Posted on 10/06/2009 8:57:34 AM PDT by AngryCapitalist
ST. LOUIS (AP)—Green Bay Packers fans are known as cheeseheads. Could fans of the St. Louis Rams soon be dittoheads?
Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday he is teaming up with St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts in a bid to buy the Rams, owners of the NFL’s longest losing streak at 14 and just 5-31 since 2007.
In a statement, Limbaugh declined to discuss details, citing a confidentiality agreement with Goldman Sachs, the investment firm hired by the family of former Rams owner Georgia Frontiere to review assets of her estate, including the NFL team.
Limbaugh also declined to discuss other partners that might be involved in the bid, but said he and Checketts would operate the team.
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Get my LA Rams back where they belong. And get them winning again.
LA sold less tickets than St Louis ever does - admittedly there is so much to do in LA. AND the only Superbowl trophy owned by the Rams is when they were the ST. LOUIS RAMS. Sorry, you can’t have them back!
>>>Get my LA Rams back where they belong. And get them winning again.<<<
Spot on!
There’s a reason LA does not have an NFL team; it’s the bogeyman every owner uses to extort money from the local politicians. Whenever a lease is up or the owner just wants a shakedown, all he has to do is start the rumor of moving to LA. It’s all a bluff; the rest of the owners have no interest in having a team in LA as it would kill their nice extortion racket.
“...admittedly there is so much to do in LA.”
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SO tired of that California rationale/excuse.
There is PLENTY to do in St. Louis as well, it ain’t Hooterville ya know. Undoubtedly there is “more” to do in LA, it is after all among a handful of world class cities, but it is not like midwestern cities twiddle their thumbs on the milking stool, or in the pig pen all week, in breathless anticipation of the next pro sporting event.
LA wont get a team back until they are ready to make some concessions and build a first class stadium. As of now, in the current political climate there is no willingness to do that. There are a lot of NFL fans in LA who don’t want a team back, because that means they get more of a selection of TV games.
That's true. But then again I've watched the Rams play before a crowd of 102,368: Nov. 10, 1957: Regular Season (L.A. Coliseum, Los Angeles, Calif.) — 49ers at Rams.
Top that one.
IMO, blackouts are going to become more common in the not-too-distant future, particularly as the economy worsens. I hear Jacksonville will be next.
The NFL has saturated the TV screen, with 3 games on Sunday. Why pay hundreds of dollars to attend a game when you can watch it in HDTV in the comfort of your own home?
My family attended the Cowboys-Giants game with SRO tickets (they're life long Cowboys fans). I opted out, because I can't stand for hours like I could when I was younger. With tickets, parking, and concessions, we spent at least $400.
A mild "day of reckoning" is coming to the NFL. They'll still make money, but they won't be able to extort the big increases from TV networks. Plus, there's no appetite for new stadiums in this economic environment. Put the Rams back in the LA Coliseum? LOL!
They'll be fools if they shut down the season in 2011.
And get them into proper White and Blue uniforms. Enough of this yellow/gold business.
The only team that will wind up in LA is the Chargers.
I didn’t know St. Louis had an NFL franchise.
I'm already calling that for the Bucs this season!
I'm already calling that for the Bucs this season!
My Cleveland Browns have a chance to go 0 - 16.
Georgia Frontiere. I met her once about 30 years ago. She picked up a friend of mine in a nightclub in Orange County just a few weeks after Rosenblum died and while she had not yet married Frontiere. Prior to running off for the rest of the evening (or night?) with my buddy, who was a number of years my senior, she hauled us over to her new office as owner of the Rams.
This was like nine at night!!! Of course, back then being the Owner of an NFL team was not the stratospheric capital item it is in recent decades.
My buddy was from Little Rock and western Arkansas and was a guy that would have been the big diamond ring, raw silk western suit, version of the Urban Cowboy gentleman-real estate tycoon. He really stuck out in Orange county and women just threw themselves at him whenever we were out on business trips together.
She was a real shark.
“I didn’t know St. Louis had an NFL franchise.”
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Right now we don’t
NCAA Division III at best with the current talent. They’d have trouble beating Agnes Scott College.
Free the Rams, damn it!
Or was she actually a cougar?
Rush is a Packers fan?
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After the serious hurtin’ the Vikes put on you (Aaron Rogers really, after 8 sacks), you’ve got chutzpah.
Watching Favre put on a clinic for Rogers last night was quite a bit like watching Brady put on a clinic for Joe Flacco. And I’m a lifelong Baltimorean.
a few multi-millionaires here, a few there, and pretty soon you’re talking about enough pooled money to pull it off..
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