This was a great thread before Rick and CH mucked it up with there back and forth discussion on the topic at hand

with BRick it's usually back and forth and then back again that fucks it up. The ignore function doesn't work on quotes though so we just have to get by.

St. Louis is actually hugely into soccer thanks to all its waves of German and Italian immigrants back in the day. A lot of people want an MLS team to play on the riverfront instead, which could be a decent investment if it doubles as a concert venue in the summer like Toyota Park does for us.

They have to do something with that real estate, though. It's a fucking warzone. Here, poke around on Street View: https://www.google.com/maps?ll=38.63886 ... n&t=m&z=15

This was a great thread before Rick and CH mucked it up with there back and forth discussion on the topic at hand

I really would like to see them go back to this look permanently.

I am in the urination, puking, drunk, yelling zone.

I once jerked in a chicken truck, so I have that going for me.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

They won't do an exact copy of that, but I'm sure it'll look close enough to make everyone buy the new version.

The contractual obligations to maintain a "first-tier" stadium were some really bad negotiating on the part of the city.

If you wind this whole thing back to the early '90s, you could argue St. Louis was doomed from the start. The original angle was that the new St. Louis-based ownership of the New England Patriots (who were then a total joke that nobody cared about) was going to move the team to St. Louis, but then Bob Kraft swooped in to buy the franchise along with Foxborough Stadium and the rest is history. This is why the seats at the dome are red and blue; they ordered the seats in Pats colors and then never bothered to follow up. Then they applied for an expansion team for 1995 to be called the Stallions (gay), but that bid fell apart and the expansions went to Charlotte and Jacksonville instead. At this point, building a domed stadium on spec and being kinda desperate, St. Louis promised they'd turn a cheap stadium into an expensive stadium very soon if you'll please just come here and love us.

I don't know to what extent people could have foreseen the way NFL stadiums would become the palaces they are now (and also Soldier Field), but limping to the finish line and then overpromising seems like a bad move anyway.

Seven tractor-trailers already have been either sent or are currently en route to the West Coast, according to Rams operations director Bruce Warwick. As of Friday morning, the Lombardi Trophy from that magical 1999 season was on one of those 18-wheelers, somewhere out on an interstate.

When all is said and done, 30 tractor trailers full of stuff will be sent to Southern California, with most heading out between now and the end of next week.

At 20,000 to 22,000 pounds per truck, we’re talking roughly 660,000 pounds of equipment, files, weights, furniture, footballs — you name it.

“We’re gonna load and go,” Warwick said. “We’re trying to get everything into the indoor (facility) by Thursday. It’s still gonna take time to load and things like that.”

The team’s 80-yard indoor field is basically a staging area, a warehouse where everything is gathered and loaded, and then shipped to the Los Angeles area.

The Rams’ business and scouting departments officially shut down Friday in St. Louis. Football operations — which includes coaches, the weight room, and the athletic trainers — will shut down this coming Thursday.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

On West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, an overgrown tree obscures a whitewashed, two-story building sandwiched between a radio station and a studio lot. Inside, it's a time warp. The battered carpet is blue, and the rippled wallpaper is bubbling, peeling off. Behind glass is a showcase of dull trophies and yellowed photos from another era. Everything is labeled "Los Angeles Rams." That team, of course, left LA, its home for nearly half a century, for St. Louis after the 1994 season. But on most days since, this nondescript office has remained open, staffed by two people: John Shaw, the former team president who engineered the franchise's flight from Anaheim to St. Louis, and his secretary. They work in this nearly invisible team outpost, as if the Rams never left.

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.