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List of NFL franchise owners
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The following is a list of current National Football League franchise owners.
Terry Pegula, co-owner of the Buffalo Bills.
Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys.
Clark Hunt, chairman of the Kansas City Chiefs.
Zygi Wilf, majority owner of the Minnesota Vikings.
Franchise
Owner
Year
Arizona Cardinals Bill Bidwill 1972
Atlanta Falcons Arthur Blank†1 2004
Baltimore Ravens Steve Bisciotti†1 2004
Buffalo Bills Kim and Terry Pegula 2014
Carolina Panthers Jerry Richardson2,6 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. (governed 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
Los Angeles Chargers Alex Spanos† and family1,6 1984
Los Angeles Rams Stan Kroenke1 2010
Miami Dolphins Stephen M. Ross† 2008
Minnesota Vikings Zygi Wilf† 2005
New England Patriots Robert Kraft 1994
New Orleans Saints Gayle Benson 2018
New York Giants John Mara (50%)4
Steve Tisch (50%) 2005
New York Jets Robert Wood Johnson IV6 2000
Oakland Raiders Carol and Mark Davis (mother and son)†‡ 2011
Philadelphia Eagles Jeffrey Lurie and Christina Weiss Lurie 1994
Pittsburgh Steelers Art Rooney II4 (60%) and family (12%)3,4 2017
San Francisco 49ers Jed York‡1 2009
Seattle Seahawks Paul Allen 1997
Tampa Bay Buccaneers Bryan Glazer, Edward Glazer, Joel Glazer and Darcie Kassewitz‡ 2014
Tennessee Titans Amy Adams Strunk 4 2013
Washington Redskins Dan Snyder† 1999
† Majority or plurality owner, rather than outright owner.
‡ Family ownership of club has been passed on/split by descendant(s) of previous owner.
Benson, Bidwill, McCaskey, Brown, Ford, Irsay, Hunt, Mara, Davis, Rooney, Glazer, Smith, York, and Adams-Strunk 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 Child/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.
Carolina Panthers: Tina Becker, chief operating officer, serves as acting owner as Richardson prepares to sell the team.
Kansas City Chiefs: Clark Hunt, one of four co-owning siblings, represents the team in league affairs.
New York Jets: Christopher Johnson is acting owner due to Robert's appointment as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Tampa Bay Buccanners: Bryan Glazer represents the four co-owning siblings.
Tennessee Titans: Amy Strunk represents the five co-owning siblings -- two sisters (Smith), and the widow of their brother (Lewis), and his sons (the Adams brothers).
Ownership restrictions[edit]
The NFL forbids religious groups, governments, and non-profit organizations owning a team. The NFL forbids ownership groups of over 24 people or any publicly traded corporations from purchasing NFL teams; one team, the Green Bay Packers, is exempt from this under a grandfather clause and is owned by shareholders. The Houston Texans are also grandfathered in for their home county–the Harris County, Texas government–which owns 5% of the team, as the rule forbidding governments from owning a team became effective in 2007. The NFL's constitution also forbids its owners from owning any other professional football teams, except for Arena Football League teams located in the NFL team's home market. In addition, the controlling owners of NFL teams are only permitted to own major league baseball, basketball and hockey teams if they are in the NFL team's home market, or are not located in other NFL cities.[2] (Stan Kroenke, who owned hockey and basketball teams in Denver, was nonetheless unanimously allowed to buy the then-St. Louis Rams in 2010 and hold on to his Denver assets until 2015, and even then the Denver assets were transferred to his wife Ann.)[3] Soccer has been exempt from these restrictions since 1982, when the league lost a lawsuit challenging them filed by the original NASL stemming from the investments of Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt and Elizabeth Robbie, the wife of Miami Dolphins owner Joe Robbie in NASL teams;[4] as a result, NFL owners have owned teams in MLS in other NFL markets.
See also[edit]
History of the NFL Commissioner
References[edit]
Jump up ^ http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/03/10/martha-ford-inherits-the-lions-bill-ford-jr-remains-vice-chairman/
Jump up ^ "Constitution and Bylaws of the National Football League" (PDF). National Football League. 2006.
Jump up ^ "NFL owners let Kroenke keep Rams; transfer Nuggets, Avalanche to his wife". Retrieved October 7, 2015.
Jump up ^ North American Soccer League v. National Football League , 670 F.2d 1249 (2d Cir. 1982).
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Terry and Kim Pegula (Buffalo Bills)
Stephen M. Ross (Miami Dolphins)
Robert Kraft (New England Patriots)
Woody Johnson (New York Jets)
Steve Bisciotti (Baltimore Ravens)
Mike Brown (Cincinnati Bengals)
Jimmy and Dee Haslam (Cleveland Browns)
Rooney family (Pittsburgh Steelers)
Bob McNair (Houston Texans)
Jim Irsay (Indianapolis Colts)
Shahid Khan (Jacksonville Jaguars)
KSA Industries (Tennessee Titans)
Pat Bowlen (Denver Broncos)
Clark Hunt (Kansas City Chiefs)
Alex Spanos (Los Angeles Chargers)
Mark and Carol Davis (Oakland Raiders)
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Jerry Jones (Dallas Cowboys)
John Mara and Steve Tisch (New York Giants)
Jeffrey Lurie (Philadelphia Eagles)
Daniel Snyder (Washington Redskins)
Virginia Halas McCaskey (Chicago Bears)
Martha Firestone Ford (Detroit Lions)
Green Bay Packers, Inc. (governed by a Board of Directors) (Green Bay Packers)
Zygi Wilf (Minnesota Vikings)
Arthur Blank (Atlanta Falcons)
Jerry Richardson (Carolina Panthers)
Gayle Benson (New Orleans Saints)
Glazer Family (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
Bill Bidwill (Arizona Cardinals)
Stan Kroenke (Los Angeles Rams)
John and Denise York (San Francisco 49ers)
Paul Allen (Seattle Seahawks)
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