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http://www.csmonitor.com/1995/0320/20081.html

''The NFL teams are separate, independent businesses that compete with one another on and off the field,'' Mr. Nixon says. ''If the other NFL teams and the Rams' competitors act as a cartel to stop them from doing business in the city of their choice, it would be a classic restraint of trade. We're not going to stand by on the sidelines and let the smoke-filled-room cartel of the NFL take away what we've earned.''

Now thats a professional politician. Make a statement like that and years later do the exact same thing you're chastising your opponents for.

Elvis wrote:http://www.csmonitor.com/1995/0320/20081.html

''The NFL teams are separate, independent businesses that compete with one another on and off the field,'' Mr. Nixon says. ''If the other NFL teams and the Rams' competitors act as a cartel to stop them from doing business in the city of their choice, it would be a classic restraint of trade. We're not going to stand by on the sidelines and let the smoke-filled-room cartel of the NFL take away what we've earned.''

Sooo, if 'the cartel" tries to "stop them from doing business in the city of their choice", does "them" mean the city or the team? If "them" means 'team' and the Rams want to do business in Los Angeles, wouldn't the city of StL by trying to stop them be a restraint of trade ?

2 other questions come to mind from this comment. 1, what is the difference between "other NFL team and "the Rams competitors", and 2, what has StL earned that is being taken away?

In 1995 Jay Nixon thought a team should be able to play wherever they choose. Now, not so much...

That's what I figured. He is talking out both sides of his arse as snackdaddy alluded to.

The story is about St. Louis suing after the NFL voted down the Rams move to St. Louis, saying the NFL had no right to do that. Now of course, they're all about the NFL's right to keep the Rams from leaving St. Louis.

In their and Nixon's defense, they've been consistently fighting for the Rams to be in St. Louis, though the hypocrisy is pretty amusing.

And i could see how Kroenke and Demoff might bring up Nixon's comments as AG when making their pitch to the NFL for Inglewood...

Elvis wrote:The story is about St. Louis suing after the NFL voted down the Rams move to St. Louis, saying the NFL had no right to do that. Now of course, they're all about the NFL's right to keep the Rams from leaving St. Louis.

In their and Nixon's defense, they've been consistently fighting for the Rams to be in St. Louis, though the hypocrisy is pretty amusing.

And i could see how Kroenke and Demoff might bring up Nixon's comments as AG when making their pitch to the NFL for Inglewood...

I'd pay to watch that interaction.

^^^^^ And my apologies for missing the significance of the 1995 aspect. Up too late in the recording studio with a perfect DJ42 haze. In the not so famous words of Homer Simpson, DOH!!