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Originally Posted by BroncoBuff
"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/ |
What about Super Bowls? And especially in Super Bowls where he did not cheat/circumvent the salary cap? I mean while we're talking about facts and all.
**Under Pat Bowlen, the Denver Broncos violated the salary cap during their Super Bowl seasons.
