BTW did Keenum even hit the floor on the bullshit roughing the passer penalty?

I hope guys are not color blind.

Pink = Washington at Saints.

Purple = Rams at Vikes

Green = AZ at Hou

baby blue = TB @ Mia

yellow = SD @ Buff

brown get’s both Chargers and Rams

I think the Rams can beat Case….. but the Rams have to limit mistakes and penalties….

Vikings under Zimmer play disciplined football. Once again the Vikings are one of the least penalized teams…. especially when the Vikings play at home.

YTD NFL Penalties URL = https://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/penalties-per-game?date=2017-11-16

Hou at LA

Todd Gurley = Even Steven

68 yards rushing

68 yards receiving

6.2 avg yards per carry….

Tavon Austin almost Even Steven

2 yards rushing

Zero yards receiving

yes, great movie…. very underrated.

I think the actor who played “Ice Cube” is actually Ice Cube’s son….. those guys pulled it off well.

not only did that movie capture the racial harassment from the police, it captured how the music evolved, from raw talent to the polished finished production of the music and live performances…..

I thought that Giamati played the band manager pretty good…..

BTW, did you think he did a better job as “Pig Vomit” in Howard Stern’s movie?…. Giamati was great in that role………

i’m 0-2 when I attend Rams games at the Coliseum…… (last year vs Buf and this year vs Sea)

beware, I plan to attend this Sunday…..can the Rams survive with my ass in the seats?

Sorry but Giants coach Ben McAdoo cannot pull off the Pat Riley hair do.

All phases look good today!

Knox built a pretty good team….too bad he was let go or quit or whatever

Rams were 5-1 when SF beat them to make them 5-2, like today

They finished 7-9

I still have a magnet schedule stuck on my metal cabinet from that season….

TV Map, Rams still on TV in STL…..and in Miami… must be all the NY Transplants to Del Boca Vista……

LA Rams @ NY G = Green (Kenny Albert, Rhonde Barber)
ATL@ Car = Red (Buck, Aikman)
TB @ NO = yellow (Brennaman, Spielman)
Wash @ Sea = Purple ( Burkahrdt, Davis)
AZ @ SF = orange

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Ozoneranger wrote:

5-2 vs 1-6. Scoring isn’t even close. LA should have this wrapped up by the end of the 3rd. However, this team isn’t used to winning. Things could go awry. So I’ll say 31-16, Rams.

Interesting stat…Giants have given up a TD to the TE in every game this year. That works nicely for McVey’s scheme.

Gerald Everett is the only Rams TE to score a TD this season…. he has 1.

tough schedule.

The last 2 times the Rams started 5-2

2003: finished 12-4… lost 1st round to Carolina in OT. (Thanks Jason Sehorn!)

1995, inaugural season in STL, finished 7-9

depending on how hot Seattle plays in the 2nd half, Rams need to win at least 5 of the next 7 again.

The Rams are very good

. So the mentality is going to have to be, if you just win, people will follow you.”

Developing a winning culture to attract fans will take time…

Especially in a behemoth stadium.

Need some magic moments to consistently happen. Kupp making the catch against Seattle would’ve helped

3 old articles on Rams / Jags ownership evolution…….

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/377977-kroenke-vs-khan-fight

Stan Kroenke Vs. Shahid Khan: The Fight for St. Louis Rams Ownership

David Leon

April 13, 2010

So the other ownership shoe dropped last night for the Rams. Adam Schefter announced on ESPN’s NFL Live that Silent Stan Kroenke has decided to exercise his contractual right of first refusal to purchase the Rams.

The report is correct. Enos Stan Kroenke has decided to exercise his contractual right of first refusal to purchase the remaining 60 percent of Ram stock he does not already own. This puts him squarely at odds with league rules and with Shahid Khan.

First, the League Rules

As you all know, the league has bylaws forbidding NFL majority owners from owning a majority share in any other sports franchise in an NFL city . The rule used to prohibit ownership of any other pro franchise in any city.

The rule was mildly re-interpreted to allow Paul Allen (owner of the Portland Trailblazers) to purchase the Seattle Seahawks. The league owners wanted Paul Allen in the clubhouse and on the golf course. The owners wanted a league connection to the new silicon economy, and to Microsoft.

League insiders have been divided on whether Kroenke might obtain a similar wavier, and/or whether the league might be prepared to do away with this archaic rule entirely. Many believe that this rule is an archaic relic of a bygone era. Many others believe the league will not change its policy for Kroenke’s sake. We are about to find out, one way or the other.

Owning both an NBA and NHL franchise in Denver should automatically disqualify Kroenke, but it just so happens he is a buddy and business partner of Pat Bowlen. Bowlen is the owner of the Denver Broncos, and co-owner of the Colorado Crush of the Arena League…along with Stan Kroenke.

