Their current preseason TV announcers on WFLD ( Channel 32 ), which also carries the majority of the team's regular season games through the NFL on Fox, are Sam Rosen ( play-by-play ), Erik Kramer ( color commentary ) and Lou Canellis ( sideline reporter ).

John W. Mecom, Jr., a young oilman from Houston, became the team's first majority stockholder.

Becoming the team's majority stockholder in 1973, Hess bought Philip H. Iselin's share upon his death in 1976 after which only two of Hess ' partners remained, Townsend Martin and Helen Dillon, who had inherited the stake from her father Donald Lillis, upon his death.

In spite of these issues, majority owner Leon Hess was interested in renewing the team's lease at Shea, which was due to expire in 1983.

Then in the offseason, Redskins majority owner Jack Kent Cooke moved from Los Angeles to Virginia and took over the team's day-by-day operations from Edward Bennett Williams.

Taubman would be the merged team's majority owner, while Taube remained chairman of the board.

Ron Alexander was appointed as the team's inaugural coach in September 1986, with the inaugural squad, comprising a majority of players from the West Australian Football League ( WAFL ), unveiled in late October.

He was the majority owner of the Montreal Expos franchise in Major League Baseball from the team's formation in 1968 until 1990.

Because most other teams wear their colors at home, the Cowboys end up wearing white in the vast majority of their games ; the team's early owners recognized this fact and believed it would lead to better recognition on television, and the tradition remains today.

Raycroft played 11 games total for the Bruins in his first season, while playing the majority of his first three professional seasons with the team's minor league affiliate, the Providence Bruins of the American Hockey League ( AHL ).

Over seventeen seasons the Warriors have claimed one minor premiership ( in 2002 ), reached two grand finals ( 2002 and 2011 ), reached the play-offs 7 times, and provided the majority of the New Zealand national team's players.

In 1964 Ring, in spite of being out of inter-county hurling for over a year, let it be known that he was available to play on the county team but he was turned down by majority decision of the team's selection committee.

The majority of stages are inside huge tents-insurance against the Netherlands climate-with the main stage's tent, Alpha, being approximately the size of a premiership football team's pitch.

Some are aired live, but a majority of these contests air on a tape-delayed basis, using the home team's local broadcast for the first half and the visitors ' broadcast for the second half and overtime if necessary.

Marvin Goldklang is the team's majority owner.

1982 saw a full season with Osella, with Jarier securing the team's best-ever finish with 4th at the San Marino Grand Prix ( which was boycotted by the majority of British teams ).

Following the Rolex 24, he moved to the team's No. 97 car and competed in the majority of the races with Gunter Schaldach.

The pilots are all Royal Jordanian Air Force personnel and are selected from the cream of the crop of the RJAF on a competitive basis to join the team for a 3-4 year posting ( throughout the majority of the team's existence it has had five pilots and three to four engineers for each given season ).

While at Hartlepool, Williams played the majority of the first team's games due to the injury of captain Micky Barron, but when Barron returned he was moved to the bench.

His third year, coaching a mostly young, untested team, Alford's Lobos nevertheless won the regular season MWC title for the second year in a row, were ranked in the top 15 for the majority of the year, and earned a # 3 seed in the NCAA Tournament, the team's first bid since 2005.

The of Anaheim phrase was included in the official name to comply with a provision of the team's lease at Angel Stadium which requires that the team's name " include the name Anaheim therein ", although it was correctly anticipated that the team would be referred to as simply the " Los Angeles Angels " by the media and the majority of the public.

WBAL produces and airs the majority of the team's preseason games, but will use the NBC network feed if NBC picks up a Ravens preseason game for telecast.

As Welsh fly-half he scored the majority of the team's points, his best game being the victory in Paris in which he scored 14 points including a drop goal and made a searing 60 metre break which led to Martyn Williams ' first try.

Indians General Manager John Hart and team owner Richard Jacobs managed to turn the team's fortunes around.

Greenberg immediately became the favorite to become the new team's first owner and persuaded Veeck to join him as his partner.

2009 marked a low point, with the team's attendance averaging around 50, 000, causing seven of the eight home games to be blacked out, and leading NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to address the issue with owner Wayne Weaver.

Manager Clark Griffith joined the team in 1912 and became the team's owner in 1920.

The team's owner and manager for its first 50 years was Connie Mack, and its Hall-of-Fame players included Chief Bender, Frank " Home Run " Baker, Jimmie Foxx and Lefty Grove.

The new owner, Bob Carpenter, Jr., scion of the Delaware-based DuPont family, tried to polish the team's image by unofficially changing its name to the " Bluejays ".

In the days before the game, most sports writers were speculating over whether, if the Raiders won, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle would present the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the team's owner Al Davis.

Part of the team's spotty performance might have been that the new coach and the new owner did not really get along well, and Belichick came to serve during the 1996 season as the head coach's interface with the Kraft family and the non-football operations side of the business.

In 2000, he became part owner of the Phoenix Coyotes, and following the 2004 – 05 NHL lockout he became the team's head coach.

Sagal, team owner and president, began a mental decline in 1962, and the team's other stockholders found it difficult to make decisions without their boss.

The South Bay city of San Jose has shown continuing, strong interest to be the team's new home, and is the preferred destination for current team owner Lew Wolff.

Jackson and Steinbrenner would reconcile, and Steinbrenner would hire him as a " special assistant to the principal owner ", making Jackson a consultant and a liaison to the team's players, particularly the minority players.

Despite assurances made when he purchased the team in 1994 that the Whalers would remain in Hartford at least through 1998, in March 1997 owner Peter Karmanos announced that the team would move elsewhere after the 1996 – 97 season because of the team's inability to negotiate a satisfactory construction and lease package for a new arena in Hartford.

The team's popularity had begun to sag due to fan discontent with owner George Shinn's personnel moves ; he had reportedly traded Mourning and several other stars out of an unwillingness to pay them market value.

In 1974, Zollner sold the team to Bill Davidson, who remained the team's principal owner until his death on March 14, 2009.

Cooke was a more hands-on owner than Short, and overhauled the team's operations.

One of the team's limited partners was New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who lived in Tampa during the year.

The team's first owner was coffee tycoon Frederic McLaughlin, who outbid grain magnate James E. Norris for the franchise.

The team's performance would improve in 1978, when new owner Peter Pocklington acquired Wayne Gretzky as an under-age player ( consequentially, his first year of WHA experience prevented him from being an official 1979 – 80 NHL rookie ), as well as goaltender Eddie Mio and forward Peter Driscoll, from the recently-folded Indianapolis Racers for cash.

McFarlane, who is a former minority owner of the Edmonton Oilers, designed the logo used on the team's alternate third jersey, which debuted in 2001.

Branson and Tony Fernandes, owner of Air Asia and Lotus F1 Racing, had a bet for the 2010 F1 season where the team's boss should work on the winner's airline for a day dressed as a stewardess.

The team's owner is the Yomiuri Group, a media conglomerate which includes two newspapers and a television network.