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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
They built the thing to entice a team to come there. They didn't exactly have the power in negotiating.
Its a prime example of how the owners use cities against each other to secure funding. Los Angeles wouldn't pay to have the LA Rams stadium updated and St.Louis was dangling tons of money so they left and went there.
The lease was set-up so it could be broken if the stadium wasn't in the top-tier of NFL stadiums so basically as long as new stadiums were being built - the lease was going to be able to broken.
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In other words, they negotiated a bad deal, Like I said. Doesn't mean all deals are bad or that all owners are enemies of the state.