Time to expand NFL to 40 teams.
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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The problem is that with Saint Louis it’s not a huge market, and whatever franchise that moves in there won’t have the history, and I think fan support will be very conditional on whether the team does well or not. The baseball Cardinals own St Louis in terms of fandom.
L.A. can have the Lions too.
Are you one of them?
No, how about you? You one of them?
That would be Cleveland.
What do you think, dummy?
Yeah you got a point
Be honest I am raider fan I didn’t want Raiders either if I have pick I pick Rams over the Raiders on this choice
One thing I don’t like about US sports.
To do this in the UK and Europe would be unthinkable, stadiums yes, but move cities, no.
I’ve been in since the Desert Rats headed for Phoenix.
Well obviously the same you were thinking about me, dummy.
I suspect LA is a place with a lot of transplants who still root for their old team.
I just have one question:
How will this be worked into the story line of Ray Donovan?
At least in Soccer, that’s because almost every city has at least one professional team, albeit they may be in a lower division. I think there are over 700+ clubs who actually compete for the FA Cup across all divisions.
In 1995, The Rams signed a 20 year contract w the city of St Louis that included a proviso(?) that the stadium it played in would be rated in the top 10% of NFL stadiums. Later, fix up for the stadium was approximated at $750mill but the city offered up only $125mill and the rest of it to be paid by the owner. Say what you will about the owner and the NFL but it WAS written in the contract and the city failed to deliver. The city fathers were depending on the owner, a Missouran, to stay because of local ties but instead made $1,000,000,000 by moving to LA. I think even JimRob would have taken the deal.
I believe it was you who said: “ they can make millions selling tickets to us.†suggesting you were one of the suckers.
No way on earth I’d pay those prices to see spoiled grown children play.
I have no sympathy for the fans when they get screwed.
Cities are much more tightly tied to their team in European sports, generally with a level of ownership stake. In America it’s a business. Always has been. And really they just follow the path of big business. Plenty of businesses make cities bid for their favors. Scarcity has a lot to do with it too. With 32 teams, 50 states, and arguably about 100 cities that could support a team, there’s always somebody saying “come over here”. That being said, things have actually been pretty stable for a long time in the NFL, that was going to end eventually. Predict the Chargers and Raiders will move in the next 5 years, then things will calm down again.
us. A not so obscure oratory device to make oneself a part of the offended and thus legitimizes our complaint.
Time to expand NFL to 40 teams.
Then the bidding wars would calm down. Scarcity is good for teams that don’t feel like building their own buildings.
They are going back to where they started from.
Before LA, they were in Cleveland.
I agree, then the stadiums that were built in the '90s aren't obsolete.
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