Panthers’ David Tepper remains the NFL’s richest owner

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Panthers owner David Tepper remains the NFL’s richest single owner, according to the list of the 400 wealthiest Americans compiled by Forbes magazine.

Tepper’s 41st on the overall list, with an estimated net worth of $13 billion. That’s the kind of wealth that allows you to pay cash ($2.275 billion) for a football team, as he did with the Panthers in 2018.

There are 15 NFL owners among the top 400 list — which gets you down to the people worth a measly $2.1 billion.

Tepper has a fairly wide margin over the second NFL name on the list, as Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is 56th overall at $8.6 billion, followed by Rams owner Stan Kroenke (59th, $8.3 billion), Jaguars owner Shad Khan (66th, $7.8 billion), and Dolphins owner Stephen Ross (74th, $7.4 billion).

Other NFL names to make the list include Patriots owner Robert Kraft (93rd, $6.6 billion), Falcons owner Arthur Blank (105th, $6.1 billion), Bills owner Terry Pegula (129th, $5.5 billion), Ravens owner Stephen Bisciotti (154th, $4.6 billion), Texans owner Janice McNair (197th, $3.9 billion), Saints owner Gayle Benson (249th, $3.3 billion), Colts owner Jim Irsay (278th, $3 billion), Browns owner Jimmy Haslam (295th $2.9 billion), Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie (319th, $2.7 billion), and Washington’s Dan Snyder (327th, $2.6 billion).

12 responses to “Panthers’ David Tepper remains the NFL’s richest owner

  1. Packers are owned by the city of Green Bay. GB probably doesn’t have as much money as most of the current owners.

  2. David Tepper’s total wealth is but a daily market change for Jeff Bezos’ almost 200 billion net worth. Just a little perspective. Bezos could buy the entire NFL, cash.

  3. According to the Charlotte Observer, Tepper has either laid off or furloughed 30 employees from Tepper Sports & Entertainment (aka – Carolina Panthers and Charlotte FC) due to the pandemic.

    Thankfully, there are some NFL Owners (including the Bucs) that have not done this to their modestly paid employees.

  4. I am so sick of all this “Wealth Envy”. Try working towards a goal of financial independence and worry about what others have and earned. Some inherited the wealth, but so what?
    If you want something try working for it instead of crying “Po..Po..Pitiful Me”.

  5. “If you want something try working for it instead of crying “Po..Po..Pitiful Me”.”
    __________

    There literally isn’t a single comment above yours doing that, nor is the article saying that. Maybe you should stop inventing strawmen and just comment on what is actually being said.

  6. The Late Paul Allen was the richest by a distance before he sadly passed. I know he left his sister the team but I don’t know how he split the rest of his fortune. If he left it to her ( and he might have because he had no children ), then she will be the richest owner in the league

  7. A million seconds ago it was August 28 – 11 days ago. A billion seconds ago it was 1989. Even if someone is broke, they are a lot closer to being a millionaire, than a person with a million dollars is to being a billionaire.

  8. Maybe I’m wrong, but most net worth for billionaires is in assets. If the stock market can make a major impact on your net worth, it’s not like that money is just sitting in a savings account. In order to change that net worth into “cash” you’d have to sell all of those assets.

  9. correctingerrors says:
    September 8, 2020 at 12:49 pm
    A million seconds ago it was August 28 – 11 days ago. A billion seconds ago it was 1989. Even if someone is broke, they are a lot closer to being a millionaire, than a person with a million dollars is to being a billionaire.

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    I don’t get the point. You need to be a millionaire 1000x to become a billionaire. It is basic math. You need to find 100,000 pennies to make a thousand dollars. If you lined them up on their sides, head to tail, it would span 1.5 football fields. …just basic math.

  10. I like the salary cap in football so much more than what’s going on with baseball. I like sports competition, where everyone competes on a relatively level playing field. Imagine if one NFL team could spend ten times more money than another team. How exciting would it be to watch a college team play a Pop Warner team? People whine a lot about the NFL, but it’s the greatest entertainment in the world. They make some mistakes, but they get a lot of things right, too.

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