Raiders want to move to Las Vegas

[Benton]

(04-29-2016, 01:28 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: So Kroenke followed the process afforded in the lease?  The city could have easily kept them from moving by upgrading the dome .  Instead they let the field get to the point it was catching on fire.   

I'm not saying it was a great deal for the city but they signed it and should have followed through had they wanted to actually keep the team.     Once again they didn't and have shown they aren't that interested in an NFL team. 

I'm starting to think the city of St. Louis killed someone you loved or got the promotion you put in for. This is borderline silly.

Yes, if the city had just done everything Kroenke mandated, he wouldn't have been able to break the lease. He asked for renovations the city couldn't afford, and he left. He knew what he was doing. They did try to come up with a billion dollar stadium to get him to stay, but he didn't. Why? That wasn't what Kroenke wanted because it was in Missouri. As I understand it, he's going to spend three times that, almost entirely of his own money.

The Rams leaving STL had nothing to do with STL. Kroenke has a vision of what he wants, and the money to do it. There's nothing wrong with that. It's pretty freaking awesome in this day and age of hedge fund managers who try to force cities into spending millions to build new arenas or stadiums with public money. And there's nothing wrong with him taking the Rams to LA. He's paid for them, I don't care if he puts them in pink leotards and moves the team to Australia.

But the assumption that it was STL's fault because they wouldn't spend nearly a billion dollars of taxpayer money without any say is absurd.