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Zooey
It's funny, when I was posting that Kronke was going to move, that the St. Louis stadium was doomed, that there was no way the NFL was going with a stadium in Carson when Kroenke was building an NFL Resort complex, all the posters wondered why I love Stan so much. Now I hate him, I guess. I have trouble keeping track of my feelings.
I don't care about Stan, either. I was a Rams' fan when Dan Reeves owned the team, when Rosenbloom owned it, when Frontiere owned it, and now. I am interested in ownership only insofar as how it affects what I root for on the field.
I am not trying to trash him. I think he's okay as an owner. I think he DOES want to win.
I have only been arguing in this particular thread that he cares more about his empire than he does about winning. He wants to win, but he is not a Cuban, DeBartolo, or Steinbrenner. Or like the Dodgers owners.
That doesn't even concern me, though, because with a salary cap, I don't worry about winning coming in conflict with his profits.
So, really, my ONLY point in this thread is that Kroenke doesn't lavish money around. He is a sound businessman. That is all.
And I don't know why this is such a difficult perspective to convey without it being twisted into something else.
You don;t have to love the owner to love the team .
It;s like back in 2000 when we were critical of Zygmunt, ahead of the popular vote on that one. People would get FURIOUS.
Well you can have issues with upper management and with the owner and still be a Rams fan. If anyone gets ruffled feathers about that it's on them.
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