Rams to be put up for sale. Could they wind back in LA?

[Pariah]

Plus Kroenke owning the Denver teams will not be able to still own any part of the lambs or he will have to sell his two Denver franchises(which I doubt he will).

Why? Is there a rule that says an NFL owner can't own a different sports franchise?

 

[az jam]

Blues owner Checketts wants to buy the Rams

Bernie Miklasz of the St. Louis Post Dispatch reports in a brief but exclusive e-mail exchange with the Post-Dispatch on Monday, Checketts interrupted a short vacation to strongly declare his intention to put together a group of investors to purchase the controlling share of the Rams from majority owners Chip Rosenbloom and Lucia Rodriguez.

"We have the ability to get this done and we have communicated this to the Rams," Checketts wrote in an e-mail. "We approached this with the Rams months ago and have since that time put together a partnership of both concerned St. Louisans and outside capital.

"Last week, we communicated to Chip Rosenbloom in no uncertain terms, that he now has a clear St. Louis buyer. We are that buyer.

"We have reason to believe the NFL would approve our group as we have carefully explored their ownership requirements."

 

[chickenhead]

I feel for the Saint Louis fans on this one. I usually side with the town when an owner is holding a city hostage for a stadium, but if only a stadium could have been built in Sant Louis, the Rams could have stayed in California, and Arizona could have gotten an expansion team instead of, say, Jacksonville.

I've been a Cards fan for 20 years because of it, of course, and Frontiere probably would have just moved the team to somewhere like Jacksonville anyway...but in the longview it seems like a needless game of musical chairs. Of course, once you start looking at expansion and relocation history, it always is.

 

[Shogun]

Blues owner Checketts wants to buy the Rams

Bernie Miklasz of the St. Louis Post Dispatch reports in a brief but exclusive e-mail exchange with the Post-Dispatch on Monday, Checketts interrupted a short vacation to strongly declare his intention to put together a group of investors to purchase the controlling share of the Rams from majority owners Chip Rosenbloom and Lucia Rodriguez.

"We have the ability to get this done and we have communicated this to the Rams," Checketts wrote in an e-mail. "We approached this with the Rams months ago and have since that time put together a partnership of both concerned St. Louisans and outside capital.

"Last week, we communicated to Chip Rosenbloom in no uncertain terms, that he now has a clear St. Louis buyer. We are that buyer.

"We have reason to believe the NFL would approve our group as we have carefully explored their ownership requirements."

GREAT news.

 

[Cards Czar]

I read on ESPNews lat night that a guy named Dave Checketts (sp) who now owns the St. Louis Blues and used to have a partial interest in the Knicks is looking into buying the Rams.

I would like to see them move to L.A. and give us a natural rival that is nearby. JMO

You are correct Dave Checketts is the Owner of the STL Blues and is in the process of putting a bid in for the Rams.

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sp...EFA85664888884CF862575C900128AC6?OpenDocumenthttp://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/sp...EFA85664888884CF862575C900128AC6?OpenDocument

 

[DemsMyBoys]

The possibility certainly seems more likely now than it did just a year or so ago. When Chip(Georgia's son) and his sister took over they made no secret about the team being for sale. But, they wanted it to sell only to someone who promised to keep the team in St. Louis.

Not for the fans of St. Louis as much as for themselves because of how they perceived the L.A. fans to have treated their mother.

How they treated his mother? There is now steam coming out of my ears.

That woman was never committed to either the team or the community and I know because I heard plenty of comments from team members, the Rams staff and was an active part of the community. Terming her ownership of the team "benign neglect" would be putting it kindly.

Personally, I don't care anymore where the Rams play. I'm a Cardinals fan now.

 

[conraddobler]

St. Louis is a strange city.

Very much a baseball town, football only when the team is winning. I suppose you could say that of a lot of teams St. Louis IMO is pretty high up on that list.

My daughter had a band competition in that dome, I was surprised at how shabby it was really.

I don't blame them for running the Cardinals out anymore, until Michael took over the fact is the Cardinals were a disaster, however now that he is in charge things have changed and if they would have built a stadium for the Cardinals as asked for who knows.

Ancient history now, I've enjoyed watching the Arizona fans enjoy the team last year, they've suffered long enough and deserve even more success.

