Georgia Frontiere RIP...

[Ben_Hecht]

Jeebus, you people are that pissed just because she moved the Rams from L.A. to St. Louis?

Liked St. Louis better when the Racine Cardinals were there.

 

[MTM]

Jeebus, you people are that pissed just because she moved the Rams from L.A. to St. Louis?

It's not that she moved the Rams, but how she did it.
She killed Carroll Rosenbloom, ran his competent son out of the organization then ran the organization to **** and blamed it on the fans who supported the team for more than 50 years.
When the Rams won the Super Bowl in StL, she said something idiotic like "This shows it was right to move."
Burn *****, burn.

 

[DanOregon]

Her saving grace was that she was the inspiration for "First and 10."

 

[SixToe]

Hell's too good for this *****. Is there anything worse?

Atlanta.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Jeebus, you people are that pissed just because she moved the Rams from L.A. to St. Louis?

You'd be surprised. There's a lot of hate left over for her in the Southland.

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.

 

[buckweaver]

Jeebus, you people are that pissed just because she moved the Rams from L.A. to St. Louis?

You'd be surprised. There's a lot of hate left over for her in the Southland.

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 ****, the real-life Rachel Phelps.

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

 

[zagoshe]

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?

 

[buckweaver]

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.

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.

 

[zagoshe]

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

Nope. Al Davis left Oakland, then won a Super Bowl with the Los Angeles Raiders in 1983.

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.....

 

[dooley_womack1]

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.

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.

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

 

[zagoshe]

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.

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.

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

 

[dooley_womack1]

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

 

[Jar of Flies]

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

Or William Clay Ford.

 

[Football_Bat]

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

Nope. Al Davis left Oakland, then won a Super Bowl with the Los Angeles Raiders in 1983.

What about George Halas and the Decatur Staleys?

 

[zagoshe]

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.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Rosenbloom was no boy scout.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Georgia was hardly the only suspect when Carroll went for his final midnight swim, LJB.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

 

[MileHigh]

Madame Ram single-handedly ruined football in Southern California until Pete Carroll came along and revived USC. I'm no Rams fan, but I grew up in SoCal, and the departure of the Rams and how she did it was horrible. As Buck said, L.A. was a Rams town before the Lakers and Dodgers took over. Games at the Coliseum routinely sold out. And in a town with the O'Malley's and Jerry Buss, she stuck out like the sore thumb she was.
Enjoy hell.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Somewhere in the Beyond, Carroll Rosenbloom is spitting up seawater in delight.

According to the AP story, her second husband was killed when he was hit by a bus.

"Lot of famous people been hit by trains. Judge Tidwell over yonder was hit by a train."