Reintroducing your Los Angeles Rams

[ANGELAKERAMS]

that whole complex is going to be ridiculous.

WOW!

 

[Retroram52]

Don't forget Saffold. I think Wichmann is starting material. He held his own on the right side. I'd like to slide Brown to left guard and keep Wichmann at right guard

Either scenario would be just peachy RamsFan88, IMO. Brown or Wichmann next to Havenstein would work. Brown/Havenstein tandem was working just as well as Wichmann/Havenstein tandem. I'd go with either one and if RGRob doesn't come around working with OPace, slide Donnal into LT and add Brown to LG or pick a LT up in the draft along with a stud Center. The Barnes experiment is just about toast. Get younger, bigger, and meaner!

 

[Retroram52]

Especially that Goodell is referring to it as the NFL Campus to house the western wing of the HOF and former Ram greats. The latter could be statues and sech. This place is going to be multifaceted and state-of-the-art enough to house the yearly combines. Yep, Goodell likes it because Kroneke is going to pay for all of it and Kroneke is going to get wwwaaaaayyyyy richer!

 

[RamsFan88]

When does th board change it's name to Los Angeles Rams?

 

[Retroram52]

Don't know RamsFan88. I'll have to mention that to the powers at be here on the SportsHoopla.

 

[Battlelyon]

Rams COO Kevin Demoff said there will not be a uniform change until the stadium opens.

 

[Smed55]

Especially that Goodell is referring to it as the NFL Campus to house the western wing of the HOF and former Ram greats. The latter could be statues and sech. This place is going to be multifaceted and state-of-the-art enough to house the yearly combines. Yep, Goodell likes it because Kroneke is going to pay for all of it and Kroneke is going to get wwwaaaaayyyyy richer!

So it will be considered old and need replaced or upgraded within 10 years, like all these new stadiums?

 

[Red_Chaos]

So it will be considered old and need replaced or upgraded within 10 years, like all these new stadiums?

very true, although how does chicago and washington get away with not building a new stadium

 

[UVA_Guy81]

very true, although how does chicago and washington get away with not building a new stadium

Chicago did a bunch of renovations not too long ago. As for FedEx field, that place should be blown up and start from scratch again.

 

[SJ76]

There are fanbases that would love 2 super bowl appearances in the past 16 years and 4 consecutive seasons near .500 in a very tough division. There are also worse teams that draw much better than the Rams did in St. Louis, with the last 7 years being near the bottom of the league.

Jacksonville being one of them.

 

[SJ76]

How do you lose a NFL team twice though? Really.. If STL wanted to keep the Rams, they probably should have made some upgrades to the Dome.

The team has been bad, but so has Cleveland, Jax and they still sell tickets.

 

[Battlelyon]

 

[Battlelyon]

 

[UVA_Guy81]

How do you lose a NFL team twice though? Really.. If STL wanted to keep the Rams, they probably should have made some upgrades to the Dome.

The team has been bad, but so has Cleveland, Jax and they still sell tickets.

Ask Cleveland, they lost both the Rams and the original Browns (Ravens).

 

[Battlelyon]

 

[Battlelyon]

#Rams have William Hayes, Eugene Sims (criminally underrated) set to hit FA. Cutting Chris Long would save $11.75 million. Food for thought.

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[NinersFan80]

Why in the world would they basically keep the same logo? Why wouldn't they want something new and different

 

[Battlelyon]

A behind-the-scenes look at a Rams' proposal the NFL couldn't refuse
Sam Farmer and Nathan FennoContact Reporters
The National Football League's return to Los Angeles began behind closed doors — with a coin flip.

The St. Louis Rams won the right to go first, and their owner and a top executive made their pitch in a hotel ballroom, outlining plans for a multibillion-dollar stadium in Inglewood.

Next came the backers of the Carson stadium proposal — the owners of the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders. Recruited to oversee that project was Disney Chairman and CEO Robert Iger, who spoke of his love for the NFL and his branding expertise and reminded the 32 owners that, as head of ESPN's parent company, he had paid them all plenty of money over the years.

After Iger left, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones pushed back his swivel chair and stood to address the room
The moment of levity was a bad omen for the Carson project.

For 11 hours on Tuesday, the owners of America's most profitable sports league — with $10 billion a year in revenue — were cloistered in a suburban hotel, just a half-hour from the small airport and their parked private jets.

Their mission: to pick the teams and stadium that would bring professional football back to L.A. after a 21-year hiatus.

Since the Rams and Raiders left Southern California following the 1994 season, multiple sites have been proposed for the NFL's return. They included downtown L.A., Anaheim, Irvine, the City of Industry. The Rose Bowl, the Coliseum and even Chavez Ravine. Every proposal failed.

Things changed when Rams owner Stan Kroenke bought 60 acres of land next to the former Hollywood Park racetrack and last year announced he planned to build a stadium. He didn't commit to returning the Rams to L.A. from St. Louis. But the implications were clear.

