Ranking Every NFL Owner, From Worst to First

The value of NFL teams and the wealth of their owners has shot through the stratosphere in the last two decades.

Ranking Every NFL Owner, From Worst to First

It was just 20 years ago that you could still get an NFL team for a bargain basement price — meaning less than $1 billion. Those days are long gone.

The value of NFL teams has skyrocketed as the league itself has become the most popular professional sports league in North America, leaving the NBA, MLB and NHL in the dust a long time ago. Teams have essentially become corporations, and their price reflects that.

So, you need to be rich to own an NFL team. That's a given. What's not a given is what it takes to be a really good owner — the kind that elevates a team to a dynasty by putting the right people in the right places and then letting them do what they do best.

Here's a look at all 32 NFL owners, ranked from worst to first.

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32. Washington Commanders: Dan Snyder

Purchase price (year): $800 million (1999)

Current team value: $5.6 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: We don't blink an eye today when owners pay billions of dollars for pro sports franchises, but when Dan Snyder dropped $800 million to purchase the Washington Redskins in 1999, people were shocked at the price.

NFL fans spent the next 20-plus years shocked at what a terrible owner Snyder has been. First, with a ridiculous amount of money spent on dead-end free agents. Then, in the final act of his tenure, a messy scandal that encompasses sexual harassment, screwing other owners out of money and just generally making life terrible for everyone and anyone associated with the franchise, which changed its name to the Washington Commanders.

In April 2023, Snyder agreed to sell the team for a record $6.05 billion to a group of investors that includes NBA legend Magic Johnson.

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31. Los Angeles Chargers: Dean Spanos

Purchase price (year): $72 million (1984)

Current team value: $3.875 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: It's actually embarrassing that the Los Angeles Chargers share a stadium and town with the Los Angeles Rams and are valued so much less than them — approximately $2.2 billion less.

For comparison, the New York Giants and New York Jets are the eastern versions of this same arrangement, and the Giants are only worth $600 million more than the Jets.

The problems with the Chargers start with owner Dean Spanos, who let two Super Bowl-winning quarterbacks walk out the door in the last 20 years. He let Eli Manning muscle his way out of playing for the franchise after picking him No. 1 overall in 2004, and he let Drew Brees walk in free agency following the 2005 season. That's not where the problems began, but those are the most egregious mistakes under Spanos.

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30. Detroit Lions: Sheila Ford Hamp

Purchase price (year): $4.5 million (1963)

Current team value: $3.05 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: The Detroit Lions have the lowest operating budget of any team in the NFL and are worth just $50 million more than the lowest-valued team, the Cincinnati Bengals.

Sheila Ford Hamp took over running the Lions in 2020 from her mother, Martha Firestone Ford, marking the first time two women exchanged ownership of an NFL team. Ford Hamp's first move was to fire the general manager and head coach. While the team has shown signs of life in the last few years, it's going to be tough to shake off the ick that comes with not having won a playoff game since 1991.

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29. New York Jets: Woody and Chris Johnson

Purchase price (year): $635 million (2000)

Current team value: $5.4 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: While brothers Woody and Chris Johnson are the primary owners of the New York Jets, it's Woody who has been the front-facing owner for the team since they purchased it 23 years ago and kicked off a staggering run of ineptitude.

Since the Johnson & Johnson heirs took over the Jets, the franchise has made the playoffs just six times in 23 years and all in the first decade that they owned the team. The Jets haven't been in the playoffs since 2010, which includes a four-year stretch when Woody was away from the team to be the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom as well as a scandal in which Woody ripped off the IRS for some $300 million in tax revenue (which he was ordered to eventually pay) by illegally purchasing false capital losses.

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28. Cleveland Browns: Jimmy and Dee Haslam

Purchase price (year): $1.05 billion (2012)

Current team value: $3.85 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: The Browns have been as bad as any team in the history of the NFL since Jimmy and Dee Haslam bought them for $1 billion in 2012. They've had one winning season in the decade since and went winless in 2017.

