re: So Missouri now has as many NFL teams as Arkansas

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The Rams were greatly supported in STL

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This is truth, but "Fan support" is not really a factor in these things. Most Billionaires get rich by being opportunists and taking advantage of others... it's what they do, it's who they are. Kroenke took the opportunity to marry into the Walton family, and built his fortune developing retail shopping centers (often funded by tax incentives) anchored by Wal-Marts - then building new shopping centers anchored by a new Wal-Mart down the road every 10 years or so leaving communities and their tax payers with empty, cheaply built eye-sores.

Ultimately, the Rams left St. Louis for one reason and one reason only - the value of the franchise tripled overnight when they did. That was a business decision. It was the way they did it that pisses me off. The BS that Enos Kroenke spewed about our ability to support a team and allowing STL to spend hundreds of millions on plans for a stadium that had no chance of getting built is unconscionable. Ironically, Kroenke only had an ownership stake in the team because the NFL required some "local" ownership as a condition of the Rams moving to StL in the mid 90s (he is from Columbia, MO and his realty company originated in St. Louis). Wealth obviously can't buy class or integrity, but of course the uber wealthy have no need for either. The StL region did get close to $1B in settlement from him - but of course the leadership in STL (city) is a shitshow and will blow through their share of that windfall.

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Some owners did not want that to happen

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Interestingly enough, fellow Billionaire and Chief's owner Clark Hunt did. He was one of the deciding votes that helped push the Rams over the line to LA (vs the Raiders/Chargers option). Hunt probably thought that would make MO desperate and we would give him whatever he wanted in KC. Turns out he will be in a shiny new building built on a landfill in KS.

Be nice to see MODOT do a lot of road construction on KC area interstates and the bridges over the KS and MO rivers starting in 2031. To not interrupt too much traffic, they should only work on Sundays - should only take 20 or so years to complete that.

I don't care one bit about the Chiefs. And I speak for a lot of others in St. Louis who hate the Chiefs. Or just don't care. Let Kansas subsidize the billionaire Chiefs owner. Missouri tax money is better spent otherwise. And by the way, the New York Giants and New York Jets both play in New Jersey.

It shouldn’t take a year to come up with one when you spent years of courting another pro team. Utah and La: where it’s legal to have sister wives.

You do not live in the real world. You are an uneducated person spewing falsehoods on a message board. ANY attendance drop the last few years might have had to do with the worst 5 year run in NFL history 15-65 from 2007-2011. Besides that run & period where fans knew the team was gone, support was great. It want even that bad during those down times. St. Louis has almost 3M metro, 17+ Fortune 1000 companies,, 24th largest media market, 20th in metro population, etc. STL should still have an NFL team. No doubt! So know your talking about before you spew shite from your uneducated mouth.

All it took was a Billionaire exploiting a desperate state.

If Uni officials are smart they turn up the heat on gov officials to prioritize making sure Mizzou football has all the resources it needs to succeed.

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Someone is definitely sore lol

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Amazed at how that is what you got outta that post.