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TEAM CURRENT 1-YEAR Passions, Pursuits, Collections

CONTROLLING OWNER VALUE (BIL) % CHANGE
DALLAS COWBOYS
1 $5.50 10%
Jerry Jones THE NFL’S
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
2 4.10 8
Robert Kraft
NEW YORK GIANTS MOST
3 3.90 18
John Mara, Steven Tisch
38 LOS ANGELES RAMS
4 3.80 19 VALUABLE
Stan Kroenke
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS
5 3.50 15
R Denise DeBartolo York, John York
E TEAMS
N 6 CHICAGO BEARS 3.45 19
N McCaskey family
U WASHINGTON REDSKINS
R 7 3.40 10
T Daniel Snyder he Dallas Cowboys are the National Foot-
N NEW YORK JETS
O 8 Johnson family 3.20 12 T ball League’s most valuable franchise for a 13th

R straight year, but the league’s biggest winner is
F HOUSTON TEXANS
9 3.10 11
Janice McNair surely the Los Angeles Rams, owned by Forbes
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES 400 member Stan Kroenke (net worth: $9.7 bil-
10 3.05 11
Jeffrey Lurie
lion). The Rams’ value has quadrupled since 2014, one season
DENVER BRONCOS
11 3.00 13 before they left St. Louis after 21 years to return to their for-
Pat Bowlen Trust
mer home in L.A. Led by star quarterback Jared Goff (below),
OAKLAND RAIDERS
12 2.90 20
Mark Davis who signed a four-year, $134 million contract extension last
GREEN BAY PACKERS month, the Super Bowl runners-up open their new $5 billion
13 2.85 9
Shareholder-owned
stadium next year. The Rams are one of 16 NFL teams (of 32
PITTSBURGH STEELERS
14 2.80 8 franchises in all) owned by members of The Forbes 400. The
Daniel Rooney Trust, Arthur Rooney II
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS newest owner, David Tepper, who bought the Carolina Pan-
15 2.78 8
Paul G. Allen Trust thers last year for a record $2.3 billion, is also now the richest,
MIAMI DOLPHINS with a net worth of $12 billion, after the October 2018 death of
16 2.76 7
Stephen Ross
the Seattle Seahawks’ Paul Allen.
ATLANTA FALCONS
17 2.76 6
Arthur Blank
BALTIMORE RAVENS
18 2.75 6
Stephen Bisciotti
MINNESOTA VIKINGS
19 2.70 13
Zygmunt Wilf
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS
20 2.65 11
James Irsay
LOS ANGELES CHARGERS
21 2.50 10
Dean A. Spanos
CAROLINA PANTHERS
22 2.40 4
David Tepper
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS Horns of Plenty
23 2.33 12
Shahid Khan Quarterback Jared
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS Goff has put L.A.
24 2.30 10 Rams owner Stan
Lamar Hunt family
Kroenke (above)
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS
25 2.28 10 in a mood to smile.
Gayle Benson
ARIZONA CARDINALS
26 2.25 5
William Bidwill
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS
27 2.20 10
Glazer family
CLEVELAND BROWNS
28 2.18 12
Dee Haslam, Jimmy Haslam
TENNESSEE TITANS JACOB KUPFERMAN/GETTY IMAGES; BRANDON WILLIAMS/GETTY IMAGES
29 2.15 5
Amy Adams Strunk BY KURT BADENHAUSEN, MIKE OZANIAN AND CHRISTINA SETTIMI
CINCINNATI BENGALS
30 2.00 11
Michael Brown
DETROIT LIONS
31 1.95 15
Martha Firestone Ford
BUFFALO BILLS
32 1.90 19
Kim Pegula, Terry Pegula
1 ENTERPRISE VALUE (EQUITY PLUS
Average 2.86 11
NET DEBT) OF TEAM BASED ON
CURRENT STADIUM DEAL (UNLESS
MEMBER OF THE FORBES 400 NEW STADIUM IS PENDING).
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