In his other business ventures, Jimmy Haslam has been just as bad. His company, Pilot Flying J, was found to have ripped off customers to the tune of $56 million in "gas purchase rebates" and paid a $92 million settlement to avoid federal prosecution.

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27. Miami Dolphins: Stephen Ross

Purchase price (year): $1 billion (2008)

Current team value: $4.6 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: Ross turned his real estate fortune into NFL ownership when he purchased the Miami Dolphins for a cool $1 billion in 2008 — 15 years later, the team is closing in on a $5 billion valuation.

While that's an amazing investment, it has little to do with the team's success and more with the fact it's in one of the most desirable markets in the U.S. Ross has been so desperate to win, he orchestrated illegal meetings with free agent players and head coaches on contract with other teams (allegedly Tom Brady and Sean Payton), was fined $1.5 million for doing so and was suspended from team activities as well.

Here's a thought — draft better players, and you'll have a better team. To be fair, the Dolphins had problems before Ross bought the team and haven't won a playoff game since 2001.

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26. Carolina Panthers: David Tepper

Purchase price (year): $2.275 billion (2018)

Current team value: $3.6 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: Hedge fund managers around the world whisper Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper's name like he's some kind of mythical figure — which is understandable, considering Tepper once made an estimated $2.2 billion in a single calendar year in 2012.

Tepper's purchase of the Carolina Panthers in 2018 for just a shade over $2 billion could look like a steal pretty soon if 2023 No. 1 overall pick Bryce Young becomes the franchise savior at quarterback and a new stadium happens soon.

How rich is Tepper? In 2016, his decision to move his base of operations from New Jersey to Florida caused state officials to address concerns about a possible budget deficit because of the loss of state income tax paid by Tepper alone. He eventually moved back in 2020.

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25. Chicago Bears: Virginia Halas McCaskey

Chicago Bears owner Virginia Halas McCaskey,

Purchase price (year): $100 (1920)

Current team value: $5.8 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: 1 (1985)

Bottom line: The fourth-largest market in the U.S. has just one NFL team — the Chicago Bears — and the franchise saw its value jump 40 percent in the last year to $5.8 billion. And that's without winning a playoff game since 2010.

The oldest of team founder George Halas' children, Virginia Halas McCaskey, is the team's principal owner and took over following her father's death in 1983. At 100 years old, she's also the oldest owner in all of pro sports.

But Halas McCaskey is as old as she is cheap. Soldier Field, where the Bears play, is a relic. The team's coaches are bargain-basement options, and the team's players represent a Who's Who of castoffs from other teams.

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24. Las Vegas Raiders: Mark and Carol Davis

Purchase price (year): N/A

Current team value: $5.1 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: The Las Vegas Raiders saw the value of their team almost double in 2022, although the ownership of the Davis family is an interesting study in what we think and what is reality — they didn't get a controlling share of the team until the 2000s and are maxed out as far as debt. When the team moved from Oakland to Las Vegas a few years ago, all the bad vibes were brought with them, and they still suck in a new location.

It's crazy to think that with a net worth of $1.9 billion, Mark Davis is the poorest of all the NFL owners. And one of the worst at making personnel moves. Word to the wise: Getting a fancy new stadium in a fancy new town doesn't make you a better owner.

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23. Jacksonville Jaguars: Shahid Kahn

Jacksonville Jaguars team owner Shad Khan

Purchase price (year): $760 million (2012)

Current team value: $3.475 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: Shahid Kahn made a fortune in the auto parts industry — he's worth an estimated $12 billion — and took a big swing when purchasing the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2012.

Since then, it's been a wild ride that's seen the team dogged by rumors of a move to London until the last few years, but with a franchise quarterback in Trevor Lawrence and a new stadium on the way, the future seems bright for the team.

Khan seems like a pretty good owner on the surface and came really, really close to buying the St. Louis Rams in 2010. It will be interesting to see what happens to the franchise if they become as good as they could be in the next few years, but for now, this is a middle/back-of-the-pack team to own.

