Who was the mother of the majority owner and chairwoman of the NFL team the Detroit Lions?
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Elizabeth Parke Firestone Elizabeth Parke Firestone (1897–1990) was the mother of Martha Firestone, who wed William Clay Ford Sr., grandson of Henry Ford. She is the daughter of Guy James Parke and Gertrude Chambers, and daughter-in-law of Harvey Firestone. Between 1915 and 1975, she acquired extraordinary clothes which today are on display at the Benson Ford Research Center. Her grandson William Clay Ford Jr., is the current Chairman of the Board of Directors for Ford Motor Company. He had previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Ford.
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Martha Firestone Ford Martha Firestone Ford (born September 16, 1925) is the majority owner and chairwoman of the NFL team the Detroit Lions, and is on the board of the Henry Ford Health System.
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Georgia Frontiere Georgia Frontiere (born Violet Frances Irwin; November 21, 1927 – January 18, 2008) was an American businesswoman and entertainer. She was the majority owner and chairperson of the Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams football team and the most prominent female owner in a league historically dominated by males.
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Johnelle Hunt Johnelle Hunt is an American billionaire, the widow of Johnnie Bryan Hunt, and co-founder of J.B. Hunt Transport Services, the company they started in 1961.
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Kathleen N. Straus Kathleen Nagler Straus (born December 3, 1923) is an activist who served as a member of the Michigan State Board of Education from 1993–2016. She has been continuously involved in civic organizations in Michigan since moving to Detroit in 1952 as a young mother. Her many volunteer and professional roles have included the Presidency of the League of Women Voters of Detroit, Executive Director of People and Responsible Organizations (PRO) for Detroit, President of the Michigan State Board of Education, and Secretary of the National Association of State Boards of Education.
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John C. Malone John Carl Malone (born March 7, 1941) is an American business executive, landowner and philanthropist. He served as chief executive officer (CEO) of Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), a cable and media giant, for twenty-four years from 1973 to 1996. Malone is now chairman of Liberty Media, Liberty Global, and Liberty Interactive all which he is the majority owner, and also owns 10% of Lionsgate/Starz Inc.. He was interim CEO of Liberty Media, until succeeded by former Oracle CFO Greg Maffei.
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1957 Detroit Lions season The Detroit Lions season resulted in the Lions winning their fourth and most recent NFL championship.
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Marguerite Norris Marguerite Ann Norris (February 16, 1927 – May 12, 1994), also known as Marguerite Riker and Marguerite Norris-Riker, was an American ice hockey executive. She was the first female team executive in National Hockey League (NHL) history.
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1935 Detroit Lions season The 1935 Detroit Lions season resulted in the Lions winning their first National Football League (NFL) championship. In their second season in Detroit and fifth under head coach Potsy Clark, the Lions placed first in the NFL's Western Division and went on to defeat the New York Giants, 26–7, in the 1935 NFL Championship Game. The leading offensive players were Dutch Clark, who led the NFL with 55 points, and Ernie Caddel, who led the league with 621 yards from scrimmage and 6.4 yards per touch.
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Jerry Jones Jr. Jerral Wayne Jones Jr. (born September 27, 1969) is the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of the Dallas Cowboys. Jones Jr. was the guiding force behind the now-defunct Dallas Desperados of the Arena Football League. He is the father of a daughter, Juliette Turner-Jones, as the result of a former relationship with television and film actress Janine Turner.
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Pat Bowlen Patrick Dennis Bowlen (born February 18, 1944) is the majority owner of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). The Bowlen Family, including his two brothers John Bowlen and Bill Bowlen, and sister Marybeth Bowlen, purchased the team from Edgar Kaiser in 1984. He served as the Broncos CEO from his purchase of the club in 1984 until July 2014, when he stepped down as Broncos' CEO due to the onset and progression of Alzheimer's disease.
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Marvella Bayh Marvella Belle Hern Bayh (February 14, 1933 – April 24, 1979) was the wife of Indiana Senator Birch Bayh and the mother of former Indiana Senator Birch Evans Bayh III (Evan).
