Sometimes, while daydreaming about the trial scheduled to begin in St. Louis Circuit Court in 524 days – not that anyone is counting or anything – I like to think about the specific examples lawyers will point to as they attempt to show a jury just how much the NFL mangled its own relocation guidelines to justify moving the Rams to Los Angeles.
A timeline that overlaps Rams executive Kevin Demoff’s public reassurances about the team wanting to stay in St. Louis with the behind-the-scenes work Rams owner Stan Kroenke was doing to prepare a stadium site in Los Angeles would illustrate how the Rams failed to check the box reserved for good-faith negotiations with St.