Michael Sam Memorial Stadium
For later
If anyone wants a textbook example of how NFL team owners play cities off against each other to wring a financial bonanza out of area taxpayers, watch this story as it plays out.
Of all the teams, hate to see St Louis lose theirs. Having the Rams go to LA makes sense from the perspective that they already WERE the LA Rams, but I hope they can get another team to move to St Louis soon. They have a great downtown set up for games and a good fan base.
Los Angeles is the place NFL team threaten to move to when they want to blackmail a city into building them a new stadium. That’s why they’ll never actually *move* back to L.A.
Besides, the city already has pro football. It’s called the USC Trojans.
This has been talked about for the past few years. Is this really going to happen?
Doesn’t it take at least two years to build a stadium? Will the Rams be a lame duck team in St. Louis waiting for this stadium?
” in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood.”
Suburb ?
LOL......more like a dive.
Good for LA and football. I have enjoyed watching football this year more than ever. I am sick of the bashing that this sport gets all the time. Very undeserved. It is a wonderful sport that should be respected. If not for football none of the other sports would even survive.
How do you say RAMS in illegal Mexican alien lingo?
I was watching a Rams game over the holidays with some relatives/fans and was flabbergasted to learn that they are no longer in LA. I guess I’m more out of touch than I thought - especially when I found out how long they’ve been in whatever town they are currently in.
Michael Medved was right. The US is being divided into two groups: Those who watch TV and those who don’t.
I lived in LA when the Rams and Raiders were both in town. Neither team could draw a crowd. The Raiders hosted the AFC Championship game one year and it was blacked out locally because the Colosseum was half empty. Having witnessed the dearth of interest then makes me question why an owner would want to move a team there - aside from leveraging a new stadium deal where they are now.
Let’s see if the Ram’s owner builds the stadium USING ALL OF HIS OWN MONEY!
Whatever happened to using a rock quarry in Irwindale?
The Raiders and Rams could share it.
Inglewood is a great location. In the middle of major work centers of El Segundo - Torrance (Hughes-TRW-Herbalife-Toyota(leaving)) and Santa Monica - Wilshire (studios - tech- finance) to the north.
It would be great to have amounts of decent housing in the area. The 405 can’t handle the traffic.
From 2014 to 2022, four television networks are paying $39.6 billion for broadcast rights to NFL games. The NFL holds broadcast contracts with CBS Corporation, Comcast, 21st Century Fox and The Walt Disney Company/Hearst Corporation.
Building it with private money?
If so I am all for it.
I’ll believe it when I see it. They’ve been talking about a new stadium there for 25 years. Plus with all the illegals there, I would think soccer would be more popular than feetsball.
“Not a finger....”