The Rams don't like St Louis

[Felix Leiter]

Never saw Al Davis's kid before. Wow! Mark Davis looks as crazy as his old man with that strange haircut. How long before he calls the NFL's bluff and wants to put Las Vegas in play? Imagine Raider Nation in Sin City?
Why is the Chicagoland area never mentioned as a possible relocation site for an AFC team? Put a state-of-the-art stadium complex in DuPage County and it might be the push the Bears to compete.

[Sammy Sofa]

Never saw Al Davis's kid before. Wow! Mark Davis looks as crazy as his old man with that strange haircut. How long before he calls the NFL's bluff and wants to put Las Vegas in play? Imagine Raider Nation in Sin City?
Why is the Chicagoland area never mentioned as a possible relocation site for an AFC team? Put a state-of-the-art stadium complex in DuPage County and it might be the push the Bears to compete.

Because likely there's nobody who would pay for the stadium. Publicly funded stadiums have been exposed as the money pits/scams they are, and Illinois and Chicago are way too damn broke to even dream of such a thing.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

One of the owners to vote against this was Mike Brown...

Brown has a well-documented reputation for refusing to go along with anything that helps the league become bigger and better. His primary concern in those situations is the impact of the new revenue on the salary cap.

So Brown prefers the status quo, especially when the status quo doesn’t require him to spend more money on players.

Wait you're telling me this passed 30-2 and the two no votes weren't from the Chargers and Raiders?

Raiders and Browns.

Bengals

[David]

Never saw Al Davis's kid before. Wow! Mark Davis looks as crazy as his old man with that strange haircut. How long before he calls the NFL's bluff and wants to put Las Vegas in play? Imagine Raider Nation in Sin City?
Why is the Chicagoland area never mentioned as a possible relocation site for an AFC team? Put a state-of-the-art stadium complex in DuPage County and it might be the push the Bears to compete.

Because likely there's nobody who would pay for the stadium. Publicly funded stadiums have been exposed as the money pits/scams they are, and Illinois and Chicago are way too damn broke to even dream of such a thing.

also the bears don't need to be pushed to compete

they just need to be better at hiring smarter people who are doing said competing (which hopefully they've done)

[Sammy Sofa]

Just push the McCaskeys into the lake.

[jersey cubs fan]

message to St. Louis:


https://youtu.be/pBA8CZUWUR0

[Sammy Sofa]

message to St. Louis:


https://youtu.be/pBA8CZUWUR0

I imagine bartenders growling "we don't serve their kind here!" happens a LOT in St. Louis.

[Banedon]

Why is the Chicagoland area never mentioned as a possible relocation site for an AFC team? Put a state-of-the-art stadium complex in DuPage County and it might be the push the Bears to compete.

[Banedon]

One of the owners to vote against this was Mike Brown...

Brown has a well-documented reputation for refusing to go along with anything that helps the league become bigger and better. His primary concern in those situations is the impact of the new revenue on the salary cap.

So Brown prefers the status quo, especially when the status quo doesn’t require him to spend more money on players.

Wait you're telling me this passed 30-2 and the two no votes weren't from the Chargers and Raiders?

Raiders and Browns.

Bengals

Orange in the uniform, starts with a B...close enough.

[Ding Dong Johnson]

Orange in the uniform, starts with a B...close enough.

[Banedon]

Orange in the uniform, starts with a B...close enough.

Yeah, could've gone with the Bears too. Shut up.

[BigbadB]

Lawrence Phillips was so dejected by the Rams announcement, he commit suicide in his prison cell today.

[Pushfrog98]

I guess Lawrence Phillips was taking the news pretty hard.

Too soon!

[minnesotacubsfan]

message to St. Louis:


https://youtu.be/pBA8CZUWUR0

Nobody does

[Lenny]

St. Louis is better off for it..

How is St Louis better off for an NFL team leaving the city?

One step closer to just burning it all down and starting over.

As opposed to that gleaming, progressive Constantinople of the Midwest, Chicago.

But I agree. The Stadium site Peacock & Co. proposed was not viable. I wrote a post here over a year ago how StL has faced three "500 year" floods since 1972, and we just had another one over Christmas. Our region has a major problem coordinating the building/management of levees.

But StL's biggest problem is brain drain. And the fact that half the city makes Detroit blush. The town is an absolute dump.

[Sammy Sofa]

As opposed to that gleaming, progressive Constantinople of the Midwest, Chicago.

[minnesotacubsfan]

St. Louis is better off for it..

How is St Louis better off for an NFL team leaving the city?

One step closer to just burning it all down and starting over.

As opposed to that gleaming, progressive Constantinople of the Midwest, Chicago.

But I agree. The Stadium site Peacock & Co. proposed was not viable. I wrote a post here over a year ago how StL has faced three "500 year" floods since 1972, and we just had another one over Christmas. Our region has a major problem coordinating the building/management of levees.

But StL's biggest problem is brain drain. And the fact that half the city makes Detroit blush. The town is an absolute dump.

