or family.
Of those 123 people, you can't count the people who already own one, so it's less than a hundred people.
Then you've gotta remember that it's an objectively atrocious investment. If you buy the Detroit Lions, you traded six billion dollars for $20m profit per year. If you bought every McDonald's in Michigan instead, you'd make about $800m per year.
That's also ignoring the fact that team values are currently hyper, hyper inflated because of gambling, which has a very uncertain future since public opinions of it are pretty negative. Maybe it'll stay legal forever, but the kind of person who has six billion dollars might not want to risk it on that speculation.
I think the NFL isn't an exclusive club that turns away new members, I think it's a poor value club people aren't stupid enough to join.