A hair short of 50 years in Los Angeles... I remember seeing this poster at one of the last games they played before moving to St. Louis: "Ex-showgirl strippers shouldn't be allowed to own football teams".

Georgia had Carroll Rosenbloom killed. Then moved his team.

Enjoy your new gold digger.

Assholes that marry Walmart heiresses shouldn't be allowed to own teams either I guess.

In the meantime, pardon my spleen venting.

I'm sure that which brings me joy tonight instills the same loss in many others. I have a bit of guilt over that.

My dad was at the 1945 championship game, he hated the Rams the minute they left Cleveland. I bet I heard the story 100 times how the city supported the Rams, then they left. I grew up in Phx and left shortly before the Cardinals bolted for Phx. I go back to visit and the old man proudly brings out his season tickets.

I wait about an hour and ask how is that different from the Rams bolting Cleveland, it takes him a minute but finally spurts out they won a championship damn it.

Steeler Nation beckons you!

JOIN US. Be absorbed into the Black and Gold.

I don't think they're even slated to decide until after next season, although I may have read that incorrectly.

although the terms of the marriage haven't been finalized.

Chargers get 100 million towards SD stadium if they stay. (I think the offer is for the Raiders too)

I am sticking with my original predictions, the NFL couldn't do squat to stop the Rams. They want SD to stay put and the Raiders can do whatever makes them happy.

Local CBS news in LA reported @6ish that the Raiders would get $500 million to upgrade the stadium. And at that point, the Rams were the only sure thing. Allegedly. Then Pro Football Talk, which I trust, reported that the Chargers wold be coming to LA too.

I guess I have to wait for more smoke to clear. I really can't see why a divided LA market would be smarter for the NFL than a team in LA and another in SD, but....

I am hoping it is a bluff with SD. Both teams could use new stadiums, but leaving SD seems like a bad plan. I think the NFL feels SD will provide funding and Oakland won't, thus the Chargers getting the option first.

Issue is we would have to listen to the lame Texans brag about stealing a CA team.

No issue with most people I have met in SA, nor the city, Dallas is another story.

Look how well the third Florida team, the Jags, worked out.

If the Chargers move, they have to pay the NFL a relocation fee...plus share the costs of the new stadium (along with the profits...if any). The real moolah is going to be the entertainment zone around the area which the current Rams owner will develop and will not share the profits. If they they stay put then the NFL will give them 100 Mill in helping with the stadium updates (or new stadium).

Raiders have the option to move to LA if Chargers opt out...but they have the same deal. Wouldn't be surprised if the Raiders started looking at San Antonio, TX.

So basically, move and hope you make money or stay put on more of a sure thing.

Realistically, LA can't support two NFL teams. You have two Basketball teams, an LA based Hockey and Baseball team with an Orange County Hockey and Baseball team 30 minutes (no traffic...which is rare) down the road. And then you have two College Football teams which has been filling the "need" for awhile.....and all this will still be a big draw. Economics just not there for two NFL teams.

And support them through thick and thin just as I always did. Same with the Dodgers... bums.

But having the Rams here means I won't have to go very far to see the Cardinals.

I'm also sad for the fans in St. Louis.

I just don't understand the strong attachment for a mediocre team with a habit of leaving their fans.

Watched them in the L. A. Coliseum as a young boy, then at Anahiem Statium as a young man, never liked the Radiers, so I am happy to have my favorite team back home again.

Now all I have to do is figure out two things; How to scrape together enough for season tickets. And then how to talk the wife in to letting me buy season tickets!

I remember a few games at the Big A, one Monday Night game was about 80% Niner fans. I see the Cardinals are having the same problem in Phx., even with a good team a lot of tickets end up in the hands of the visitors.

Those games were fun to attended, even back when Joe Montana was slicing through the Rams secondary like a cartoon ninja.

because they won't fill the stadium for a crappy team

That guy was a total scumbag.

It's the LA Rams and St Louis Cardinals and wtf are Texans? Congrats LA. This time keep em!

I was in KC this summer...big NFL exhibition and a lot about KC's history.

This whole situation really stinks...and smacks of greed.

I can't recall why they moved to STL in the first place? Probably over a new stadium.

Carolina and Jacksonville got the expansion teams and the Rams took advantage of the situation and got a sweet deal in St. Louis. We built them a brand new dome that we'll be paying for for another six years.

and I've been an NFL fan for more than 45 years. Indianapolis Colts, yes, St Louis Rams, no.

I do remember the LA Lambs having to journey from sunny SoCal to the frozen tundra of the long-gone Metropolitan Stadium to play the Vikings in the playoffs. One steely glare from Bud Grant was enough to send them running.

And that's coming from a second-generation Bruin.

I remember when Georgia picked up and ran out of town with her cute little team. .

I don't live in LA anymore, so I have no chit in play, but, we were pretty pissed about the move to St Louis ... I washed my hands of them and wished them well ..

What? .. You're BACK? ... Get outta here!

Go away!

I am waiting to see how the actual funding goes for the new LA stadium. Right now the Rams owner seems to be proposing a plan with little if any public money involved. I salute that approach if it is so. St. Louis tried to keep the Rams with $400M in public money (they still owe $100M on their last bad deal on the current stadium).