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Atlanta Falcons
Owner: Arthur Blank Age: 78
Bought team: 2002
Stadium: Mercedes Benz Stadium (opened in 2017)
TV market size: 2.407 million viewers (ranked 8th)
2021 Forbes value: $3.2B (ranked 20th)
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Carolina Panthers
Owner: David Tepper Age: 63
Bought team: 2018
Stadium: Bank of America Stadium (opened in 1996)
TV market size: 1.166 million viewers (ranked 23rd)
2021 Forbes value: $2.91B (ranked 24th)
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New Orleans Saints
Owner: Gayle Marie LaJaunie Benson Age:74
Bought team: 1985
Stadium: Caesars Superdome (opened in 1975)
TV market size: 635,860 viewers (ranked 52nd)
2021 Forbes value: $2.825B (ranked 25th)
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Owner: Bryan Glazer and siblings Age: 56
Bought team: 1995
Stadium: Raymond James (opened in 1998)
TV market size: 1.795 million viewers (ranked 14th)
2021 Forbes value: $2.94B (ranked 21st)
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The always well-coiffed Blank built his fortune as the co-founder of the Home Depot. Headquartered in Atlanta, it became the world's leading home improvement retailer, and Blank resigned his post as co-chairman when he acquired the Falcons. In addition to his work with the Falcons, Blank oversees the philanthropic efforts at his foundation, and he doesn't shy away from the spotlight. He can be seen on the Falcons' sideline at the end of games and was on the receiving end of a Gatorade shower from players after the Falcons clinched a division title last season.
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.David Alan Tepper (born September 14, 1957) is an American billionaire businessman, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. Tepper is also the founder and president of Appaloosa Management, a global hedge fund based in Miami Beach, Florida. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Pittsburgh in 1978, an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982. For the 2012 tax year, Institutional Investor's Alpha ranked Tepper first, for earning a $2.2 billion paycheck.[2] In 2016, Tepper earned $1.2 billion, the world's 4th highest earning hedge fund manager.[3]
He paid 2.275 B for the franchise.
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.(January 26, 1947) is an American businesswoman, philanthropist and sports franchise owner. She is the owner of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) and New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA)
Benson became the owner of both the New Orleans Saints and the New Orleans Pelicans following the death of her husband, Tom Benson.
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The Glazer family will continue to own the team
Bryan Glazer (born October 27, 1964) is part of the Glazer family, who control First Allied Corporation, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL, and who have purchased a controlling interest in the English football club Manchester United. The family is based in Florida.
Owners: Darcie Glazer Kassewitz, Edward Glazer,
Joel Glazer, Avram Glazer and Kevin Glazer.
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Chicago Bears
Owner: Virginia McCaskey Age: 98
Chairman: George H. McCaskey Age:
Bought team: Inherited team in 1983
Stadium: Soldier Field (opened in 1924,renovated 2003)
TV market size: 3.502 million viewers (ranked 3rd)
2021 Forbes value: $4.025B (ranked 7th)
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Detroit Lions
Owner: Sheila Ford Hamp Age: 69
Bought team: 1963
Stadium: Ford Field (opened in 2002)
TV market size: 1.883 million viewers (ranked 11th)
2021 Forbes value: $2.4B (ranked 30th)
William Clay Ford Jr., son, currently serves as vice chairman of the Lions. Age: 56
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Green Bay Packers
Owner: Publicly owned, non-profit
organization (112,158 individual shareholders)
president and CEO Mark Murphy has been with team since 2008 Age: Murphy, 62
Bought team: Team has been publicly owned since foundation in 1923
Stadium: Lambeau Field (opened in 1957; facelift in '03)
TV market size: 445,510 viewers (ranked 71st; doesn't include Milwaukee)
2021 Forbes value: $3.475B (ranked 13th)
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Minnesota Vikings
Owner: Zygmunt "Zygi" Wilf Age: 70
Bought team: 2005
Stadium: US Bank Stadium (opened 2016)
TV market size: 1.753 million viewers (ranked 15th)
2021 Forbes value: $3.35B (ranked 18th)
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McCaskey, who had 11 children of her own with her late husband, Ed, is the eldest child of George Halas, one of the NFL's founding fathers. She inherited the team upon Halas' death in 1983. McCaskey has entrusted her sons, Ed and George, and team president/CEO Ted Phillips to represent the Bears in league matters, but she still is a member of the club's board of directors, and her voice is said to be the prevailing one on major decisions.
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The only living grandson of inventor and automobile pioneer Henry Ford, William Clay Ford has been as connected to Detroit's auto industry as he has to Lions football. Ford served on the board of directors for the Ford Motor Co. from 1948 to 2005 and has been the primary owner of the Lions since 1963, when he bought the team outright for $4.5 million. William Clay Ford Jr., Ford's son, has been the team's vice chairman since 1995, but president Tom Lewand oversees the club's day-to-day operations and reports to Ford on all business, organizational and NFL matters.
Martha Ford will take over her late husband's controlling interest in the Detroit Lions, keeping the team within the family after a half-century under the leadership of William Clay Ford. William Clay "Bill" Ford, Jr. (born May 3, 1957) is an American businessman. The great-grandson of Henry Ford, he serves as the executive chairman of Ford Motor Company. Ford is also the Vice Chairman of the Detroit Lions NFL franchise.
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Murphy just finished his third year as the Packers' 10th president and chief executive officer. A former NFL player who spent eight years with the Redskins (1977-84), Murphy has been a member of the NFL management council executive committee — which serves as the bargaining team during negotiations with the NFL Players Association for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement — since 2008. Murphy has an extensive background on the other side of the negotiating table. He was the Redskins' player rep to the NFLPA from 1980-84 and was the vice president of the players' union in 1983-84. After his playing career ended, Murphy served as the assistant executive director of the NFLPA from 1985-88 and was a member of the bargaining team during the 1987 players' strike. Prior to joining the Packers, Murphy served a combined 16 years as the athletic director at Northwestern University (2003-07) and Colgate University (1992-2003).
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An investment group led by brothers Zygi and Mark Wilf, who emigrated from Germany with their parents in the early 1950s, took over as new owners of the Vikings in 2005. The Wilfs, owners of a real-estate development company in New Jersey, took ownership from former owner Red McCombs, who had owned the club since 1998, for a reported $600 million. Zygi Wilf, who is based in New York but is a frequent visitor to Minnesota, is considered the owner and chairman of the Vikings, but Mark Wilf, who serves as team president, manages day-to-day operations and directs all business departments of the Vikings.
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