[Stranger]

Just shows you how powerful the construction lobby is in StL.

[den-the-coach]

The CVC did not like the Rams they would constantly brag they were losing dollars with the rent the Rams were paying for 10 times a year and the CVC and the city of St. Louis could make so much more by hosting Monster Truck Rallies and other things and that's why they refused to shut down the Dome and not upgrade it for the amount of $700 million dollars to make it a center piece for not only the Rams, but final fours and even a Super Bowl.

That's what never understood every St. Louisan would say "They can't shut down the dome, it would cost too much money." Really? Apparently again civic leaders proving time and time again they can't see the forest for the trees.

[bubbaramfan]

Something that never gets mentioned is the CVC for the last three years scheduled the ED Dome for gigs in December, making the NFL schedule the Rams on the road for their last two games of the season. Kind of a dick move IMHO.

[snackdaddy]

Articles like this piss me off. The idiot that wrote this should not be printed anywhere ever again.

1) The Astrodome was not constructed solely for the NFL in fact there were many events including the Houston Astro's. The Oilers were a team for 8 years before they leased the Dome for their games, playing prior to that at U of Houston and Rice University.

2) He lists other stadiums that stand unused on publicly owned property on public money. Another example of idiot politicians! You have a publicly owned asset on public land and you're letting it fall apart and not generating revenue? Shame on you not the team you used to lease it to.

3) He mentions stadiums that are still being paid for after they've been abandoned. Who drew up the financing? Who laid out the projected P&L's for the stadium? If the politicians that fleeced people for money to build stadiums knowing full well when these situations arose they'd be out of office! They don't know a damn thing about running a business, how it earns money and how to pay off the buildings they own otherwise they wouldn't be freeloading off the public as politicians!

4) The Dome wasn't built for the Rams in the first place! If not for that “They had a terrible, terrible contract with the Rams." as he puts it they would never have had a professional sports team in there generating revenue!

5) And this is the one that pisses me off the most. Where were the articles from these social justice warriors when Peacock and Blitz were planning to build a new stadium and take the Rams out of the Dome? Their hero's plan all along was to do exactly what they're crying about now! And the best part of it all they sold it by saying the Dome would make more money with the Rams not there. So if there's a revenue problem with the Rams out of the Dome and they can't pay it off maybe they should check with Peacock, he had a plan all along that it seemed wouldn't have created this problem. Unless that was another unsuitable part of his stadium plan.

Their plan was flawed and it was obvious to the league it was. They did it on short notice out of desperation. On top of it, they used technicalities to skirt the laws requiring a public vote. It never woulda passed if they did that. There are more people there that don't care about the Rams than people who do.