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The Athletic ranks NFL Owners.

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“NFL team owners collect millions in revenue. They wield outsized power over their organizations and in their communities. They point to the bottom line, wins and losses, when firing coaches and executives, sometimes without giving them much time. But their own won-lost records appear nowhere.

Even people who follow the NFL closely might not know whether Miami Dolphinsowner Stephen Ross owns a better record than New York Giants owner John Mara (he does).

They might not know whether female owners account for two of the five highest winning percentages since taking over their teams (they do).

They might not know that the only team without a traditional owner could lose 200 games overnight without dipping below .500 (the Green Bay Packers could).

They might not know that five of the last six owners to buy (rather than inherit) a team make up the bottom five in win percentage (they do — the lone exception is the Buffalo Bills’ Terry Pegula).

Some of these ownership situations are difficult to evaluate for reasons such as owners allowing their offspring to operate their teams. I’ve used simple criteria in ranking owners from worst to best win rates below. For our purposes, wins and losses are counted for owners after the NFL has approved their purchases; after an owner transferred the team to a family member; or after an owner died and left the team to an heir.

Setting aside the Packers and their 1,430 games without an individual owner, the Chicago Bears’ Virginia McCaskey ranks No. 1 in total games (644) and wins (324), but only 16th in win rate. The Washington Commanders’ Josh Harris resides at the other end with only 13 games, and with a 4-9 record (.308) so far, that is where we begin“


https://theathletic.com/5115078/2023/12/08/nfl-owners-ranking-32-teams/?source=targeted_email&campaign=8502704

Tepper is the 2nd worst after Shad Khan.

Kraft is #1.

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I found this paragraph the most interesting: “They might not know that five of the last six owners to buy (rather than inherit) a team make up the bottom five in win percentage (they do — the lone exception is the Buffalo Bills’ Terry Pegula).”

Shows how oddly hard it is I guess. Or that new owners are all know it all types that are slow learners.

But probably a combination of the two.

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Im not counting the Denver people. They just started.

The Denver owner is ranked higher than Tepper.  Now if you want to change that to the Washington owner, who just started this season, you might have something.  He's ranked dead last..

 

I also find the win percentage for Robert Kraft amusing.  Deal with the Devil, maybe?

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