Posted on 02/12/2016 8:58:07 AM PST by C19fan
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.
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And the citizens of St. Louis are stuck with paying for an empty stadium.
They elected the politicians who agreed to one of the most lopsided leases in sports history.
The City of St. Louis is almost 100% black, so all they elect is Demonorats. The metropolitan area is not, but it’s headed that way.
So why don’t other cities without football teams build stadiums, since there is so many high-dollar events to be held there?
I did not say they would not lose money with the Rams leaving. I said other events are held there, so it will not be a complete money sucking hole. I also said, it was the cities fault for not making the Rams lease run until the stadium was paid off.
It will have negative cash flow.
Whatever the people of St. Louis do, they should rename the now-empty stadium to “Michael Brown Memorial Stadium”. They could erect a bronze statue of the gentle giant throttling a small store-owner at the entrance.
That is the risk a city takes when they build a stadium. Too bad for the people of St. Louis.
If you build a stadium without public participation, you are wide open to legislative attack. The lawyers stay away when they go up against the political machine.
4 concerts a year? That’s not enough to pay for the operating costs of the stadium.
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