LA RAM FAN
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oh not saying it wasnt real.Just that I never saw anything back then to convince me they would leave is all.oh yeah,see with the saints and the vikings,there were rumors about them leaving as well but it was so obvious that it was hot air,there were never any facts to back it up like there is with this. again when the own media of saint louis is saying they think they will be gone which is 100 degrees different than what they were saying before,their gone.lol..I watch the saints go through the same thing every 10 years or so..
I've seen all this before.
this is nothing new to me, i went through the same thing before the raiders moved back to oakland.None of my friends back then believed me either in the prior months before they moved when i kept telling them they were going back to oakland,they kept saying -you wish.well i had the last laugh on them saying-i tired to tell you,i dont know why you didnt listen to me.so this is nothing new either.
No..Benson was actively trying to move them post katrina because the conditions at the superdome (extreme damage due to the hurricane and the protected class that "sheltered" there and wrecked the place.) would have been considered "breach of contract" because the dome didn't meet minimum nfl standards.
but that was just 8 years ago.
When the original owner decided to sell the team in the '80's (probably before you were born) there were many rumors and much maneuvering to sell them and move them.
I've seen all this before.
You might be right. We'll see.
oh well i dont know about the time in the 80's since i dont follow the saints but yeah i remember the katrina thing and hearing how they might move and everything,i never believed it though.never saw any facts that backed it up so i never took it serious myself.
It was real.
If you owned a multi million dollar business that was in a city that had just been wrecked and wouldn't be able to recover for years and with most of the population displaced ...you'd look for ways to move your business, too.
Luckily Benson is a New Orleanian and in the end kept the team here. He would have been technically correct, though...the stadium conditions constituted a breach of contract...even though it was no one's fault.