Watching the game now. That stadiium looks like a second home for the Rams.
This article includes details on how the Rams made the call early on to move the game.
Hats off to the Cardinal organization.
The game just showed a screen shot of all they did to get ready for the game.
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Hi @crparrothead:
I forgot to ask earlier how the people of St Louis felt seeing the first NFL franchise leaving their city helping the second one to leave.
I also read a smart-ass comment online that the NFL should have moved that game to St Louis.
Seriously, if the Rams beat the Eagles tomorrow they will host the NFC Championship game. It is still up in the air as to whether they could hold it at SoFi Stadium or if they would have to hold it in Glendale.
That connection had never occurred to me.
St Louis is a salty city.
They hate the Chiefs because Clark Hunt voted to allow the Rams to leave.
I bet if you brought that connection up to a St Louis person their head would explode!
I can understand them being mad in a way, though in the end I think it would have come out the way it did regardless as to how Clark Hunt had voted.
This reminds me of the time in the early 1990s when the San Francisco Giants wanted to move to St Petersburg, FL, only in reverse. The then-Florida Marlins voted in favor of the move because they knew politically they could not vote against it. However, privately they did not want another team in Florida and knew there were enough other votes to block it.
Back to the NFL, it sounds like Clark Hunt was similar to his father in that he did what was best for the NFL overall. I mentioned before on the CHB how of all the options at the time, the Inglewood stadium was the far superior alternative to the Carson stadium and of the three teams that wanted to move to Los Angeles, the Rams were the best option. Note that I am saying this in terms of what would have been best for the NFL to succeed in Los Angeles. This is not a judgment on any of the three cities that stood to - and eventually did - lose their NFL teams.
And, regarding your comment about St Louis being a salty city, I mentioned on the CHB that I was listening to the press conference announcing that the Rams woud be moving to Los Angeles and could hear the anger in the St Louis reporters’ voices directed at Kroenke.
Still, when I look at when the Rams first moved to St Louis and then when they moved back to Los Angeles, the situations were mirror images of each other with only one key difference, that being that St Louis gave Georgia Frontiere a sweetheart deal to move three while Stan Kroenke spent his own money to build his own stadium in Southern California. Aside from that, the situations were the same. I would hear a St Louis person give a reason the Rams should not have moved or how St Louis was being screwed, and I thought that the exact same thing could have been said in reverse twenty-one years prior. That St Louis salt water sure showed. 