ST. LOUIS • Mayor Francis Slay slammed the NFL Wednesday, a day after owners approved Rams owner Stan Kroenke's plan to move the franchise to Southern California.
Slay, the city's four term mayor, said he is done with the National Football League and has no interest in chasing another team after efforts to put together a plan for a new stadium here failed to sway the owners.
"They were not being truthful," he said at a press conference at City Hall. "And they knew we were putting a lot of energy into this."
Added Slay: "We were being led on."
Slay said called the NFL's Tuesday night press conference "pathetic," noting they didn't bother to thank St. Louis or its fan base.Â
"They would have been better if they didn't say anything," Slay said.Â
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Particularly shocking, Slay said, was that at "a watershed moment for civil rights," the NFL ignored an historic minority participation plan the city put together to train and employ minorities to help build the proposed stadium. Â
He said the city has strong owners and teams in the Cardinals and Blues and can make it without the NFL.
Nicholas J.C. Pistor
Nicholas J.C. Pistor is a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
