Dallas Cowboys

“The year before Jerry Jones bought the Dallas Cowboys, the team lost nine million dollars. And just a few years later, the Cowboys were making over thirty million in profit per year.”

“According to the NFL rules revenues from the boxes are not shared with other NFL owners the way ticket revenues are.”

“He was selling since he was a nine-year-old greeting customers at his family's supermarket. In college, he sold shoes from the trunk of his car. He would make up to 700 dollars selling student tickets before his college football games.”

“He winds up firing his friend and his coach after Jimmy Johnson won the second Superbowl and he winds up hiring another one of his friends. It's getting Barry Switzer who lasts a little bit longer, but he was more comfortable playing like a number two role.”

“And then I read they're doing over a billion dollars in revenue a year now.”

“They had a 188 luxury suites. You know how many the previous owners sold? Six... Six years later the suites are all 95 to 98% occupied profits from those suites alone over the last few years since Jones has bought the team. Fifty million dollars just from that…”

“Bomb Bright starts shopping the team because he's in dire financial distress, right? He tried to sell for one hundred eighty million dollars. He pitched 75 people before he got to Jerry Jones that said no.”

“If you're going to have long-term partnership with Jerry, they say, whether it's in oil and gas, whether it's in football, you have to be comfortable being a number two.”

“So I went over to Brentwood, about 20 or 30 miles from San Francisco, and I bought 25 lots, like I was going to build 25 houses, except I drilled four gas wells, and those four gas wells in 18 months paid me enough money for me to buy the Dallas Cowboys.”

“Now it's, you know, worth probably somewhere between eight to ten billion dollars is the rumor.”

“Jerry Jones was a 76 and he said, yes, he paid one hundred and forty million today. That's worth ten billion dollars, not including all the money, you know, and the opportunities that came from that.”

“Jerry Jones, Dallas Cowboys. He paid one hundred and forty million for they're worth ten billion today. 75 people turned down the opportunity to buy the Cowboys before Jerry Jones did.”