Speaker 1: St. Louis is suing the NFL and the St. Louis
Speaker 1: now Los Angeles Rams over the relocation that happened at
Speaker 1: this point, you know, two years ago, okay, and you
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of news talking about the Raiders
Speaker 1: moved to Vegas. But I found this very very interesting.
Speaker 1: The city is alleging that the league violated their own
Speaker 1: relocation rules. You may have heard about this earlier in
Speaker 1: the week, but I looked into it a little bit more, Chris,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna tell you something. I think the municipality,
Speaker 1: the city of St. Louis, they have a little case here.
Speaker 1: They are claiming. They're claiming a few things. First of all,
Speaker 1: that they spent money, you know, developing plans for a
Speaker 1: new stadium in St. Louis. And they're saying that the
Speaker 1: Rams and the NFL never were really negotiating in good faith,
Speaker 1: that they knew they were always going to try and
Speaker 1: move to Los Angeles, and that they wound up expending
Speaker 1: that the city wound up spending money trying to develop
Speaker 1: all these plans and develop all this stuff when they
Speaker 1: knew that there was really zero chance that they were
Speaker 1: gonna be able to keep the Rams they also have
Speaker 1: as evidence as I as I saw um, they have say,
Speaker 1: like the team exacts lying over the potential of this
Speaker 1: Inglewood site. Remember owners stand Monkey bought like the site
Speaker 1: which they're now going to build the stadium on a
Speaker 1: few years ago. And they're saying they have evidence of
Speaker 1: you know, the Rams trying to dissuade city officials saying like, no,
Speaker 1: it's really not good for stadium. No it won't work out.
Speaker 1: You know, no, it's nothing, no big deal, which then
Speaker 1: added to the case of how they try to go
Speaker 1: forward with their St. Louis stadium plans, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think that's very interesting. They're also alleging that in
Speaker 1: kind of other stadium and ticket like taxes and collection fees,
Speaker 1: they're alleging in total over a hundred million dollars in
Speaker 1: this lawsuit. There's a consolidated lawsuits from fans in this
Speaker 1: as well as part of a kind of a class
Speaker 1: action around their personal seat licenses. You know, you pay
Speaker 1: to have that personal seat license another you know, another sum,
Speaker 1: and then it's con and you know, because there's no
Speaker 1: team there, so that value of that seat license drops precipitously,
Speaker 1: which I think is a legitimate point. And also check
Speaker 1: this out the county around St. Louis. Uh, they are
Speaker 1: suing the RAMS also because of the practice facility, the
Speaker 1: practice facility at the RAMS built. There was like a
Speaker 1: little deal with the county that the RAMS would have
Speaker 1: be able to have this, you know, this facility for
Speaker 1: only for at least of only a dollar a year.
Speaker 1: And that's a nice sweet little deal, right, But now
Speaker 1: the Rams aren't there, so they you know, so the
Speaker 1: county doesn't think that they should get this sweet part deal, uh,
Speaker 1: and only have to pay one dollar at least a
Speaker 1: year there as a least, not to mention all the jobs,
Speaker 1: you know. Listen, I know a couple of people that
Speaker 1: worked as like ushers sat Madison Square Garden when I
Speaker 1: was growing up, and uh, you know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of jobs there, from the concession stands for the parking
Speaker 1: attendants to the security guards, you know. And we talked
Speaker 1: about the Raiders moving to Vegas. I told you how
Speaker 1: they was stiff in the Colosseum for like eight hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars you know, in their parking bills just for
Speaker 1: the parking municipality. So I think these all bear watching,
Speaker 1: you know, it's all cool, it's all nice and fun.
Speaker 1: Oh right, it's to Vegas. Oh, teams in l a Oh,
Speaker 1: the charges are moving. I wonder what else is behind there.
Speaker 1: I wonder what red tape. I wonder what unanswered questions
Speaker 1: are still there in all those moves. Because um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think there should be a little bit greater loyalty.