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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Ben Frederickson

Ben Frederickson: Hey Commissioner Goodell, what happened to that hard line on NFL stadium funding?

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. Louis.

A live reading of the email reportedly sent to St. Louis authorities from a league official with a competing relocation bid that outlined all of the ways the Rams were violating relocation rules could be a nice touch.

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