Other NFL owners

[BigDan]

Of all the other 31 NFL owners around the league, who would you prefer to have over Woody - if anyone?



List of NFL franchise owners
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The following is a list of current National Football League franchise owners:


Franchise Owner Year

Arizona Cardinals - Bill Bidwill ‡ 1 1972
Atlanta Falcons - Arthur Blank† 1 2004
Baltimore Ravens - Steve Bisciotti† 1 2004
Buffalo Bills - Kim and Terry Pegula 2014
Carolina Panthers - Jerry Richardson2 1993
Chicago Bears - Virginia Halas McCaskey†‡ 3 1983
Cincinnati Bengals - Mike Brown‡3 1991
Cleveland Browns - Jimmy Haslam 2012
Dallas Cowboys - Jerry Jones 1989
Denver Broncos - Pat Bowlen†6 (Bowlen Family Trust) 1984
Detroit Lions - Martha Ford†[1] 2014
Green Bay Packers- Green Bay Packers, Inc. (govd by a Board of Directors) 5 1923
Houston Texans - Robert C. McNair† 2 1999
Indianapolis Colts - Jim Irsay‡ 1997
Jacksonville Jaguars - Shahid Khan 2012
Kansas City Chiefs - Clark Hunt‡3 2006
Miami Dolphins - Stephen M. Ross† 2008
Minnesota Vikings - Zygi Wilf† 2005
New England Patriots - Robert Kraft 1994
New Orleans Saints - Tom Benson 1985
New York Giants - John Mara (50%)4 Steve Tisch (50%) 2005
New York Jets - Robert Wood Johnson IV 2000
Oakland Raiders - Carol and Mark Davis (mother and son)†‡ 2011
Philadelphia Eagles - Jeffrey Lurie 1994
Pittsburgh Steelers - Dan Rooney3 1988
San Diego Chargers - Alex Spanos† and family 1,6 1984
San Francisco 49ers - Jed York 1 2009
Seattle Seahawks - Paul Allen 1997
St. Louis Rams - Stan Kroenke 1 2010
Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Bryan, Edward, and Joel Glazer and Darcie Kassewitz‡ 2014
Tennessee Titans - Tommy and Susie Smith, Amy Hunt, Kenneth Adams IV‡3 2013
Washington Redskins - Dan Snyder† 1999



† Majority or plurality owner, rather than outright owner.
‡ Family ownership of club has been split by descendants of previous owner.

Bidwill, McCaskey, Brown, Ford, Irsay, Hunt, Mara, Davis, Rooney, Glazer, Smith, Hunt, and Adams represent ownership that has been longer than year listed, as teams have been owned by their families longer than listed.

1 Owner held stake prior to this date.
2 Original owner of franchise.
3 Child/heir of original owner of franchise.
4 Grandchild/heir of heir of original owner of franchise.
5 Public corporation with a grandfathered exception to current NFL ownership rules. Mark H. Murphy represents the team as President and CEO.
6 This owner is not active in day-to-day operations.

Kansas City Chiefs: Clark Hunt, one of four co-owning siblings, represents the team in league affairs.
Tennessee Titans: Tommy and Susie Smith, Amy Hunt, and Kenneth Adams IV split ownership.

 

[Fudbutter]

Interesting list. I was surprised that I could not name most of these

If I had to choose though, how about Paul Allen? He owns a winning franchise but more importantly he plays guitar so he'll get rid of that awful music they blast over the loudspeakers at New Giants Stadium

 

[Green Jets & Ham]

Dan Rooney

The Steelers have been the most stable franchise for all of my 40+ Years as a football fan, and for most of the past four plus decades they have been a legit contender. They've had some down years, but not many.

 

[HYATT™]

McCaskey's (Halas' daughter), Chicago franchise is the only NFL team to have ALWAYS shown a profit.
Back in the 40s every NFL team except CHI was hemorrhaging money trying to compete with the fledgling AAFL, after barely surviving WW II.
Even the 1943 Philadelphia-Pittsburgh Steagles and the 1944 Chicago(Cardinals)-Pittsburgh Carpets.
The Rooneys came as close as anybody who survived, to not being able to.