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22. Houston Texans: The McNair Family

Houston Texans Chairman and CEO Cal McNair

Purchase price (year): $700 million (1999)

Current team value: $4.7 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: The Houston Texans have been on a run of bad luck/bad decisions for the last five years. That includes bad coaching hires, bad management moves and the disaster that was the Deshaun Watson scandal, which saw the team's franchise quarterback traded to Cleveland.

Here's the thing — it doesn't really matter what the Texans or the ownership do on the field because they'll always be the second-most popular NFL team in Texas. The fact that the initial investment of $700 million in the team has ballooned to almost $5 billion is a windfall for the McNair family. Just not for the fans.

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21. Minnesota Vikings: Zygi Wilf

Purchase price (year): $600 million (2005)

Current team value: $3.925 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: The son of Holocaust survivors who emigrated to the U.S. and built a real estate empire from the ground up, Zygi Wilf expanded on his family's wealth in northern New Jersey by continuing to scoop up apartment complexes and shopping malls.

Wilf led a group that purchased the Minnesota Vikings from longtime owner Red McCombs in 2005. While he can point to a beautiful new stadium as the highlight of his tenure, it's been marked by off-field scandals. Most notably when Wilf, his brother Mark and their cousin were found guilty of racketeering charges that included ripping off business partners by keeping fake accounting books. The judge in the case said Wilf and his family used "organized crime tactics" to commit the fraud and ordered them to pay $84.5 million to the partners who were defrauded.

How exactly was he able to keep the team after this?

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20. Cincinnati Bengals: Mike Brown

Purchase price (year): $7.5 million (1968)

Current team value: $3 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: Mike Brown began working for his father, the late Paul Brown, when he purchased the franchise in 1968, and he took over ownership of the team following his father's death in 1991.

In the ensuing years, he's deftly maneuvered the Cincinnati Bengals into the spot as the lowest-valued team in the entire NFL at $3 billion, even if they have one of the most beautiful stadiums in all of pro sports.

Brown's first move as owner was to lie about firing popular head coach Sam Wyche, who Brown said resigned — not true. The Bengals didn't win a playoff game from 1989 until 2022 and now hold an absolute ace with quarterback Joe Burrow, who is already one of the most popular players in professional sports.

Will the Bengals make Burrow the highest-paid player in professional sports? It pains us to put Brown this high, but here we are.

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19. Tennessee Titans: Amy Adams Strunk

Tennessee Titans general manager Jon Robinson and owner Amy Adams Strunk

Purchase price (year): $25,000 (1959)

Current team value: $3.5 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: The daughter of legendary NFL owner Bud Adams, Amy Adams Strunk took over as primary owner of the Tennessee Titans in 2015 — she owns half of the team, while other members of the Adams family own the other half.

The Titans were in a bit of disarray when Adams Strunk took over, and it's probably going to be a long haul to get the team among the NFL elite, but early signs point to an ownership group who is heavily invested in the city and team. Interestingly enough, Adams Strunk's biggest win since taking over control of the team happened off the field when she brought the NFL Draft to Nashville in 2019.

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18. San Francisco 49ers: Denise DeBartolo York and Jed York

Purchase price (year): $17 million (1977)

Current team value: $5.2 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: 5 (1981, 1984, 1988, 1989, 1994)

Bottom line: The San Francisco 49ers were the premiere franchise in the NFL in the 1980s and early 1990s and have been a decent-to-middling franchise since then, thanks in large part to the bumbling leadership of Jed York.

York was gifted his spot in franchise leadership by his mother, Denise DeBartolo York, who is the younger sister of Edward DeBartolo Jr., who was actually a good owner and the person who made the decision to buy the 49ers for $17 million in 1977. The team is now worth a staggering $5.2 billion.

Jed has made a sport of running his mouth and making bad personnel decisions since taking over as president in 2008. Let's just say, if the 49ers ever have success, it sure ain't because of him.

