Rams back to LA?

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jdm61

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Media reports say that Stan Kroenke has bought 60 acres at the Hollywood Park/Forum site in Englewood and plans to put an 80,000 seat stadium there and move the Rams if no deal is forthcoming in St. Louis. he supposedly has a preliminary agreement with the developers that own the other 238 acres of the former horse track to tie his stadium into their massive development of a sports and entertainment district. I think that this is one situation where the owner may not be pushing for a better deal in the current location even though Koernke is from Missouri. The thing that might make this deal work where others have failed? No tax money needed or requested and no out of whack deal where you have to give Anschutz Entertainment half of the team in exchange for the stadium like you would have for Farmers Field or build in the middle of nowhere like with the proposed stadiums in City of Industry. LA may be the one market where Kroenke can take his $1 billion team (which he paid a lot less for) build a $1 billion dollar stadium and possibly have the most valuable sports tema i the world to the tune of somewhere north of $3 billion the day he moves into the new park. Even moe fun is the idea that Kroenke and his wife, the former Miss Ann Walton of Bentonville, Arkansas, can probably do this deal fro cash. :eek: it's good to be the King!!:D
 
Well, he sure f'ed up the Rams season ticket sales here in St. L. Listening to the radio today it seems the Rams fans will NOT support the team after Kroenke's lack of commitment to the fans and staying in the city. The NFL says the Rams are to exaust all resourses to keep the team in the city- but Kroenke hasn't done anything except appeal the condition of the Edward Jones Dome. I wish we would have gotten the expansion team instead of the Rams!!!

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From a life long St. Louis resident, I say GO CHIEFS!!!!!!! (since I will not support the Cardinals :))

I agree with Monofletch, wish we had the expansion team instead.
 
So glad I'm not in LA anymore, like they need more traffic lol.

I guess it'll be cool to root for a home team now... not that I watch football, it's always on at work.
 
If the two parties are $475 million apart, that is a LOT. Like as much or more a NEW NFL stadium cost when we built ours here in Tampa in 1996. Loyalty is all good and fine, but when you look at the second biggest media market in the US, and with a single NFL franchise, the most valuable in the country and perhaps the world for an owner, and two LA teams selling for over $2 billion in the last couple of years, what are you to do? We are talking perhaps TRIPLING the value of your asset here and owning the whole enchilada. No gummint "partners" and what have you. A few years back, Frobes or someone of equal stature said that a team moving to LA might instantly be worth $2 billion and that was back when the Cowboys and Manchester United were worth LESS than that. This is a business decision pure and simple. If you want to figure out a way to own a pro sports team just to boost your already huge ego like in the old days, go talk to Daniel Snyder or Steve Balmer. :D This deal looks more like a super size version of the one that Robert Kraft has done in Foxboro what with all of the additional development around the stadium. Kroenke was rich before his wife inherited her cut of Wal Mart and he got there by developing real estate. He knows what he is doing and with one move, he appears to have cleared all of the previous obstacles that kept a team from moving to LA and he did it the old fashioned way by just deciding to pay for it himself like Joe Robbie did back in the day with his new stadium in Miami.
Monofletch said:
Well, he sure f'ed up the Rams season ticket sales here in St. L. Listening to the radio today it seems the Rams fans will NOT support the team after Kroenke's lack of commitment to the fans and staying in the city. The NFL says the Rams are to exaust all resourses to keep the team in the city- but Kroenke hasn't done anything except appeal the condition of the Edward Jones Dome. I wish we would have gotten the expansion team instead of the Rams!!!

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I agree with you- It is all about the money. I wish he would have waived is right of first refusal and sold the team to Shahid Khan.
 
Why would he have done that? As for Mr, Khan, do you think that he will keep the Jags in Jacksonville if a better opportunity arises?
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I agree with you- It is all about the money. I wish he would have waived is right of first refusal and sold the team to Shahid Khan.
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At the time Khan was all about committing to the Rams and the city. The fan base was ecstatic. It would have been a whole lot easier to renew my season tickets knowing the team would be here for the long term.


That is why I am a Seahawks fan! :D
 
The Rams just lost their offensive coordinator to Georgia. The University of Georgia announced Wednesday that Brian Schottenheimer has left his post as offensive coordinator of the Rams to join the school in the same role.

Pretty good timing. :grumpy:
 
Well, considering Lane Kiffin's hiring at Alabama, what Auburn gave Will Muschamp and the fact that Jim Harbaugh took $5 million instead of $8 million a year so that he could hire top coordinators, I think we can safely say that there is a bit of a coaching "arms race" going on in the upper echelon of college football.
Monofletch said:
The Rams just lost their offensive coordinator to Georgia. The University of Georgia announced Wednesday that Brian Schottenheimer has left his post as offensive coordinator of the Rams to join the school in the same role.

Pretty good timing. :grumpy:
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LA doesn't deserve an NFL team. They are the only city that has had, and lost, two of them. However, the owners want to break into that market, so it will happen. The big money is all in the tv rights anyway, they would make a fortune if they played in an empty stadium.
 
Shann said:
LA doesn't deserve an NFL team. They are the only city that has had, and lost, two of them. However, the owners want to break into that market, so it will happen. The big money is all in the tv rights anyway, they would make a fortune if they played in an empty stadium.
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no, the EXTRA big money is in the fact that Hollywood bozos pay thousands of dollars to sit in folding chairs court side at Lakers games. The "premium revenue" possibilities are through the roof. Think new Yankee Stadium with twice as many seats or Jerry World with higher prices.
 
jdm61 said:
no, the EXTRA big money is in the fact that Hollywood bozos pay thousands of dollars to sit in folding chairs court side at Lakers games. The "premium revenue" possibilities are through the roof. Think new Yankee Stadium with twice as many seats or Jerry World with higher prices.
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Good point. They should just make the entire stadium with booths and clubrooms. That way everybody could pay more and nobody would have to sit with the riff raff. Every time they build a new stadium, it seems to get more and more high end suites, so they should just go ahead and do the whole thing that way. Maybe throw a few thousand seats in to placate the actual fans who would like to be at the game.
 
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