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Debra L. Lee Debra L. Lee, Esq. (born August 8, 1955) is an American businesswoman. She is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BET, the parent company for Black Entertainment Television. She is a mother of two. Lee has sat on the board of directors for a number of companies/organizations, including the National Cable & Telecommunications Association the Ad Council, and the National Cable Television Association. Debra Lee is named one of the "100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment" by The Hollywood Reporter due to her many achievements in her 25-plus year career at BET.
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Gail Miller (businesswoman) Gail Miller (born 1943) is an American billionaire businesswoman, the widow of Larry H. Miller, and chairwoman of the Larry H. Miller Group of Companies and chairwoman of the Salt Lake Community College. She also is the owner of the Utah Jazz, a National Basketball Association (NBA) franchise based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Bill Bidwill William V. Bidwill Sr. (born July 31, 1931) is the principal owner and chairman of the board of the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL). He was co-owner from 1962 for ten seasons with his brother Charles Jr. and has been sole owner since 1972.
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Al Lerner Alfred "Al" Lerner (May 8, 1933 – October 23, 2002) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was best known as the Chairman of the Board of credit card giant MBNA and the owner of the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. He was also a past president of the Board of Trustees of the famed Cleveland Clinic as well as a major benefactor.
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1989 Detroit Lions season The Detroit Lions season was the franchise's 60th season in the National Football League, their 56th as the Detroit Lions.
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John Prchlik John George Prchlik (July 20, 1925December 31, 2003) was a professional American football defensive lineman in the National Football League. He was born into a Czech immigrant community and didn't learn English until he went to school, yet he excelled at academics and athletics at Cleveland West Technical High School. Evidence to his leadership skills and the wartime situation, he was nominated for an officers training program. He could have been placed in any university in the country, but randomly he was assigend to the ROTC program at Yale University, where among others his classmates included George Herbert Bush and William F. Buckley, a huge cultural shift from W. 44th St. in Cleveland. He served as an Ensign on the aircraft carrier, the USS White Plains in the Pacific Theater in the middle of his college career. He returned to New Haven, lettered in football, wrestling, and crew and married his wife, Patricia Hallihan, a local resident in 1949. As a college All American he played in both the 1948 East West Shrine game and the College All Star game. After playing college football at Yale, Prchlik was drafted by the Boston Yanks in the 30th round (277th overall) in the 1947 NFL Draft. He played five seasons for the Detroit Lions including their 1952 and 1953 Championship seasons and in the 1951 and 1952 seasons was defensive captain. In the off season, he worked towards his Law degree and graduated from Wayne State University in 1952. He was an executive at Ford Motor company for 30 years and had six children.
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List of Detroit Lions head coaches The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are currently a member of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The franchise has had a total of 26 head coaches in team history, which includes its existence as the Portsmouth (Ohio) Spartans (1930–1933). In the 1934 NFL season, the franchise moved to Detroit and changed their name to the Lions.
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History of the Detroit Lions The History of the Detroit Lions, a professional American football franchise based in Detroit, Michigan, dates back to 1929 when they played in Portsmouth, Ohio as the Portsmouth Spartans. Currently in their 88th season, they are one of the National Football League's oldest franchises.
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Russ Thomas John Russell Thomas (July 24, 1924 – March 19, 1991) was an American football tackle who played four seasons with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the Lions in the third round of the 1946 NFL Draft. He played college football at Ohio State University and attended Charleston High School in Charleston, West Virginia. His playing career ended in 1949 after he suffered a knee injury. Thomas was an assistant coach on the Detroit Lions 1952 and 1953 NFL Championship teams. NFL He was general manager of the Detroit Lions from 1967 till his retirement in 1989.
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Ann Romney Ann Lois Romney (née Davies; born April 16, 1949) is the wife of American businessman and politician, Mitt Romney. From 2003 to 2007, Romney was First Lady of Massachusetts, while her husband served as Governor.