Stan Kronke the owner of the Rams is not gonna miss the money. His wife is a Walton. You know, the owners of Wal-Mart.

Just for info the Cardinals are the second oldest team in the NFL, second only to the Chicago Bears.

That family is cursed.

Actually, the Chicago Cardinals moving to St. Louis isn't the only time a team moved to a city where another team had their name…. It's not even the only time its happened in Missouri.

The Cincinnati Royals became the Kings to avoid confusion when they moved to Kansas City.

Let’s not forget the Polo Grounds once houses both the NY baseball and football Giants.

People act like Missouri has only had one team at a time maybe the fact is they just don't need two teams the Chiefs have been fine since moving there from Texas

That's because st Louis sucks it's a shit hole I wouldn't blame any spots team for not wanting to be there

The reasons why they moved are shady, but an even weirder story (IMO) is that of the Cleveland Rams. They moved to Los Angeles the year after winning the NFL championship. (The 1962 Dallas Texans moved to Kansas City after winning the AFL championship, thus being the only other pro football team to move the season after winning a championship.)

You mentioned attendance between the St. Louis Cardinals teams and baseball drawing the bigger crowd. Here's a fun fact: The Tampa Bay Lightning had attendance comparable to, and even higher than, their current attendance at Amalie when they played at the Thunderdome (more commonly known today as Tropicana Field). A single game NHL attendance record was set in 1993 when they played the Florida Panthers in their home opener at the stadium. This record was broken a few times by other Lightning games until 1996 when a final NHL single game attendance record was set in the 1996 playoffs when they played the New Jersey Devils. That record stood until the 2014 Winter Classic at Michigan Stadium. 2 things to note, this was in a stadium, not an arena meant for hockey AND before Tampa, St. Petersburg, or any other local team for that matter, had a baseball team to play in the stadium. We all know how the attendance is for Rays games, even when they are in the playoffs. And people try to say that hockey doesn't belong in the south. LOL

I didn't hear the entire country bitching about the Rams being stolen from LA even after the league initially voted down the request for them to move and their owner threatened to sue the NFL to move to St. Louis. The Rams were LA's football team for nearly 50 years. They belong in LA and if St. Louis wants a team they need to do what it takes to ACTUALLY get awarded an expansion team instead of screwing it up at the last minute!

The rams moved over from Los Angeles in the first place that’s where this ram team came from originally

I moved to the UK recently and I’ve been a fan of the Premier League for a while now. One of the things I’ve realized is just how much power NFL (and other American sports) owners have over the communities they have a team in. EPL clubs are viewed as vital parts of their community and owners are forced to listen to their communities. If a major team wanted to pack up and move for money, the fans would riot in the streets (if not worse). Think about how bad it was for the teams that wanted to make the European Super League. NFL owners go into a city and act like they fucking own the place. That’s not to say soccer owners are good by any means, but they are more beholden to the fans. American sports need a more grassroots characteristic to stop bullshit like this (or San Diego, Oakland, Cleveland back in the day, etc).

it was rocky at first, but in the last 15 years, we've made the Super Bowl, the Championship game, and made the playoffs a handful of times. and now AZ is one of the biggest markets for the NFL, our stadium is always sold out, and the excitement is palatible. especially when the croweds are split 50/50.

Oh no, they lost a team that they stole? Payback's a bitch.

The hard truth is St Louis is a poorly run city that can’t support an NFL team with consistent fan attendance or comparable facilities to other NFL teams. Ask any former player what they thought of playing in that thing they called a dome.

Well having lived in St. Louis I don’t blame anyone for wanting to leave either. I hate that city

The old LA Rams played their final seasons in SoCal at Anaheim Stadium – a baseball stadium, and my dad and I saw the last game they ever played there, it was ugly on several levels. Because one end zone was around home plate and the other in deep centerfield, there were no good seat.

St. Louis does not deserve a football team.

If anyone had been paying attention to reporting about the Rams lawsuit, you invariably hear about the Cardinals exit. The fact is that both situations had similarities (both were relocated teams with terrible owners) but the situations themselves were completely different. Bidwill wanted to stay but wasn't able to get things done; Stan LIED. A great authority on both situations is Howard Balzer, so please check out the interviews on the subject he did. #KroenkeOut

st louis supported the rams win or lose the rams drew great crowds and the ram still moved there should be rules in place to protect the fans from that kind of greedy move the rule should state that any team whose stadium is 3 quarters full or more they shouldn't be allowed to move if their stadium is less then half full then they can move fans shouldn't have to pay the price because owners are greedy

Stan Kroenke is one of the reasons that I no longer watch the NFL. The league has proven over and over that they care nothing about their fans.

Looks like a nice stadium to sit and smoke weed at if you know what I mean

How time flies, the Cardinals have been in the Phoenix area longer than they were in St. louis.

At least we're getting an MLS team next year.

they lost the football cardinals, but they got to have steroid era mark mcguire fair trade i'd say.

St Louis is so cursed that even the Battlehawks got taken away from them because of the pandemic. Hopefully they come back for XFL 3.0