Check how many home games the Rams have sold out in the last six years!
"longest-serving owners "
I would say "longest-tenured"
I would say "longest-tenured"
On the surface, this seems like a slam-dunk for the greedy owners. But, after reading articles and watching documentaries about the incidence of CTE in pro football players -- and talking to young mothers (relatives) with young sons -- I'm beginning to think that the future of football is not quite as rosy and secure as some would think. I wonder if the smiles on the faces of the "new guard" won't begin slipping in the near future.
That is mostly the media making headlines. There will always be players because the money is too good and they could not make anything close doing something else. There are a lot of jobs a lot more dangerous for a lot less. Try cop, fireman, any construction worker, fisherman, the list goes on and on. CTE is not a NFL ONLY problem but the media makes it that way. Know why we haven't heard much about the movie Concussion, because it is a flop.
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No NFL owner ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of their fans. Rams owner Stan Kroenke will cough up a measly $800 mil for a $3 billion complex over which he will exercise complete control. He will recover most of his ante via naming rights and sponsorships. And the tax paying fans of Anaheim get sand bagged for for $2.2 billion.
Whatever happened to old fashioned American capitalism? Kroenke is a billionaire. Let him pay the freight for the whole works. It is called risk management, Mr Kroenke. This is another sad chapter in the saga of American corporate welfare.
Whatever happened to old fashioned American capitalism? Kroenke is a billionaire. Let him pay the freight for the whole works. It is called risk management, Mr Kroenke. This is another sad chapter in the saga of American corporate welfare.
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There is no way the city of LA is paying 3 billion for their stadium ! Did you read the article ? Plus Where did the Rams come from before they were in St. louis and why did they move ??? Get some facts !
They should be the team to move for they were the LA Rams- I remember as a Kid playing in the front yard in the early to mid sixties with a Rams helmet on ( got that cause they looked cool )- The only thing the league Really needs to do now is step up and help the Chargers and the Raiders make sure they can get new stadiums - for those two teams TRULY need new venues !
They should be the team to move for they were the LA Rams- I remember as a Kid playing in the front yard in the early to mid sixties with a Rams helmet on ( got that cause they looked cool )- The only thing the league Really needs to do now is step up and help the Chargers and the Raiders make sure they can get new stadiums - for those two teams TRULY need new venues !
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@Bruce:
My understanding is that Los Angeles isn't putting up a nickel for an NFL franchise or a stadium. The whole thing is being privately financed.
On the other hand, it's stunning how community leaders across the country (Oakland, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Denver, Dallas, Charlotte, etc., etc., will happily indebt their citizens in exchange for an NFL franchise. Not only is it unfair for folks who don't give a darn about pro football, it's plainly (as in the case of St. Louis and Oakland) a horrible investment.
Investing in pro sports, particularly the NFL has become a case of extortion on the part of owners. People should understand that.
Los Angeles certainly did.
My understanding is that Los Angeles isn't putting up a nickel for an NFL franchise or a stadium. The whole thing is being privately financed.
On the other hand, it's stunning how community leaders across the country (Oakland, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Denver, Dallas, Charlotte, etc., etc., will happily indebt their citizens in exchange for an NFL franchise. Not only is it unfair for folks who don't give a darn about pro football, it's plainly (as in the case of St. Louis and Oakland) a horrible investment.
Investing in pro sports, particularly the NFL has become a case of extortion on the part of owners. People should understand that.
Los Angeles certainly did.
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Present day America's measuring stick for success is well illustrated in the NFL. Money, profits, greed, all combined in a tight capsule where everyone of us as spectators watch the owners and their representatives forge ever
larger and grandiose plans to secure their fortunes. And,ironically, with this latest debacle in St. Louis the approval from the other owners was 30 - 2 in favor of an owner who insulted a city and gave them a prominent symbolic middle finger for being unworthy to host an NFL team as he exited. That is the measure of success they aspire to on their way to a global sport where we're seeing only the beginnings of their expansion vision. Little guys be damned.
larger and grandiose plans to secure their fortunes. And,ironically, with this latest debacle in St. Louis the approval from the other owners was 30 - 2 in favor of an owner who insulted a city and gave them a prominent symbolic middle finger for being unworthy to host an NFL team as he exited. That is the measure of success they aspire to on their way to a global sport where we're seeing only the beginnings of their expansion vision. Little guys be damned.
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Such decisions reveal that the passion of fans don't matter a whit, and makes all the more repugnant and sad the ability of the NFL to gin up our tribal sensibilities through the fanfare and the glamour of Sunday games (or Thursday or Monday games as well I suppose). The increasing prominence of the part of the NFL that is "just business" (pitting cities against each other to extract optimal stadium deals, disregard for players' short term and long term health, free agency, salary caps, etc.) exposes an absurdist landscape. That this happened against a backdrop where it is common to rail against the 1% or "the elite" makes this action all the richer.
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Any of these owners notice the empty seats at many of the games this year! I hear a lot of tv's being turned off.
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Good for you St Louis, you just saved 1.1 billion. Every economist that has studied NFL franchises has shown they are a terrible deal for the community and a boon to no one but the billionaire owners. I feel sorry for the taxpayers of LA getting stuck with a 3 billion dollar bill for a football team. We can't raise taxes to build a school but we can raise 3 billion to buy a billionaire his business. How did the NFL convince us we need them so badly that we're willing to pay for their facilities? We pay for the stadium, they keep the profits. For shame...
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