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Thanks,

Just read the article.....Yes, back home to where they fled from, then over to Inglewood (if and when the deal goes through and construction is completed and financed. Right where I used to go see those pretty horses run "The Old Location of Hollywood Park." And it only seems like they were gone 30 years to me...More like 21 years ago. Both the Rams and the Raiders fled L.A. in 1994 to seek fame and fortune & much greener grass elsewhere......Neither have found it yet.

I do sympathize with the OP...It is hard to be a pro sports fan and watch your teams (that you supported by attending regularly, buying high priced official team memorabilia, high priced food and tickets, etc. just turn their backs on you as thanks (no good deed goes unpunished), because those poor broke (financially strapped), team owners make bad business decisions (even though they have as NFL Team owners IRS Non-Profit Status), and are always looking at slamming the local taxpayers to build them new BILLION $$$$$ stadiums and or they will just seek greener pastures and kick their fans right in the stinking teeth.

L.A. City said they were not going to look to the taxpayers on the deal....RIGHT, SURE YOU WON'T, I believe you, uh huh....Naming rights won't build and maintain a BILLION $$$$$ NFL Stadium these days. Maybe IF, and it appears a huge IF, the Raiders and the Chargers join the Rams in the deal, they may just be able to pull it off. Now, can or will L.A. NFL fans support 3 different teams using the same Stadium? (Except Jack Nicholson and his friends). How do you do that with the colors and graphics on all the concourse walls?...Maybe all light boards or triangular rotating signage everywhere. What a nightmare to design and implement.

I'll take robot building and working w/ kids any day!

At CMP last year, we went to the village by the Stadium for FIRST Volunteers night and The St. Louis Blues were playing a Stanley cup game and they had them up on a huge big screen in a very large (HUGE SCREEN, HUUUUGE place), bar area, which was wall to wall people just going nuts! They love their Blues.

They were mainly local Blues Fans, but the view of the game in that bar was better than any possible nosebleed or even ice or board side seats where they were actually playing. I love NHL Pro Hockey and I felt like I was actually "at the game" after just a few minutes...minus the actual expensive seat of course, as the place was standing room only, and the beer was a bunch less expensive. (The players were about full size or larger on the screen so it was like you were on the ice or sitting in the penalty box actually watching the game).

St. Louis definitely has the fan base to support pro sports teams, so somebody is doing something wrong in their marketing department.