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What the NFL’s Other Owners Can Learn From 49ers’ Jed York

MIAMI — Daniel Snyder’s team isn’t here. Neither is Woody Johnson’s. Jimmy Haslam’s? It’s amazing the Browns made it to all their regular-season games. Yet there is hope for the NFL’s failing billionaires, the owners who are reviled by their own fan base, and his name is Jed York.

York’s San Francisco 49ers are back in the Super Bowl, and there is a lesson here for any losing owner who wants to hear it: You don’t have to stink at this, guys. Really.

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When teams win championships, owners get trophies too.