St. Louis Rams – Stan Kroenke

The league’s approval last month of Kroenke’s bid to take over the Rams from Chip Rosenbloom and Lucia Rodriguez gave the franchise an instant and appreciable bounce in my rankings, and I expect the trend to continue with Stan the Man in charge. A minority football jerseys
owner since the franchise moved to St. Louis in 1993, Kroenke, a Missouri native, is highly regarded in NFL ownership circles. He has earned high marks for the way he has run organizations he owns in other sports, including the NBA’s Denver Nuggets and NHL’s Colorado Avalanche (he’ll turn over operational and financial control of both to his son, Josh, to satisfy the NFL’s cross-ownership rules) and Arsenal of the English Premier League. Short on bluster and long on performance, Kroenke should immediately help a franchise that has been rudderless since Georgia Frontiere’s death in early ’08 (and, some would argue, long before that) and which has a stadium situation almost as lousy as the team’s recent on-the cheap authentic jerseys
-field product. “That will change with Stan,” one owner predicted. “He’s a good one.”