Insiders expect Bowlen will plead his friend’s case. Pat Bowlen is a powerful owner, and he is also the theoretical aggrieved party , according to the strange philosophy behind the cross-ownership rule. Given Bowlen’s blessing, the deal might roll.

Several factors mitigate in Kroenke’s favor:

•The NFL Finance committee already announced that it doesn’t like one of the several financial devices Khan intends to use to purchase the Rams.
•Kroenke is already an insider. He has been partial owner of the Rams since the early 1990s. He has been vice chairman of the Rams’ board for some time, and served on several NFL committees.
•Kroenke has more money than Khan. Kroenke is worth an estimated $3 billion. His wife—Anne Walton, a Walmart heir—is worth $3.5 billion. Together they are worth approximately three times as much as Shahid Khan ($2.14 billion).
•The NFL ownership booth is one of the most exclusive clubs around. It is a consummate old boys’ network. Kroenke is much more their type of guy than Khan.

What is my take on the situation?

On the one hand, I would have been shocked if Kroenke hadn’t exercised his right to purchase the rest of the Rams. My memory fails, but I remember Kroenke buying into the Rams back in 1993 or 1994, when the Rams were having serious financial trouble keeping up with the Joneses

(Jerry Jones and Eddie DeBartolo).

It was understood at the time that he wanted to buy the whole enchilada. This was the reason for the contractual right of first refusal he has chosen to exercise now. Ever since then, Kroenke has been waiting on line to buy the Rams.

Why didn’t he just attempt to buy outright? One word: Strategy. He wanted the market to set a low price in accordance with the financial distress our nation is going through at the moment. There is also the cross-ownership rule which needs to be gotten around. Kroenke wanted to see what sort of ownership interest the Rams might scratch up, and see whether the owner’s club might prefer Kroenke to own the Rams.

Will this blow up in his face? I seriously doubt a man of Kroenke’s sense would have exercised his right of first refusal if he had not been given some indications, if not outright assurances, that the NFL would hear his case with favor. I think he is confident that he will be approved, or he would not have made this move.

Now, the Fight with Khan

If the league rejects Khan and elects Kroenke, the move could be interpreted in racial terms. Would this be a case where collection of white Europeans just didn’t want a Pakistani fellow in the clubhouse? This could make for some very interesting legal wrangling inside league circles.

Pray, for the good of the Rams, that this doesn’t happen. This could hold the Rams’ ownership status in limbo for several years. This could make for several years of lost franchise history.

URL = http://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=5496516

Stan Kroenke is new Rams owner

ATLANTA — Stan Kroenke will get his team.

He’s just got to give up two others.

The NFL unanimously approved a proposal for Kroenke to take over as majority owner of the St. Louis Rams on Wednesday, as long as he turns over control of his NBA and NHL teams to his son.

Kroenke, a 63-year-old Missouri billionaire, first became involved with bringing pro football back to St. Louis in 1993 with a failed attempt to land an expansion franchise. When the Rams moved from Los Angeles two years later, he joined the Rosenbloom family as a minority owner, increasing his stake to 40 percent in 1997.

Now, for a reported $750 million, the entire team will be his.

“I’m a 17-year overnight success,” Kroenke quipped.

But first he had to deal with NFL rules against ownership of major league franchises in other pro football cities. He owns the NBA’s Denver Nuggets and NHL’s Colorado Avalanche.

Kroenke agreed to turn over operational and financial control of those teams to 30-year-old son, Josh, by the end of the year. He must give up his majority stake in the teams by December 2014.

Kroenke marked the occasion by making a rare appearance before the media. He has steadfastly maintained a low profile as minority owner of the Rams, earning the nickname Silent Stanley.

“I just have a really busy life,” he said. “I like the members of the press. I really do. I almost went to journalism school. I just don’t have the time. It takes a lot of time to build those relationships, to nurture them.”

He scoffed as his reputation for being publicity shy.

“I’m not trying to offend anyone,” Kroenke said. “I know there’s this wonderful little picture of Silent Stan. I guess it makes good copy. But it just isn’t so.”

The NFL is confident Kroenke will follow through on his pledge to divest himself of control in the Nuggets and Avalanche, which are only part of his impressive collection of professional sports teams.

“He has tremendous experience in other sports, which is a plus,” commissioner Roger Goodell said. “One of the issues is we want owners who focus on football. That’s what Stan will be doing. He’ll be focusing more on football.”

Kroenke also owns the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer and the Colorado Mammoth of the National Lacrosse League. In addition, he is the largest shareholder in Arsenal of the English Premier League.

“He’s a quiet man who’s very effective in what he does,” said Bob Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots. “We learned about his other businesses and what he does, how he handles things overseas. He just does things the right way, and I know he wants to win.”

The Rams haven’t done much winning lately. Kroenke is taking control of a former Super Bowl champion that has gone 6-42 over the last three years — including an NFL-worst 1-15 a year ago.

