Outside of the Green Bay Packer community ownership group and a few old NFL families like the Maras and the Rooneys, the typical NFL owner is a rich guy who made a fortune in some other field and parlayed that fortune into NFL ownership.
Al Davis was an outlier. He was a coach who, through hook or crook, gradually acquired a controlling interest in the Raiders. How Davis pulled that off is quite convoluted tale, and it’s covered pretty well in Glenn Dickey’s book, “Just Win, Baby.” The Davis family’s wealth is all tied up in the team. So, yeah, Mark Davis is very likely the NFL’s poorest owner.
Thanks I would like to read that book.
My limited knowledge is that Al Davis was a coach of the Raiders, when they were in the old American Football League. I’m sure franchise values for AFL teams before the merger with the NFL was fairly low. I bet Al Davis bought in at a bargain basement price compared to today’s franchise values. But the values of AFL franchises got quite a boost, when the merger with the NFL happened.