Levees aren't the issue, it's filling in the wetlands to grow corn and soybeans etc

[Felix Leiter]

St. Louis is better off for it..

How is St Louis better off for an NFL team leaving the city?

One step closer to just burning it all down and starting over.

As opposed to that gleaming, progressive Constantinople of the Midwest, Chicago.

But I agree. The Stadium site Peacock & Co. proposed was not viable. I wrote a post here over a year ago how StL has faced three "500 year" floods since 1972, and we just had another one over Christmas. Our region has a major problem coordinating the building/management of levees.

But StL's biggest problem is brain drain. And the fact that half the city makes Detroit blush. The town is an absolute dump.

St. Louis is still fighting the Civil War and remains one of the most segregated cities in the U. S.. Many areas north of the Jones Dome are third world quality. That coupled with the drain of Fortune 500 HQ over the past 20 years, there has been a declining trend in corporate $$$. If you drive around Chicago and Minneapolis, you see new construction all over downtown. You would think the Mississippi would be perfect for riverboats and floating attractions. Last time I was there, Peoria has better riverfront development than St. louis.

[jersey cubs fan]

But StL's biggest problem is brain drain. And the fact that half the city makes Detroit blush. The town is an absolute dump.

Brian drain shouldn't be a problem if they just hack into every other city's supply.




That being said, you can't have brain drain without brains and STL has never been an intellectual hotbed.

[XZero77]

Chicago certainly has its share of serious issues, there's absolutely no denying that. But while its lows are low, its highs are really high.

St. Louis, on the other hand, registers on a spectrum from "meh, maybe okay" to "festering sharthole". There simply aren't enough positives to make the city redeemable. It's not mentioned in the same breath as places like Detroit without just cause.

[Banedon]

Chicago certainly has its share of serious issues, there's absolutely no denying that. But while its lows are low, its highs are really high.

St. Louis, on the other hand, registers on a spectrum from "meh, maybe okay" to "festering sharthole". There simply aren't enough positives to make the city redeemable. It's not mentioned in the same breath as places like Detroit without just cause.

StL positives for me...the ballpark is nice...the zoo is pretty cool...a couple of good children's museums....

That's about it for me.

[mul21]

Having lived there for 13 years now as an "outsider", the biggest problem in my eyes is that it's such an insular place. They have no interest in change or outside thought and it's really the biggest reason that there's never any progress made toward revitalizing the downtown area. There's a ton of great stuff in the city, especially for families, but all the white folk are so damned afraid to spend any time there that it's impossible to get anything substantive done to change the reality and perception of the city.

It's really amazing to me how many people who are from St. Louis end up back there, even after going out and experiencing the rest of the world and getting great educations elsewhere. It's just a weird phenomenon.

[BigbadB]

On a related note, I'm really confused by Spanos. He is currently one of the most hated people in San Diego at the moment. Him and his lawyer. But it's because he won't sit down for discussions on keeping the team in San Diego. And with the way this vote went down, he got royally screwed on moving to LA. If he does move the team, he's just going to be a lowly renter and his team will be a shadow of the Rams in that town. He doesn't have near the money to take on a full partnership with Kroenke, and Kroenke knows it and is going to play him like a fiddle if he decides to latch on to Kroenke's coattail. He's really caught between a rock and a hard place at this point and whatever decision he makes is not what he wanted.

The cost to move the team is $550m. He'll play a season at the Coliseum where the Chargers will be the 4th most popular team playing there. He will always share the market, and that proved that it didn't work before.

Or, he could could take the $550m he would be using to relocate and the added $100m that the NFL is just handing him to build a stadium in San Diego, and he could own his own stadium and have the entire market to himself. And the fans would stop hating him here in San Diego because he'd finally be doing exactly what the fans have wanted him to do from the start. Maybe it's been leverage all along to get the city to build the stadium for him, but San Diego has held firm on not doing it. After watching what just happened in St. Louis, San Diego is smart in not caving to the demands.

[MWV]

Having lived there for 13 years now as an "outsider", the biggest problem in my eyes is that it's such an insular place.

It's really amazing to me how many people who are from St. Louis end up back there

I lived there 6 years. How many times have you been asked what high school you went to, only to be met with bafflement when you explain that you attended school outside the st. louis metro area?

[Felix Leiter]

Good points, BB. When Al Davis had the Raiders in LA in the 80's, he wanted to develop the Englewood site for a new stadium. He claims the NFL blocked him and he was forced to move back to Oakland. On the San Diego side, Spanos apparently mentioned to Kronke a couple years ago that WalMart owned 60 acres of the Englewood property and was offering it around. Although Kronke married a Walton relative, he didn't know the property might become available. He never got back to Spanos and then later on purchased it. I'm thinking Spanos was ripped.

The Oakland/San Diego deal in Carson was doomed unless one of them was moved out of the same division.

As an old coot(David's words), the #19 baby blue Lance Alworth jersey remains one of the coolest jerseys ever. People called him 'Bambi', David. I hope they somehow wind up staying in San Diego