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St. Loser Fan wrote:"If you want to keep your NFL team that wants a new stadium, figure out a way to take taxpayer money from schools, roads, police etc and give it to rich men so they can become richer."
Elvis wrote:
PARAM wrote:Well yeah that is if you haven't planned for the eventuality and are attempting a last minute, last ditch desperation effort. Now if you get a team, like say the West Coast and you give them a sweetheart lease to lure them away from their home of 49 years, with provisions to keep the stadium in the top 25 percentile, and you know there's no way you're going to satisfy the demands on that lease, then you need to start planning from day one to secure financing to build a new place before the lease is up. I realize that's a long sentence but grammatically correct and relatively easy to follow. Now if you know all that and don't plan from the beginning you either believe, 1), the NFL isn't going to allow them to move, or 2) you don't really care as long as you got that 20+ year rental. Now I'm not sure but the amount of time St. Louis had to prepare, plan and make their team happy was much more than adequate. The only problem is the fans aren't involved in the machinations of the process but are the ones who get screwed in the end. And that sucks but if it were me, I'd make damn sure the elected officials responsible for allowing the team to leave would not be back in their job past the next election.
St. Loser Fan wrote:Contrary to what you people on the coast think; we're not all rural rubes who are clueless about everything.
St. Loser Fan wrote:I understand all that. Contrary to what you people on the coast think; we're not all rural rubes who are clueless about everything. We screwed up and paid the price. End of story: just don't expect us to be happy about it.
BTW: the mayor of St. Louis decided not to run again, the governor of Missouri is out office and the St. Louis County executive was voted out. Hope that's good enough for you.
Elvis wrote:I was wondering about that myself. As far as i know we don't know who the two no votes were (or maybe we do and i forgot).