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To: perez24
There weren’t that many Rams fans in St. Louis anyway. The stadium was part of the stipulations for moving the team there. As an ex-St. Louisan I’m glad they didn’t pay hundreds of millions to upgrade/build a stadium for 10 events per year.

Part of that might be the team's performance. Their management was whining about getting a new stadium / upgrades constantly. Personally, if I'd been the mayor my response would've been along the lines of "try winning some games, then we'll talk about it."
21 posted on 09/23/2016 7:00:51 AM PDT by JamesP81
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To: JamesP81

Back in 2014-15 when all the talk was about the Rams moving back to LA, a St Louis sportswriter did a comparison of St Louis Rams attendance over previous five years, when they were uniformly bad, to LA Rams attendance in the mid-80’s, when the Rams were pretty good and often made the play-offs. St Louis attendence was SUBSTANTIALLY higher. Don’t fault the St. Louis fans for not supporting the team until it became clear Kronke was going to move them no matter what.


44 posted on 09/23/2016 7:30:24 AM PDT by McGarrett (Book'em Danno)
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