Ram's Owner Plans To Build Stadium In L.A.

[Joemailman]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000454436/article/st-louis-rams-owner-plans-to-build-stadium-in-la

It would require no public funding. 24 of 32 NFL teams would have to approve the move.

[Cheesehead Craig]

St Louis should just let them leave. They have much better things to spend their monies on than a football stadium.

Don't give in to the blackmail St. Louie!!!

[George Cumby]

Ah. The way it should be.

Now, let's get the Cards back to St. Louis, the Colts to Baltimore and The Ravens to......... Indy?

[pbmax]

Bluff.

[smuggler]

Not a bluff. LA is the 2nd largest market in the country and St. Louis is like the 23rd. The franchise becomes much more valuable after that move. Then the dude sells the team. $$$

[woodbuck27]

I believe that Rams owner Stan Kroenke is serious.

The St. Louis RAMS are moving to L.A.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I'm glad to see L.A. reunited with their rightful franchise name. Baltimore should be called Colts, Indianapolis Ravens.

St. Louis is a baseball town. Lets do this.

[woodbuck27]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2320097-insider-buzz-kroenke-says-rams-are-moving-to-la-with-or-without-nfls-approval?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=nfl

Insider Buzz: Kroenke Says Rams Are Moving to LA With or Without NFL's Approval

By: Team Stream Now , B/R Video ... Jan 5, 2015

[King Friday]

You don't buy 60 acres of desolate parking lot at a premium price (because other big name corporations were also wanting it) because you think it will grow money trees for you to gain revenue.

The Rams are clearly heading to Los Angeles. This owner gets a new stadium, a Super Bowl hosting gig, and a hefty increase in his investment's value. Staying in St. Louis really doesn't make cents.

[mraynrand]

I'm glad to see L.A. reunited with their rightful franchise name. Baltimore should be called Colts, Indianapolis Ravens.

St. Louis is a baseball town. Lets do this.

What should be done about the Lakers?

[King Friday]

What should be done about the Lakers?

Kobe will be gone by the time the Rams get to LA...the city will be ready to embrace a football team for at least a couple years.

[pbmax]

Not a bluff. LA is the 2nd largest market in the country and St. Louis is like the 23rd. The franchise becomes much more valuable after that move. Then the dude sells the team. $$$

Which is why the last two franchises that were there fled it?

[pbmax]

You don't buy 60 acres of desolate parking lot at a premium price (because other big name corporations were also wanting it) because you think it will grow money trees for you to gain revenue.

The Rams are clearly heading to Los Angeles. This owner gets a new stadium, a Super Bowl hosting gig, and a hefty increase in his investment's value. Staying in St. Louis really doesn't make cents.

AEG (I think I have the acronym right) and the City of Industry's developer both had parcels of land similar in size. Both proposed building stadiums, neither has the prospect of this happening soon and none of the parties have gone bankrupt. Its not even a sure bet they are taking a loss of any kind.

Land doesn't have to have a stadium built on it to appreciate.

I will amend my prediction that its a bluff to include the possibility that he is bluffing about it being completely self-financed. If it is built, it will eventually turn out to be like the Wilf's approx. 50% self-financed and not like the SF Giants stadium that was privately done.

[mraynrand]

Kobe will be gone by the time the Rams get to LA...the city will be ready to embrace a football team for at least a couple years.


I meant the nickname - 'Lakers' traveled with them when they moved from Minnesota.

[pbmax]

I'm glad to see L.A. reunited with their rightful franchise name. Baltimore should be called Colts, Indianapolis Ravens.

St. Louis is a baseball town. Lets do this.

Cleveland would like to speak with you about the Rams.

[mraynrand]

Cleveland would like to speak with you about the Rams.

Duce Staley is in negotiations with the Bears

[Tyrion Lannister]

Ah. The way it should be.

Now, let's get the Cards back to St. Louis, the Colts to Baltimore and The Ravens to......... Indy?

The Ravens should go back to Cleveland.

[smuggler]

Those ships have sailed. The people in Baltimore don't want the Colts anymore. Houston doesn't care about the Titans.

[mraynrand]

The Ravens should go back to Cleveland.

they do - once every year.

[Tyrion Lannister]

they do - once every year.

But I bet Browns fans wish they could go back to the start. Modell robbed Browns fans of at least 2 SBs.

