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'Billy Joe "Red" McCombs' (born 1927) 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 the namesake of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin (an honor given in recognition of a fifty million U.S. dollar donation to the University). He was named one of ''Forbes'' magazine's top 400 richest Americans in 2005.
McCombs was born in Spur, Texas, and started out selling cars, dropping out of college to do so. At the age of twenty-five, he owned his first dealership, selling Fords. He eventually owned fifty car dealerships throughout the United States, most of them in Texas.
McCombs was roundly criticized by fans in Minnesota for a decline of the Vikings from being a team with a strong historical record of achievement to a team struggling to make it to the post-season. The team was running annually twenty to thirty million dollars below the salary cap (very near the league-mandated salary floor), and McCombs showed little 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.
★ Biography at McCombs School of Business - UT Austin
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★ Forbes profile on Billy Joe McCombs
★ Red McCombs Automotive Group
McCombs was born in Spur, Texas, and started out selling cars, dropping out of college to do so. At the age of twenty-five, he owned his first dealership, selling Fords. He eventually owned fifty car dealerships throughout the United States, most of them in Texas.
McCombs was roundly criticized by fans in Minnesota for a decline of the Vikings from being a team with a strong historical record of achievement to a team struggling to make it to the post-season. The team was running annually twenty to thirty million dollars below the salary cap (very near the league-mandated salary floor), and McCombs showed little 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.
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★ Biography at McCombs School of Business - UT Austin
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★ Forbes profile on Billy Joe McCombs
★ Red McCombs Automotive Group
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