Rams Approved To Relocate

[Ramhusker]

I never followed this whole saga because,well, I've been a Rams fan since 1970 while growing up in Virginia and since living in Michigan and Georgia. So, I can only imagine what it feels like to fans of the cities affected. I hope this shitpie doesn't taint any Ramdom because let's face it. This is a business and a cut throat one at that. We are like taxpayers. We pay for most of it but have no real say in the results. My Ramdom is in my heart anyways, not my wallet. So I have a bright side. I never got to see the Rams play in the Coliseum so I have been given a chance to do that in the next couple of years. And then the goal will be to see a game in the proposed new stadium. Luckily, I got to see the greatest game in the opener this season in the EJD. (I didn't see much wrong with the place and now they move to play in a much older stadium for up to 3 years??? Ok) So I feel for you in STL and am happy for the LA fans. What else can I do? I've always admired you all from afar.

 

[MTRamsFan]

Sad day. I really feel horrible for those in the St. Louis area. Band together Rams brothers! Let's stay strong and united.

 

[jjab360]

I didn't consider that. That makes it pretty clear this was a backroom deal.

Not really a backroom deal right out there in the open, 100 million for each team, a chance to move to LA for San Diego and if they don't take it Oakland has a chance to move.

Really the only loser here was the city of St. Louis.

 

[Psycho_X]

Whole process was a joke.... Goodell is a joke, NFL is a joke, and Silent Stan is a joke. Detoxing from football, going to step back and not give a shit for a while. My brain can't process what to do until my heart aches a little less. Maybe I stay, maybe I go... undecided. When I know, I'll know. I won't be a pretender like Silent Stan has been. I'm surprised he had the balls to show his face at the news conference because he's left them behind every time he has been in the Lou since becoming majority owner.

Hopefully he shows more class and commitment to you LA peeps.

 

[Ramatik]

I thought it was done well. I think it is great that the LA Rams get to come back home. I do feel bad for the Lou people. I truly know how you feel. But LA is getting a team on the verge with an owner that I like a lot. He's willing to put his own money behind his conviction. The tix in the Coliseum are going to be crazy next year. I hope I can score some.

Again, not trying to rub it in at all. For those of you that lost the team that we lost to you in the first place... I am truly sorry for your loss.

But I also can't help but feeling pretty good about things. That they came back around in the proper alignment.

 

[CGI_Ram]

Whole process was a joke.... Goodell is a joke, NFL is a joke, and Silent Stan is a joke. Detoxing from football, going to step back and not give a crap for a while. My brain can't process what to do until my heart aches a little less. Maybe I stay, maybe I go... undecided. When I know, I'll know. I won't be a pretender like Silent Stan has been. I'm surprised he had the balls to show his face at the news conference because he's left them behind every time he has been in the Lou since becoming majority owner.

Hopefully he shows more class and commitment to you LA peeps.

Hard to argue that, bro. I've got a lot of respect for you over the years.

 

[jrry32]

I feel bad for the St. Louis fans...but this will end up being better for the Rams. NFL can't treat the team like shit and I bet the Rams get better officiating. Plus, the team's value is going to skyrocket.

 

[RamzFanz]

I thought it was done well.

I can't agree with that at all. The NFL and Kroenke just took a squat on STL, denied our fan and financial support, and made untrue statements about our ability to support three teams. While I am not angry at LA fans or the team itself, the NFL did not do this well. They let a billionaire have his way out of greed.

Goodell sends a letter a few days before a financing vote about STL not promised $100M and then they give Oakland and the Chargers $100M each? The Rams had it very good in STL the entire time they were here. The best lease in the NFL, solid fan support with horrible play, and a new stadium offer. Come on dude, LA fans have every right to be happy but STL just got hosed.

 

[baconandbread]

My condolences go out to all the fans in St. Louis. I've been a Rams fan since the 80's living in western Canada, so I have mixed emotions about all of this. A crazy coincidence that the Chargers are my favourite AFC team and they may be in the same place. I look forward to having a better opportunity to seeing more games and hope this site can be as great as it has been.

