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Originally Posted by DaFace
As I understand it, the issue is that Kroenke (and the league) led the City to believe that the team would stay if they upgraded the stadium, so the City put all sorts of effort into figuring out what it would take to get it done. The reality was that Kroenke wanted to leave for LA all along, so he basically just cost the City time and money on a fool's errand. That might not sound like much, but it was years of work for a number of people, both government employees and others.
As for the contract, that's actually where the core issue is. The NFL's own rules state that there's a process for moving a team, and they skipped over parts of that process to get out of St. Louis. Therefore, St. Louis is trying to go after all of the money they've now lost from the team being relocated. And the bigger issue for the league is that any settlement would require information about the league's finances, and the league would almost rather pay the billions of dollars than let everyone know how much money teams really make.
At least that's how I understand it. Definitely not a lawyer.
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I think you got a point that there may be some liability for some expenditures made to further efforts to keep the team in St. Louis, but those entities promised the Rams that they would always provide a venue that would objectively be considered a top 25% venue compared to all other NFL venues. And that failure to do so, would make the lease at the dome a year to year. IIRC, an independent arbitrator determined that the dome was not top 25% and that the lease became a year to year.
The NFL is not making most of its money harvesting organs for human transplants, there is nothing in the NFL's books that is a problem.
Everybody knows that they make a lot of money from media rights deals and some money from tickets and parking and licensing.
The NFL owners have to be transparent on certain matters with the NFLPA to honor the CBA when it comes to determining salary cap.
This idea that each individual owner should have all of their personal finances disclosed to these plaintiffs seems like litigation for nuisance sake.