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Posted on 01/12/2016 11:24:05 PM PST by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
It's over.
The NFL owners voted tonight to allow Stan Kroenke to move the Rams to Los Angeles, ending the team‘s 21-year run in St. Louis. The owners also agreed to let the San Diego Chargers explore a move to the same facility, in suburban Inglewood, which is south of L.A.
The Rams will be gone in time for next year's season.
(Excerpt) Read more at riverfronttimes.com ...
Again?
Both of then?
Watching the Vikings game over the weekend I was reminded of how much better it was when NFL Stadiums were more like The Met, and before domed stadiums, skyboxes and artificial turf.
Now we have Victoria’s Secret stores and works of art in Stadiums. What’s up with that?
Pretty much every sports venue can say the same these days.
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It’s amazing what happens when the stadium is privately funded rather than government funded, suddenly the stadium can be shared instead of each team demanding its own. This actually saves the cost of an entire stadium. Though now the teams will have to split the naming rights and advertizing space. I assume the stadium will be built with easily changeable signage. It can be IBM stadium when the Rams play and GE stadium when the Chargers play.
Everybody wins.
It’s more than 100 miles, Jones won’t have veto. Of course he’s still influential, but he’ll have to wheel.
The idiots that keep buying their ridiculously priced tickets.
Are you one of them?
They’re going back to Cleveland?
The franchise began as the Cleveland Rams in 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio. The club was owned by Homer Marshman and featured players such as William “Bud” Cooper, Harry “The Horse” Mattos, Stan Pincura, and Mike Sebastian. Damon “Buzz” Wentzel joined as general manager.
After winning the 1945 NFL Championship Game, the franchise moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1946 to become the Los Angeles Rams, making way for Paul Brown’s Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference and becoming the only NFL champion to play the following season in another city. The club played their home games at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum from 1946 until 1979.
Following the 1979 NFL season, the Rams franchise moved to Anaheim, California, playing home games at Anaheim Stadium for 15 seasons (1980-94). Prior to the 1995 season, the franchise moved to St. Louis. The St. Louis Rams were the second NFL team to be based in St. Louis; the St. Louis Cardinals (now the Arizona Cardinals) played there from 1960 to 1987. Following the 2015 NFL season, NFL owners voted 30-2 to approve the franchise’s move back to Los Angeles.
Source: Wikipedia
Heck I still say "Baltimore Colts".
I watched Ollie Matson and the Rams in the Coliseum, watched the Rams at Anaheim stadium.
I watched the Raiders on TV when they were originally in Oakland, and watched the Raiders at the Coliseum (months before the neighborhood burned from the Rodney King riots).
I watched the Dodgers at the Coliseum, and at Dodger stadium.
I watched the Lakers at the Fabulous Forum.
I have no desire to enter Lost Angeles county, or to get off the freeways when there unless it is an emergency.
I’ll stick with the segregated outer suburbs, and I don’t mean Moreno Valley or Lancaster/Palmdale.
It really only makes sense for the Rams to be in LA because of the history. I think they would get by far the lions share of local support.
“These teams have no faith and no loyalty whatsoever. Just whoever will build a billion dollar stadium so they can make millions selling tickets to us.”
Maybe they could change their name to the L.A. Gold Diggers. Then at least there would be a little truth in labeling.
The stadium appears to be situated within an area that could be “exposed†to street crimes and such, making it a precarious situation for fans on game days.
Any Rams fans who can tell me I’m wrong? Just wondering....
No, this move has been in the works for about five years, long before the Ferguson issue hit the news.
It basically comes down to an owner who can double the value of the franchise by moving it back to LA. In fact, Stan Kroenke was one of the original investors when the Rams moved from Los Angeles in 1995. So, he's benefited from an anxious and unrequited fan base twice.
When the majority owner, Georgia Frontiere passed away a while back, Kroenke bought the remaining portion of the team from her heirs, and that's pretty much when the idea to move back to LA began.
Kroenke, married to a Wal-Mart heir, seems to collect sports franchises, but doesn't seem particularly interested in collecting championships. His teams, the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, and the Rams are perennial under performers. They have added some nice zeros to his balance sheet, however.
Yup you got that they are coming home to LA LOL!
Okay what about St Louis they just lost a team
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