Kroenke to move Rams back to Los Angeles?

Written by Chris Kolb

Topics: St. Louis Rams

There have been reports making their way around the league as of late, indicating that the potential majority owner of the Rams, Stan Kroenke, has his sights set on moving the team out of St. Louis and back to their original home in Los Angeles.

Howard Balzer of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat dropped in this morning with a intriguing piece, outlining Kroenke’s significant interest in bringing the NFL back to the country’s second largest market. Apparently, Kroenke is a major player in the league’s Los Angeles Stadium Working Group.

In and of itself, that revelation doesn’t necessarily mean Kroenke would automatically run the Rams out of town, but it certainly makes his bid to take sole ownership of the club much more interesting. Having the Rams move back to L.A. would certainly be more appealing to Kroenke, financially speaking, than keeping them in St. Louis, where they’re always playing second fiddle to Major League Baseball.

That said, Kroenke also has significant reason to keep the team in St. Louis, in that he’s a Columbia, MO native, a University of Missouri graduate, and has strong ties to the area courtesy of his wife, Anne, who is the daughter of Bud Walton, of Wal-Mart fame.

Kroenke is already facing a semi-uphill battle with the league’s ownership group, given that he is currently unable to own the team under the guidelines in place preventing owners from having majority interests in professional teams in other U.S. sports. Kroenke currently owns both the Denver Nuggets (NBA) and the Colorado Avalanche (NHL).

You can chalk this one up as a conspiracy theory for the time being, but Rams fans in St. Louis certainly won’t be resting easy in the coming days and I don’t blame them one bit.

As always, we’ll keep you posted.

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  • LARams

    Bring back the Los Angeles Rams!!! They should have never left in the first place!!!
    http://www.facebook.com/losangelesrams

  • Anton Borda

    Hell Yeah Bring them back home to Los Angeles and get rid of that awful gold and blue shitty color. Return the GLORIOUS BLUE AND YELLOW. For goodness sake they won Superbowl 34!!!!!!
    BRING THEM HOME and I agree they should of never left.

  • JD Rutherford

    The Los Angeles Rams. The Los Angeles Raiders. That's the smartest move of all the others. I'm a Raider fan. But I got a bitter love for the Rams because I grew up watching both teams. They never should have left L.A. they been there since what 1943? Their moving to St Luis Was unsuccessful. Changing the colorsa after they won the Super Bowl in The true Blue and Yellow was dumb to say the least. Now I hear these media Morons, one being a woman On Fox News pumping up shit for the sorryass Jaguars to move to L.A. That would be the dumbest non-feasible move of all time. Who the hell in L:.A. want's to watch the Jags, or the Bills? Come on! The L.A. Stadium belongs to the Rams, and the Raiders. If they move the crappy Jags or Bills there I'm done with NFL Football. The Rams win a Super Bowl and they get rewarded by being stuck in that crumbling stadium. And let's not talk Oakland's Field. A Baseball diamond right in the middle of it. Ugliest field in the NFL. Bring em back.

  • Arron T

    I hate the rams. raiders, bills, and jags…lets make a new team and call them the Los Angeles Smogs…lol
    We just need a new team not one that gonna flop back and forth and not one that's gonna be some other failed city's team…they just want out market to make money off us in L.A. I was born and raised here in L.A. and we deserve our own new team.

  • dwjdsak

    there are a lot of people in so cal that want the rams back. the fan base exists. bring them back. LOS ANGELES RAMS.

  • batman13

    Kid you need to learn a few things about the League,1. they will not expand anymore. 2. If the RAMS return it will create and the rough estimate is somewhere between 12000 to 14000 jobs, both in service industries and surrounding retail venues. 3. No taxpayer money will be used for construction of the stadium in Industry, if it is built in the city it will require taxpayer money to offset cost that will be incurred by team ownership.

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