1. Dale Carroll Rosenbloom was an American businessman.
21 Facts About Carroll Rosenbloom
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Carroll Rosenbloom was the owner of two National Football League franchises: he was the first owner of the Baltimore Colts and later switched teams, taking ownership of the Los Angeles Rams in 1972.
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Carroll Rosenbloom has been described as the NFL's first modern owner and the first players' owner.
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Carroll Rosenbloom graduated from Baltimore City College in 1926 then later that year attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he studied psychology and business and was a two-year letterman as a halfback on the football team in 1927 and 1928.
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Penney, Blue Ridge had grown into a prosperous company allowing Carroll Rosenbloom to retire at 32.
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When Carroll Rosenbloom was named the executor of his father's estate, he chose to return to business life.
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Carroll Rosenbloom went on to buy American Totalisator and other small companies, eventually lumping them all together under the name Universal Controls, Inc.
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In January 1963, Carroll Rosenbloom let go of Coach Ewbank and hired former player Don Shula, then the youngest coach in NFL history at age 33.
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Carroll Rosenbloom was furious and successfully argued that Miami had tampered with Shula.
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However, while Carroll Rosenbloom loved the Colts, due to issues with Memorial Stadium and the city's officials, Carroll Rosenbloom wanted to leave Baltimore.
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In 1978, Carroll Rosenbloom announced plans to move the Rams to Anaheim Stadium in Orange County, citing dissatisfaction with the Los Angeles Coliseum and the location as the motives behind the move.
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Carroll Rosenbloom befriended Dr Toby Freedman as his contact within the Medical Group and family physician.
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The final conclusion was that Carroll Rosenbloom, who had been one of the first heart bypass patients, had suffered a heart attack while swimming.
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The actual outcome was not a surprise to close friends and family as Carroll Rosenbloom was trying to take advantage of the widow's tax exemption.
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Carroll Rosenbloom influenced the modern day NFL in many ways, mainly in that he envisioned that the league could be a successful business.
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Carroll Rosenbloom helped push the merger forward in 1970 by taking $3 million and agreeing to move the Colts to the American Football Conference.
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Carroll Rosenbloom was the NFL's first visible owner and its first players' owner, and envisioned revenue-generating stadiums and luxury suites before anyone else did.
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Carroll Rosenbloom was married to Velma Anderson, his first wife, when he met his second wife, 20 years his junior, who was married, at a party hosted by his friend Joseph Kennedy at his Palm Beach estate in 1957.
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Carroll Rosenbloom met seven-times-married former lounge singer Georgia Frontiere, then a TV personality in Miami.
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When Carroll Rosenbloom died, Frontiere and his five children survived him.
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Carroll Rosenbloom's granddaughter is married to Breck Eisner, son of Disney executive Michael Eisner.