NY Times · Mar 16, 2018
Tom Benson, Tycoon Who Danced With His Saints, Dies at 90
Tom Benson, longtime owner of the New Orleans Saints, on the field before a game against the Dallas Cowboys in 2009.Tom Benson, a self-made billionaire who owned the N.F.L.’s Saints and the N.B.A.’s Pelicans in a four-decade reign over an often turbulent pro sports scene in his native New Orleans, died on Thursday in Jefferson, La. He was 90.
The Saints announced his death, at Ochsner Medical Center, on their website. He had been hospitalized since Feb. 16 with the flu.
