Bud Adams must be somewhere around 80, right? He was one of the original AFL owners, whose team won the first 2 championships with a revitalized George Blanda at quarterback, beginning the second, and more successful phase of Blanda's career. Maybe from that time on, he has thought he really knows QB's. He always did seem to like getting 'local' [Houston; south&east Texas] talent onto his team, as seen in Jerry Levias, Ken Houston, Earl Campbell, et al. Perhaps he never gave up thinking that's a real gold mine. But New Orleans and Houston (Texans) passed on Young and drafted Reggie Bush and Mario Williams, respectively; however, none of the 3 have really done what was expected of them. But Young's rookie success may have solidified his confirmation about his own evaluations and he's just stubborn about it now.
Actually his Houston Oilers were on the verge of winning their 3rd AFL championship in 1962, when the Dallas Texans beat them in overtime, then in spite of the championship, moved to Kansas City, as Dallas was good for only one pro team, and it was the lackluster NFL Cowboys, instead of the AFL champs, who ran the other off. Another irony here is that Tom Landry was recruited by Bud Adams to be his first head coach. In Landry's autobiography, he says that the reason he decided against Adams' offer was because his experience in the old AAFC (All American Football Conference) had proved unstable (it folded after 1949, his first season there), and that he had decided to "get out of coaching and into something that would provide more security for my family." He also turned away from the NY Giants' promise that he would become their new head coach as soon as the current one expectedly retired. Then the Cowboys' offer came, with the promise of hands-off ownership by Clint Murchison and GM Tex Schramm's promise to let the head coach have full authority to run the team on the field.
Evidently, most super-rich team owners-- namely Bud Adams and Jerry Jones-- don't learn alot from history, especially if they think they won those championships early in their autocracies.