Red McCombs
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Template:POV check Billy Joe "Red" McCombs (born 1927 in Spur, Texas) is the founder of the Red McCombs Automotive Group, a co-founder of Clear Channel Communications, a former owner of the San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, and the Minnesota Vikings, and is the namesake of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin (an honor which cost $50 million). He was distinguished as one of Forbe's Magazine's top 400 richest Americans in 2005.
McCombs was roundly criticized in Minnesota after he put up the Vikings for sale, as he had run the team, which was one of the most consistently popular in the NFL at the time he bought it, more or less into the ground. The team was running annually $20-30 million below the salary cap, and McCombs showing little or no inclination to purchase the players he would need to make the team a legitimate Super Bowl contender. He sold the Vikings to new (and current) owner Zygi Wilf before the 2005 football season.