I’ve never attended a Rams game, and I have no interest in “professional” football. (Don’t know if the Rams qualify here. After reading some comments above, I think NOT!) Some are saying the convention business might pick up if the Rams were to vacate the convention center, that their “void” would open up the market for more conventions. Don’t know if this is true, but it sounds plausible. Maybe a new stadium should be built on Ballpark Village property, which would centralize the “sports” venue, taking advantage of existing ballpark parking, etc. There’s another new garage under construcion a few blocks from Ballpark Village property, which would further accommodate Rams fans. (If the Rams were a winning team, I doubt we’d be having this discussion: the owners and the City would be throwing money at the existing facility because of the revenue they’d be generating. But this ain’t the case!)

Build a real football field, OUTSIDE, NO ROOF! Domes make football depressing.

I find this “better, best” stadium issue quite subjective. What makes one stadium better than another in the eyes of the team?

The crowd? Here in fair-weather football St Louis that will be based on the product on the field.

Suites? It seems like there are two levels of suites at the Dome. What would be better than that, all suites? Perhaps then a name-change to the Embassy Suties Dome?

Jumbotrons? Really–is that all that important?

Retractable roofs? Maybe.. Then again maybe not if the weather every game day is such that you cannot retract the roof. And just think–no bird crap to deal with!

Padded seats? I wouldn’t complain about that.

Again, what makes one stadium better than another?

I must agree with many people about the sound system and the choice of music, but those are minor things that can be changed with a less than a million dollars and someone under 50 picking the music.

I read the article, and it piqued my curiosity, but it’s missing Many relevant facts.

How much did the Edward Jones dome cost? How was it financed? Is it paid for yet? How much would the new dome cost? How would it be financed? How much tax money is brought in by the dome? Do the Ram’s and others enjoy deferred taxes?

Keep in mind, just $200 million would be $565 of tax money for every man, woman and child in the city of St. Louis (Pop. 354,000 ). That much tax money would go a LONG way to fixing the schools, the roads, the crime, etc. It’s fine if this money is an INVESTMENT, but not if it’s an EXPENSE. Will the city get it’s money back? With interest? If not, they would be better served by spending the money elsewhere.

Because in the end, I would prefer St. Louis be known as a great place to live rather than a cesspool with a really cool stadium.

I tired of STL football teams threatening to leave town because of a stadium. I don’t see anything wrong with this one. They want more luxury boxes. But, where’s the need? There’s not enough big corporations left in town that could want any of the additional luxury boxes. And the NFL most certainly never award a Super Bowl to this city. So, instead of the taxpayers footing the bill for another stadium. I propose a city/county co-op be created and those taxes that would have been used to build a new stadium, be used instead to buy Frontiere’s share of the Rams.

There’s not a darn thing wrong with the stadium now. If the family that owns the team doesn’t like it, they’re free to go elsewhere.

Rip the roof off. This would put an end to the little old ladies doing needlepoint in the 4th quarter of tie game in November and allow the shirtless, blue & gold afro-wigged superfans to really get into whats going on. Domed stadiums have killed true the NFL atmosphere, at least in St. Louis. Uniforms are supposed to be dirty after football games. FYI–I do love little old ladies….just not in endzone seats at NFL games .

I have never been a big rams fan. In this day and age of higher prices for everything, I don’t want to see a tax increase for anything. When sports teams are paying out multi-million dollar salaries for players, with or without all of the scandals breaking out with players getting into all sorts of trouble, like they have no sense at all. Hell if they want to leave because we, the working stiffs, can’t afford to pay higher taxes so they can have a new stadium, i’ll come over and pack their bags for them! — if it isn’t the blues then it is the cardinals and now the rams! Enough is enough! ! !

Let there be light! Keep the dome, do what it takes to allow for a retractable roof. A retractable roof would allow sunlight, and a tangible football atmosphere, i have great memories of watching football at busch stadium 2. Snow games, sunny sundays, even rainy games, you still would have fresh air and if there was actual grass, i wouldn’t know what to do. The other improvement would be to lose those annoying commercials that they blare throughout the breaks in play. So lose the dark dank basement looking environ and figure out a different way to squeeze another buck from the paying customer.

You amer-u-cons talk like you have the money to do this jock box up right. You do not. Thanks to your white house whores WE have all the money needed to do it right. And your behavior makes it so we will not give you loans for such a foolish thing. Silly people! You no longer rule the world and your children will be eating out of our hands. We may treat them right, or we may treat them like you treat the rest of the world. Clue: football is the least of your citizen’s worries. Food and shelter are lacking in your city. Yet you want to caress each others’ balls. What does it take for amer-u-con brains to engage and build a great nation like ours, with wealth and a future?