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
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DON HENLEY LYRICS
"The Boys Of Summer"
Nobody on the road
Nobody on the beach
I feel it in the air
The summer's out of reach
Empty lake, empty streets
The sun goes down alone
I'm driving by your house
Though I know you're not home
But I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got your hair combed back and your sunglasses on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone
I never will forget those nights
I wonder if it was a dream
Remember how you made me crazy?
Remember how I made you scream
Now I don't understand what happened to our love
But babe, I'm gonna get you back
I'm gonna show you what I'm made of
I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
I see you walking real slow and you're smilin' at everyone
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone
Out on the road today, I saw a DEADHEAD sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said, "Don't look back. You can never look back"
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know?
Those days are gone forever
I should just let them go but-
I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got that top pulled down and that radio on, baby
And I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone
I can see you-
Your brown skin shinin' in the sun
You got that hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby
I can tell you my love for you will still be strong
After the boys of summer have gone
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Officials for St. Louis, St. Louis County and Missouri, who together pay off Dome debt and send it $4 million for yearly maintenance, are now searching for dollars.
In a letter prepared for the three sponsors, McMurtry suggested continuing the $4 million annual upkeep payments, at a minimum. But that won’t be enough, he noted. To fund Dome maintenance for the next 15 years, government leaders will need to consider sending the Dome an additional $40 million in cash, or selling $40 million in new bonds.
Maintenance of the Dome, unlike at its sister facilities, falls almost entirely on the backs of the public. Busch Stadium is a private ballpark, funded largely by the St. Louis Cardinals. The Scottrade Center, too, was built with $135 million from local companies, and is maintained by the owners of the St. Louis Blues.
Moreover, planning the future of the Dome is hampered by an additional problem:
It is unclear exactly who will use it.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.