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17. New Orleans Saints: Gayle Benson

Purchase price (year): $64 million (1985)

Current team value: $3.575 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: 1 (2009)

Bottom line: After Tom Benson died in 2018, the ownership of the New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans transferred to his wife, Gayle Benson, making her the first woman to own a majority stake in both an NFL and NBA team at the same time.

She's pretty much run the NBA's Pelicans into the ground and kept the Saints barely peeking their heads above water in the last five years. And like the Atlanta Falcons, the Saints' reluctance to even attempt to sign quarterback Lamar Jackson away from the Baltimore Ravens was an affront to their fans.

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16. Buffalo Bills: Terry and Kim Pegula

Buffalo Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula

Purchase price (year): $1.4 billion (2014)

Current team value: $3.4 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: Husband and wife Terry and Kim Pegula set the record when they purchased the struggling Buffalo Bills for $1.4 billion in 2014, and the team has turned into a consistent winner under their watch. The Bills saw their value leap over 40 percent to $3.4 billion in 2022, and a new, $1.4 billion stadium is on the way, with about half paid for by taxpayers and about half from the Pegulas and the NFL.

The Pegulas, who also own the NHL's Buffalo Sabres, have shown they're not afraid to drop the bag to keep their star players and bring in big-time free agents. In doing so, they've turned the Bills into one of the AFC's top teams.

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15. Denver Broncos: Rob Walton

Purchase price (year): $4.65 billion (2022)

Current team value: $4.65 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: The purchase of the Denver Broncos for a record $4.65 billion in 2022 by Wal-Mart heir Rob Walton — who has a net worth of $58.7 billion — represented the most drastic change in franchise values in NFL history.

That's because when Walton purchased the team alongside his daughter, Carrie, and her husband, Greg Penner, they paid 24 percent over what the estimated value was in 2021. That sent team values skyrocketing across the NFL.

How will the Waltons be as owners? That's yet to be seen.

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14. Indianapolis Colts: Jim Irsay

Purchase price (year): $19 million (1972)

Current team value: $3.8 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: 1 (2006)

Bottom line: Jim Irsay took over the Colts in 1997 from his father, Bob Irsay, who made the initial investment of an estimated $19 million in 1972 while the team was in Baltimore and saw that balloon to almost $4 billion over the 50 years that followed.

When someone says a team has bad luck, the first place your mind goes is that an excuse is coming down the pipeline, but that's really what happened to the Colts when quarterback Andrew Luck retired in his prime in 2018. It's been a tough rebuild since then, but that doesn't really reflect on the ownership group.

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13. New York Giants: John Mara and Steve Tisch

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, center, talks to New York Giants owners John Mara, left, and Steve Tisch

Purchase price (year): $500 (1925)

Current team value: $6 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: 4 (1986, 1990, 2007, 2011)

Bottom line: Quick fact — the New York Giants are legally still the New York Football Giants, which is the name Tim Mara gave the team when he founded it for $500 in 1925 to distinguish his football team from the baseball team with the same name.

In one of the all-time bonehead business moves of all time, Mara's grandson and namesake, Tim Mara, sold his 50 percent share of the team to businessman Bob Tisch in 1991 for $80 million, which is now worth almost $3 billion.

John Mara and Steve Tisch, Bob Tisch's son, have run the team since 2005 and, in that stretch, won two Super Bowls, seen a new stadium built and watched the franchise's value balloon to $6 billion in 2023. Steve Tisch has also been a big-time Hollywood film producer for the last 40 years with a string of blockbuster hits, including "Risky Business" (1983), "Forrest Gump" (1994), "Snatch" (2000), "The Pursuit of Happyness" (2006) and "The Equalizer" franchise starring Denzel Washington.

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12. Los Angeles Rams: Stan Kroenke

Purchase price (year): $530 million (2010)

Current team value: $6.2 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: 1 (2021)

Bottom line: Stan Kroenke owns the Los Angeles Rams, along with the NBA's Denver Nuggets and NHL's Colorado Avalanche in the NHL, although the latter two franchises are run by his son and owned through Kroenke Sports Group.

