“Sometimes when he’s not using his monitors and reading what he says, he doesn’t think. And this is one of those times he didn’t think, and he should straighten out the record because he’s been here, he knows Las Vegas is a great place.”
That from Oscar Goodman, the Mayor of Las Vegas who did not take kindly to the President’s words regarding Las Vegas that he made at a town hall event in New Hampshire.
Well, at least we share one thing in common with the President and that’s a healthy obsession with Vegas as this is not the first time he has scolded America on visiting Sin City.
Up for some more smack from Oscar? We thought so.
Epic.
This reminds us of interviews with an agitated Tommy Lasorda when he was skipper of the L.A. Dodgers where the reporters would simply turn on their tape recorders and let Tommy rip for 5-10 minutes straight while turning the air blue and shaming sailors the world over.
"And I guaran-(bleeping)-tee you this. If I was pitching and I knew I was facing a (bleep)-sucker like Bevaqua in the lineup, I'd send a (bleeping) limo to his place to make sure that (bleep)-sucker made it to the game on time."
Showing posts with label Jim Healy. Show all posts
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Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Smack of the day
Saturday, January 19, 2008
Georgia
The co-owner of the St. Louis Rams, Georgia Frontiere, passed away yesterday at the age of 80 due to complications from breast cancer which was first diagnosed 4 years ago.
Frontiere, a former dancer, singer and showgirl married multi-millionaire and then-Los Angeles Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom after the two were introduced in the late 50s by Kennedy patriarch, Joe Kennedy. Rosenbloom died in 1979 in a drowning accident that to this day is shrouded in mystery, after which Frontiere was able to successfully wrest control of the Rams from Rosenbloom’s son Steve for whom he intended to leave ownership.
Frontiere, then engaged in what was nearly a 15-year campaign to move the Rams, which was the first NFL franchise on the West Coast (relocated from Cleveland) to her hometown of St. Louis. In what could charitably be called corporate sabotage under her ownership, she was able to convince the NFL that the Rams were no longer financially viable in the Southern California market (after nearly 35 years playing in the L.A. Coliseum they had since moved to Anaheim Stadium in 1980) and was thus able to take advantage of a sweet-heart stadium deal when St. Louis ponied-up tax-payer dollars for a new domed stadium to facilitate their move in 1995.
Shortly thereafter the Rams moved to St. Louis and the Raiders who had relocated from Oakland in the early 80s returned to the Bay Area. Although constantly talked about and used as a bargaining chip both in the NFL and in the byzantine world of Los Angeles
City politics, there has not since been an NFL franchise in Los Angeles.
For this Gen-Xer who grew up listening to Bob Starr and Dick “Scooter” Bass broadcast the Ram games on K-ABC radio and who was acutely aware of the tradition of the team (Kenny Washington, Bob Waterfield, Norm VanBrocklin, the Fearsome Foursome, Lawrence “of Los Angeles” McCutcheon, Jack Youngblood, perennial quarterback controversies, etc.) – and of a team that along with the Lakers and the Dodgers formed about as interesting and dynamic a sports landscape a city will ever experience and then thinks of the 2nd largest city in America that would actually rather not have an NFL team …. for the woman owner that liked to give out crystals and stuffed animals to her players, this is her legacy.
And this is for Pops. A soundbyte of which was a staple on the show of another L.A. sports legend, Jim Healy.
Georgia Frontiere…. R.I.P.
Frontiere, a former dancer, singer and showgirl married multi-millionaire and then-Los Angeles Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom after the two were introduced in the late 50s by Kennedy patriarch, Joe Kennedy. Rosenbloom died in 1979 in a drowning accident that to this day is shrouded in mystery, after which Frontiere was able to successfully wrest control of the Rams from Rosenbloom’s son Steve for whom he intended to leave ownership.
Frontiere, then engaged in what was nearly a 15-year campaign to move the Rams, which was the first NFL franchise on the West Coast (relocated from Cleveland) to her hometown of St. Louis. In what could charitably be called corporate sabotage under her ownership, she was able to convince the NFL that the Rams were no longer financially viable in the Southern California market (after nearly 35 years playing in the L.A. Coliseum they had since moved to Anaheim Stadium in 1980) and was thus able to take advantage of a sweet-heart stadium deal when St. Louis ponied-up tax-payer dollars for a new domed stadium to facilitate their move in 1995.
Shortly thereafter the Rams moved to St. Louis and the Raiders who had relocated from Oakland in the early 80s returned to the Bay Area. Although constantly talked about and used as a bargaining chip both in the NFL and in the byzantine world of Los Angeles
City politics, there has not since been an NFL franchise in Los Angeles.
For this Gen-Xer who grew up listening to Bob Starr and Dick “Scooter” Bass broadcast the Ram games on K-ABC radio and who was acutely aware of the tradition of the team (Kenny Washington, Bob Waterfield, Norm VanBrocklin, the Fearsome Foursome, Lawrence “of Los Angeles” McCutcheon, Jack Youngblood, perennial quarterback controversies, etc.) – and of a team that along with the Lakers and the Dodgers formed about as interesting and dynamic a sports landscape a city will ever experience and then thinks of the 2nd largest city in America that would actually rather not have an NFL team …. for the woman owner that liked to give out crystals and stuffed animals to her players, this is her legacy.
And this is for Pops. A soundbyte of which was a staple on the show of another L.A. sports legend, Jim Healy.
Georgia Frontiere…. R.I.P.
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