'cause it ain't looking good for themWhen the courts force wealthy billionaires to turn over years of emails and phone calls, this usually spells endgame.
With a sizable settlement forthcoming to the injured party.
Well, the National Football League and Stan Kroenke, owner of the Los Angeles Rams, may slowly but surely be moving towards a financial settlement with various parties from St. Louis and Missouri that would even make the famed Silna brothers blush...former owners of St. Louis’ ABA basketball team who arguably orchestrated the greatest deal in sports business history.
<snipped story about the Silna brothers, good read if you don't know the story>
While I don’t know if the various plaintiff parties in the St. Louis region’s lawsuit versus the Rams will end up receiving financial restitution of this size, it’s increasingly looking as if an eventual settlement will emerge. Perhaps not in 2020, but eventually.
And here’s why:
The recent ESPN article looking at the Rams and Chargers battling for Los Angeles relevancy dedicated a portion of the story to the growing “leaguewide headache” of the lawsuit pitting the city of St. Louis, St. Louis County and the Regional Convention and Sports Complex against the Rams and NFL is “threatening everyone’s bottom line”.
As the afore-mentioned article notes, “the St. Louis plaintiffs have quietly won every court motion and decision” to this point, including keeping the case in the courts and out of arbitration.
The most recent victory being that the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Rams request to issue a stay to the plaintiff’s request to provide multiple years of phone records and emails for discovery.
a much longer story that hits on the subject from ESPN
