Swarley Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Where do the Rams play for the next couple of years while their stadium is being built?I'd guess there will be a college stadium they could use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antiochas III Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 They're going to play at the Coliseum it seems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountyFan Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Don't know how I feel about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Don't know how I feel about this.I'd be absolutely gutted. The reason I started supporting the Seahawks is due to my family ties in the city. Cheering for them if they were in a different city would just feel wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 The only positive I can see here is that at least the NFC West will now be geographically correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountyFan Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 I'd be absolutely gutted. The reason I started supporting the Seahawks is due to my family ties in the city. Cheering for them if they were in a different city would just feel wrong. It's just such an alien concept. MK Dons aside, it's just not a scenario that's even close to reality in sport over here. I support county because they were the closest team to me growing up. In the States that apparently means nothing. Looking at it rationally, it makes absolutely no difference to me whatsoever where they play. I just think it's fundamentally unfair that a team can be ripped from a community like that. The Rams boards are in meltdown at the moment, well worth a look if you are a bit of a sadist. www.ramsondemand.com www.stltoday.com/sports/rams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 It's not that alien in British sport. All the "London" rugby teams seem to play miles away from the capital and one has moved to Coventry. Feel sorry for St Louis fans. It was particularly wanky of the owner to go out of his way to state that it's "not a football town". Hopefully the league will ignore him and they'll get the Stallions as an expansion team eventually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 They're going to play at the Coliseum it seemsIn Rome? It needs a bit of work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 It's just such an alien concept. MK Dons aside, it's just not a scenario that's even close to reality in sport over here. I support county because they were the closest team to me growing up. In the States that apparently means nothing. Looking at it rationally, it makes absolutely no difference to me whatsoever where they play. I just think it's fundamentally unfair that a team can be ripped from a community like that. The Rams boards are in meltdown at the moment, well worth a look if you are a bit of a sadist. www.ramsondemand.com www.stltoday.com/sports/rams Absolutely...except for Clydebank/East Stirling...oh and Ferranti/Meadowbank/Livingston...then there's Clydebank to Airdrie. But those apart, you're right.ICT as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DensParkNumber1 Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 There was people on their boards saying that they support the business not the city which is the HUGE difference between sports in UK and USA. We support the teams because they represent us usually through our place of birth or someone in our families( OF decided to use religion but that a different story) . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerSaint Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Most important thing to come out of this is that surely the Rams will go back to their outstanding Blue and Yellow jerseys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bairn Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 Anyone found any particularly hilarious heads gone material yet from twitter or the Rams boards? There was a guy on football's future that's a Rams season ticket holder in St Louis and has been completely adamant for months if not years that the Raiders and Chargers were moving to LA and the Rams were building a stadium in St Louis. Despite people trying to have a rational debate with him he continued to ignore everyone and throw shit at the wall to the point where people actively wanted the Rams to move just to see his meltdown. Now that they've moved, the guy is nowhere to be seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 If the late, great Al were still alive the Raiders would have got their first choice regardless of if it were LA, Oakland or elsewhere. Sadly missed. However, it seems to me there are 2 "likely" outcomes now for the Raiders, 1) Bully, bribe, "blackmail" Oakland into a new stadium. 2) Find a city desperate for a football franchise.....San Jose and Sacramento aren't too far from Oakland. Or the St Louis Raiders? (I think none of these is likely, it's probably 70% likely to still be Oakland) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antiochas III Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Is there not a city in Texans that wants a Franchise. San Antonio, maybe? In fact just done a Google search and looks like members of the Raiders Organisation has already visited and spoke with City Officials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Just remembered the San Antonio idea. My own crazy plan (and would be an Al thing to do) the Las Vegas Raiders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Or better still stay in Oakland and let St Louis, San Antonio and Las Vegas have expansion teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_A Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Expansion teams would be awful, it would just dilute the quality. There's enough bad starting QBs as it is without adding more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Bad QBs are much more fun to watch than good ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Teams with bad QBs could even try developing a running game instead of the current "throw it up and if you don't catch it's dpi anyway" pish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Bairn Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 I wouldn't mind an expansion to 36 AFC Central 1 Pittsburgh Steelers 2 Cleveland Browns 3 Baltimore Ravens 4 Cincinnati Bengals 5 Jacksonville Jaguars 6 Tennessee Titans East 1 New England Patriots 2 NY Jets 3 Buffalo Bills 4 Miami Dolphins 5 Indianapolis Colts 6 Houston Texans West 1 Denver Broncos 2 San Diego Chargers 3 Kansas City Chiefs 4 Oakland Raiders 5 LA expansion team 6 San Antonio expansion team NFC Central 1 Green Bay Packers 2 Chicago Bears 3 Minnesota Vikings 4 Detroit Lions 5 New Orleans Saints 6 Atlanta Falcons East 1 Dallas Cowboys 2 New York Giants 3 Washington Redskins 4 Philadelphia Eagles 5 Carolina Panthers 6 Tampa Bay Buccaneers West 1 Seattle Seahawks 2 Arizona Cardinals 3 San Francisco 49ers 4 Los Angeles Rams 5 Las Vegas expansion team 6 St Louis expansion team Would make the scheduling easy as well. 10 division games and then you just play one other division (3 home, 3 away) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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