Cyrus12
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LA Rams....meh
FIFYrideaducati":5yal3jiu said:Great, now we will get to see how a great 7-9 team is built.
Scottemojo":19v8c3xw said:I knew the Rams had a deal with the league on Sam. For what, I did not know, but I knew Roger asked them to take Sam.
If they will ask teams to do things for PR, will they ask officials?
Super Bowl XL* just called and said the answer to your question is "yes".Scottemojo":yf03t7ls said:I knew the Rams had a deal with the league on Sam. For what, I did not know, but I knew Roger asked them to take Sam.
If they will ask teams to do things for PR, will they ask officials?
RedAlice":1dkcxlgl said:This has become a semi-interesting topic. Most of the posters here have hit on the various hot points and opinions. (That's one thing I always appreciate about this board).
For me, the problem with the story is the writer and his unnamed "source." This is just the beginning of stories like this that we will see over this season and probably the next ones as well.
Balzer is one of the handful of StL writers who is mad, hurt and angry about their perception of how StL was treated. They use every opportunity to play victim and write some pretty insanely ridiculous things. But, I can't blame them (well most of them). Balzer also believes in the complete StL conspiracy and now hates the Rams.
So, he is a biased source in himself and his actual source here is unnamed. A quick read through his twitter is pretty simple.
I posted his original "tweets" before he posted his article. His tweets post article are fairly entertaining as well.
As to facts:
Balzer has an unnamed source he believes in who says the NFL made a promise to the Rams if they drafted M Sam.
J Fisher denies this. Demoff denies this. NFL says only that Fisher is right.
Michael Silver was in the draft room and says he saw no evidence of this being a conspiracy and looked real to him.
Balzer says Fisher was doing an acting job.
So, well. I don't put this concept past the NFL, but I also don't believe anything Balzer says regarding the Rams for a second. He would eat his shoe to have anything he could support and write negative about them. He hates them. I expect much more of this type of thing to come from him this season.
Oh good Lord. That's stupidity of epic proportions. If they wanted to give the team a sweetheart lease that's one thing. But to not include language voiding the sweetness if the team moved was incredibly short sighted. This is pro sports after all.RedAlice":1iu5312q said:Btw, no need for a new thread on StL ineptness. And since this one is already declared to be of no interest, it's perfect.
My wow: How possibly inept can the 1994 St. Louis Lease Negotiators have been? It's starting to defy the imagination on stupidness.
They not only allowed the lease agreement to include the clause that lost them the Rams, they also let this one in. As in: they SIGNED a lease with this clause in it. Wow.
Happy no one in StL is negotiating my life.
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EARTH CITY, MO (KTVI) – Like an ex who keeps popping up on your Facebook wall, news involving the Rams and their former home has reared its head once again. This time, the Stan Kroenke-owned franchise claims it negotiated a sweetheart deal to buy its old Earth City practice facility, leaving millions of dollars on the table for the current property owners.
The Edward Jones Dome authority, which owns the 27-acre Rams Park, leased the facility to the Rams for $25,000 a year. But with the Rams now in Los Angeles, the authority wants to sell the land. According to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the land previously appraised for just under $19 million. Any money acquired from the sale or rent of that land could be put towards the $16 million price tag the authority spent trying to keep the Rams in town.
However, a clause in the Rams lease gives the team an option to buy the land for a dollar in 2024, the 29th anniversary of the stadium. This is the same lease that allowed the Rams to leave St. Louis in the first place.
Lawyers for the dome authority filed suit Thursday to block the team from buying the property and training facility. Both sides are arguing if the language in the lease allows for the purchase. Attorneys for the Rams claim the team’s relocation does not cancel the franchise’s ability to buy the land for a song.
http://fox2now.com/2016/03/24/deal-may- ... ity-for-1/
hawksfansinceday1":1t0xm7wz said:Oh good Lord. That's stupidity of epic proportions. If they wanted to give the team a sweetheart lease that's one thing. But to not include language voiding the sweetness if the team moved was incredibly short sighted. This is pro sports after all.RedAlice":1t0xm7wz said:Btw, no need for a new thread on StL ineptness. And since this one is already declared to be of no interest, it's perfect.
My wow: How possibly inept can the 1994 St. Louis Lease Negotiators have been? It's starting to defy the imagination on stupidness.
They not only allowed the lease agreement to include the clause that lost them the Rams, they also let this one in. As in: they SIGNED a lease with this clause in it. Wow.
Happy no one in StL is negotiating my life.
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EARTH CITY, MO (KTVI) – Like an ex who keeps popping up on your Facebook wall, news involving the Rams and their former home has reared its head once again. This time, the Stan Kroenke-owned franchise claims it negotiated a sweetheart deal to buy its old Earth City practice facility, leaving millions of dollars on the table for the current property owners.
The Edward Jones Dome authority, which owns the 27-acre Rams Park, leased the facility to the Rams for $25,000 a year. But with the Rams now in Los Angeles, the authority wants to sell the land. According to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the land previously appraised for just under $19 million. Any money acquired from the sale or rent of that land could be put towards the $16 million price tag the authority spent trying to keep the Rams in town.
However, a clause in the Rams lease gives the team an option to buy the land for a dollar in 2024, the 29th anniversary of the stadium. This is the same lease that allowed the Rams to leave St. Louis in the first place.
Lawyers for the dome authority filed suit Thursday to block the team from buying the property and training facility. Both sides are arguing if the language in the lease allows for the purchase. Attorneys for the Rams claim the team’s relocation does not cancel the franchise’s ability to buy the land for a song.
http://fox2now.com/2016/03/24/deal-may- ... ity-for-1/
Isn't Stan K. from the St. L area? If so, he's screwing his own home town.
Because I am just that smart, cupcake.hawknation2016":2rmpsrza said:Scottemojo":2rmpsrza said:I knew the Rams had a deal with the league on Sam. For what, I did not know, but I knew Roger asked them to take Sam.
If they will ask teams to do things for PR, will they ask officials?
How do you "know" this?