Well, after the debacle last season, who knows what will happen. I couldn’t get rid of my $100 tickets for $20 by the end of the year.

Why would we ever assume that a family would stay loyal to their ancestors wishes to keep their legacy alive in the family business? When will we ever learn that the scream of money is louder and more powerful than the voice of a dead loved one, even a mother? Of course those kids want to sell the team and yes St. Louis will suffer another blow. Why worry about an already done deal? At least we are all still somewhat numb from the AB sale so the stick won’t hurt as bad.

Gina–maybe the kids would rather have a bunch of money than own a football team? Why is that a big deal? Chip and Lucia are adults who have the power to make their own decisions. They don’t have to go through life doing what their mother and father would have done. They have the right to make their own choices. We should respect that. Why should we expect people to do what someone else wants them to do? They have the right to live whatever life they darn well please. That’s the American Dream.

I suspect the Rams will test the market in 2015 when their lease is up.

This team is good as “gone”, either by being sold or moved to another city after 2015. Lets face it, if this team is REALLY worth almost a “billion dollars” and someone or group out there is willing to pay that kind of money, then its a done deal.

The only way that the Rams MIGHT have a chance to stay in St. Louis is to build “ANOTHER” new stadium, lets face it, the civic center does NOT have the kind of money to update the current stadium to keep it in reach of the agreement that was drawn up when the RAMS were lured here to St. Louis in the first place. The small, and I mean small cosmetic updates that they are currently considering will NOT suffice to even come close to what that is needed to meet the lease agreement. One very slim hope would be that Stan Kronkie steps in and finds a way to get around owning the two professional sports teams in Denver, maybe, and just maybe the NFL owners would be in agreement to change that rule because Mr. Kronkie has the capital to support ALL three teams. That would be the DREAM way of keeping the team in our beloved city, because he would make sure the team is run properly and would want to field a winner, not like some other owner that we remember that left town and headed West to Phoenix Arizona on a whim!

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The Rams are definitely in play. They’re putting up smokescreens that they do not want to sell, but let’s be honest, Rosenbloom & his sister have no desire of running this team. My guess, the Rams will be back in Los Angeles by 2011. It’s what the NFL wants and it is something that DeBartolo can certainly make happen. You have to realize that Rosenbloom’s dad had the team in L.A. before he died in a swimming accident and his son Chip isn’t a hands on guy. He wants the money & that’s it. If current Rams President John Shaw still has his office in L.A., what does that tell you? Shaw would love nothing more than the Rams to come back to Southern California. It’s pretty obvious. The Rams had a nice run in St. Louis, but I personally feel this is the end of the St. Louis Rams.

If Chip Rosenbloom thinks hiring a company to screen calls from people wanting to buy is only to shield them from wasting time talking on the phone, he is badly mistaken. His quote in the story about not wanting to spend 8 hours a day taking calls is absurd. They don’t get that many offers. Corporations cannot own an NFL team, only individuals, and there aren’t that many individuals who can afford it, and even fewer who want to bother with owning a team. The purpose of Moag is to investigate whether or not the inquiry can afford to buy the team AND be approved by the NFL.

Business is business and the Rams will go where the money potential is greatest and its not in the present stadium situation in St. Louis. The players and the ownership will talk about keeping the team here but thats because they don’t want to lose their fan base. If the Rams move St. Louis will never get another NFL team again. However, maybe the city doesn’t want a NFL team?

Rams? Does that team still enjoy NFL status?…..and is it still based in St. Louis? If “yes” to both , let’s don’t let the door hit their collective rumps if they leave.

I checked my who-cares-o-meter and the Rams didn’t register. If the metro area can’t get its act together to lift the city limits and become a community, break the stranglehold of the Democratic party on city administration and fix the city schools and city services, then the Rams’ location is irrelevant.

Pay attention to building on what makes the city BE great, rather than just making it LOOK great! Why can’t the powers in place see that its not football teams that make a city “world-class”? Its world-class schools and city/county services, and police and fire protection and roads and water and housing and jobs!

We are bankrupting ourselves for fluff like the stupid Rams and the becoming-just-another-greedy-and-soulless-business Cardinals, while the airlines leave us stranded and the corporate HQs head for the hills and the middle classes moves outside the city limits. We spend huge amounts of tax money to kiss up to businesses thinking about moving into the City, but what do we do to help the businesses already here?

But, hey, we’ve got a football game 8 times a year. Wheee!

Sorry. Vent mode off.

After the Chrysler cutbacks and the sad news of AB becoming an foreign company, the Rams don’t really seem that important.