There are some who have tried very hard to buy into an NFL franchise and failed. Right now, there is one man who owns—or partly owns—two franchises. That would be David Tepper, as Pittsburgh Steelers majority owner Art Rooney II confirmed to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette yesterday afternoon during the third day of practice at training camp.
Tepper purchased a five-percent share of the Steelers’ franchise a little under a decade ago and has been a minority owner since then. Among the owners who purchased similar shares of the franchise at the same time—at a time that members of the Rooney family were selling due to new ownership regulations—are Jimmy Haslam, who went on to buy the Cleveland Browns, and John Stallworth.