Rams leaving St. Louis?

[brewcrew1000]

Won't this make Kroenke an enemy in St Louis? Doesn't he have a ton of business there?

I honestly think most residents of st louis dont really care about the rams, i would expect a lot of them are chief fans anyway

[Eon Blue]

They're Cardinals fans.

[TheSmokinPun]

There is no other city more apathetic about their NFL team than STL. Feels like every other place in the country is crazy for their team but not the BFiB.

[pstokely]

There is no other city more apathetic about their NFL team than STL. Feels like every other place in the country is crazy for their team but not the BFiB.

LA might be even more apathetic than STL (and possibly the sunbelt markets) with the beaches and amount of transplants, Cardinals are #1 in STL, Lakers are #1 in LA, people in LA are fine without a team and won't notice if a team moves back, they didn't notice when they left, they'll notice in STL

[pstokely]

There is no other city more apathetic about their NFL team than STL. Feels like every other place in the country is crazy for their team but not the BFiB.

no one will support lame duck losers, they supported them 15 years ago

[phuqueue]

There is no other city more apathetic about their NFL team than STL. Feels like every other place in the country is crazy for their team but not the BFiB.

no one will support lame duck losers, they supported them 15 years ago

Well yeah because conversely anyone will support a Super Bowl winner. When I was in school in St. Louis I had classmates who "hate baseball" who suddenly became huge Cardinals fans during the World Series. It's fun and easy to support a winner and get swept up in a city's excitement. That doesn't prove people actually care about the team. The Rams might be terrible now, but they haven't been terrible for all that long, really.

[MidtownCat]

The Rams aren't that more terrible than we are.

[KCMax]

There is no other city more apathetic about their NFL team than STL. Feels like every other place in the country is crazy for their team but not the BFiB.

no one will support lame duck losers, they supported them 15 years ago

Yea, and the team has been telling fans for ten years how crappy the stadium is. Why would you want to go to a stadium the team is telling you is a crappy gameday experience?

Its the same thing that happened in Montreal in baseball. Fans came out in droves to support a winner. They're not going to come out and see a team that ownership has pulled the plug on.

[chaglang]

There is no other city more apathetic about their NFL team than STL. Feels like every other place in the country is crazy for their team but not the BFiB.

no one will support lame duck losers, they supported them 15 years ago

Well yeah because conversely anyone will support a Super Bowl winner. When I was in school in St. Louis I had classmates who "hate baseball" who suddenly became huge Cardinals fans during the World Series. It's fun and easy to support a winner and get swept up in a city's excitement. That doesn't prove people actually care about the team. The Rams might be terrible now, but they haven't been terrible for all that long, really.

Ha, we had the same experience. I remember the early 90's in St. Louis, with Mark Whitten roaming the outfield in a mostly empty Busch Stadium.

[warwickland]

Won't this make Kroenke an enemy in St Louis? Doesn't he have a ton of business there?

I honestly think most residents of st louis dont really care about the rams, i would expect a lot of them are chief fans anyway

you would think, but it's more of a spread, really. colts, bears, steelers, sprinkling of saints fans. don't really see that much chiefs gear. bars that show bears games are usually packed. i see bears jerseys on the street. i could be skewed because my girlfriend, her sister and brother in law, and a couple friends are bears fans, so i tag along for games. there's a lot of boomerang people here in their 30s that have returned from chicago stints bears fans. that's a phenomenon i've seen with 5-6 people!

im on the younger side of this generation, but thirty and early fourtysomething people grew up with the blues dominating the winter, and without an NFL team for a long time.

[KCMax]

Rendering of a new stadium.



http://fox2now.com/2015/01/08/new-st-lo ... -briefing/

Rams have apparently not been involved in these talks.

[warwickland]

they have endowed the mississippi river with a flattering hue, to be sure.

[aknowledgeableperson]

What happens when the river rises? It's been up the steps at the arch a few times in the recent past.

[warwickland]

What happens when the river rises? It's been up the steps at the arch a few times in the recent past.

well, i imagine they would build above the high water mark, and perhaps even allow for an install of the river wall in that area during flooding. the city of st. louis actually has panels in some areas that they put up.

[shinatoo]

Andy Banker ✔ @andybankertv
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#StLNFL Peacock says #Rams aware of our plan. We're in discussions with them. #NFL extremely involved @FOX2now

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[shinatoo]

Said no taxpayer burden but publicly owned. How does that work?

[pash]

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[warwickland]

they have endowed the mississippi river with a flattering hue, to be sure.

Even the Big Muddy has been looking noticeably more water-colored lately. Perhaps it has something to do with the Corps of Engineers' decision to put some water in it.

the mississippi is actually almost nice above the missouri river in the alton pool, and certainly above the illinois river confluence. it would have been better if st. louis had been located near the confluence of the illinois and mississippi on the illinois side, but the chain-of-rocks prevented that (if you are driving east on I-270 at the mississippi, it's the weird rapids by the castle intake in the river to the south).

[KCMax]

What happens when the river rises? It's been up the steps at the arch a few times in the recent past.

well, i imagine they would build above the high water mark, and perhaps even allow for an install of the river wall in that area during flooding. the city of st. louis actually has panels in some areas that they put up.

Weak. In my day, football players would play through the elements!