 

[JUMAVA68]

It's a sad day for Rams fans we will lose a lot of great fans over this.As someone who was devastated when they moved in the 90's i can understand and sympathize with all of them.Hopefully when the initial anger goes down some of these fans will reconsider and continue to follow our Rams.Personally I didn't have a preference on where they call home so to our LA fans congratulations.And to our STL fans thank you for the awesome support and I hope that you stay Rams fans. RAMS 4EVER

 

[EastRam]

A very sad day indeed.
The NFL laid out the guide lines and St. Louis Missouri, stepped up to the plate and hit it out of the park, as they have done twice now.
The NFL for profit has given the money earmarked for St. Louis to SD and OAK. The cities that have done nothing.
F U NFL.
I'm a Rams fan when they were in LA and St Louis. I will always be in spite of ES Crooke. Hey ESCrooke. You want to know how to build your brand?
see Pittsburgh, Baltimore, New England, Green Bay, etc. You may know money. You don't know football.

 

[Username]

Listened to the conference on the way home from work. Beyond hilarious the way St. Louis was treated in this entire process. There will never be football in this city again. "Must exhaust all options." Fucking hilarious.Over 400 million public dollars raised in under a year and every hurdle thrown at us hurdled in an extraordinarily short time.

Kroenke is a terrible owner. I'll spare the name calling even though I had to read literately every year from L.A. fans about Georgia Frontiere, but somehow now that it's this "shrewd businessman" it's different. Every club he owns hates him. If you don't believe me do some simple research. He has no ones best interest in mind here except his own. For someone who already has that much money you'd think he'd be smart enough to find another way to make money. Sports teams aren't the best investment, but this should give him some return. Maybe he can stop stealing money out of Arsenal every year, or from the Avalanche now.

Countless memories with this team. One of the greatest memories of my life is my late grandfather telling me jokes outside the stadium as we waited for the doors to open vs Tampa for the NFC championship. It was fucking freezing and we were so early they hadn't opened the stadium yet haha. I had to pee so bad he almost made me piss my pants from laughing. I will never forget that day for as long as I live. As well as many other memories.

It's been real for the most part. I could give a fuck less to give this team and front office anymore of my time. Thanks for giving us literately the worst decade and a half of football in the history of the league and then the ultimate fuck you of moving the team. It's seriously comical the way this city has been treated. I can't help but laugh. I guess it's a fitting end.

Farewell.

 

[Mikey Ram]

He's gone. Sad that there are people who want to gloat at a time like this.

Glad to hear it...I can save myself a ban or at best a tongue lashing for a really nasty personal attack that I was ready to cut loose with...His garbage was totally out of line, disrespectful and uncalled for...

 

[Psycho_X]

I can't agree with that at all. The NFL and Kroenke just took a squat on STL, denied our fan and financial support, and made untrue statements about our ability to support three teams. While I am not angry at LA fans or the team itself, the NFL did not do this well. They let a billionaire have his way out of greed.

Goodell sends a letter a few days before a financing vote about STL not promised $100M and then they give Oakland and the Chargers $100M each? The Rams had it very good in STL the entire time they were here. The best lease in the NFL, solid fan support with horrible play, and a new stadium offer. Come on dude, LA fans have every right to be happy but STL just got hosed.

This ^^^^^^^^^

I would be less pissed if Stan just simply came out and was honest. If he had just said, "You know, I love St. Louis and this city has supported the Rams as well as can be expected with the awful product we gave them. But I have to be honest, if I move the team to LA I gain a couple billion dollars and am able to put as much money into making this team a championship as I possibly can, I'm sorry St. Louis." But to put on the charade and have people like Grubman and Goodell have the audacity to lie to the world and then, above EVERYTHING else, Stan releases his relocation papers basically calling St. Louis the trash of America.... that was bullshit.
The lack of integrity is troubling to me. It makes me feel like I shouldn't support a league like that. An owner like that. My heart screams to stay a Rams fan. My brain tells me to never watch another G.D. NFL game again.

Time heals all wounds. We'll see.

 

[Ramatik]

I can't agree with that at all. The NFL and Kroenke just took a squat on STL, denied our fan and financial support, and made untrue statements about our ability to support three teams. While I am not angry at LA fans or the team itself, the NFL did not do this well. They let a billionaire have his way out of greed.

