NFL: Stadiums outweigh supporters for world's richest league

When NFL owners looked at the potential revenue boost from a game-changing super stadium in the US entertainment capital Los Angeles, all the St. Louis Rams supporters and stadium plans meant nothing. A 30-2 vote of team owners Tuesday sent the Rams back to the Southern California city, where they had spent 49 seasons before going to St. Louis in 1994 and where they will play again next season before their new 70,000-seat stadium is completed in 2019. Rams owner Stan Kroenke's vision of a $1.86 billion complex with shops, restaurants and attractions built near the old Hollywood Park race track and the renovated former home arena of the NBA Los Angeles Lakers in Inglewood was an offer the NFL could not refuse.

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