I don’t think the Jaguars will be so ardent with their demands for improvements, that is if Khan returns home to STL.
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You art partially right. The $700 million is the highest it was said to be though. Although those figures aren’t the same. Another contractor has also estimated it to be around $350 million, it depends who you want to ask. After arbitration, its supposed to be somewhere in between those two, probably around the $450-$500 million mark – which is not unreasonable. And if the city accepts the offer, the contract is binding and the Rams cannot move until 2025.

And again, what the Rams asked for was not the moon nor has been the contract been deemed unncessary. You need to read some articles man, everything in the local has been saying Kroenke’s offer is NOT unreasonable, and appeals to look like a legit plan to upgrade the stadium while also shooting for a superbowl appearance.

You’re missing the point by blaming the media for posting the story. The city’s claim of default was an incredibly poor decision. Instead of simply picking up the phone and ASKING the Jags for clarification, they let the idiotic lawyer send the Jags an inflammatory accusation. That claim of default was like a line in the sand stance by the city. Whoever signed off on the letter before it was sent out should be fired along with the lawyer.

This was a PR disaster for the city and has likely caused permanent damage with the relationship with the team who will likely look upon any interaction with the city with great and well-deserved suspicion.

What would “Jerry” do?

Yea..Doubt the Rams are moving since they’re serious about staying in the ‘Lou
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I have nothing against STL. The ‘accepted conventional wisdom’ is that the new Rams owners intentionally asked for the moon because they don’t want to stay in STL. The figures you mentioned are not want the Rams asked for. That’s what the city wants to do with the Edwards Dome. The Rams proposal had a price tag of a minimum of $700+ million with the addition of a retractable roof.

I don’t think the Jaguars will be so ardent with their demands for improvements, that is if Khan returns home to STL.

Except LA Jaguars speculation has been going on for 4 years now. It’s a little bit of a tired joke now. This story was posted 10 minutes to soon. 5 mins or so after the story was posted the city withdrew it’s claim of default.

It seems like the entire national media just wants to take turns smearing feces all over my jags. they’ll work this out … OR we can just do the whole unfounded LA speculation thing peppered with trash talk.

In due time folks …. In due time.

This is very odd because secretly this is exactly what the team wants. Khan wanted to buy the Rams in STL. I think he’s going to get his wish to return to his home town of STL after the Rams return to LA.
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Except that the Rams are not moving to L.A. 1st off, should St.Louis actually terminate their lease with the Rams, they are not eligible to move until March 2015..which also happens to be the same time the builder of the new stadium said he would not wait til to get a new team.

Secondly, Raiders, Chargers,and Jags all are much higher in the running to move.

Thirdly – The Rams offer to upgrade the stadium is not a ridiculious or absurd offer. It looks like a legit,practical offer and not one made out of desperation to move but really upgrade. And then add in the fact that the owners upped the loan to $300 million for stadium renovations and that just makes it all the more likely. The estimates to update the EJD is somewhere between $200-$600 mill, depending on who you ask but the real number is probably somewhere in between.

Yea..Doubt the Rams are moving since they’re serious about staying in the ‘Lou

Because he is the only man who could get away with crossing someone sporting that mustache.

From the news4jax.com story:

“When we received your letter dated May 24, 2012, that the Jacksonville Jaguars have selected SMG as the EverBank Field facility manager I was surprised,” General Counsel Cindy Laquidara wroter in a letter Jaguars president Mark Lamping. “until this afternoon, I was unaware of the change to the RFP agreed to by Ms. Chastain in contravention to my April 30, 2012, letter to Mr. Brown.”

“Please consider this my withdrawal of that default,” Laquidara wrote. “Given the long-standing positive relationship between the Jaguars and the City and new information, which appears to indicate that the two parties simply have a misunderstanding on this matter, I hereby withdraw any notice of default. It would be more productive for representatives from the Jaguars and the City to meet and see if we can resolve any concerns that either party has.”

If the lease is broken by the team I know the city gets a huge lump sum of money. I think it’s $30 million. But that number could have gone up after that extension signed by Weaver the former owner.

This is very odd because secretly this is exactly what the team wants. Khan wanted to buy the Rams in STL. I think he’s going to get his wish to return to his home town of STL after the Rams return to LA.

This is the first domino. Very shocking to see the city of Jacksonville give up any leverage of keeping an NFL team. The NFL will not return. Jaguars fans, pick the Falcons 300 miles north or the Bucs 170 southwest or the Dolphins 350 miles south. (BHA! and to think Florida said no thanks to high speed rail)