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Either way you want to say it...it was a horrible or genius lease, depending on which way you want to look at it.... The Rams would still be in St Louis if the CVC did fulfill the promise of keeping the stadium top tier... They declined to and the Rams said thank you. As I'm sure they were hoping and banking on them not fulfilling such a bad lease agreement and the rest is history.
Which is simply to say Kroenke wanted to move to LA. A community-centered owner could have found a way to keep them there. So I never buy the "St.L blame" thing. I don't think LA fans need that either. They don;t have to go around finding ways to say St.L did something to itself. They could just admit that SK simply wanted to increase the value of the team cause that's his main thing (period), and lucky for LA fans he did.
Exactly... I don't blame St Louis for not holding up that lease promise, it was insane.....but at the same time, it was those same CVC that agreed to such an insane lease in their desperation to woe Georgia out of LA.
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I don't blame Stan for taking advantage of that situation and returning the Rams to LA.
I do. In this sense. I don't have a high regard for values associated with becoming the most valuable and richest team. I have a much higher regard for values associated with community. So I like the Rooney NFL more than the Jones/Kroenke NFL. I don't care if they "grow the product." Especially when that comes at the expense of things I do value. It's a choice to think like that and it's one I do not honor.
HOWEVER, there's no point in fighting about that...that's not me throwing a gauntlet down to LA fans. LA fans are not part of that equation. They aren't responsible for SK's motives. They're just Rams brothers like me and I have no quarrel with them. I am sorry for the St.L fans we lost (and that includes some old friends), but the LA fans had nothing to do with that, they're just glad they have their team, and that's not something to be criticized.
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