When Jerry Jones bought the Dallas Cowboys in 1989, he spent $150 million on a franchise then-considered to be a financial mess. “I didn't sleep,” he told Forbes of that time of his life. But the gamble paid off. Jones turned around America’s Team, won three Super Bowls and transformed the Cowboys into the most valuable sports franchise on the planet, worth an estimated $9 billion.
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