Goodell sends a letter a few days before a financing vote about STL not promised $100M and then they give Oakland and the Chargers $100M each? The Rams had it very good in STL the entire time they were here. The best lease in the NFL, solid fan support with horrible play, and a new stadium offer. Come on dude, LA fans have every right to be happy but STL just got hosed.

Sorry bro. I'm not going to debate this now. I don't think it's the time. Emotions are feeling a bit high. I know mine are. Maybe in a month or so.

peace

 

[RaminExile]

I thought it was done well. I think it is great that the LA Rams get to come back home. I do feel bad for the Lou people. I truly know how you feel. But LA is getting a team on the verge with an owner that I like a lot. He's willing to put his own money behind his conviction. The tix in the Coliseum are going to be crazy next year. I hope I can score some.

Again, not trying to rub it in at all. For those of you that lost the team that we lost to you in the first place... I am truly sorry for your loss.

But I also can't help but feeling pretty good about things. That they came back around in the proper alignment.

Thing is - everybody BUT the city of St Louis (and the state of Missouri who must now disown thier own lying son who sold them down th river) wins. Oakland win - they'll get a new stadium with the bribe, sorry, "relocation fee" Stan pays to move, Chargers will get a deal to move or a cash bribe to stay and maybe upgrade Qualcomm. Stan wins...

 

[badnews]

Really the only loser here was the city of St. Louis.

There are fans all over the region. Lots of people who live in the country who can't get dish, have watched Rams Gamez on sunday for years... people like me who live 3 hours from the dome but it's still RAMS country.
Missouri, southern Illinois and Iowa all lost something.

I get what you were saying, I get it. I just want people to realize that the area of people who love the St Louis Rams and watched them as their home team was a big area with many many people.

 

[thirteen28]

I feel terrible for the fans of St. Louis. I don't really have a dog in this fight, living in Texas and never having lived in CA or MO ... but really wanted them to stay. I always felt the home field advantage was better in St. Louis compared to what I felt like they had in LA. I can't forget the 12,000 empty seats at Anaheim Stadium during the first time I saw the Rams live, in 1988, when they were a winning team with a high-flying exciting offense ... or the 20,000 empty seats on the day that Dickerson broke OJ's single season record. When the Rams were winning in St. Louis, the dome was packed, and if they had a RB on the verge of breaking the single season record in St. Louis, God himself wouldn't be able to fit in the dome. St. Louis deserved better.

I'll still root for the Rams, but I'm very disappointed by this development. I wish for the sake of St. Louis, Dave Peacock would pick up the phone and call Dean Spanos - there is the possibility he could get everything he wanted in San Diego, and there is a full city of deserving fans just waiting. The NFL would have little leverage to stop such a move if Spanos wanted to make it (or Davis for that matter) after the precedent they set tonight.

And speaking of that precedent, the way the NFL just sh!t all over their own relocation guidelines, don't be surprised if another round of relocation roulette begins like in the mid-90's. If the NFL tries to put the clamps down, a team could always sue and threaten their anti-trust exemption, and the NFL would have to back down.

This may be a happy day for LA fans, but it's not a good day for the NFL, despite what Goodell, Kroenke, and others would have you believe.

My condolences, St. Louis. You really did deserve better.

 

[Mikey Ram]

A little cold don't you think? Ease up.

Yeah, I slipped a sweater on when I read that one...True, but maybe a bit brutal...

 

[jrry32]

This ^^^^^^^^^

I would be less pissed if Stan just simply came out and was honest. If he had just said, "You know, I love St. Louis and this city has supported the Rams as well as can be expected with the awful product we gave them. But I have to be honest, if I move the team to LA I gain a couple billion dollars and am able to put as much money into making this team a championship as I possibly can, I'm sorry St. Louis." But to put on the charade and have people like Grubman and Goodell have the audacity to lie to the world and then, above EVERYTHING else, Stan releases his relocation papers basically calling St. Louis the trash of America.... that was bullcrap.
The lack of integrity is troubling to me. It makes me feel like I shouldn't support a league like that. An owner like that. My heart screams to stay a Rams fan. My brain tells me to never watch another G.D. NFL game again.

Time heals all wounds. We'll see.

It was all gamesmanship. Unfortunate that STL fans got stuck in the middle.