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NFL finally returning to Los Angeles? Rams owner to build massive stadium complex
Daily Mai ^ | 01/05/15 | Josh Gardner

Posted on 01/05/2015 10:15:43 AM PST by Enlightened1

The owner of the St. Louis Rams has announced intentions to build a massive new NFL stadium and entertainment complex in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood.

Stan Kroenke revealed the grand plan to the LA Times on Monday. In addition to an 80,000-seat stadium, the billionaire and his partners are proposing an adjacent 6,000-seat performance venue.

Los Angeles was home to the Rams from 1946 to 1994 and, as St. Louis scrambles to come up with a plan for a new stadium in order to retain the team, the City of Angels appears ever more likely to get a pro football team after two decades without one.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: California; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: california; inglewood; losangeles; missouri; nfl; rams; stadium; stlouis
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To: PGR88
I can’t watch the NFL on TV.
Agree 100%. Every play now requires some overpaid nobody to perform some juvenile on-field dance; unending commercial breaks; unending play review breaks; inane commentators who never STFU; inane sideline babes who never STFU, etc.
After 50+ years, I just can't watch anymore ... it's too painful.
21 posted on 01/05/2015 10:36:12 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: napscoordinator
Good for LA and football.

I personnally wouldn't go to Inglewood if they gave me a fully stocked complementary limo and free tickets...

No joke.

22 posted on 01/05/2015 10:39:15 AM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Enlightened1

I was watching a Rams game over the holidays with some relatives/fans and was flabbergasted to learn that they are no longer in LA. I guess I’m more out of touch than I thought - especially when I found out how long they’ve been in whatever town they are currently in.

Michael Medved was right. The US is being divided into two groups: Those who watch TV and those who don’t.


23 posted on 01/05/2015 10:40:27 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: dragnet2

That is one strange thing. They always build stadiums in the worst areas. I guess they feel they can at least clean up that area as a start. I must admit Baltimore was a dump until the stadium moved in and now it is a great city with lots to do around the stadium. So overall it is a positive for the area that gets the stadium.


24 posted on 01/05/2015 10:41:11 AM PST by napscoordinator (President Walker is our future President! Ted Cruz is the Senate Majority Leader in the future!)
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To: oh8eleven

I can’t stand it when some idiot dances after making a tackle when his team is down by 30 points. They have some real morons in that league.


25 posted on 01/05/2015 10:42:21 AM PST by peeps36 (Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
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To: al baby

I know what BRD is, but BDR must be worse!


26 posted on 01/05/2015 10:48:06 AM PST by GeronL
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To: napscoordinator

Think it has more to do with the cost of the land. Can remember going to Dodger Stadium at Chaves Ravine. Before the stadium was built it was a low income Hispanic barrio.
Have not been there in decades so I don’t know what the area is like now.


27 posted on 01/05/2015 10:48:08 AM PST by X Fretensis (How)
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To: Enlightened1
St. Louis can thank Jim Irsay (owner of Colts) for the worst owner in the NFL- Stan Kroenke. Irsay kabashed the group that wanted the RAMS including el RUSHBO- a native Missourian. I forever hate the Colts and root for their defeat. I will even support the Patriots (cheaters who beat the RAMS in the Superbowl) over the Colts.
28 posted on 01/05/2015 10:48:17 AM PST by 11th Commandment ("THOSE WHO TIRE LOSE")
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Maybe StL could take the Browns? Call them The St. Louis Mike Browns?


29 posted on 01/05/2015 10:49:21 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Enlightened1

I lived in LA when the Rams and Raiders were both in town. Neither team could draw a crowd. The Raiders hosted the AFC Championship game one year and it was blacked out locally because the Colosseum was half empty. Having witnessed the dearth of interest then makes me question why an owner would want to move a team there - aside from leveraging a new stadium deal where they are now.


30 posted on 01/05/2015 10:49:26 AM PST by IamConservative (If fighting fire with fire is a good idea, why do the pros use water?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

We call inglewood - inglewatts.

And hollywood - hollyweird.


31 posted on 01/05/2015 10:49:46 AM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: cuban leaf

The Rams moved to St. Louis Mo 20 years ago. In other news Lindy made it. :)


32 posted on 01/05/2015 10:49:48 AM PST by xp38
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To: GeronL

Yes, it affect both the rectum and the hand eye coordination


33 posted on 01/05/2015 10:51:13 AM PST by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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To: al baby

lol


34 posted on 01/05/2015 10:53:11 AM PST by GeronL
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To: xp38

Yeah, that is what shocked me. I dumped tv in 1997, but the rams moved BEFORE that. I must have heard it but just forgot.


35 posted on 01/05/2015 10:55:43 AM PST by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I always wondered why they had them in the same division as Seattle, SF, and Arizona. Perhaps the NFL knew something when they made these divisions in 2002. The Rams move to St. Louis in 1994.


36 posted on 01/05/2015 10:56:20 AM PST by stratboy
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To: al baby
Los Angeles Rams of Inglewood ?

If the SF 49ers can play in Santa Clara, the Rams could play in San Bernardino and still be part of LA.

37 posted on 01/05/2015 10:56:32 AM PST by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: IamConservative

If you check the stats, attendance for the Raiders was better in Los Angeles than the long term average after they moved back to Oakland. Some of the crowds in that dump they call the Oakland Mausoleum in recent years have been the worst since the early AFL days before Al Davis took over.

As for the Rams, dear old Georgia did nothing to field a competitive team and never did any community relations in the OC to boost attendance. Fans in St Louis have pretty much given up on the team after the Kurt Warner years too. Of course it didn’t matter because for years the city agreed to buy up all the unsold tickets to get the team to move there in the first place.


38 posted on 01/05/2015 10:58:13 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Dilbert San Diego

You could almost call Inglewood the gateway to Watts.....


39 posted on 01/05/2015 11:02:25 AM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Enlightened1

Let’s see if the Ram’s owner builds the stadium USING ALL OF HIS OWN MONEY!


40 posted on 01/05/2015 11:03:55 AM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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