HometownBoy
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- Aaron
I'd like to piggy back off this one as well, I feel like I didn't give a sufficient goodbye. I'm hurt, I'm pissed, but I'm thinking coherently and I know what I feel isn't going to change. I cannot support Kroenke after what he did, if he wanted to leave so be it, but he did it while poisoning the well, shitting all over the history of Saint Louis, the city in general and all the fans that sat through and stomached only 6 above .500 years out of 20 and told us because we didn't put enough effort in it was our fault. This man shit on me, told me I meant nothing and now I'm supposed to continue supporting his drek. I suppose he gave us get out of jail free cards and I'm not man enough not to take it. I just can't support it, I can't support a man who gives mediocre content to everyone from everything he's gotten a hand on and yet decides to single out one market and take a dump all over it because he can.
And the NFL helped him do it, they twisted a knife that didn't need to be twisted. No more evidence is necessary than us asking for 100m for our stadium and them telling us it was too much and we were greedy to expect them to do the work for us, and then they proceed to offer the same to Oakland and San Diego, who did absolutely nothing to keep their team.
I can see clearly that the city I spent 21 years in, that I loved and watched grow around me never had a chance to retain their team and was completely getting screwed and watching Kroenke being lauded a hero, like he didn't help the Rams move in the first place and buy a stake in the team the minute they left L.A. The guy doesn't give a shit, he's a greedy money grubber and he didn't care if he moved the Rams to Saint Louis, L.A. or Timbuktu. As long as there was some money involved.
I don't hold any animosity to the fans. I know a lot of guys who I respect on here went through the exact same pain I'm feeling right now and are elated to have their team come home. I wish you all the best, and if we cross paths again I hope you don't hold what I'm doing against me anymore than you held it against your fellow fans who refused to follow Georgia. It's nothing personal, it's not because I hate your happiness. It's because I hate what had to be done to make it a reality, and how it was done. I hate that to get one fanbase what they want it had to be at the expense of scorching the Earth of another just because the owners ate it up because of how butthurt they were over what happened 20 years ago.
There's no way I can support this team, not with Kroenke at the helm... Hell, I don't even know if I'll be able to support the NFL anymore. These times are going to be trying and I'll be discovering a lot about my fanhood and tolerance.
It was a good 3 years on this site and even more on the PD, I couldn't have asked for a better motley assortment of men and women to rough it out with. I thank you all for putting up with me through all my shit. To the L.A. Rams fans, congratulations, to the guys who weathered the storm and will remain, godspeed and for one last, final time to all the Rams fans inbetween.
Horn up.
And the NFL helped him do it, they twisted a knife that didn't need to be twisted. No more evidence is necessary than us asking for 100m for our stadium and them telling us it was too much and we were greedy to expect them to do the work for us, and then they proceed to offer the same to Oakland and San Diego, who did absolutely nothing to keep their team.
I can see clearly that the city I spent 21 years in, that I loved and watched grow around me never had a chance to retain their team and was completely getting screwed and watching Kroenke being lauded a hero, like he didn't help the Rams move in the first place and buy a stake in the team the minute they left L.A. The guy doesn't give a shit, he's a greedy money grubber and he didn't care if he moved the Rams to Saint Louis, L.A. or Timbuktu. As long as there was some money involved.
I don't hold any animosity to the fans. I know a lot of guys who I respect on here went through the exact same pain I'm feeling right now and are elated to have their team come home. I wish you all the best, and if we cross paths again I hope you don't hold what I'm doing against me anymore than you held it against your fellow fans who refused to follow Georgia. It's nothing personal, it's not because I hate your happiness. It's because I hate what had to be done to make it a reality, and how it was done. I hate that to get one fanbase what they want it had to be at the expense of scorching the Earth of another just because the owners ate it up because of how butthurt they were over what happened 20 years ago.
There's no way I can support this team, not with Kroenke at the helm... Hell, I don't even know if I'll be able to support the NFL anymore. These times are going to be trying and I'll be discovering a lot about my fanhood and tolerance.
It was a good 3 years on this site and even more on the PD, I couldn't have asked for a better motley assortment of men and women to rough it out with. I thank you all for putting up with me through all my shit. To the L.A. Rams fans, congratulations, to the guys who weathered the storm and will remain, godspeed and for one last, final time to all the Rams fans inbetween.
Horn up.
