Georgia Frontiere, 80, first female NFL owner
Posted: Monday, January 21st, 2008 5:32 pmGeorgia Frontiere, the owner of the National Football League’s Rams for nearly three decades and the first woman to take control of a league franchise, died Friday. She was 80. …
She had been hospitalized with breast cancer for several months, her children said in a statement posted there.
Frontiere, an occasional night-club singer and chorus line performer who hoped to become an opera star, was thrust into the pro football world in April 1979 when her husband, Carroll Rosenbloom, the owner of the Los Angeles Rams, drowned in the ocean while swimming near his Florida home. … Read full obituary
