Rams owner Georgia Frontiere is dead

stephenj · Joined: 06 Aug 2007 Posts: 88

RIP. but what a lousy owner. sheesh.

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sicklilman · Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 1

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"Georgia Frontiere: Forever the Carroll Rosenbloom Thing!"

Seven(!) marriages and countless affairs of varying duration. One
former
husband was hit by a ... bus!

Do we have a definition of such a ... woman? One would rhyme with
"mold bigger." Others?

There are those among us who still have a bitter tinge in our ...
psyches ... our memories ... over the circumstances under which
Georgia "became" the owner of the Rams.

Southern California,1979: Multimillionaire in-shape older male
swimming -- alone! -- "they" say -- in the ocean. Drowns, supposedly.
Accident? Supposedly.

Boom!

His wife, "inherits" -- conveniently? -- the team, worth million$,
from her dead SIXTH husband!

You tell me.
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"Georgia Frontiere; Owner Moved Los Angeles Rams to St. Louis"

By John Antczak
Associated Press
Saturday, January 19, 2008; B06

Georgia Frontiere, the St. Louis native who became a hometown hero
when she brought the Rams of the National Football League from Los
Angeles in 1995, died Jan. 18. She was 80.

Ms. Frontiere had been hospitalized for breast cancer for several
months, the Rams said in a statement posted on the team Web site.

"Our mom was dedicated to being more than the owner of a football
team," daughter Lucia Rodriguez and son Chip Rosenbloom said in the
statement. "She loved the Rams' players, coaches, and staff. The
warmth and generosity she exuded will never be forgotten."

The onetime nightclub singer was married seven times, starting at 15.
Her sixth husband, Carroll Rosenbloom, owned the Los Angeles Rams at
the time of his drowning death in 1979.

The Rams moved twice under Ms. Frontiere's leadership, first
relocating in 1980 from the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to
Anaheim, 35 miles away.

St. Louis's original NFL franchise, the Cardinals, had left for
Arizona in 1988. After the city failed to land an expansion team,
civic leaders built a $260 million taxpayer-financed stadium anyway in
hopes of luring another team.

Ms. Frontiere agreed in January 1995 to move, causing her to be
demonized in Southern California but heralded in her home town. At a
downtown rally soon after the move was announced, thousands chanted
"Georgia! Georgia!"

"You take my breath away," Ms. Frontiere told the crowd. "It's so good
to be back in St. Louis, my home town."

John Shaw, president of the Rams, said yesterday that Ms. Frontiere
was a "loyal, generous and supportive owner who was totally committed"
to the team. "This is an enormous loss for me and for the Rams'
organization. All of our prayers and sympathy go out to her family,"
Shaw said.

The Rams were the first major sports team to arrive in California when
they moved from Cleveland in 1946. They became the first football or
baseball team to leave the state with the move to St. Louis.

Ms. Frontiere was a fixture at Rams games during the heyday of the
"Greatest Show on Turf" teams, which made the playoffs five out of six
seasons from 1999 through 2004. Led by quarterback Kurt Warner,
running back Marshall Faulk and receivers Isaac Bruce and Torry Holt,
the Rams won the 2000 Super Bowl 23-16 and lost the Super Bowl two
seasons later on a last-second field goal.

Ms. Frontiere was born Georgia Irwin on Nov. 21, 1927, and attended
Soldan High School before moving to California at 15. She wed that
year, but the marriage was eventually annulled, according to published
reports.

Her second husband was killed when he was hit by a bus. She left her
third husband to try to make it as a showgirl in Las Vegas. Her fourth
marriage, to a stage manager of the Sacramento Music Circus, ended in
divorce after three years. Husband No. 5 was a Miami television
producer.

She married Rosenbloom in 1966, shortly after he took over the
Baltimore Colts. He eventually swapped that franchise for the Rams,
which his wife took control of after he drowned.

Her seventh husband, Dominic Frontiere, was an award-winning composer.
They divorced in 1988 upon his release from prison, where he had
served time on tax charges related to the scalping of more than 2,500
tickets to the 1980 Super Bowl in Pasadena.

Ms. Frontiere left day-to-day operation of her team to Shaw when the
franchise was in Southern California and after the move to St. Louis.
Shaw continues to run the team from Los Angeles. The team has missed
the playoffs in each of the past three seasons.

Ms. Frontiere became involved in several philanthropic efforts in St.
Louis after moving the team, including the creation in 1997 of the St.
Louis Rams Foundation. According to the team's Web site, the Rams and
the foundation have contributed more than $5 million to charities in
the St. Louis area.

Ms. Frontiere also committed $1 million to the Fulfillment Fund, which
helps needy high school students pay for college. She has served as a
member of several boards, including the United Way of Greater St.
Louis, Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls Club, St. Louis Symphony, Crohn's
and Colitis Foundation of America and the American Foundation for AIDS
Research.

In addition to her two children, she is survived by six grandchildren
and Earle Weatherwax, her companion of 19 years.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/18/AR2008011803445.html

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