METAIRIE, La. -- Gayle Benson has admitted over the years that she really wasn’t much of a football fan before she met her husband, Tom, in 2004 and that he took her to an Arena Football League game on their first date.
But that should hardly disqualify the 71-year-old New Orleans native as the newest owner of both the NFL’s New Orleans Saints and NBA’s New Orleans Pelicans now that Tom Benson has passed away at the age of 90. She joins Paul Allen and Kroenke Sports & Entertainment as the only owners of franchises in both leagues.