ESPN.com ranks the 10+ best owners in the league

[Sam Mills Fan]

Turned out to be the top 14 really with others receiving votes.

Remember how everyone always told us that Jerry Richardson was an NFL god and obviously one of the top 3 owners in the league? Do a CTRL + F search to see where he fell on the top owners list.

http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/post/_/id/28755/power-rankings-top-10-nfl-owners

[Nicbsbll2]

Ehh... It's a bunch of reporters.Not surprisingly that they don't like the man that wouldn't speak to them for 9 years.

[Swarly]

Jerry Jones is top 10

I lol'd

[fjblair]

I'm a little surprised but JR has done a lot of damage to his reputation in the last 3-4 years in my opinion.

[Hawk]

Paul Allen will always be number 1 for me...he saved the Seahawks from being moved out of town!

[neverlosethefeeling]

This list was made up by a bunch of random ESPN writers, not any current or former NFL players or executives. Therefore, the formation of this list does little to prove that Jerry Richardson isn't regarded as one of the best owners in football BY people in football.

[Kettle]

i don't see us. i guess i'm looking in the wrong place. doesn't matter though. if Richardson is a bad owner then why do the rest of the owners have him speaking for them?

[SirPanther]

This would suck if I actually gave a damn.

[TheWiz]

thats a silly list... they might as well have asked us. Carries about the same merit.

We'll see these kinda stories coming up until the lockout gets resolved.

which reminds me... Does anyone think that the list for 100 greatest players of 2010-2011 is kind of long and stupid? How do you follow that up every year? Its garbage.

[CRA]

i don't see us. i guess i'm looking in the wrong place. doesn't matter though. if Richardson is a bad owner then why do the rest of the owners have him speaking for them?

JR is a good owner....he just has taken an epic PR hit in the last year and a half.

[Sam Mills Fan]

Richardson was always high on these lists even by ESPN guys in the past.

[KBRed]

I think this is pretty valuable when analyzing a 'small market' team...

http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/25/most-valuable-nfl-teams-business-sports-football-valuations-10_slide_13.html

#12...given the years of existence and where we are located. I'm thinking Jerry has done a tremendous job at growing this franchise.

[Sam Mills Fan]

i don't see us. i guess i'm looking in the wrong place. doesn't matter though. if Richardson is a bad owner then why do the rest of the owners have him speaking for them?

They did. That turned out to be a disaster, so they muzzled him.

Jerry Richardson is also the #1 reason why we currently have a lockout going on.

[Sam Mills Fan]

I think this is pretty valuable with a 'small market' team...

http://www.forbes.com/2010/08/25/most-valuable-nfl-teams-business-sports-football-valuations-10_slide_13.html

#12...given the years of existence and where we are located. I'm thinking Jerry has done a tremendous job at growing this franchise.

All depends on what you mean by being a "good" owner. Is Richardson good at squeezing every last bit of revenue from every source available to him? Sure, he's definitely a business god. How does that help anyone but him and his investors though? Does that help the fans? Nope, he raised ticket prices last year. Does that help the team? Nope, he gutted it and we went 2-14. Does that help the league? Nope, he's spearheading the lockout and making people think less highly of the league everyday.

If being a good owner means you're good at making money, then Jerry Richardson is a GREAT owner. But by every other parameter, he's been lousy for quite some time.