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Cowboys' Jerry Jones on Texans' Cal McNair: 'Great owner'

When Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones saluted his friend, the late Texans owner Bob McNair, with a Lifetime Achievement award this week, he weighed in on McNair's son.

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Cal McNair is the chairman of the Texans and chief executive officer who's in charge of the Texans. The AFC South franchise, valued at $3.1 billion by Forbes, is owned by his mother, Janice, McNair's widow.

A University of Texas and Cypress-Fairbanks graduate who played football in college and high school and has a master's degree from Rice, Cal McNair assumed a more prominent leadership role after his father was diagnosed with skin cancer and eventually succumbed to the disease on Nov.