Louis’ Effort to Keep Rams From Move to LA Faces Key Vote

“Won by a touchdown”, said Alderman Jack Coatar, a sponsor of the bill. Almost a decade later, in 1995, they welcomed the replacement Rams from Los Angeles.

Faulconer has also met with most of the owners on a committee studying Los Angeles relocation issues. That plan, however, is not good enough for the league because it calls on the NFL itself to spend $300 million on the stadium.

But there was plenty of opposition. Several booed when the vote was announced. Owners of the Rams, San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders all have proposed relocation, perhaps as early as next season.

Rams owner Stan Kroenke is backing plans for a $1.86 billion stadium on the former site of Hollywood Park.

Disney CEO Bob Iger admitted at a media event he was recruited to help support the Raiders-Chargers joint project in Carson, but Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson.

What seems to be going on is that the stadium task force, in response to gripes from the NFL about that game-day taxes should get rebated to team owners, offered to do so if the league would make up the difference with a lump sum cash contribution, and the league didn’t outright say no, not yet, anyway. The NFL’s G-4 program routinely finances up to $200 million for teams looking to build a new stadium. Dave Peacock, co-chairman of Gov. Jay Nixon’s St. Louis Stadium Task Force, said the Board of Aldermen’s approval, with the latest tweaks from the National Football League, gives St. Louis the best chance to remain an National Football League city: whether it be the Rams or another team. We now have more work to do to prepare our St. Louis stadium proposal for delivery ahead of the NFL’s deadline of December 30. In less than a month, the league plans on solving the whole NFL in L.A. debacle yet again. “We commend mayor Francis Slay, president Lewis Reed and the St. Louis City Board of Aldermen for their vision, leadership and commitment”. The Rams played what was potentially their last-ever game there last night, beating Tampa 31-23.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported before Thursday’s game that the Rams are planning on bringing Fisher back, despite the teams struggles with two games left. Grubman’s reasoning for that was based on the fact that the St. Louis proposal contained about $400 million of public money but $100 million of that was to come in the form of an amusement tax that other St. Louis professional sports teams don’t now pay.