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 by den-the-coach
9 years 7 months ago
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United States of America   Fifty-four Forty or Fight
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God I truly don't think I will recover if the Rams are not the team relocating to Los Angeles.

 by SoCalRam78
9 years 7 months ago
 Total posts:   1087  
 Joined:  May 25 2015
United States of America   SoCal
Pro Bowl

SWAdude wrote:The St Louis plan was literally thrown together after the Inglewood plan became public. Hence the quick fifth grade art contest like renderings of the St Louis plan. (No offense to fifth graders intended). The ONLY reason the St Louis plan exists is because of the Inglewood plan. The ONLY reason the Carson project exists is because of the Inglewood plan. This isn't business, its politics. Appearances is the name of the game here but the facts are what they are and my guess is 30 owners LOVE the Inglewood plan and need to make it look otherwise. They need to appear as if they gave everyone their due consideration and this is how they do this.

Unemotional logic (if that is possible), with everything considered, can not vision why Inglewood would not be the overwhelmingly favored home for an NFL stadium. If moving the Rams wasn't in the mix, slam dunk it wins over Carson. With the Rams in the mix, it becomes political.


It's because they're morons. Yes, the NFL is dumb enough to do this. They have more sympathy for Deano, but I don't think they care much for Mark Davis. So turning down a multi billionare who does real estate for a living and is willing to privately finance one of the nicest stadiums if not the nicest in the league is something they could totally do. For what? So the Rams can stay in a terrible market drawing 12 fans a game? So the Chargers can share a stadium with the Raiders who already moved to and from LA once? So they can abandon a 50 year market? So they can pick the proposal with the most pratfalls and the longest time to build?

 by Elvis
9 years 7 months ago
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 Joined:  Mar 28 2015
United States of America   Los Angeles
Administrator

• Neither site is close to having the 24 votes to approve one plan.


This is pretty much what everyone has been saying for a while now...

 by Stranger
9 years 7 months ago
 Total posts:   3213  
 Joined:  Aug 12 2015
United States of America   Norcal
Superstar

SWAdude wrote:The St Louis plan was literally thrown together after the Inglewood plan became public. Hence the quick fifth grade art contest like renderings of the St Louis plan. (No offense to fifth graders intended). The ONLY reason the St Louis plan exists is because of the Inglewood plan. The ONLY reason the Carson project exists is because of the Inglewood plan. This isn't business, its politics. Appearances is the name of the game here but the facts are what they are and my guess is 30 owners LOVE the Inglewood plan and need to make it look otherwise. They need to appear as if they gave everyone their due consideration and this is how they do this.

Unemotional logic (if that is possible), with everything considered, can not vision why Inglewood would not be the overwhelmingly favored home for an NFL stadium. If moving the Rams wasn't in the mix, slam dunk it wins over Carson. With the Rams in the mix, it becomes political.

Agree with everything here. One question, why does it become political as soon as the Rams are in the mix?

 by Elvis
9 years 7 months ago
 Total posts:   41516  
 Joined:  Mar 28 2015
United States of America   Los Angeles
Administrator

Pretty simple, if the narrative is true:

Stan intends to move the Rams to L.A. Dean Spanos doesn't think that's fair so he's fighting it...

 by Stranger
9 years 7 months ago
 Total posts:   3213  
 Joined:  Aug 12 2015
United States of America   Norcal
Superstar

Elvis wrote:Pretty simple, if the narrative is true:

Stan intends to move the Rams to L.A. Dean Spanos doesn't think that's fair so he's fighting it...

And he's using a political animal named Mark Fabiani to do he fighting?

 by SoCalRam78
9 years 7 months ago
 Total posts:   1087  
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United States of America   SoCal
Pro Bowl

Not going to lie, Spanos has played his cards very well. Guy will either get a sweet tenant deal or a big chunk of money for a new stadium in SD. All through a very low financial commitment to Carson, politicking, teaming up the Raiders and the media. The screws continue to get applied to SK.

 by Elvis
9 years 7 months ago
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United States of America   Los Angeles
Administrator

Still, i have a hard time seeing Kroenke as someone who gets played by people like Dean Spanos.

But we'll see...

 by SWAdude
9 years 7 months ago
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 Joined:  Sep 21 2015
United States of America   LA Coliseum
Pro Bowl

No owner wants to be on the outside looking in. These types of changes puts the relationships with owners at risk. Spanos obviously is concerned with his market if the Rams have a world class stadium two hours up the 5/405. My guess is Daddy-O was secretly thrilled when the Rams left LA. Market-share is an honest concern. Within any franchise there are many thousands, if not millions of bandwagon fans. The Raiders have a much smaller fan base in LA than the Rams. A bandwagoner will unlikely change their weak loyalty to one of their rivals in the same division.(which also makes no sense to share a stadium with a division rival) but will with a team with no rival history. Especially if the game day experience is much better with a world class venue like Inglewood.

Thats my take on the politics. I would be concerned if I was Spanos. And hope my owner friends stay loyal with my legitimate concerns.

 by dieterbrock
9 years 7 months ago
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 Joined:  Mar 31 2015
United States of America   New Jersey
Hall of Fame

den-the-coach wrote:God I truly don't think I will recover if the Rams are not the team relocating to Los Angeles.



Me too. Says a lot considering we are both east coasters.

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