The McNair family may be richer than King Midas, but they still aren’t among the upper crust of sports owners.
According to a recent list from Forbes of the world’s richest sports team owners, the McNair family that owns the Houston Texans failed to crack the top-20.
There were seven NFL owners on the list including the Carolina Panthers’ David Tepper, the Los Angeles Rams’ Stan Kroenke, the Dallas Cowboys’ Jerry Jones, the Jacksonville Jaguars’ Shahid Khan, the Miami Dolphins’ Stephen Ross, the New England Patriots’ Robert Kraft, and the Buffalo Bills’ Terrence Pegula. The AFC South was represented only by Khan’s Jaguars.
According to estimates from Forbes in Sept. 2019, the Texans are worth $3.1 billion, making them the ninth most valuable NFL franchise. That is not a bad jump from the $600 million the late founder, Bob McNair, paid to start up Houston’s second NFL franchise.
Fun fact: the Texans won a playoff game in 2019 while each of the teams among the top-20 list did not.