What that means is Kroenke is one of the best owners in sports — regardless of league — having won two Super Bowls with the Rams, two Stanley Cups with the Avalanche and an NBA championship with the Nuggets in 2023. He even has an MLS Cup with the Colorado Rapids.

All this dude does is win and make billions of dollars. While he's probably not the funnest guy to kick it with, the bottom line is the bottom line.

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11. Atlanta Falcons: Arthur Blank

Purchase price (year): $545 million (2002)

Current team value: $4 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: It was necessary to drop Arthur Blank down a few spots from where he might usually reside in owner rankings after he didn't even attempt to sign Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson in 2023.

Instead, in an act of gross negligence, he has decided second-year quarterback Desmond Ridder is who he wants to bet on.

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10. Arizona Cardinals: Michael Bidwill

Purchase price (year): $50,000 (1932)

Current team value: $3.27 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: None

Bottom line: Principal owner and former federal prosecutor Michael Bidwill represents the third generation of his family to own the Cardinals. His grandfather Charles Bidwill bought the team when it was in Chicago in 1933 and then passed it to Michael Bidwill's father, Bill Bidwill.

Michael was a ballboy for the team in the 1970s and started working for the franchise as vice president/general counsel in 1996. He's widely credited for being the driving force behind getting a new stadium, and the Cardinals have sold out every game at State Farm Stadium in Glendale since beginning play there in 2006.

Michael, who became the principal owner following his father's death in 2019, is widely respected among his fellow owners and known for making deft hires of the people who handle the day-to-day football operations.

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9. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: The Glazer Family

Purchase price (year): $192 million (1995)

Current team value: $3.675 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: 2 (2002, 2020)

Bottom line: The Glazer family is interesting because they own an NFL team, but it's not even close to as popular as another team they own — European soccer club Manchester United.

It's hard to knock the Glazers as NFL owners. They've won two Super Bowl championships since 2000 and did it in different ways. They won in 2002 with a team compromised of stars built largely through the NFL Draft, and in 2020, they won with a team mostly built through free agency. Also worth pointing out is the Buccaneers were the poster boys for NFL ineptitude before the family bought the team in 1995.

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8. Baltimore Ravens: Steve Bisciotti

Purchase price (year): $600 million (2004)

Current team value: $3.9 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: 1 (2012)

Bottom line: Steve Bisciotti bought 49 percent of the Baltimore Ravens for $325 million in 2000 and then purchased the remaining 51 percent of the team from former owner Art Modell in 2004 — and it's hard to argue with his success in that time.

Bisciotti won a Super Bowl as a minority owner following the 2000 season and then on his own in 2012. He's a savvy businessman and understands how successful NFL teams work, as evidenced by his ability to retain star players and that the Ravens have only had two head coaches in the last 23 years.

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7. Seattle Seahawks: Jody Allen

Purchase price (year): $200 million (1997)

Current team value: $4.5 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: 1 (2014)

Bottom line: One of the greatest investments the late Paul Allen made with his Microsoft fortune was to purchase the Seattle Seahawks in 1997 for $200 million and push for a new stadium that eventually became Lumen Field, one of the NFL's top homefield advantages.

It's widely believed that Allen was spurred to buy the Seahawks by his younger sister, Jody, to whom he left almost the entirety of his $20 billion fortune to after his death in 2018, including controlling interests in the Seahawks and the NBA's Portland TrailBlazers.

The Seahawks are one of the best-run teams in the NFL, have a rabid fan base and have kept the same head coach, Pete Carroll, since 2010.

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6. Kansas City Chiefs: The Hunt Family

Purchase price (year): $25,000 (1963)

Current team value: $3.7 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: 3 (1969, 2019, 2022)

Bottom line: With a second Super Bowl win in four years and the NFL's best player still in his late 20s and under contract for the next decade, the Kansas City Chiefs' value will likely shoot up again when the next round of team valuations hit.

