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NASCAR: Top 5 figures who could be owners of the Carolina Panthers

By Tyler Callaway

JOLIET, IL - SEPTEMBER 17: Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the #88 AXALTA Chevrolet, stands on the grid with Rick Hendrick, owner of Hendrick Motorsports, prior to the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Tales of the Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway on September 17, 2017 in Joliet, Illinois. (Photo by Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images)
JOLIET, IL - SEPTEMBER 17: Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the #88 AXALTA Chevrolet, stands on the grid with Rick Hendrick, owner of Hendrick Motorsports, prior to the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Tales of the Turtles 400 at Chicagoland Speedway on September 17, 2017 in Joliet, Illinois. (Photo by Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images) /
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CHARLOTTE, NC – MAY 28: Team owner Joe Gibbs (Photo by Rainier Ehrhardt/Getty Images)
CHARLOTTE, NC – MAY 28: Team owner Joe Gibbs (Photo by Rainier Ehrhardt/Getty Images) /

#1: Joe Gibbs

I would hope if you are a fan of both NASCAR and the NFL you saw this coming. How could a 3-time Super Bowl champion head coach, a Pro Football Hall of Fame inductee and a sure-to-be future NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee not be the number one choice as an NFL owner?

Joe Gibbs is an unbelievable sports mind. Period. I am too young to have watched him when he was winning Super Bowls with the Redskins, but I can still watch the tape and be impressed with his Football IQ.

Even his comeback from 2004 to 2007, while it didn’t win him a Super Bowl, was still a valiant effort with a team that was struggling before his arrival and continues to struggle to this day. He gave them a few years of competitive play.

He is easily the number one choice of any NASCAR businessman as an NFL owner just simply because you want a football mind running your team.

The only problem is finances.

I don’t like going into celebrities net worth. While those numbers are publicly known, I still find it invasive, but I had to do it for this article to find candidates. Joe Gibbs’ net worth is estimated at $60 Million.

Obviously that’s still more money then I can ever hope to attain in my lifetime, but it’s still only a drop in the bucket in terms of what it takes to become the majority owner of an NFL franchise.

That being said, I’m ignorant of the inner workings of how these business deals are done, so there may be a way for him to become majority owner based on ownership percentages, or maybe Gibbs has more finances than what is publicly known.

Either way, he still needs to at least be on the bidding team as a minority owner and hopefully have a large amount of input into the everyday running of the franchise.

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