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It's Official: The Rams Are Going to L.A.
Riverfront Times ^ | 01/12/2016 | Sarah Fenske

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.

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TOPICS: Sports
KEYWORDS: california; chargers; football; inglewood; kansas; losangeles; losangelesram; losangelesrams; missouri; nfl; rams; sandiego; sandiegochargers; sports; stankroenk; stlouis; stlouisrams
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

Again?


41 posted on 01/13/2016 5:19:12 AM PST by Redleg Duke (The Federal Government is nothing but a welfare program with a dress code!)
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To: stocksthatgoup

Both of then?


42 posted on 01/13/2016 5:24:33 AM PST by Redleg Duke (The Federal Government is nothing but a welfare program with a dress code!)
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To: BeadCounter

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?


43 posted on 01/13/2016 5:59:33 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: wayoverontheright
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.

Pretty much every sports venue can say the same these days.

44 posted on 01/13/2016 6:42:26 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (I got nothin'.)
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To: Perdogg

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45 posted on 01/13/2016 7:53:15 AM PST by EveningStar
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46 posted on 01/13/2016 7:54:50 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: Reaganez

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.


47 posted on 01/13/2016 8:13:01 AM PST by toast
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To: dfwgator

It’s more than 100 miles, Jones won’t have veto. Of course he’s still influential, but he’ll have to wheel.


48 posted on 01/13/2016 8:17:22 AM PST by discostu (Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right B, A, Start)
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To: Fhios

The idiots that keep buying their ridiculously priced tickets.

Are you one of them?


49 posted on 01/13/2016 9:09:28 AM PST by aquila48
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To: political1

They’re going back to Cleveland?


50 posted on 01/13/2016 9:09:40 AM PST by NCC-1701 (You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.)
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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


51 posted on 01/13/2016 9:15:55 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Netz
Every time I saw their helmets I said to myself, “LA Rams”...

Heck I still say "Baltimore Colts".

52 posted on 01/13/2016 9:17:28 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: EveningStar
They need to go back to this look. Never cared for the yellow in their uniform.


53 posted on 01/13/2016 9:19:06 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

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.


54 posted on 01/13/2016 9:21:14 AM PST by truth_seeker
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To: BlueNgold

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.


55 posted on 01/13/2016 9:22:04 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: SunkenCiv
"....Chargers tried for years to get a new stadium...."

Wrong....Chargers tried for years to get taxpayers to give them a new stadium. Sick and tired of these billionaire welfare queens in the NFL and other professional sports living it up on the public's dime.
56 posted on 01/13/2016 9:22:34 AM PST by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: Fhios

“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.


57 posted on 01/13/2016 9:25:02 AM PST by PLMerite (The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: wayoverontheright
I wonder if Ferguson had anything to do with ownership’s wanting to leave St Louis?

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.

58 posted on 01/13/2016 9:35:42 AM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: political1

Yup you got that they are coming home to LA LOL!


59 posted on 01/13/2016 9:38:01 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: dfwgator

Okay what about St Louis they just lost a team


60 posted on 01/13/2016 9:38:36 AM PST by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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