Archive for January, 2008
Remembering XXXVI (St. Louis Rams 23, New England Patriots 17, OT)
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 You can still hear them mutter about it in New England: If only they'd set it up for Adam Vinatieri...Rams’ Ownership Future Cloudy After Death of Georgia Frontiere
Sunday, January 20th, 2008Dale Rosenbloom, Frontiere’s son, takes over control of the team.
ST. LOUIS | Dale “Chip” Rosenbloom grew up surrounded by Rams football. Now he’s about to own the team - but for how long?
With the death of Georgia Frontiere, her son and daughter will inherit the Rams. Rosenbloom, 43, is a filmmaker; Lucia Rodriguez, 46, a wife and mother. Both live in Los Angeles.
They will split the 60 percent share of the team owned by Frontiere, but per league rule, only one person can have the controlling share. And that person is Rosenbloom.
Those close to Rosenbloom say he has some sense of obligation to his deceased father to keep the Rams franchise in the family. (When Carroll Rosenbloom drowned in a swimming accident in 1979, wife Georgia - Chip’s mother - took control of the team.)
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Georgia Frontiere Rams’ owner, dead at age 80.
Sunday, January 20th, 2008By
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Georgia Frontiere was a chorus girl, a club singer, a philanthropist and a
creative eccentric who wrote poetry and liked astrology.
She dined with movie stars and sang at Joseph P. Kennedy’s mansion. At various
times, she owned homes in London, Los Angeles, New York, Arizona and her native
St. Louis.
She married seven times. For 29 years she owned a franchise in the ultimate
“old-boys league” — the National Football League — and during that time the
Rams earned 13 playoff berths and appeared in three Super Bowls.
As her son, Dale “Chip” Rosenbloom, said: “She’s led an extraordinary life.”
Mrs. Frontiere, who died Friday after a long battle with breast cancer, took
over the Los Angeles Rams in 1979 after her sixth husband, Carroll Rosenbloom,
drowned in a swimming accident. Against league wishes, she moved the franchise
to her hometown in 1995.
After four consecutive losing seasons in St. Louis, the Rams pulled off one of
the more improbable championship runs in NFL history. Coming off a 4-12 season
in 1998, the Rams went from worst to first in 1999.
With a dominating, electrifying offense headlined by quarterback Kurt Warner,
running back Marshall Faulk and wide receivers Isaac Bruce and Torry Holt, the
team known as “the Greatest Show on Turf” went 13-3 in the regular season and
then defeated Tennessee 23-16 in Super Bowl XXXIV.
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