He plans to run the Rams with the same behind-the-scenes style he had as minority owner. But there will be no mistake who’s the boss.

“I don’t think it’s a mystery the way we’re running our other clubs,” Kroenke said. “I like to know what’s going on; I like to be involved. But the No. 1 thing is finding the right people, putting them in place and trying to help them out.”

After years of sellouts, the Rams have fallen on hard times. The crowds have thinned considerably at the 15-year-old Edward Jones Dome, leading to speculation that St. Louis could lose its NFL team for the second time. The Cardinals moved to Arizona in 1987, and the NFL has made no secret that it would like to get a franchise back in Los Angeles, the nation’s second-largest market.

Kroenke’s purchase of the team would appear to make the Rams less likely to move.

“I’ve been around St. Louis and Missouri a major portion of my life,” he said. “I’ve never had any desire to lead the charge out of St. Louis. That’s not why we’re here. We’re here to work very hard and be successful in St. Louis.”

Then, he added, “Now, the realistic part of that. I live to be competitive. To be competitive, you have to have revenue. We’re going to work really hard to have a model that produces revenue where we can be consistently competitive. Anyone can be a contender in the pro sports business every so often. The real challenge is to be competitive every year.”

The Rams’ brother-sister ownership team of Chip Rosenbloom and Lucia Rodriguez inherited the Rams from the late Georgia Frontiere. They decided to sell because of inheritance tax issues and had a bid from Illinois businessman Shahid Khan to purchase their 60 percent share in February.

Kroenke stepped in, exercising his right to buy the rest of the team with a matching bid.

Khan issued a statement praising the man who scuttled his bid for the Rams.

“This adventure didn’t turn out the way I had hoped,” Khan said, “but it was otherwise a worthwhile experience in every respect and I’ll always be a fan of the St. Louis Rams.”

Josh Kroenke is a former Missouri basketball player. He’ll serve as governor of the NHL team and set the budget, but team president Pierre Lacroix will retain control over personnel decisions.

Given his background, the younger Kroenke will likely have a larger role with the Nuggets, who are restructuring their front office after parting with executives Mark Warkentien and Rex Chapman.

One of the Nuggets’ biggest priorities is deciding what to do with Carmelo Anthony, who has so far declined to accept a three-year, $65 million contract extension.

Stan Kroenke declined to comment on Anthony’s status at the NFL owners meeting.

“I’m here to talk about the Rams,” he said. “We’ll talk about Carmelo some other time. I’m sure Josh will have a lot of good answers for you on that.”

https://www.turfshowtimes.com/2011/11/29/2596241/stan-kroenke-shahid-khan-jacksonville-jaguars-sold

Jilted In 2010 By Stan Kroenke, Shahid Khan Buys The Jaguars

by Ryan Van Bibber Nov 29, 2011, 10:38am CST

The Jacksonville Jaguars connections to the St. Louis Rams are simply frightening today. The most recent tangent, Illinois auto parts magnate Shahid Khan will buy the Jaguars. Rams fans know Khan from his attempt to buy the Rams in 2010.

Khan was close to signing on the dotted line to purchase the 60 percent share Chip Rosenbloom and Lucia Rodriguez, passed to them by Georgia Frontiere. Stan Kroenke swooped in at the last minute and exercised his right to purchase the remaining portion of the team, giving him 100 percent ownership.

According to Peter King, Kroenke move “disappointed” Khan for very personal reasons.

Khan’s Americanization as a kid was centered around a love of football. Very disappointed when Kroenke trumped his bid for Rams in 2010.

Not that it matters much to me, ultimately, but there is a bit of cosmic justice in Khan finally getting to purchase an NFL team. Like he did with the Rams, Khan is promising to keep the Jags in their current city.

Now, let’s just hope Kroenke gets the Rams functional sooner than the Jags find their direction.

i remember replying to a thread on a Rams message board on a rule change that you would recommend to change…… I picked that rule, fumbling out of bounds in the endzone.. i fucking hate that rule…

in addition, red flags are fucking killing me this season against the Rams….

You had 2 red flags dropped by SF that went against the Rams, i think both were the Pierre Gacon catches… to me, the evidence was inconclusive to overturn those incompletions to catches….. yet they were both overturned…. to top it off one of the “catches” tacked on 15 yards for a very questionable late hit on Hoyer by AD…….

Then, we had the red flag on the Woods TD catch that was ruled incomplete vs Dallas, that clearly was a catch but not overturned (turned out OK, because the Rams scored on the next play).

Then we had this bull shit call against Gurley last Sunday against Seattle….. to me that was not conclusive enough to show anyone that Gurley lost possession of the ball…..

I’m all for replay, but the video has to show conclusive evidence!!!

Mike Perriera, do your job!!!!

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