{"id":119792,"date":"2025-06-10T22:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/119792\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T22:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:33:13","slug":"nfl-teams-with-female-owners-holding-controlling-shares-or-decision-making-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/119792\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL teams with female owners holding controlling shares or decision-making power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NFL teams with female owners holding controlling shares or decision-making power now that the Indianapolis Colts have announced the late Jim Irsay&#8217;s transition plan for ownership with his three daughters taking charge of the club. Those with minority shares not included. <\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo Bills<\/p>\n<p>Kim Pegula. She is co-owner with husband Terry Pegula, who bought the Bills in 2014. <\/p>\n<p>Cleveland Browns<\/p>\n<p>Dee Haslam, wife of Jimmy, with the Haslam family buying the Browns in 2012. <\/p>\n<p>Detroit Lions<\/p>\n<p>Sheila Ford Hamp. She took over June 23, 2020, as principal owner for her late mother Martha Firestone Ford. <\/p>\n<p>Carlie Irsay-Gordon, Casey Foyt and Kalen Jackson have held the title of owner since 2012. Now Irsay-Gordon is CEO, Foyt executive vice president and Jackson chief brand officer.<\/p>\n<p>Kansas City Chiefs<\/p>\n<p>Sharron Hunt is among four owners as a daughter of the late Lamar Hunt. <\/p>\n<p>New Orleans Saints <\/p>\n<p> Gayle Benson. <\/p>\n<p>San Francisco 49ers<\/p>\n<p>Denise DeBartolo York took control in 2001 and is currently co-chair of the team that is run by her son, Jed.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Seahawks <\/p>\n<p>Jody Allen took over after the death of her brother, Paul, in 2018. <\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Buccaneers <\/p>\n<p>Darcie Glazer Kassewitz is a co-owner of the Bucs along with five brothers. <\/p>\n<p>Tennessee Titans<\/p>\n<p>Controlling owner Amie Adams-Strunk. The daughter of the franchise&#8217;s founder Bud Adams, she took over in March 2015 from her brother-in-law and has held 50% of the team since late 2020. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL teams with female owners holding controlling shares or decision-making power now that the Indianapolis Colts have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,392,6,2309],"class_list":{"0":"post-119792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-indianapolis-colts","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114661451840083542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}