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mutigerram
Which is better, a team and ownership group invested enough to try and try and try or an ownership that presents to a market an interest in building roots, all the while cementing plans of his relocation. Most of STL would have understood an honest approach of I am moving to triple the franchise value vs. having Demoff present in the media a desire to stay. Transparency is important to the marriage between fans and teams. Sports are a business, but the community, emotional nature of sports have been lost in the pursuit of the every last dollar. This short term view of growing wealth will have a negative impact on the league, already has.
Agree that Goodell needs to wake up. The league will only exist if the fans support it. They continue to alienate fans every year.
Many on here may not know, but the greedy @#$%& had the gall to try to build a strip mall 5mins from the old Rams Park three months after using a scorched earth approach in relocating from STL.
Well, I haven't heard a response as to the why StL did not seriously negotiate when the lease was up. The City instead chose to break the leasing agreement they had signed and did not foot the bill to upgrade the stadium as stipulated by the contract.
After that, it was pretty obvious, IMO, to where the whole thing was going to head. The City overplayed a weak hand, as they were contractually bound, and the guy with the money called the bluff. I don't see where the City of Saint Louis had the fans in mind anymore than Stan (yes, more importantly, they had the taxpayers in mind. Understood). But to call it like Stan was a lying sack that owed anyone a lesser deal that was on a signed contract... that didn't even work in the 20th Century, much less this one. StL signed a deal to lure a team, and when that contract ran it's time did nothing to renegotiate until the moving vans were being packed.
This argument is a better one for the Chargers board. Much of what is being said doesn't exactly match.
