Yes, the Rams fled St. Louis this offseason and headed west to reclaim their title as Lamest Pro Sports Team In Los Angeles. Feels great! It was the first NFL franchise relocation since the Oilers left Houston back in 1997. And it was all thanks to Stan Kroenke....
Kroenke’s flight from St. Louis—a city that is STILL paying off its stadium debt from the Rams moving in two decades ago—represents the apex of the NFL’s virulent desire to suck the lifeblood out of everything and everyone around it. Citizens of Los Angeles, Stan Kroenke cares about you as much as the city he just trashed on his way out the door. He’s already tried to cheat his own players by keeping Missouri labor law language in their contracts (I guess he liked SOME things about the state). And he will use that new stadium (located in the garbage dump that is Inglewood) as a cudgel to snatch up other properties, demand further tax rebates, and force any second L.A. football team to live under his boot. Right now, there is no NFL owner—not even Dan Snyder — who deserves failure more than this squirrel pelt of a man. [Note: an owner that Deadspin dislikes even more than it dislikes Snyder!] Thankfully, the team he happens to own is perpetually capable of making all his worst nightmares come true.
(Slight editing to clean up the language)
