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The St. Louis Rams Would Be Worth $2.5-3.5 Billion The Moment They Moved To Los Angeleshttp://www.businessinsider.com
The NFL is now closer to moving back to Los Angeles with news that St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke plans to build an 80,000-seat stadium in Inglewood, a move that would more than double the value of his franchise.
In the latest valuations released by Forbes.com, the Rams were dead-last, with a value of $930 million. Meanwhile, teams in the top-5 TV markets (L.A. is no. 2) all rank among the eight most valuable teams with an average value of $2.11 billion and those numbers are almost certainly on the conservative side as the Cowboys are probably worth closer to $5 billion.
The Buffalo Bills, valued just above the Rams at $940 million, recently sold for $1.4 billion. If teams in the top-5 TV markets are undervalued at the same rate, they would be worth $2.54-4.79 billion with an average of $3.16 billion and there is no reason to think an L.A. team wouldn’t be at the upper-end of that range.
So, while a new stadium may cost Kroenke $1 billion to build, he will more than make up for it with the increase in the value of the Rams alone.
http://www.rams-news.com/jim-thomas-rams-report-audio-2/
JT on the issues of the Day (JT starts at 30 min mark)“pretty sad whats going on, for St.Louis…”
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vDunno if this has been posted:
http://www.insidestl.com/insideSTLcom/STLSports/STLRams/tabid/137/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/15922/Peacock-Blitz-to-Present-St-Louis-Stadium-Plan-to-Nixon-on-Friday.aspx
Former Anheuser-Busch executive Dave Peacock and Clayton attorney Bob Blitz, heads of the St. Louis stadium task force, have released a statement in response to news Rams owner Stan Kroenke plans to build a new stadium Inglewood, Calif….see link
=======================Bernie on the LA issue:
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/bernie-miklasz/bernie-is-st-louis-in-or-out-as-an-nfl/article_11eae05a-e972-5864-84bc-94101f4277ae.htmlw
vCarrol tore up his team and started over.
Harbaugh just plain inherited a good team…vets…
Fisher intended to build around a core of inherited players. They were young.So to me that’s 3 different situations
combined with 3 different approaches.So Harbaugh “Loaded Up.”
Carrol “Rebuilt”
Fisher “Built around a young core”A reasonable view, imho.
Some posters obviously label the Fisher
approach/situation differently. Mostly
its semantics, probly. I can certainly see
how some posters would call what Fisher did
a ‘rebuild.’ I can also see how it could
be viewed as a “build-around-young-core” when
compared to what Carrol did.w
vWho knows what they would have done and where they would have gone
if Spags had stayed…either way I had no problem with SK putting his own guy in. Might as well.You know one small thing Spags and Fisher had in common? Spag’s great Giants superbowl defense was built around the DL, and his DL coach was Mike Waufle. Waufle then comes to the Rams when Fisher gets hired. Interesting, hunh.
Didnt know that about Waufle.
…Fans (me included) have a very hard time
accounting for injuries and key-injuries. We all know
examples of teams (Pats – Belichick playing WRs in the secondary)
overcoming injuries, so we tend to think every team
“ought” to be able to “overcome injuries.”
Fans love to rail about “the injury excuse!”
Fans of teams that have losing seasons year after
year after year after year after year after year —
ESPECIALLY dont want to hear about injuries.But one only has to look at the Bruce Arians team
to see the effect of one or two key injuries.I got no ‘final conclusions’ about the topic
of ‘injuries’. Its a difficult subject.
It kilt Spags, though.w
vI think yall
are being debby-downers.
I mean, what about Frank Gore?
He’s got, like, 40 inch hands.Seriously, if they can sign
a Stud OLineman, and draft a Stud Olineman
then it might not matter who is QB.
They can be the 2001 Ravens
or the 2002 Bucs.
I mean, most of Hill’s
screwups were when he was
under pressure. So, just
eliminate the pressure.w
vThem first two links go to other places.
The JT audio is here.
http://theramshuddle.com/topic/jim-thomas-on-920-12/
special teams article is here:
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vAnd a tebow spread vs pro
article just for Mack
http://www.gatorsports.com/article/20090424/ARTICLES/904239905?Title=Will-spread-hurt-Tebow-“…Not necessarily so, says Rich Rodriguez, whose spread offense nearly had West Virginia playing for a national title in 2007 — the year before he left for Michigan.
“People are looking at it the wrong way,” Rodriguez said. “Instead of looking at the system, they should look at the individuals they’re saying didn’t make it.”
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vyeah. at first glance there doesn’t seem to be a russell wilson type guy in this draft.
i mean he didn’t just play in a pro-style offense. he dominated in a pro-style offense.
he averaged 10.3 yards per attempt and threw 33 touchdowns on just 309 attempts and had a 72.8% completion rate.
domination.
Well how bout if they just draft
Wisconsin QBs until they
hit on one that can play.Oh, and why dont you
do a search of
“pro-style, college quarterbacks” with “eleven inch hands” 🙂PS — who runs pro-style offenses?
Fwiw — others have asked and answered that:
http://www.draftcountdown.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35429w
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