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Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat
The funny thing is, you'd do exactly that if the new city offered you a new house.
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I really used to hate owners that moved teams from one city to another....but if I'm in their shoes, I can sort of see why they do it. Really it's the cities and states themselves that let this stuff happen.
Indianapolis has a stadium and attracts the Colts from Baltimore who's Memorial Stadium was pretty old and bad at the time. So they make a sweetheart of a deal to the Colts and they pick up and move. I still think it was a bit classless how they just picked up and left. Later Baltimore builds a stadium and steals Clevelands team. Cleveland ticked off about losing their stadium goes and builds a new stadium to get an expansion team. Houston loses their team to Tenessee on the promise of a stadium, so they go build a new stadium too so they can get an expansion team. St.Louis did the same thing to get the Rams out of L.A. Los Angeles has yet to build a new stadium, and what a surprise no NFL team in L.A!
If these cities and states didn't always cave in, I'm sure NFL owners would look at using their own money to build these stadiums. But why spend yours when someone else will do it for you?