Georgia Frontiere RIP...

The good folks in St. Louis wouldn't care. They got a Super Bowl out of all of this. Say what you will about her, but how many times did her name come up with the Martz vs. front office mess? I didn't hear her name much over that crap.

Look at it this way, L.A., you could have had Bill Bidwell and his longer legacy of buffoonery we call the Cardinals.

L.A. still doesn't have a pro team, unless USC counts.

 

The thing is, L.A. was a Rams town long before it was a Lakers town. Still a lot of old-time Rams fans around here. Frontiere took over and treated them like shit, the real-life Rachel Phelps.

But yeah, she got hers -- and St. Louis got her. Good riddance.

 

LA is such a great NFL town that it still has yet to land an NFL team despite the best efforts of the league to shove one down its throat.

Correct me if I am wrong -- was Frontiere the first of the "you stole our team" owners to win the Super Bowl?

 

L.A. isn't trying to land a team. The mayor might be, but the rest of town ain't.

L.A. is such a great NFL town that it refuses to subsidize the building of a new stadium so the league can shove a crappy team down its throat. And L.A. is such a great NFL town that it refuses to pay for luxury renovations to the Coliseum in order for the league to shove a crappy team down its throat.

Anaheim is such a great NFL town that it helped subsidize baseball-only renovations to its existing stadium to discourage the league from trying to shove a crappy team down its throat.

Pasadena is such a great NFL town because it absolutely refuses to allow the league to shove a crappy team down its throat, tying up traffic and adding more congestion for 10 Sundays a year.

 

Ah yes, ole Al. Who can forget.

And for the record I admire LA for telling the NFL to take its product and jam it.....

 

In all fairness, crappy teams can become solid teams in as little as two years, with the way parity, scheduling and the draft work.

 

Provided ownership is committed to that happening

 

Hell, Art Modell won a Super Bowl with the Ravens. You pretty much have to be Bidwill to consistently fuck up in the NFL.

 

Or William Clay Ford.

 

What about George Halas and the Decatur Staleys?

 

And that oil derrek, jar of flies, reminds me of another incompetent -- Bud Adams -- who despite having one of the most talented teams ever assembled in the early 1990's couldn't figure out how to get it right in order to win the Super Bowl.

 

Rosenbloom was no boy scout.