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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