Team/Owner Profile
Owners ages as
of 3/2021
AFC
NFC
North - South
Source:
ProFootballWeekly
Franchise Football League
est 1989
Baltimore Ravens
Owner: Stephen J. Bisciotti   Age: 60
Bought team: Bought minority interest
in Ravens in 2000; purchased outright control of club in 2004
Stadium: M&T Bank Stadium (completed in 1998)
TV market size: 1.108 million viewers (ranked 26th)
2021 Forbes value: $3.4B (ranked 17th)


Cincinnati Bengals
Owner: Mike Brown (club president)   Age: 85
Bought team: Mike Brown's father
Paul, was one of the original owners of Bengals, who were founded in 1968. Mike Brown, who also had an ownership stake at the time of his father's death in 1991, became the club's primary decision maker after Paul Brown's passing.
Stadium: Paycor Stadium (completed in 2000)
TV market size: 924,000 viewers (ranked 33rd)
2021 Forbes value: $2.275B (ranked 31st)


Cleveland Browns
Owner: Jimmy and Dee Haslam   Age: 67
Bought team:  Current majority owner of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. He is also the former CEO of the Pilot Flying J truck stop chain. On October 16, 2012, Haslam's $1 billion purchase of the Browns was unanimously approved by the 32 teams in the NFL; the sale itself closed on October 25, 2012.
Haslam, lives in his native Knoxville, Tennessee.
est. worth: 1.2 B (ranked-360) - family est. value: 3.0 billion
Stadium: Cleveland Browns Stadium (2023)
TV market size: est. 1.40 million (ranked 17th)
2021 Forbes value: $ $2.6B (ranked 29th) 
Pittsburgh Steelers
Owner: Art Rooney II and family   Age: 68
Bought team: The club's ownership was restructured in 2009, with Dan Rooney and Art Rooney II gaining majority control of the club and other Rooney family members divesting their shares of the team. Dan Rooney is the son of the late Art Rooney, who founded the club in 1933. Art Rooney II is Dan Rooney's son. Dan  (d. 4-13-17)
Stadium: Acriscure Stadium (completed 2001)
TV market size: 1.160 million viewers (ranked 24th)
2021 Forbes value: $3.43B (ranked 14th)
Bisciotti made his fortune by founding Aerotek, a professional staffing company, in 1983. Aerotek, now the Allegis Group, has more than 8,000 employees and 90,000 contract workers who are specialists in a variety of fields.  Bisciotti's initial purchase of the Ravens provided the club with the capital it needed in free agency before its Super Bowl XXXV season of 2000, according to his biography on the team's Web site. He belongs to the NFL's broadcasting and digital media committees. A Baltimore native, Bisciotti is also a supporter of University of Maryland athletics.


Football has been the Brown family's business throughout Mike Brown's life. Few owners are more involved in the day-to-day football operations of their team than Brown, who has final say on the Bengals' personnel decisions. From a CBA perspective, Brown is perhaps best-known for being one of two owners (with Buffalo's Ralph Wilson the other) to vote against the 2006 CBA extension.


