WI: The Rams Stay Put in STL?

According to NFL Network's The Timeline special Last Day in LA, the OC was bankrupt in late 94. Leigh Steinberg said something about how they would have built a new stadium for the Rams if the bankruptcy didn't happen.

With the Rams staying in LA in early 95, I wonder if Oiler owner Bud Adams would have considered St. Louis as a relocation city. I don't think he had anything official done with Tennessee yet at that point.

Now, had Steinberg been successful enough to butterfly the Rams' staycation in St Louis, would the club have pursued a Hollywood Park stadium right away, or could they have explored Chavez Ravine as another option? How many more years did they have left in their lease with Anaheim?

Were Bob McNair, Leslie Alexander or Jim Crane in a position in the mid 90's to have attempted to buy the Oilers from Bud Adams to keep the team in Houston?

While we're at it, who could have been able to buy the Browns from Art Modell in '95? Larry Dolan perhaps? Or how about Alfred Lerner? Or maybe some young Wall Street guy with Ohio roots?
 
Now, had Steinberg been successful enough to butterfly the Rams' staycation in St Louis, would the club have pursued a Hollywood Park stadium right away, or could they have explored Chavez Ravine as another option? How many more years did they have left in their lease with Anaheim?

Were Bob McNair, Leslie Alexander or Jim Crane in a position in the mid 90's to have attempted to buy the Oilers from Bud Adams to keep the team in Houston?

While we're at it, who could have been able to buy the Browns from Art Modell in '95? Larry Dolan perhaps? Or how about Alfred Lerner? Or maybe some young Wall Street guy with Ohio roots?

I don't know about their Anaheim lease, but it seems to me that the new Rams stadium would have been in Anaheim (or somewhere else in the OC).

As for the Browns and Oilers, it's too bad that the league didn't make Modell sell to one of those guys. He was a terrible businessman. Also, it didn't seem to me that anyone tried to step up and keep the Oilers in town. Maybe their playoff choke-fests and the drama during the 93 season was the last straw.
 
I don't know about their Anaheim lease, but it seems to me that the new Rams stadium would have been in Anaheim (or somewhere else in the OC).

As for the Browns and Oilers, it's too bad that the league didn't make Modell sell to one of those guys. He was a terrible businessman. Also, it didn't seem to me that anyone tried to step up and keep the Oilers in town. Maybe their playoff choke-fests and the drama during the 93 season was the last straw.

I think the Big A, even IOTL, still has a big enough parking lot for two venues.

Given Modell's shoddy business practices, he did step up when the other owners were pessimistic about Monday Night Football. However, if someone had took over for him much sooner as the league's broadcast chairman, maybe USA Network could have had an NFL contract before ESPN in the eighties?
 
A way for the Rams not leave St Louis...maybe the Raiders are more sucessful in the 90's and got a new stadium in LA? with the raiders never moving there might will not be a push for comeback to LA as the raiders are there, i proposed the raiders drafted Brett Favre in 1991 and Bo Jackson stay healthy and the won a bowl over the 49ers or later on, so the raiders might get their stadium adjacent to the Staples Centre in LA...
 
I think the Big A, even IOTL, still has a big enough parking lot for two venues.

Given Modell's shoddy business practices, he did step up when the other owners were pessimistic about Monday Night Football. However, if someone had took over for him much sooner as the league's broadcast chairman, maybe USA Network could have had an NFL contract before ESPN in the eighties?

If the USA Network would have gotten the rights to broadcast NFL games, maybe they keep the rights that they had to televise other leagues, like the NBA and NHL. However, I wonder if they don't focus on other programming as a result (for example, maybe USA Up All Night is butterflied away).
 
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