In what “SoccerCity” backers hope is not a preview of a San Diego vote this fall, St. Louis voters this week gave the boot to a stadium-funding measure meant to bring a Major League Soccer club to the city from which the NFL Rams departed last year.
The St. Louis and San Diego plans differed in many aspects but shared the same goal: partner with the MLS in the wake of an NFL franchise’s relocation.
So, “SoccerCity” backers will want to glean lessons, if any apply.
For example: Did taint-by-association influence voters who still feel sport-facility politics as one would feel repeated Muay Thai kicks to the spleen?