NFL Season 2007/08

[nevermore]

Rams Besitzern Georgia Frontiere, die das Franchise nach St. Louis gebracht hat, ist übrigens gestern im Alter von 80 Jahren an Brustkrebs verstorben.

Sollte vielleicht auch noch erwähnt werden.

Georgia Frontiere, Rams owner who moved team to St. Louis, dies

LOS ANGELES -- Georgia Frontiere, the St. Louis native who became a hometown hero when she brought the NFL's Rams from Los Angeles in 1995, died Friday. She was 80.

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

"Georgia Frontiere was the first lady of sports in her native St. Louis," NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement that also praised her philanthropy and concern for retired NFL players.

"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."

Rams owner Georgia Frontiere, who spearheaded the team's 1995 relocation from L.A. to St. Louis, died Friday. She was 80.

The one-time nightclub singer was married seven times, starting at age 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 Frontiere's leadership, first relocating from the historic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1980 to Anaheim, 35 miles away.

St. Louis' 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 domed stadium anyway, in hopes of luring another team.

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

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

The Rams won the Super Bowl in 2000.

John Shaw, president of the Rams, said 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 then they moved from Cleveland in 1946. They became the first football or baseball team to leave the state with the move to St. Louis.

Frontiere was a fixture at Rams games during the heyday of the "Greatest Show on Turf" teams that 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.

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

Her second husband was killed when 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.

Frontiere remarried again after Rosenbloom's death. Her seventh husband, Dominic Frontiere, was an award-winning composer. They divorced in 1988 upon his release from prison after serving time on tax charges related to the scalping of more than 2,500 tickets to the 1980 Super Bowl in Pasadena.

Frontiere left day-to-day operation of her team to Shaw, both 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 last three seasons.

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.

Frontiere also committed $1 million to the Fulfillment Fund, an organization that 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, Saint 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.

Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press

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[jimmy1138]

Rams Besitzern Georgia Frontiere, die das Franchise nach St. Louis gebracht hat, ist übrigens gestern im Alter von 80 Jahren an Brustkrebs verstorben.

Sollte vielleicht auch noch erwähnt werden.

Können's ja die Rams wieder woanders hin verfrachten (LA bräuchte dringenst ein NFL Team). In Missouri gibt's ja eh schon ein anderes Team...

[american]

Sieht gut aus für Rivers und Tomlinson fürs Patriots-Match

[MILANISTA]

Sieht gut aus für Rivers und Tomlinson fürs Patriots-Match

Na hoffentlich. Ansonsten wäre es wohl etwas einseitig geworden!

[nevermore]

Bills defensive end Anthony Hargrove may miss the entire 2008 season because of a failed drug test. Howard Balzer of Sirius NFL Radio is reporting tonight that Hargrove recently failed a drug test, and will be required to sit out all of next season as a result. This would be the second time that Hargrove has been suspended for violating the league's substance abuse policy. Hargrove sat out four games this past season for a similar offense. The Bills tonight have no comment on the report.

Volltrottel.

Dafür war die Harbaugh Pressekonferenz heute mehr als nur erfreulich. Ryan wieder als DC hätte was, nur würde sein System wohl mit dem von Harbaugh kollidieren. Mal schauen.

[MILANISTA]

Don't worry be happy, Tony!

[Gorer]

Don't worry be happy, Tony!

cooles lied,

die seite ist generell super

beim lied von den Phili Eagles weis man jetzt wer schuld ist

[MILANISTA]

cooles lied,

die seite ist generell super

beim lied von den Phili Eagles weis man jetzt wer schuld ist

Stimmt, einzig das Shady Brady-Lied ist pfui!

Bei "Legend of Lambeau" bekomm ich immer noch eine Gänsehaut!...

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[Schapu]

Heute ists endlich so weit... hab die freundin schon auf potentielle jubelarien mitten in der nacht vorbereitet...

12 jahre danach wird new england ein weiteres mal dran glauben müssen

[revo]

Der ORF überträgt beide NFL-Conference-Finals live: die Partie Packers gegen Chargers ab 21.00 Uhr MEZ in ORF Sport Plus, das Duell Packers gegen Giants ab 0.30 Uhr in der Nacht auf Montag in ORF1.

Anstrengendes Programm für die Packers ...

[Kobe]

Anstrengendes Programm für die Packers ...

aber dafür wird der sb dann relaxter

[MILANISTA]

12 jahre danach wird new england ein weiteres mal dran glauben müssen

Abwarten!

[Kobe]

gerüchten zufolge sollte ja desmond howard eingeflogen werden,den kennen ja unsere freunde aus foxbourough ganz genau zumindest von hinten.

[MILANISTA]

gerüchten zufolge sollte ja desmond howard eingeflogen werden,den kennen ja unsere freunde aus foxbourough ganz genau zumindest von hinten.

Du lebst in der Vergangenheit!

[Kobe]

Du lebst in der Vergangenheit!

wie jeder mensch jeder gedanke den man hat ist einer an die vergangenheit.