Read somewhere that 49ers get to practice in the Superdome, we practice outside on a baseball field

[lobachevsky]

AF: Something about the juxtaposition of Goose, the Lombardi, and barbecue sauce has just sent me into fits of hysterical laughter...

[AirFlacco]

AF: Something about the juxtaposition of Goose, the Lombardi, and barbecue sauce has just sent me into fits of hysterical laughter...

Thanks, I'll tell you man, David MOdell was a cool cat and Bisciotti made a big mistake
not keeping him. He was a PR gold mine at the very least.

Here's a funny story about our SB 5 trophy that is in the Babe Ruth Museum. Most
fans don't even know we have a SB 5 trophy in town.

Rosenbloom, the Colts owner stole it and took it to LA with him when he traded the Colts
to Irsay for the Rams. Irsay was furious when he learned about the missing trophy because
the deal included everything including memorablia so he complained to the comish but
Pete Rozelle was scared of Rosey so he had a replica made. It's the only replica ever made
of the SB trophy. The original trophy was last seen in Georgia's (his wife's) sun room. She
died so it's probably in her daughter's house now. She recently sold the team. Georgia
btw, was a stripper when Rosey met her and the family didn't like her. Rosey's son was
the Rams GM but when Rosey died and Georgia took over, she kicked the son out of the
house and organization. He ended up in the Saint's front office so there is a Baltimore
connection in NO-lol. Oh yea, Rosey died swimming off his Florida estate. At 70 he was
in good shape and an expert swimmer. Georgia was questioned as a possible suspect
but no evidence was found of foul play. She re-married before the body was cold but
several years later her husband was arrested and sentenced in a big ticket scalping
scam. When Rosey died Arty called UNitas and said
Mafia frogmen just got Rosey. He owed Vegas tons of money.


The trophy ended up in the museum when Irsay settled the law suit with the city by returning all memorabilia including the trophy and the promise to vote for Bmore in the expansion
derby in exchange for dropping the case. The city accepted the offer and when Art needed
the vote to move here he got all the vote's including Irsay's.

So this will be Baltimore's 3rd SB trophy if we get it plus the NFL world championship titles
in 58, 59 and 68. That's puts us right up there with Pissburgh's 6 trophies and rings.

[RavenScallywag]

Thanks, I'll tell you man, David MOdell was a cool cat and Bisciotti made a big mistake
not keeping him. He was a PR gold mine at the very least.

Here's a funny story about our SB 5 trophy that is in the Babe Ruth Museum. Most
fans don't even know we have a SB 5 trophy in town.

Rosenbloom, the Colts owner stole it and took it to LA with him when he traded the Colts
to Irsay for the Rams. Irsay was furious when he learned about the missing trophy because
the deal included everything including memorablia so he complained to the comish but
Pete Rozelle was scared of Rosey so he had a replica made. It's the only replica ever made
of the SB trophy. The original trophy was last seen in Georgia's (his wife's) sun room. She
died so it's probably in her daughter's house now. She recently sold the team. Georgia
btw, was a stripper when Rosey met her and the family didn't like her. Rosey's son was
the Rams GM but when Rosey died and Georgia took over, she kicked the son out of the
house and organization. He ended up in the Saint's front office so there is a Baltimore
connection in NO-lol. Oh yea, Rosey died swimming off his Florida estate. At 70 he was
in good shape and an expert swimmer. Georgia was questioned as a possible suspect
but no evidence was found of foul play. She re-married before the body was cold but
several years later her husband was arrested and sentenced in a big ticket scalping
scam. When Rosey died Arty called UNitas and said
Mafia frogmen just got Rosey. He owed Vegas tons of money.


The trophy ended up in the museum when Irsay settled the law suit with the city by returning all memorabilia including the trophy and the promise to vote for Bmore in the expansion
derby in exchange for dropping the case. The city accepted the offer and when Art needed
the vote to move here he got all the vote's including Irsay's.

So this will be Baltimore's 3rd SB trophy if we get it plus the NFL world championship titles
in 58, 59 and 68. That's puts us right up there with Pissburgh's 6 trophies and rings.

Always love your stories. I knew about the replica trophy, but I didn't realize the SB 5 trophy was returned to us...well, the replica anyway. Irsay voted for the move, but didn't he vote AGAINST us in the expansion votes? I thought he ended up reneging on his deal when the expansion vote came up, which pissed me off, because truly, Art complied 100% with the agreement established between Cleveland and the NFL and him (and gave up a lot more too), while Irsay got to keep everything except the memorabilia, for simply a "gentlemen's agreement" that he'd endorse a team for us, which didn't really happen until Art Modell decided to move his franchise...

And when you talk about championships...5 NFL trophies, a Grey Cup, a USFL championship, a WSFL championship (Baltimore Burn), AIFA championship (Baltimore Mariners, now defunct)...and the NFL didn't think we were a hungry football town?

[AirFlacco]

Thanks Scally and back to you on your great posts. Always learn from you.

YOu're right, I was thinking about when Art got the vote to move but Irsay voted vs us in the expansion derby but
he didn't renege. As I remember now, there was an time frame and that vote came afterwards so he wasn't
obligated and stuck it to us again.

Art got 100% approval for the move but that came later and Jimmy was running things out there.

Thanks for the point.