Klosterman joined the team and helped land future Hall of Famer Lance Alworth, along with Ernie Ladd, Ron Mix, John Hadl and Jack Kemp.

[3] Described as "one of football's smoothest talkers and shrewdest dealmakers" by Diane K. Shah of The New York Times,[4] he had also annually stockpiled excess draft choices that gave Los Angeles excellent trading leverage, according to Paul Attner of The Washington Post.

[5] Four months after Georgia Rosenbloom inherited a 70-percent share in the ballclub upon the April 2, 1979 death of her husband, he replaced the new majority owner's stepson Steve as executive vice president on August 16.

[6] The decision was the result of a power struggle between Klosterman, who was aligned with Georgia, and Steve, who had reassigned most of the general manager's responsibilities to director of player personnel Dick Steinberg.

[7] The relationship between Klosterman and the owner eventually deteriorated to the point that he was relegated to the figurehead role of assistant to the president-consultant and exiled from the team's facilities and games in his last two years with the Rams in 1982 and 1983.

[4] He was dismissed on July 4, 1985, in a cost-cutting measure by the USFL, which had been operating the franchise after previous owner J. William Oldenburg was forced to relinquish the team because of financial and legal issues in February of that year.

[10] He filed a breach of contract lawsuit against the Express and the USFL in California Superior Court three months later on October 8, seeking $5 million in punitive damages and $737,500 in unpaid salary and severance pay.