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Rams Violating Their Lease If They Play In London
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Posted By: SteveRobWhatever 01-27-2012 , 08:58 PM
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In the wake of the news that the St. Louis Rams will play one home game per season in the United Kingdom, the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission announced that their lease with the team requires the Rams to play all home games at the Edward Jones Dome, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. "Our lease with the Rams requires that the Rams play all their home games in the Edward Jones Dome," the commission announced while acknowledging that the overseas games would raise the profile of the city of St. Louis. "We immediately brought this to the Rams' attention and are awaiting their response." The Rams have the option to "opt-out" of their lease by 2015 if the commission does not make upgrades to the facility that would make it a "first tier" NFL stadium. The commission has until next Wednesday to provide a plan to refurbish the stadium to meet that criteria. According to the report, the Rams' lease does state that the team is required to play its home games at the Edward Jones Dome unless the facility is not in a useable condition or if the lease has been terminated.

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One would think this would have been discussed before this was made official. Now the Rams and the NFL look like idiots.
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How about just end this scam of playing a game in London every year? The English don't care and every season a stadium loses a game worth of revenue.
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How about just end this scam of playing a game in London every year? The English don't care and every season a stadium loses a game worth of revenue.
A sell out (or near-sell-out) every International Series and a 200% jumping in viewers in a year span suggests otherwise. I suggest you make some attempt at research before spouting ignorant nonsense :)

Absolutely massive cock up by the Rams/NFL if this is the case though, I'd think it'd be a safe bet that the IS game is in serious doubt if this lease agreement is enforced.
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Sportswriter Rick Gosselin of the Dallas Morning News had a column just the other day about how NFL attendance is declining in various stadiums. He said a longtime NFL executive told him that if the Rams were to move their franchise from St. Louis to London, they could nearly double the worth of their franchise.
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