Rams Owner Georgia Frontiere Dies

[RS12]

http://www.dailynews.com/ci_8015272

 

[AbeBeta]

Interesting. Do many/what % of the LA fans still follow them after they leave?

Not so many anymore -- primarily b/c it has been a very long time since both teams left. The reason why LA is lukewarm on football is that the league didn't step up and get LA a new franchise right away -- LA has lost a generation of fans who grew up with a home team -- and that right there makes the sport a tough sell.

This is all about the league screwing up in its marketing and failing to take a more active role

 

[Thick 'N Hearty]

Georgia was a pioneer in a male-dominated sports. She shirked the doubters and criticism and did what she thought was best for the franchise. How many championships did they win in LA? I know the city doesn't make the team a champion, but in a city that has so much more to offer than football, she made the right move. RIP Georgia.

 

[Temo]

Listen, I don't mean any ill on her or her family, but those of you think she did it "for the little guy" are very, very mistaken. She did because they had a brand spanking new stadium in St. Louis, FOR FREE, and LA refused to spend tax payer dollars to build her team a new stadium.

The people in LA who stood up to NFL owners and refused to cave in to their demands for a public-funded stadium are the real "little people". That being said, despite my hatred for public-funded stadiums, I don't begrudge her at all for doing what she did. I'm a hard core free market capitalist, and I can't fault anyone for trying to make a profit

 

[DragonCowboy]

I was wondering if any of you geezers could fill me in on what happened to Steven Rosenbloom?

 

[AbeBeta]

I was wondering if any of you geezers could fill me in on what happened to Steven Rosenbloom?

You mean Carroll Rosenbloom? Steve is the son. Carroll drowned while swimming, possibly under some shady circumstances. Steve was supposed to take over the team as had a position something like Steven Jones.

Carroll had left a controlling interest in the team to his trophy wife, Georgia. Georgia immediately fired Steve and replaced him with the team's GM.

Don't know what the son Steve is doing now.

 

[DragonCowboy]

You mean Carroll Rosenbloom? Steve is the son. Carroll drowned while swimming, possibly under some shady circumstances. Steve was supposed to take over the team as had a position something like Steven Jones.

Carroll had left a controlling interest in the team to his trophy wife, Georgia. Georgia immediately fired Steve and replaced him with the team's GM.

Don't know what the son Steve is doing now.

Thanks.

I had read that apparently the mafia had something to do with Carroll Rosenbloom's death. Apparently he had a lot of debts with gambling.

I also read that Carroll left the team with Georgia for tax purposes, but he really wanted Steve to take the team.

Then, she fired Steve and got rid of anyone affiliated with Steve.

If that's true, that's pretty low IMO.

Either way, I guess, RIP GF.

 

[AbeBeta]

Thanks.

I had read that apparently the mafia had something to do with Carroll Rosenbloom's death. Apparently he had a lot of debts with gambling.

I also read that Carroll left the team with Georgia for tax purposes, but he really wanted Steve to take the team.

Then, she fired Steve and got rid of anyone affiliated with Steve.

If that's true, that's pretty low IMO.

Either way, I guess, RIP GF.

There was considerable speculation that the mafia did kill Rosenbloom -- the LA Times ran a huge story on that about 4 years after his death and it was big big news.

You can say it was "low" of Georgia to axe Steve but you could also say it was "low" of Carroll to try to circumvent the tax system.

 

[WoodysGirl]

RAMS’ OWNERSHIP PLAN HAS SOME OPEN QUESTIONS
Posted by Mike Florio on January 19, 2008, 6:22 p.m.

Jim Thomas of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Dale “Chip” Rosenbloom is expected to take control of the Rams following the death of his mother, Georgia Frontiere.

Rosenbloom, 43, is a filmmaker, and he lives in Los Angeles. He was a teenager when his father, Carroll, drowned in 1979, which resulted in Mrs. Frontiere becoming the owner of the team.

She owned 60 percent of the team. Per Thomas, that amount is supposed to be split evenly between Rosenbloom and his sister, Lucia Rodriguez. League rules, however, require at least one person to have the controlling share — which likely means at least 50.000001 percent or more.

Thomas doesn’t address how that will be accomplished, but we assume that Rosenbloom will have to buy out at least two-thirds of his sister’s interest, plus a little bit more.

But what of the other 40 percent, owned by Stan Kroenke? If Rodriguez opts to sell all or part of her interest to Kroenke, he’d be the controlling owner.

Kroenke, however, would have to sell his interests in the NBA’s Denver Nuggets and NHL’s Colorado Avalanche, since NFL rules permit multiple ownership of professional sports teams only if all of them are in the same market.

Alternatively, Kroenke could try to engineer a change or an exception to the rule. Before Wayne Huizenga could buy the Dolphins in the 1990s, the league prohibited ownership of any other pro sports franchises. But Huizenga owned the NHL’s Florida Panthers and baseball’s Florida Marlins. (We can’t recall how the issue specifically got resolved, but got resolved it eventually did.)

The problem is that, for now, there will be no majority owner of the Rams. We’re not aware of any timetable for getting the situation resolved. But it likely will be one of the league’s top business issues for the 2008 offseason.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Move back to LA?

 

[DragonCowboy]

There was considerable speculation that the mafia did kill Rosenbloom -- the LA Times ran a huge story on that about 4 years after his death and it was big big news.

You can say it was "low" of Georgia to axe Steve but you could also say it was "low" of Carroll to try to circumvent the tax system.

Well, yes, it was low of Carroll to circumvent the tax system. Actions like that were probably what got him killed.

 

[Q_the_man]

She killed her husband, who was a great swimmer who drowned, go figure, didn't wish death on her but never was a fan of hers....actually when her husband died she fired his son who was groomed to be the next owner........