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Winners and losers of Rams’ relocation to Los Angeles

By Charles Rahrig V

Sep 4, 2015; Inglewood, CA, USA; General aerial view of Hollywood Park racetrack. The site is a proposed location for an 80,000-seat NFL stadium by St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke (not pictured). Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Sep 4, 2015; Inglewood, CA, USA; General aerial view of Hollywood Park racetrack. The site is a proposed location for an 80,000-seat NFL stadium by St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke (not pictured). Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports /
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Dec 17, 2015; St. Louis, MO, USA; General view of the Gateway Arch and the St. Louis skyline and the Mississippi River. The site is the proposed location of a riverfont stadium for the St. Louis Rams to replace the Edward Jones Dome. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 17, 2015; St. Louis, MO, USA; General view of the Gateway Arch and the St. Louis skyline and the Mississippi River. The site is the proposed location of a riverfont stadium for the St. Louis Rams to replace the Edward Jones Dome. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports /

Loser: St. Louis

The city of St. Louis is the big loser here. Not only could they not keep the Rams, but they have once again lost another professional football franchise. The city is in financial ruin and now they won’t get the revenue of having an NFL team in town.

They put together a proposal to keep their team in town and lost. Not only that, but they still owe millions of dollars on the Edward Jones Dome, which has no tenant. So the NFL is gone and St. Louis is left with even more debt to be paid.

Any time a sports franchise leaves a city, it isn’t easy on the city or the fans that were there to support their team. The Rams won a Super Bowl in St. Louis and for a brief period of time had the most exciting brand of football in the league with “The Greatest Show on Turf.”

It’s going to be interesting to see how the city rebounds from losing the Rams. While they won’t have to pay a large lump some of money for a new stadium and incur even more debt, they still will have to pay off their current debts and have a big stadium in the middle of the city with no one to play in.

St. Louis now has some big decisions to make.

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