Jerry Jones: Dallas Cowboys

Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys go hand in hand. He is not only the owner of the team but is the president and general manager. This just shows how involved he is with the team and not many owners are as deeply involved as he is.

Jones is a graduate of the University of Arkansas. Before getting involved with the Dallas Cowboys he made his first fortune drilling natural gas wells in the 1970s.  Jones made his big move in 1989 by purchasing the Dallas Cowboys for only $150 million.

Today the Dallas Cowboys is America’s most valuable sports team, currently worth $2.1 billion. It has great staying power even if it at times it doesn’t perform that well on the field. It is a winning team having won three Super Bowls in the 1990s. 

They do it big in Texas and Jones exemplifies this having built a gigantic 111,000-seat stadium for the Cowboys. Aside from the Cowboys Jones is also in the real estate business. He is a big time supporter of the Salvation Army as well. Over the past 15 years he has utilized the well-known Thanksgiving halftime show of the Cowboys to raise $1.6 billion for charity.

Jones lives and breathes Dallas Cowboys.