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1 posted on 01/12/2016 11:24:05 PM PST by ScottWalkerForPresident2016
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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.


2 posted on 01/12/2016 11:28:55 PM PST by Fhios (Change isn't always good. Just look at the Dinosuars.)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

And my Jets are going straight back to hell next year.

couldn’t make the playoffs with almost no winning teams facing them.

should have won three superbowls over past 40 years.

Two with the NY Sack Exchange.

At least One with the Rex Ryan defense the first two years.

they have not had so much as a GOOD QB since Namath.

fitzpatrick did what fitzpatrick does. Bills said they never worried at the end because they had him and this is what he does. fall apart in the most critical games.

he’s a FAIR QB. in today’s game, that doesn’t cut it.


5 posted on 01/12/2016 11:37:30 PM PST by dp0622 (i .)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

Los Angeles is a bad market for football.


6 posted on 01/12/2016 11:37:32 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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Packers to adopt St. Louis fans


13 posted on 01/13/2016 12:15:39 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Once elected who can make the best deals with Congress?)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

Now the word is that the Raiders may move to San Antonio, but I think there’s no way Jerry Jones is going to allow that to happen.


15 posted on 01/13/2016 12:22:36 AM PST by dfwgator
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To say that some people are upset by this decision is a major understatement. There’s a column by Paul Friswold, a writer for the Riverfront Times of St. Louis, entitled “ F**k You, Stan Kroenke, and the Toupee You Rode in Under”;
On a personal note, when I read about City A wailing because the sports franchise they lured away from City B with tax cuts and sweetheart deals is now being lured away by City C with the same tactics, I’m reminded of a line from an old song. “You knew durn well I was a snake before you took me in...”


16 posted on 01/13/2016 12:29:16 AM PST by Exeter (Hillary Clinton's new campaign slogan-"Gimme that crown! It's MINE!")
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

They had some glory in LA though they were usually perennially 2nd or 3rd best.

Yes, and all of this about stadiums has me fed up and a major reason why I did not watch much of the NFL this year.

These teams have stadiums, improve them if anything.


22 posted on 01/13/2016 1:12:24 AM PST by BeadCounter (,)
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One can look it up, the oldest actual functioning team in the NFL which was a pre-NFL team are the Cardinals. So, they were of course, in Chicago, St. Louis and now in Arizona.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Cardinals

And one can read that perhaps, this 118 year old team had a history even before being the Chicago Cardinals. A team that has also had a lot of downs.


23 posted on 01/13/2016 1:19:05 AM PST by BeadCounter (,)
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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....


27 posted on 01/13/2016 2:33:31 AM PST by wayoverontheright (A falling camel attracts many knives.......)
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Eagles bump


39 posted on 01/13/2016 4:41:34 AM PST by foreverfree
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The Los Angeles Rams. That has a nice ring to it...... Hey, wait a minute!


40 posted on 01/13/2016 5:01:54 AM PST by InvisibleChurch
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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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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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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: 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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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.


67 posted on 01/13/2016 11:00:50 AM PST by the scotsman
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

I just have one question:

How will this be worked into the story line of Ray Donovan?


71 posted on 01/13/2016 11:48:08 AM PST by Yaelle (Since PC is not actually "correct," it should be renamed Political Pandering.)
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To: ScottWalkerForPresident2016

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.


73 posted on 01/13/2016 11:51:10 AM PST by InvisibleChurch
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