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Baltimore Ravens Owner: Stephen J. Bisciotti Age: 50 Bought team: Bought minority interest in Ravens in 2000; purchased outright control of club in 2004 Stadium: M&T Bank Stadium (completed in 1998) TV market size: 1.108 million viewers (ranked 26th) 2010 Forbes value: $1.073B (ranked eighth)	Cincinnati Bengals Owner: Mike Brown (club president) Age: 73 Bought team: Mike Brown's father, Paul, was one of the original owners of Bengals, who were founded in 1968. Mike Brown, who also had an ownership stake at the time of his father's death in 1991, became the club's primary decision maker after Paul Brown's passing. Stadium: Paul Brown Stadium (completed in 2000) TV market size: 924,000 viewers (ranked 33rd) 2010 Forbes value: $905M (ranked 25th)	Cleveland Browns Owner: Randolph D. Lerner Age: 49 Bought team: Randy Lerner's father, Al, brought the Browns back to Cleveland in 1998 with team president/CEO Carmen Policy. Randy Lerner took over the Browns when Al Lerner passed away in 2002. Stadium: Cleveland Browns Stadium (completed in 1999) TV market size: 1.526 million viewers, (ranked 18th) 2010 Forbes value: $1.015B (ranked 15th)	Pittsburgh Steelers Owner: Daniel M. Rooney, chairman emeritus, and Art Rooney II, club president, are majority owners, controlling a combined 30 percent of the club. Bought team: The club's ownership was restructured in 2009, with Dan Rooney and Art Rooney II gaining majority control of the club and other Rooney family members divesting their shares of the team. Dan Rooney is the son of the late Art Rooney, who founded the club in 1933. Art Rooney II is Dan Rooney's son. Age: Dan Rooney, 78; Art Rooney II, 58. Stadium: Heinz Field (completed 2001) TV market size: 1.160 million viewers (ranked 24th) 2010 Forbes value: $996M (ranked 17th)
Bisciotti made his fortune by founding Aerotek, a professional staffing company, in 1983. Aerotek, now the Allegis Group, has more than 8,000 employees and 90,000 contract workers who are specialists in a variety of fields. Bisciotti's initial purchase of the Ravens provided the club with the capital it needed in free agency before its Super Bowl XXXV season of 2000, according to his biography on the team's Web site. He belongs to the NFL's broadcasting and digital media committees. A Baltimore native, Bisciotti is also a supporter of University of Maryland athletics.	Football has been the Brown family's business throughout Mike Brown's life. Few owners are more involved in the day-to-day football operations of their team than Brown, who has final say on the Bengals' personnel decisions. From a CBA perspective, Brown is perhaps best-known for being one of two owners (with Buffalo's Ralph Wilson the other) to vote against the 2006 CBA extension.	Upon the passing of his father, Al, Randy Lerner assumed control of the Browns, as well as the chairman's role at credit card company MBNA. Randy Lerner helped engineer the sale of MBNA to Bank of America in 2006 for a reported $35 billion. As of March 2010, he had a net worth of $1 billion, according to Forbes.com. Lerner also owns the English Premier League soccer club Aston Villa. Randy Lerner's devotion to his father's memory is very clear; the team wears an "AL" jersey patch.	The NFL's fifth-oldest franchise, the Rooney family has run the Steelers for close to 78 years. Along with Dan Rooney the current U.S. ambassador to Ireland, Art Rooney II — who assumed primary control of the day-to-day operations of the Steelers in 2003 — represents the Steelers in league matters. Dan Rooney, one of the NFL's more respected figures, told The New York Times in January that he did not plan to be involved in CBA negotiations. Dan Rooney played a key role in helping owners reach a compromise in ratifying the 2006 CBA extension. Steady leadership has marked the Rooneys' ownership of the club; Art Rooney Sr. — "The Chief," as he was called, passed on decision-making control of the franchise to Dan Rooney, who led the franchise to great heights. Now, Art Rooney II leads the Steelers.
Houston Texans Owner: Robert C. McNair Age: 73 Bought team: 1999 (founder) Stadium: Reliant Stadium (completed in 2002) TV market size: 2.177 million viewers (ranked 10th) 2010 Forbes value: $1.171B (ranked fifth)	Indianapolis Colts Owner: Jim Irsay Age: 51 Bought team: Robert Irsay bought team in 1972; Jim assumed control in 1997 Stadium: Lucas Oil Stadium (completed in 2008) TV market size: 1.106 million viewers (ranked 27th) 2010 Forbes value: $1.040B (ranked 11th)	Jacksonville Jaguars Owner: Shahid Khan Age: 61 Bought team: 2012 Stadium: EverBank Field (completed in 1995) TV market size: 678,430 viewers (ranked 49th) 2010 Forbes value: $725M (ranked 32nd)	Tennessee Titans Owner: K.S. "Bud" Adams Jr. Age: 88 Bought team: 1959 (founder) Stadium: LP Field (completed in 1999) TV market size: 1.039 million viewers (ranked 29th) 2010 Forbes value: $994M (ranked 18th)
McNair founded Cogen Technologies, an energy company, in 1983. Fifteen years later, he sold a majority stake in the business to Enron for a reported $1.5 billion, and the next year, he proved successful in his bid to bring the NFL back to Houston. Presently, he owns two firms that manage his family's private- and public-equity holdings. He is also the chairman of The McNair Group, an investment portfolio. McNair serves on several league committees and is the chairman of the NFL's investment committee.	Jim Irsay, son of the late former Colts owner Robert Irsay, assumed full control of the organization in 1997 following his father's passing. Robert acquired the Colts from Carroll Rosenbloom in 1972 in exchange for the Los Angeles Rams. Jim joined the Colts' staff in 1982 after graduating from Southern Methodist University. He spent more than 10 years serving as the team's vice president and general manager before becoming senior executive vice president and chief executive officer in 1996, and sole owner of the Colts less than a year later. President Bill Polian oversees all football and administrative facets of the club. Bill Polian has been fired by the Colts. (2012)	On January 4, 2012, Shahid Khan became the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars. A magnate in the automotive parts industry, Khan was familiar with Jacksonville long before purchasing the team. Khan is president and owner of Flex-N-Gate Corporation, the 14th-largest North American automotive supplier, which employs over 13,000 people at 48 manufacturing and nine product development and engineering facilities throughout Canada, the United States, Mexico, Argentina, and Spain. Flex-N-Gate’s products include interior and exterior plastics, lighting systems, mechanical assemblies, metal structural body components, and exterior metal parts	One of the founders of the American Football League, Adams has had numerous business successes. Among them, his ADA Oil Co., an oil-and-gas firm he started in 1946. Other Adams businesses have included automobile dealerships and leasing, cattle feeding, farming, ranching and real estate. A trustee for the NFL Trust, Adams is also a member of several NFL committees, including the NFL's finance committee. Adams, like Oakland's Al Davis, has a wealth of experience in pro football negotiations; Adams was involved in the AFL-NFL merger and has been an owner during several NFL players' strikes, most recently the 1982 and '87 strikes.