This question if i may call it a question is misleading ...
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Correction! Correction! There is one African American who is owner of an NFL team by the name of Reggie Fowler. He owns 40% of Minnesota Vikings.
In the NBA, Michael Jordan owns majority share of Charlotte Bobcats.
Define "owner". If Sole Proprietor, no. If Majority Owner, no. Largely, those of our community are used as a face of a sports team or to feign ethnic diversity.
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Art Shell became the first African American NFL head coach of the modern era when he was hired by the Los Angeles Raiders in 1989.
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Jim Thorpe (link below) was probably the first American Indian to play pro football. He played professionally with the Pine Village Pros in Indiana in 1913 and later went on to become the first president of the NFL, where he also played for the Oorang Indians (an all-American Indian team) in Ohio.
Fritz Pollard was the first African-American coach in the National Football League. He coached the Chicago Black Hawks in the 1920s.
San Francisco 49ers fullback Joe Perry in 1954.