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Originally Posted by brdempsey69
While we're at it, perhaps you can explain to us what merits does Donks owner Pat Bowlen have to be inducted into the HOF? Would did he ever do -- other than maybe win a game of tiddlywinks playing against his Aunt Fannie? He never played a down in the NFL or did anything at all (except cheat & violate the salary cap and then lie to the public about it).
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"Tiddlywinks," really?
Not much on history, eh Dempsey? Well, if you poll the owners on which owner meant the most to the game in the last, say, 30 years, Pat would win.
Pat Bowlen was the TV Committee chairman in 1993, and along with Jerry Jones, negotiated the massive, landmark TV rights deal with Fox and CBS and I think ESPN. Rupert Murdoch came in with a huge offer, way more than they expected. Tagliabue later said it was Pat who kept them from being too shocked and over-celebrating right away, he said Pat kept them mellow enough to extracted more from the other networks. NBC had to bow out completely.
Anyway, Pat and Jerry made the owners much MUCH richer than they were before. And NFL market cities saw local TV stations swapping network affiliates for several years after. And FOX became a real network.
Oh yeah, and the NFL Network was Pat's brainchild. He marshaled it from the idea-board all the way to cable TV tiers.
Plus his team was 7-2 in AFCCGs in just 30+ years of his day-to-day control:
https://www.profootballhof.com/players/pat-bowlen/