I, and I think everyone, has been putting off this thread. For good reason. Nobody wants this to happen to their team.





Have you ever read the lyrics? Maybe, just maybe, it's not about a woman



This guy is worth $6.3 billion. Literally a real life Littlefinger.



I've been a Rams fan since the mid 2000s, and it's always been pain and misery. Either with Marc Bulger's Rams averaging 2-3 wins, or just out of reach with Jeff Fisher's Rams, and now with relocation talk for years now, the Rams have been twisting the knife a little more into my heart a little more every year.

So anyways, any of those teams can (will) move. Even if they don't, they (especially Kroenke) may pursue other options.

Voting starts tomorrow.

Kroenke also owns/ has a stake in five other professional sports teams and is married to a Walmart daughter, sick life.

also of note he's worth more than Donald Trump, who is at $4 billion

I'd be shocked if St Louis didn't move after the recent filing. Can't really see how NFL can let a team stay when they've just burned every bridge they had with the city and the fanbase.

Kroenke's burned every bridge he can. St. Louis is only one of the 3 that actually put a proposal on the table.

A++++ OP

littlefinger twin owner is hilarious

all 3 should move to LA for the lolz.

I guess I just find it weird people fall so hard for things that obviously don't care at all about them and intentionally **** them over. Stl is still paying off the old dome, why you doing anything other than telling LF to take a giant hike about building him a new one?

and on top of that the trash the whole city part.

I just linked this because it amuses me.

http://www.theonion.com/article/st-l...axpayers-51109

raiders play in a baseball dump so I don't see how going back to OAK is viable either other than rest of NFL still wanting to stick it to al davis.

without the backstage politics part I'd expect only SD to pass, they hate OAK, and expect STL forking over more public dollars is just fine with most of them. Guess LF is gonna have to promise LA beach houses to win them over.

I thought that old racist woman owned the Rams

Georgia Frontiere died in 2008 and her children sold to Kroenke. I don't recall her being a racist are you thinking of Marge Schott the Reds owner?
I was a child when Bidwell left town with the football cardinals. It sucks but giving Kroenke money would be dumb.

chargers and Rams to LA raiders to San Antonio eventually is my guess

hah, solid onion article

edit: Looked up your taxpayers thing, this is amazing...

Obv endgame is obv.

Honestly it's good for STL to not get screwed here. LOL at a city with their issues spending 9 figures on a stadium for like 10 games a year.

The Chargers already celebrated in their last home game like they're leaving SD forever.
Signed autographs after the game, starters got pulled in unison, the works.

gonna go out on a limb and guess that the stadium would be used more than 10x per year

The reports say the city already doesn't make enough without the Rams to justify the $4 million a year in maintenance it pays to keep the Dome up to snuff. So, basically, it gets used but it's irrelevant financially.

Besides, the idea that the public funding 9-figure stadiums for private entities is a bad bad idea is hardly controversial.

i wonder if it's still net neutral when you factor in stuff like traveling fans, job creation, etc. but it seems unlikely any of those things would make any sort of significant dent

and yeah publicly funded stadiums are stupid

worth losing your team for though?

I mean, I'm all for civic pride but I'm gonna go with fixing issues like crime, poverty, school funding, infrastructure (which collectively *should* have some ROI) before we worry about a team to root for.

Any money the dome makes won't touch st louis anyway. It gets airlifted out of the stadium by helicopter after the game

Owners and NFL 100% lock to do everything in their power to look like giant *******s during the entire process.

Does LA even give a **** about having a team? I mean I'm sure the tickets will be sold but I'm asking is there even going to be any passion? Only visited LA once and stayed in Long Beach .... like **** would I leave the beach to go tailgate in a parking lot in Carson for 10 hours for some hand-me-down team with a tenuous link to the 90's.

Why did the raiders and Rams leave in the first place?

Stadiums.

Raiders were playing in the Coliseum and Al was tired of it never really being updated. Rams were playing in Anaheim at Angels stadium.

St Louis offered Rams new stadium, etc. Raiders got a slightly better deal in Oakland.

i was at the last chargers home game and the whole vibe around everything was surreal

but good god the stadium is an absolute dump

the tv's they have at the concession stands, if you can even call them concession stands, where so old they had the vhs slots to put in a tape

I cannot speak for all of LA, but I know nobody who cares about getting NFL back.