Returning the Neo-Browns back to glory, nobody said it was easy, but nobody ever said it would be this hard.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB-RcX5DS5A

[pbmax]

Stan Kroenke is headed to the League Meetings with drawn up plans for his LA/Inglewood Stadium proposal. I called this a bluff, at least a bluff about 100% privately financed, but there is more money than just Kroenke behind it:


What makes Kroenke different is that he is an NFL owner, and the league's second-richest owner at that. His team also has a deep and nostalgic connection to L.A., and he — along with development partner San Francisco-based Stockbridge Capital Group — has nearly 300 acres of prime stadium land the league itself tried to buy.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/nfl/la-sp-nfl-stadium-inglewood-20150322-column.html

That means three things:
1. That much acreage and they obviously will be building, or selling land to build, more than just an NFL stadium.
2. There is room for two teams, which will increase revenue to the owner of the stadium (though Kroenke claims he doesn't need this, and prefers sole occupancy)
3. They have pictures

A completely self-financed stadium would be a rarity, but it does seem a step closer to reality. However, this is the fourth LA project to get to the pictures and presentations phase. Two of them have folded without a shovel of dirt being moved. So there is still a long way to go. Carson is also putting a plan together to host the Chargers and Raiders.

http://www.trbimg.com/img-550c71a5/turbine/la-sp-sn-new-stadium-20150320-005/700/700x394

[mraynrand]

Is there a promise of hosting a SB? When that happens, it's a done deal.


Dear architect: no beams across the roof - shadows are terrible for football.

[pbmax]

Is there a promise of hosting a SB? When that happens, it's a done deal.


Dear architect: no beams across the roof - shadows are terrible for football.

If he has any sense of humor, it will make a herringbone effect on the field, rendering the telecast as players playing on top of static.

[mraynrand]

If he has any sense of humor, it will make a herringbone effect on the field, rendering the telecast as players playing on top of static.

I can see Harlan trying to adjust the horizontal drift on his 70's vintage black and white.

[pbmax]

I can see Harlan trying to adjust the horizontal drift on his 70's vintage black and white.

I wonder if you could green screen a game onto an ad for beer. Sorta like the ice in hockey.

[red]

I wonder if you could green screen a game onto an ad for beer. Sorta like the ice in hockey.

its basically the same thing as the first down marker, or the down and yardage on the field, isn't it?

didn't they try this in preseason this last year? it did not go over well

[red]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BR1MBypCAAAUPMc.jpg

http://a.abcnews.com/images/Business/HT_nfl_on-field_advertising_jt_140810_16x9_992.jpg

[Rastak]

LOL, that's awesome...I forgot about he "Slap ya Mama" controversy....

[red]

this is the one that probably was the final nail in the coffin

https://s3.amazonaws.com/medeq/files/uploads/2014/08/Slap-Ya-Mama-2.jpg

[red]

keep in mind, that was showing up on the field right around the time the ray rice video came out

nfl will do anything for a buck

[pbmax]

They should show video of other games on there during the game.

[mraynrand]

I assume that advertising electronically on the field will become SOP. Too much bank to resist. I just hope they have a pay option to have it erased. I will stop watching football if I have to see advertisements like that.

[red]

I assume that advertising electronically on the field will become SOP. Too much bank to resist. I just hope they have a pay option to have it erased. I will stop watching football if I have to see advertisements like that.

well they stopped doing it in the preseason after massive amounts of fans bitched, so maybe it will hold off for awhile

tv in the future

http://blog.codinghorror.com/content/images/uploads/2008/05/6a0120a85dcdae970b0120a86dd2e5970b-pi.jpg

[vince]

I assume that advertising electronically on the field will become SOP. Too much bank to resist. I just hope they have a pay option to have it erased. I will stop watching football if I have to see advertisements like that.
That's how they'll drive people back to the stadiums.

[Fritz]

Ah. The way it should be.

Now, let's get the Cards back to St. Louis, the Colts to Baltimore and The Ravens to......... Indy?

If you want to go back, I think the Cards go all the way back to Chicago. And the Patriots need to be re-named the Boston Patriots.

The Acme Packers versus the Chicago Cardinals!

[mraynrand]

That's how they'll drive people back to the stadiums.

And the sound blaring so loud that I can no longer think is what will drive me to bird watching.

http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/nwitimes.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/af/8af5a6d5-3a76-5d2e-a0d0-6f63261fdde3/536ecb0c0dc92.preview-620.jpg

[mraynrand]

If you want to go back, I think the Cards go all the way back to Chicago. And the Patriots need to be re-named the Boston Patriots.

The Acme Packers versus the Chicago Cardinals!

Probably a general principle to follow is that the nickname should stick with the city. Does prevent silliness like Los Angeles (Minnesota) Lakers and Utah (New Orleans) Jazz.

[red]

And the sound blaring so loud that I can no longer think is what will drive me to bird watching.

http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/nwitimes.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/af/8af5a6d5-3a76-5d2e-a0d0-6f63261fdde3/536ecb0c0dc92.preview-620.jpg

that shouldn't be too hard, you can drive right up to his front door in french lick

just make sure to protect your butthole, i was scared shitless driving around that area

[Freak Out]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/03/23/kraft-believes-nfl-will-have-two-l-a-teams-in-2016/