In Houston, NFL owners approve Rams' move to L.A. area
Saw this last night. Also a chance the Chargers go there as well. Leaving the possibility of the Raiders moving to Texas... San Antonio, I believe. That would be strange. They'd have to rebrand like the Oilers did when they moved to Nashville.
I thought that was part of the deal. Chargers and Rams have a year to work out a joint agreement (as the Chargers/Raiders had one plan and stadium, and the Rams had another site and plan.) I believe the agreement was for the site proposed by the Rams and not the one proposed by the Chargers (that they said was the only way they would move). Should be more fun than the Republican primaries.
As I understand it, the Rams are moving in 2016. There were plans to share the existing stadium until they built their own... which would be ready in 2019. So, I don't think they intend to share between 3 teams, so someone is going to be left out for the initial deal... probably Oakland.
They would have had to share it with the St. Louis Soccer Team, and the Rams were afraid they would be showed up... At least it was mentioned on the news that way.
NFL shared their new logo design with St. Louis...
I believe St. Louis has allot of resentment towards the Rams. Let's see if I can come close to getting this correct, but probably not. First, St. Louis fans were a die hard Cardinals fan and didn't want the Cards to leave. Anyone and everyone could afford a ticket to the games. In freezing weather, the fans would still pack the stadium. Then the Rams came demanding a new stadium. Busch stadium was a landmark and people wanted their stadium that the Clydesdales made so famous. So the new stadium comes. The first thing season ticket holders find out is, there will be a $4,000 per seat non-refundable fee, to hold your place in line to try and repurchase your season tickets. The everyday fans couldn't afford the $8,000 to $16,000 to hold their family tickets that they had had for the past 25 years. Prices went up so everyday fans couldn't afford tickets and only the wealthy and corporations were the only ones that could afford to go to the game. It was a way to squeeze out the everyday fan. Then of course you got the fricking Rams that couldn't deliver. When you talking new Stadiums in St. Louis, your talking about using taxpayers dollars to squeeze the taxpayers out of their favorite sports. I'm not that much into sports, but that's sort of the way I saw it.
