Net Worth: $1.4 billion Owns: Detroit Lions The granddaughter of the founders of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Ford also has a penchant for sports teams. Well, maybe only because her husband had owned the Detroit Lions since 1963. The American businesswoman was born in Akron in 1925, making her 94 this year. The Vassar College attendee owns the NFL team, the Detroit Lions. She’s one of the wealthiest little old ladies ever, worth over $1 billion!
From 1947, Martha was married to William Clay Ford – and Ford was the youngest child of Edsel Ford and the last surviving grandchild of Henry Ford! He passed away in 2014, leaving behind a fortune, including the Detroit Lions.
Patrick Dennis Bowlen
Net Worth: $1 billion Owns: Denver Broncos (NFL) Pretty cool to search yourself on Google to find your net worth is a cool $1 billion. Sadly, that’s not the case for many of us, but for Patrick Dennis Bowlen, it is. The principal of the Denver Broncos, Bowlen has been CEO of the NFL team since he purchased it in 1984. That’s a lot of history and a lot of love for Denver! He’s the committed type, clearly.
Sadly in 2014, Bowlen’s run with the Broncos came to an end. After three decades of taking the team through championship wins, including two Super Bowls and two AFC titles, his health worsened and he was no longer fit to head the operations. But he certainly went out with a bang – in 2008, he sold shares to John Elway, which sparked dispute – but hey, it was all sorted in the end.
Mukesh Ambani
Net Worth: $52.9 billion Owns: Mumbai Indians Okay, this guy has to be the richest one on our list. Mukesh Ambani runs the $88 billion revenue oil and gas giant, Reliance Industries, which sits among India’s most valuable companies. Founded by Ambani’s late father, Dhirubhai Ambani, a yarn trader, in 1966, the company’s origins were initially in textiles. Nowadays, Ambani owns the cricket team, the Mumbai Indians.
Now Asia’s richest man, Ambani is one of those fabulous rags to riches stories, and boy is he living the high life. Did you know that Ambani lives in a 27-story building that was rumored to have cost $1 billion to build?! Incredible. Oh, and of course, it’s these types of billionaires who can afford a private Beyoncé concert for their child’s wedding.
Dan Snyder
Net Worth: $ 2.2 billion Owns: Washington Redskins (NFL) Who’d have thought Dan Snyder would be the first to have a $100 million Superyacht with an Imax movie theatre onboard? Certainly not his college professors. The college dropout is the founder of Snyder Communications, which outsources marketing services, and is also a primary investor in Red Zebra Broadcasting.
With the success of his company, Snyder bought the legendary Washington Redskins back in 1999 for a figure that, back then, made it the most expensive purchase in sports history at the time: $800 million. They’re now worth $3.1 billion, so, not a bad investment at all.
Terry Pegula
Net Worth: $4.3 billion Owns: Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres Pegula holds multiple business interests, natural gas being one of them. Additional to gas development, Pegula holds real estate as well as entertainment holdings and sports teams. Namely, the NHL Buffalo Sabres and the NFL’s Buffalo Bills. Oh and he also owns the AHL’s Rochester Americans and the NLL’s Buffalo Bandits and Rochester Knighthawks. Seems like a lot for one guy, right?
It seems that he’s a good sportsman too – he manages the clubs with ease, and fans are thrilled with how he’s running the clubs and taking them into the future for the next generation.