Six weeks later, a competing proposal emerged: The Chargers and Raiders wanted to construct a stadium on the site of a former landfill in Carson.

In between the two proposals, the NFL created a committee of six owners to evaluate stadium options in L.A. and oversee any possible relocation. NFL owners met repeatedly to hear proposals on the two L.A. projects as well as those in the three home markets trying to keep their teams.

San Diego and St. Louis eventually assembled stadium proposals that included hundreds of millions of dollars in public financing, although San Diego's hinged on a public vote later this year.

In a corner of the ballroom, league staff had installed a computer and printer to generate paper ballots of new resolutions.

When it came time to begin voting, the owners had to resolve an important matter: Would it be a secret ballot?

Ordinarily, secret ballots are reserved for the most sensitive votes that owners cast — the selection of a new commissioner and the site of a Super Bowl. By a show of hands, they voted, 19-13, to keep this one secret.

The mood was tense even though a consensus had been building among the owners in recent weeks for a hybrid option: pairing the Rams and Chargers in Inglewood and leaving the Raiders in Oakland.

The room was mostly quiet; many owners communicated by text message. Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson, a member of the L.A. committee who supported Carson and orchestrated Iger's involvement in the project, said little throughout the day.

At one point, Iger ventured down from the fourth-floor ballroom to the third floor, where more than 200 media members were stationed, to get a cup of coffee. Dozens of reporters swarmed him. Someone jokingly asked, "Don't you wish there was coffee on the fourth floor?"

Before the full membership voted, the L.A. committee recommended the Carson project by a 5-1 margin. In the end, the endorsement did not affect the outcome.

Momentum was building for Inglewood. After two ballots, Inglewood was only three votes short of the 24 needed for approval. Owners saw a path toward a resolution — no one in the room wanted to stand in the way of a project clearly preferred by the majority of owners.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell ushered the three owners seeking relocation into a private negotiation that lasted about an hour.

Sam Farmer, Nathan Fenno, Gary Klein and Lindsey Thiry discuss the Rams' first news conference since returning to Los Angeles.

Sensing the end was near, Jones had beer and wine delivered to the ballroom for the remaining 29 owners. The tension seemed to have ebbed.

By the time Goodell and the three owners returned to the ballroom, the Raiders had agreed to withdraw their bid to move to L.A.

What would prove to be the final vote was taken on a proposal to pair the Rams and a team to be determined in Inglewood. It passed by a 30-2 margin. The two owners who opposed the compromise remain a mystery.

The agreement — which gave the Chargers a one-year option to join the Rams in L.A. and the Raiders an identical right if the Chargers decline — was an option league staff had discussed for at least six months.

The resolution's 939 words barred the Rams from selling personal seat licenses, suites or naming rights to the Inglewood stadium until February 2017 unless a second team joins them beforehand.

Minutes after the final vote, Goodell stood at a lectern before rows of reporters and a forest of television cameras. His eyes were tired, his voice weary.

"It was a difficult decision for ownership," Goodell said. "But we also realized that this was our opportunity."

 

[shopson67]

Why in the world would they basically keep the same logo? Why wouldn't they want something new and different

New and different will coincide with the opening of the new stadium in 2019.

 

[Battlelyon]

Rams source provides logistical plans for Los Angeles relocation

Albert Breer
NFL Media reporter
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The Rams have been so trained on getting to Los Angeles that preliminary construction work in Inglewood actually was done even before the league approved their move on Tuesday. Still, the hard part really does begin now, with the effort to actually pick up and move enveloping much more than that parcel of land by LAX.

Per a club source, the goal is to get the team itself to Los Angeles by the beginning of organized team activities in May, if not sooner. And as part of that, the team will construct a temporary/permanent facility, like the one the New Orleans Saints built for their training camp at The Greenbrier in West Virginia. (The resort spent $30 million to assemble a complex with meeting rooms, weight rooms, offices and three lavish practice fields in under 100 days in 2014.) The team's already looking for a site, with plots north of L.A. in Oxnard or Westlake a possibility.

Additionally, according to the Rams source, regardless of whether the facility goes up that quickly or not, the plan is to run the draft and all associated events in Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, they'll be looking for a place to build a state-of-the-art permanent facility, with an eye toward moving there in early 2018, a year before the Inglewood stadium is to open. Ideally, that facility would be near the temporary/permanent facility, so team officials won't have to move twice, and also close enough to the Coliseum and new Inglewood stadium.

The other piece of housekeeping here, of course, would be the fate of the Chargers, which remains uncertain, though the Rams have given them multiple options as both a partner and a tenant.

As for the more immediate future, most of the team operations will continue to be run out of Rams Park in suburban St. Louis for the next few months. Therefore, much of the team's draft prep and free-agent movement will be carried out there, which is at least a little awkward.