[3] After a stint in the United States Army, Lynn was again worked for Reade as assistant to the general manager of his movie distribution company.
[4] From 1966 to 1974, Lynn was President of Mid South Sports, Inc., a group that sought to acquire a National Football League franchise for Memphis.
[8] After Grant's first retirement, Lynn signed a contract that gave him total authority to run the team and a raise to $300,000 a year and $1 million in deferred compensation.
[9] In 1986, Winter sold his stake in the team to Carl Pohlad and Irwin L. Jacobs, setting up a battle between Pohlad and Jacobs, who owned a majority of the team's shares, and the heirs of Winter's co-founders Bill Boyer and H. P. Skoglund, who held a majority of voting stock, for control of the Vikings.
[12] On May 29, 1987, Lynn and Minnesota businessmen Wheelock Whitney Jr. and Jaye F. Dyer purchased the majority of voting stock owned by the Boyer estate.
[14] In 1989, Lynn and his partners bought out most of the stock owned by the Boyer and Skoglund estates, however the group did not ask the NFL ownership to approve its purchase due to ongoing litigation from fellow owners Carl Pohlad and Jacobs.
The Lynns fulfilled the ambition of former Walter Place owner Oscar Johnson by building a walking park with water features and botanical gardens on an adjacent piece of property.