In case you forgot, finding a new home is also on the Rams to do list

by Ryan Van Bibber on May 24, 2010 7:00 PM CDT in St. Louis Rams sale

How about some stadium talk for your Monday afternoon? If and when the St. Louis Rams get their ownership situation settled, one of the next major items on the agenda will be finding a solution for the 2015 out clause in their lease on the not so friendly confines of the Ed Jones Dome. That clause states that the Dome has to be among the top 25% of league facilities by 2015 or the Rams can walk away for greener pastures.

The odds of the Dome being in the top quartile, already a long shot, potentially got a little worse today with news that the Atlanta Falcons would like to start building a new home in 2012.

One option likely to be available to the Rams by then is a move back to Southern California, something one LA Times columnists urges his readers to be leery of given the track record of stadium development in the area (hat tip to mooseknuckles for the link).

Put the two items together and you know absolutely nothing more about the Rams potential new home circa 2016 than you did yesterday...but it does at least serve as an ominous reminder that the franchise has hurdles to cross after they finally find a new owner.

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if the rams move to LA i will be pissed.....

i would change teams before i shared the same team as Laker fans….if this happens you can count me out…..ive stood by this team through the last 3 horrible seasons but moving to LA would be worse than all 3 of those combined!

by Danteslion on May 24, 2010 7:13 PM CDT reply actions

No need to worry

Stan will keep them in your area.
Jags will end up in LA, become part of the NFC west and the Rams can compete against Indy, Houston and Tennessee for division title

by RBramfan on May 24, 2010 7:31 PM CDT up reply actions

im in oklahoma city.....

although that would be pretty sweet if they came here

by Danteslion on May 24, 2010 8:24 PM CDT up reply actions

The Sonics ditching Seattle for OKC

is what worries me. Before that I didn’t think a strong franchise with a superstar in the making could sneak off.

block! building kick! exploooooooosion!

by mooseknuckles41 on May 24, 2010 9:17 PM CDT up reply actions

Rams won't have to move to the AFC

We have seniority

by dbcouver on May 25, 2010 1:10 AM CDT up reply actions

I haven't lived in the same area as the Rams since I was in 5th grade ...

… so where they are is immaterial to me. (Unless they moved close enough to get a psl)

I can take a beating ... I'm a Rams fan.

by Midasknight on May 24, 2010 7:27 PM CDT reply actions

If any football team moves to LA, it would be a huge mistake.

Los Angeles is just a terrible football town, there is no denying that. Attendance and TV stats show that when this team is losing like they are, the St. Louis fans are supporting the Rams as much as LA fans did when Eric Dickerson was chasing record books and the team was winning a little.

by StopSpe on May 24, 2010 7:49 PM CDT reply actions

Tough to compete against the other Pro Team there

aka USC Trojans ;-)

by RBramfan on May 24, 2010 9:06 PM CDT up reply actions

blah blah blah

typical “know it all”………and st loo is a great football town?……..rams win you show up, they lose you dont show up…….by the way st loo lost one less football team than LA did. I dont care if you lived here before, you know nothing about the current state of fans in LA and how hungry we are for a team to come here…….especially the Rams. Keep it up St Loo, you guys are driving the Rams right back to LA with your fairweather support of the Rams

I Guess It Won't Be Locker In 2011

by JordansDad on May 25, 2010 1:41 AM CDT up reply actions

NOOOOO

idk what i would do if they move to LA……I’d be god damn pissed off

"Twin-headed infinite swirling vortex of grotesque suckitude known as Tony Clark and Eric Byrnes"

by sergey606 on May 24, 2010 9:19 PM CDT reply actions

can you imagine going to a rams game with laker fans? ugh the thought disgusts me, ima have to go take a shower now

by Danteslion on May 25, 2010 1:16 AM CDT up reply actions

Haha I remember during Shaq and Kobe's championship runs

you wouldn’t see Lakers paraphernalia until maybe partway through the first round of the playoffs, and even then it would be removal team flags on their cars and whatnot.

Yeah there are year-round Lakers fans, but LA has too many distractions to give their teams full attention until the meaningful games of the playoffs.

by kswiss on May 25, 2010 1:59 PM CDT up reply actions

Lakers fans are OK!

It’s the Dodgers fans that worry me. In SoCal there seems to be a split whether you are an Angels fan or a Dodgers fan. I don’t see the same split going on between the Lakers and Clippers. You have to be crazy to be a Clippers fan in this area. When the Rams were in SoCal, they were actually in Anaheim and shared the same stadium with the Angels. I wouldn’t mind seeing the Rams in beautiful Orange County again.

by NachoD on May 25, 2010 2:21 PM CDT up reply actions

can't even speculate about moving...

until the ownership issue is settled…even then, until the economy settles down, it’s hard to say…whoever owns the team, they are probably going to want public money to build a stadium, and that’s not available at this time.

by tbell61 on May 24, 2010 10:18 PM CDT reply actions

There's Already

approval for a stadium in City Of Industry……..its actually pretty state of the art

I Guess It Won't Be Locker In 2011

by JordansDad on May 25, 2010 1:42 AM CDT up reply actions

LA doesn't have enough passion for football

They won’t support the team long term, if they did, they’d have never left.

by dbcouver on May 25, 2010 3:14 AM CDT up reply actions

I don't care where they play

I live in 9er hell and I was a fan when they played in LA and although I was pissed when they moved, I’m still a fan and will be if they move to Bumphuk, Egypt.GO RAMS!!

You can pick your friends and
you can pick your butt.
But you can't pick your friends butt.
JohnnieWarthawgism

by johnniewarthawg on May 25, 2010 6:35 AM CDT reply actions

Southern California.....

I could not care less if any football teams moves HERE to where I live in beautiful & fun Southern California! Specifically L.A. or Orange County…….. We have the Champion Lakers going again after another NBA title. The Dodgers haven’t won a title since 1988. The Kings have NEVER won a NHL Stanley Cup. The Ducks and the Angels always compete.
Plus, we have GORGEOUS women everywhere. Beaches, mountains, etc.
Let the Rams stay in St Louis. The fans there NEED them. We don’t!
St Louis can’t compete with Los Angeles in terms of ALL the fun things to do here and the eye candy to be with. Haha!

by Ricksome on May 25, 2010 10:04 AM CDT reply actions