Like the other owners, Shahid Khan is wealthy. But his life story is very different. He grew up in Pakistan, where cricket is the national sport. He fell in love with American football after he moved to the United States.

Mr. Kahn is from Lahore, Pakistan. The Jaguars’ owner says he was seeking an “education, fame and fortune” when he came to the United States in 1967. He had $500 when he arrived, and earned $1.20 an hour for washing dishes.

“Working for $1.20 was absolutely a very, very liberating experience for me, and I think what was wonderful was that it happened literally a day after I got here. The most powerful thing was, `Hey, I’m empowered, and I control my destiny so I can be who I want to be.’ And certainly the life I knew before that in Pakistan and really the rest of the world, frankly, you didn’t have that opportunity.”

Mr. Khan settled in the state of Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois while working at Flex-N-Gate, which makes automobile parts. He bought the company in 1980 and turned it into a more than $3 billion business with 50 factories worldwide.

His interest in American football began while taking classes at the University of Illinois, which has a big football program.

“I just loved it because it is simple in a way, and then it is so complex. The minute you think you’ve understood something, you haven’t. So, I don’t have the athletic makeup to play the game, so I watched it, been a huge fan, and then as time went on I thought maybe there’d be a day I could own a team.”