Haslam bought a minority interest in the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2008. In 2012, he reached an agreement with Browns owner Randy Lerner to purchase the franchise for $1 billion (USD). Reports on the deal indicated Lerner agreed to sell 70 percent of the Browns in July 2012, with the other 30 percent reverting four years after the closing date. The Browns were valued at $977 million in 2011 by Forbes magazine, 20th in the NFL. Haslam's family also owns the Tennessee Smokies, a Class AA affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. Haslam is married to Susan "Dee" Bagwell Haslam, CEO of RIVR Media. They have three adult children, Jim, Whitney and Cynthia and four grandchildren.
The NFL's fifth-oldest franchise, the Rooney family has run the Steelers for close to 78 years. Along with Dan Rooney the current U.S. ambassador to Ireland, Art Rooney II — who assumed primary control of the day-to-day operations of the Steelers in 2003 — represents the Steelers in league matters. Dan Rooney, one of the NFL's more respected figures, told The New York Times in January that he did not plan to be involved in CBA negotiations. Dan Rooney played a key role in helping owners reach a compromise in ratifying the 2006 CBA extension. Steady leadership has marked the Rooneys' ownership of the club; Art Rooney Sr. — "The Chief," as he was called, passed on decision-making control of the franchise to Dan Rooney, who led the franchise to great heights. Now, Art Rooney II leads the Steelers.
Houston Texans
Owner:  Janice McNair and family   Age: 84
Robert C. McNair  (d. 11-23-2018)
Bought team: 1999 (founder)
Stadium: Reliant Stadium (completed in 2002)
TV market size: 2.177 million viewers (ranked 10th)
2021 Forbes value: $3.7B (ranked 11th)

Indianapolis Colts
Owner: Jim Irsay   Age: 61
Bought team: Robert Irsay bought team in 1972;
Jim assumed control in 1997
Stadium: Lucas Oil Stadium (completed in 2008)
TV market size: 1.106 million viewers (ranked 27th)
2021 Forbes value: $3.25B (ranked 19th)
Jacksonville Jaguars
Owner: Shahid Khan   Age: 70
Bought team: 2012
Stadium: EverBank Field (completed in 1995)
TV market size: 678,430 viewers (ranked 49th)
2021 Forbes value: $2.8B (ranked 26th)
Tennessee Titans
Owner: Amy Adams Strunk and family   Age: 65
KSA Industries
President and Chairman, Steve Underwood
Bought team: 1959 (founder) Bud Adams Died Oct.2013
Stadium: Nissan Stadium (completed in 1999)
TV market size: 1.039 million viewers (ranked 29th)
2021 Forbes value: $2.625B (ranked 28th)
McNair founded Cogen Technologies, an energy company, in 1983. Fifteen years later, he sold a majority stake in the business to Enron for a reported $1.5 billion, and the next year, he proved successful in his bid to bring the NFL back to Houston. Presently, he owns two firms that manage his family's private- and public-equity holdings. He is also the chairman of The McNair Group, an investment portfolio. McNair serves on several league committees and is the chairman of the NFL's investment committee.

Jim Irsay, son of the late former Colts owner Robert Irsay, assumed full control of the organization in 1997 following his father's passing. Robert acquired the Colts from Carroll Rosenbloom in 1972 in exchange for the Los Angeles Rams. Jim joined the Colts' staff in 1982 after graduating from Southern Methodist University. He spent more than 10 years serving as the team's vice president and general manager before becoming senior executive vice president and chief executive officer in 1996, and sole owner of the Colts less than a year later. President Bill Polian oversees all football and administrative facets of the club. Bill Polian has been fired by the Colts. (2012)
On January 4, 2012, Shahid Khan became the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars. A magnate in the automotive parts industry, Khan was familiar with Jacksonville long before purchasing the team. Khan is president and owner of Flex-N-Gate Corporation, the 14th-largest North American automotive supplier, which employs over 13,000 people at 48 manufacturing and nine product development and engineering facilities throughout Canada, the United States, Mexico, Argentina, and Spain. Flex-N-Gate’s products include interior and exterior plastics, lighting systems, mechanical assemblies, metal structural body components, and exterior metal parts
Bud Adams: One of the founders of the American Football League, Adams has had numerous business successes. Among them, his ADA Oil Co., an oil-and-gas firm he started in 1946. Other Adams businesses have included automobile dealerships and leasing, cattle feeding, farming, ranching and real estate. A trustee for the NFL Trust, Adams is also a member of several NFL committees, including the NFL's finance committee. Adams, like Oakland's Al Davis, has a wealth of experience in pro football negotiations; Adams was involved in the AFL-NFL merger and has been an owner during several NFL players' strikes, most recently the 1982 and '87 strikes.