Forbes Magazine hit-piece: Meet The Los Angeles Rams’ Billionaire Owner, Sports’ Biggest Mogul And Public Enemy No. 1 In St. Louis

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Stan Kroenke really paid $5 billion for a damn building (Sofi Stadium) and it doesn’t even come with air conditioning.

he also happens to own English soccer giants Arsenal FC

quick excerpt (will post more later):

Stan Kroenke couldn’t ask for much more. His Los Angeles Rams, now the NFL’s fourth-most-valuable team, are in the Super Bowl for the second time in four years. The game, a championship showdown with the Cincinnati Bengals set for Sunday, will be played at SoFi Stadium, the latest jewel in his ever-expanding sports empire.

But while Kroenke got what he wanted—as the 74-year-old tycoon almost always does—it wasn’t entirely easy.

Meet The LA Rams’ Billionaire Owner, Sports’ Biggest Mogul And Public Enemy No. 1 In St. Louis

Stan Kroenke’s Rams have more than tripled in value since he moved them back to California, but he has even bigger plans for the team and the town.

www.forbes.com

 

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Stan Kroenke really paid $5 billion for a damn building (Sofi Stadium) and it doesn’t even come with air conditioning.

he also happens to own English soccer giants Arsenal FC

quick excerpt (will post more later):

Stan Kroenke couldn’t ask for much more. His Los Angeles Rams, now the NFL’s fourth-most-valuable team, are in the Super Bowl for the second time in four years. The game, a championship showdown with the Cincinnati Bengals set for Sunday, will be played at SoFi Stadium, the latest jewel in his ever-expanding sports empire.

But while Kroenke got what he wanted—as the 74-year-old tycoon almost always does—it wasn’t entirely easy.

Meet The LA Rams’ Billionaire Owner, Sports’ Biggest Mogul And Public Enemy No. 1 In St. Louis

Stan Kroenke’s Rams have more than tripled in value since he moved them back to California, but he has even bigger plans for the team and the town.

www.forbes.com

Stan Kroenke is one of the biggest landowners in the United States. 1.4 Million acres.

 

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“I wouldn’t walk down on Broadway in St. Louis next to Stan, but Stan may not want to do that himself because there’s still a lot of animosity,” says Marc Ganis, president of the consulting firm Sportscorp, who has known Kroenke since they both had a hand in moving the Rams from Los Angeles to St. Louis in 1995.

Still, the calculating Kroenke is riding high, worth $10.7 billion by Forbes’ count, with a collection of sports properties valued at $10.5 billion—the world’s largest privately owned sports empire. And Sunday’s showcase will be just a preview of what he has in store.

On a ski trip to Colorado in 1971, he met Ann Walton, the daughter of Walmart cofounder Bud Walton, and they married three years later. Kroenke reportedly bristles at the perception that he owes his business success to his wife’s inheritance—he accumulated his sports teams independently of his wife, and Forbes tracks their wealth separately, crediting Ann Walton Kroenke with her own $8.7 billion fortune.

In his first foray, he led St. Louis’ bid for an NFL expansion team in 1993, but the reserved Kroenke—widely known as “Silent Stan”—failed to win over league executives. (The Philadelphia Inquirer compared him to Droopy Dog; the Sun Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale wrote that he had “as much charisma as an undertaker.”)

 

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Abolish LA Rams Owner Stan Kroenke

All professional sports team owners are evil. But the sight of billionaire LA Rams owner Stan Kroenke hoisting the Super Bowl trophy on Sunday should inspire particular revulsion — he’s one of the most despicable owners on the planet.

jacobinmag.com

 

[LA RAM FAN]

Whats funny about all the butthurt fair weather stank Louis fans,they don’t get it the Rams were never their team,thst they always Los Angeles,s team,they were too stupid to understand their real football team plays in Arizona. They are indeed fair weather fans cause they don’t even fight fir their team,most Ram fans in LA when they lost the rams,unlike stank Louis,they did not want another team to replace the rams,they only wanted the rams,same with Oakland,they don’t want another team to replace the raiders,they want the raiders or no team.