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To: SoCal Pubbie

I’m just telling the facts. The facts are that the deal to get the Rams there included a guarantee that the stadium would stay in the top 25%. The city did not do what was necessary to maintain that. That’s what it all boils down to. $280 million 20 years earlier means NOTHING. The city failed to upgrade the stadium to keep it in the top 25%. PERIOD. If they city had kept their half the bargain the Rams would still be in St Louis.

Your problem is you’re obsessing on picayune details that MEAN ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. A lot happened to get the Rams deal together, including some very cheap land and the freedom for Kronke to do basically whatever he wanted with it. While from the angle you’re coming at that doesn’t seem like much. It is. You can tell because the Rams moved. Inglewood gave Kronke what he wanted. While that might not have been stuff in my original list it still matters, because my list was just examples of what often is included in these kind of deals. Wasn’t doctrine. Wasn’t saying those were in every deal. Simply that those were thing that often made these moves good business deals.

The Rams move was a good business deal. The details of which mean NOTHING. Stop obsessing on what doesn’t matter.


45 posted on 10/31/2021 10:34:18 AM PDT by discostu (Like a dog being shown a card trick )
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To: discostu

I’m not obsessing about anything. We are talking at cross purposes here. I suppose it’s true, the deals the pro teams make are good fir their businesses. But it’s crony capitalism. The taxpayer gets hosed every time. The city of St Louis threw A LOT more money at Georgia Frontiere than they did at Stan Kronke. It’s a myth that cities benefit from having an NFL team.

“If they city had kept their half the bargain the Rams would still be in St Louis.”

Maybe, maybe not. They may have found another way to wiggle out. He wanted OUT of St Louis. He had no desire to stay. Kronke is a developer and he’s developing the land in Inglewood in ways he NEVER would have be able to in St Louis.


46 posted on 10/31/2021 11:00:25 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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