After 75 years at the helm of the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Rooneys’ days of running this National Football League franchise as a family business are about over.

The clock is also running out on a whole generation of NFL owners, who bought into the game in simpler, cheaper times and are now hard-pressed to keep operating in the face of some combination of family feuds, high estate taxes and far higher costs of doing business.

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