 

[Cards Czar]

This is where the lambs will be playing in not so very long.

http://www.losangelesfootballstadium.com/


Chip and his sister own 60% of the team and Stan Kroenke(owner of the Denver Nuggets and Denver Hockey team)owns 40% of the lambs now.

Due to NFL rules I do believe Kroenke cannot block the sale by Chip and his sister.Plus Kroenke owning the Denver teams will not be able to still own any part of the lambs or he will have to sell his two Denver franchises(which I doubt he will).He will just make money off the sale of the lambs to a couple of people who are willing to pay for them now.

Chip only wanted to honor his mothers wishes to keep the team in St.Louie and no one there has the money.Even Budwizer sold out to a foreign country.I understand the catfood company owns something else in St.Louis.

Check out the lambs new stadium and the video that goes along with it.They will become an outdoor team and take the horns back to L.A. and 18 Million people who don't mind driving in traffic to games or anyplace else.

The stadium lease can be broken before 2014 due to the amount of money the city of St.Louis would have to raise to keep the Ed Jones Dome as one off the top 8 stadiums in the NFL.They now know why even try to raise that kind of heavy dough when the lambs are gonna be leaving now anyway.

I don't see the NFL sending the Jags to L.A. since the lambs have a longer history there,than they have had in St. Louie.They have played in more playoff games in the NFL than only the cowpies and the giants.

I can see the watemelon heads already carving out thier watermelons already.

I'm just glad it will be a shorter flight to L.A. and when the NFL goes to 18 games we might get the raiders and San Diego added to our division to add the two new teams.(If that is needed).This last added thought is just a rumor about bringing in new teams,so you can just overlook that part.I do have the name of the men wanting to pay the 900+ Million dollars that the lambs cost right now.

I think they would be approved in a split second.

No Kroenke can still own part of the Rams. If he has over 50% of the team then he would have to either sell his part of the Rams or he will have to get rid of the teams in Denver. For that rule to be ineffect he would need to be the majority owner.

 

[moklerman]

How they treated his mother? There is now steam coming out of my ears.

Yup, for many of the fans in St. Louis she is a saint and she has played the abused, persecuted, misunderstood woman owner that the league and more so the city of Los Angeles and it's fans have treated badly.

Even on her deathbed she was adamant that the Rams not be moved back to Los Angeles by making Chip promise not to do so or sell the team to someone who would do so. That's why they haven't sold yet.

But blood is blood and Chip is his mother's son. Now the team is for sale to the highest bidder and he doesn't care what happens, just who writes the biggest check. Poetic justice if the team is moved away from St. Louis if you ask me. I'd feel bad for the fans in St. Louis but at the same time, I've felt bad for myself a lot longer and the team should've never left L.A. in the first place.

If Al Davis hadn't already recently won a lawsuit vs. the NFL regarding franchise movement the league(I've heard) would have fought the move by the Rams. There's nothing quite like being a Rams fan and I'm glad that I've had the Cardinals the last 4 years. Seeing them go from what they were to what they are now has been uplifting as a fan.

 

[WildBB]

I hope they stay in St. Louis, because that's the only chance I get to see the Cardinals live.

I allways thought you were from Fla. ?! Where is the U connection from? You go there?

 

[WildBB]

St. Louis is a strange city.

Very much a baseball town, football only when the team is winning. I suppose you could say that of a lot of teams St. Louis IMO is pretty high up on that list.

My daughter had a band competition in that dome, I was surprised at how shabby it was really.

I don't blame them for running the Cardinals out anymore, until Michael took over the fact is the Cardinals were a disaster, however now that he is in charge things have changed and if they would have built a stadium for the Cardinals as asked for who knows.

Ancient history now, I've enjoyed watching the Arizona fans enjoy the team last year, they've suffered long enough and deserve even more success.

 

[lauraw]

LA is weird it's got the $ you would think but they are ambivalent about football except USC and UCLA...Hard to understand..

 

[earthsci]

LA is weird it's got the $ you would think but they are ambivalent about football except USC and UCLA...Hard to understand..

They already have two professional teams, why three?

 

[Shogun]

I allways thought you were from Fla. ?! Where is the U connection from? You go there?

My mother became a fan while she was in college, so I grew up a fan of them.

 

[chickenhead]

I think there was a city official at one point who said soething to the effect of "LA wants a team, and that team is the Raiders."

I don't think LA is ambivalent about football, but I do think a lot of people enjoy getting the best TV games every week in the meantime.