Delta Burke, we still dig your ownership style

She'd have never fired a coach at midseason, would she? And then blamed Chris Mortensen for it.

We're talking about Georgia Frontiere, when she owned the Rams. Unlike the team now, that canned its coach this week -- a day before former L.A. rival, the Oakland Raiders, dumped theirs.

Oh, if only they were back in L.A., the both of 'em, competing for media attention while the Dodgers and Angels were gearing up for the playoffs.

In response to the new 10th anniversary release of "Sports Night," (blog item from yesterday linked here) someone asked if the old HBO series, "1st & Ten" was available.

Of course. This is America. If money can be made, someone's trying.

Issued in 2006, the six-disc series is available on Amazon.com (linked here) for a mere $26.98.

A recap: The series ran from 1984-1990, with Delta Burke as the owner of the California Bulls as a result of a divorce settlement (not a husband mysteriously dying in the ocean). It was HBO's first original series, by the way, and it probably ran out of steam after a few episodes, with cameos by Marcus Allen, O.J. Simpson, John Matuszak, Brian Bosworth, Joe Namath, Eric Dickerson and Warren Moon making it worth checking out once and awhile (unlike "Arli$$"). (It even used Al Cowling as an assistant coach for the Bulls). Mostly, it kept a lot of unemployed USC and UCLA players in the game a few years longer than their intended shelf life, and kept USFL game action video in the loop.