OT: Rams to LA

PKABOOICU · Post #1 » by **PKABOOICU** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 2:49 am

Finally, Los Angeles has an NFL Football team to root for...Chargers have the option to follow.

Michael Lucky · Post #2 » by **Michael Lucky** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 3:24 am

Personally hoping the chargers join since they are my favorite AFC team. Having said that, not sure how much support the Rams will get (even if there's an older generation fanbase here for them). Most people root for other teams here and it's not like they are just going to give up rooting for them.

Post #3 » by **crazyeights** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 3:26 am

Grew up a Rams fan. Have to say, pretty happy to see this!

miggs · Post #4 » by **miggs** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 3:42 am

folks wouldn't let me wear raiders colors nor gear, rams colors were not threatening to them lol

Sofa King · Post #5 » by **Sofa King** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 4:01 am

miggs wrote:folks wouldn't let me wear raiders colors nor gear, rams colors were not threatening to them lol

You can blame these guys.

miggs · Post #6 » by **miggs** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 4:10 am

trust me i know who ruined my chance of a raiders-heavy young gangsta career trappin on my block haha

Sofa King · Post #7 » by **Sofa King** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 4:14 am

Post #8 » by **TyCobb** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 4:19 am

How nice of the NFL to wait for Kobe to exit LA before bringing a team back.

Post #9 » by **dockingsched** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 4:36 am

excited to see this state of the art complex get built

digcom99 · Post #10 » by **digcom99** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 4:46 am

Michael Lucky wrote:Personally hoping the chargers join since they are my favorite AFC team. Having said that, not sure how much support the Rams will get (even if there's an older generation fanbase here for them). Most people root for other teams here and it's not like they are just going to give up rooting for them.

LA people only rooted for other teams because there was no local team to cheer for. Now that the Rams are coming back, you'll see the fan base get big real fast.

Post #11 » by **dockingsched** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 4:54 am

Fun fact that a lot of people surprisingly aren't aware of, the Rams played in this stadium the last 14 yrs of their time here:

Post #12 » by **Kilroy** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 5:57 am

Hope they go back to the blue and white.

EArl · Post #13 » by **EArl** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 6:45 am

Going back to the original colors would be great. If they build that stadium in inglewood its going to be like a 20 minute drive from my parents house. I feel bad for my parents since they are going to have to deal with the traffic.

LakersLegacy · Post #14 » by **LakersLegacy** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 7:22 am

As cool as it is, I was really hoping for an expansion franchise. The Chargers have the first option to follow, if they decline then the Raiders have the option to come also. I bet the Chargers will stay after SD builds a palace down there and then the Raiders come back to. It will be like the early 90s.

Also I was hoping they would put the stadium near Staples instead of The Great Western Forum. Inglewood always up to no good. Ha. Inglewood will be the new sodosopa.

Post #15 » by **snaquille oatmeal** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 8:40 pm

dockingsched wrote:Fun fact that a lot of people surprisingly aren't aware of, the Rams played in this stadium the last 14 yrs of their time here:

I see your fact and I raise you this one: the chargers are originally from Los Angeles! Boo yah!

Post #16 » by **Slava** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 8:41 pm

Happy that LA is getting an NFL team that it so obviously deserves but I have to say Stan Kroenke is such a duplicitous piece of **** that I wish nothing good for him.

He made an agreement with the city of St. Louis when he took over majority ownership that he had no intention of moving the team and since then shirked the media at every chance, made thoroughly extortionate demands to the city to build a new stadium knowing fully well that they will not be met, still shrugged away any honest attempt made by the city to negotiate in good faith until he got his move.

Well now he got his move. I hope he doesn't pull the same crap a few years from now in LA.

gts1 · Post #17 » by **gts1** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 9:00 pm

dockingsched wrote:excited to see this state of the art complex get built

Honestly I may be more excited for the complex than the Rams themselves. I grew up a Rams fan but the NFL kind of lost me when the Rams left town 20 years ago.

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trevm37 · Post #18 » by **trevm37** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 9:13 pm

Slava wrote:Happy that LA is getting an NFL team that it so obviously deserves but I have to say Stan Kroenke is such a duplicitous piece of **** that I wish nothing good for him.

He made an agreement with the city of St. Louis when he took over majority ownership that he had no intention of moving the team and since then shirked the media at every chance, made thoroughly extortionate demands to the city to build a new stadium knowing fully well that they will not be met, still shrugged away any honest attempt made by the city to negotiate in good faith until he got his move.

Well now he got his move. I hope he doesn't pull the same crap a few years from now in LA.

Kroenke is the owner of the team, instead of taking money from St. Louis and the NFL, he bought the land needed, and is building his own stadium with no help from the taxpayers of LA. In the end, he gets what he wants, and has to pay for it, and hell probably come out ahead. If the Clippers are worth 2 billion, an LA football team with a brand new stadium has to be worth more.

gts1 · Post #19 » by **gts1** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 11:15 pm

LakersLegacy wrote:As cool as it is, I was really hoping for an expansion franchise. The Chargers have the first option to follow, if they decline then the Raiders have the option to come also. I bet the Chargers will stay after SD builds a palace down there and then the Raiders come back to. It will be like the early 90s.

Also I was hoping they would put the stadium near Staples instead of The Great Western Forum. Inglewood always up to no good. Ha. Inglewood will be the new sodosopa.

Reports are it'll be the Chargers. They've been unhappy in San Diego for years and have rebuffed multiple options the city has offered them to stay in the past. Doubt the city has anything to offer that would be as beneficial as a move to LA

Land around Staples is too expensive now. It would have been cool but financially undoable

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EArl · Post #20 » by **EArl** » Wed Jan 13, 2016 11:40 pm

I personally don't want more than one team here. Let the other teams stay put.