While a large group of members of the Hunt family have stakes in the Chiefs, it is chairman and CEO Clark Hunt who is the face of the team in the ownership ranks. Hunt took over the team from his father, franchise founder Lamar Hunt, in 2006. And it's been an upward trajectory since.

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5. Philadelphia Eagles: Jeffrey Lurie

Purchase price (year): $185 million (1994)

Current team value: $4.9 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: 1 (2017)

Bottom line: Jeffrey Lurie actually failed in two previous attempts to buy NFL franchises, first losing out on his favorite team from his boyhood, the New England Patriots, and then the Los Angeles Rams before finally buying the Philadelphia Eagles in 1994 for $185 million.

Since Lurie bought the Eagles, they've been one of the most consistently good teams in the NFL. They make the playoffs almost every year and have played in the Super Bowl three times, winning once.

In an interesting aside, Lurie is also one of the great documentary film producers of all time. He's won three Academy Awards for documentaries since 2011, including "Summer of Soul" for Best Documentary Feature in 2022 — the movie Chris Rock was presenting the award for when Philadelphia native Will Smith walked on stage and slapped him. Life truly is a circle.

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4. Green Bay Packers: Green Bay Packers Inc.

Purchase price (year): N/A (1923)

Current team value: $4.25 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: 4 (1966, 1967, 1996, 2010)

Bottom line: The only publicly owned professional sports team in North America was grandfathered in — the NFL made a rule in the 1980s so this could never happen again — and no one person is allowed to own more than 200,000 shares of the team, which represents about a 4 percent share of the team.

And here's the thing … they are pretty awesome owners. They've kept the team in the smallest market in the NFL for 100 years and have won four Super Bowls. And it's pretty cool to think there are 537,000 people out there, give or take, who can say they own the Green Bay Packers.

Power to the people!

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3. Pittsburgh Steelers: Art Rooney II

Purchase price (year): $2,500 (1933)

Current team value: $3.975 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: 6 (1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 2005, 2008)

Bottom line: The grandson of legendary owner and Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney Sr., Art Rooney II has lived up to his name since taking over the franchise in 2003. In the 20 years since, Rooney II has overseen two Super Bowl wins, and the franchise has had just two head coaches, Bill Cowher and Mike Tomlin, which seems like an almost impossibility in today's day and age.

The Steelers can also make a rightful claim to having the best fans and traditions of any team in the NFL. That starts at the top.

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2. Dallas Cowboys: Jerry Jones

Purchase price (year): $140 million (1989)

Current team value: $8 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: 3 (1992, 1993, 1995)

Bottom line: Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is the most famous owner of a professional sports team in modern history, rivaled only by the late George Steinbrenner, who owned the New York Yankees, and the late Dr. Jerry Buss, who owned the Los Angeles Lakers.

Jones' initial investment of $140 million to purchase the Cowboys in 1989 now seems like a pittance after the team was valued at $8 billion in 2022 — the most valuable team in all of professional sports — and became the first team to generate over $1 billion in annual revenue in 2021. And that's without playing in a Super Bowl in almost 30 years. Imagine if that ever happens again how much the team will be worth.

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1. New England Patriots: Robert Kraft

Purchase price (year): $175 million (1994)

Current team value: $6.4 billion

Super Bowl wins as owner: 6 (2001, 2003, 2004, 2014, 2016, 2018)

Bottom line: Not only have the New England Patriots won six Super Bowls under the ownership of Robert Kraft, but they've also played in the Super Bowl and lost four more times in that stretch. That's just amazing.

Kraft's initial investment of $175 million has turned into a franchise worth more than almost every other professional sports team in the world, regardless of sport. It will be interesting to see what happens to the value of the team with head coach Bill Belichick's retirement on the horizon and a team that has been, at best, middling since quarterback Tom Brady left in 2020 after 20 seasons.

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