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- The Rams gained $4.5 million in cap space Monday by restructuring Chris Long's contract. (Didn't they structure it right the first time? Long just got this contract last year.) He was paid $6 million of his 2013 salary as a roster bonus. The pro-rated part of that reduced the cap. The Rams should now have enough space to sign the draft class they're about to add this weekend, but not much else.
- As reported on the University of Cincinnati website, last season depressed the hell out of Isaiah Pead. Well, it should have; he just wasn't very good, but it sounds like he took it too much to heart. I like that Pead isn't blaming anybody else for his rookie season and expect him to be driven to succeed in 2013.
- Here's ESPN.com contributor Gregg (TMQ) Easterbrook taking potshots at (who he thinks is) Rams ownership: Rams owners Stan and Ann Kroenke, net worth estimated by Forbes at $4.4 billion, are trying to graymail local taxpayers into providing $700 million in public funding for stadium upgrades. Then they will keep almost all revenue. This plan would have embarrassed [convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie] Madoff, whose marks handed over money of their own free will.
Sigh. Maybe someday, Easterbrook will get something right about the Rams. Ann Kroenke is worth $4.5 billion by herself according to Forbes, and she doesn't own any part of the Rams. Stan is worth $5 billion by himself. So Easterbrook gets Rams ownership wrong, and shortchanges the Kroenke family in the bargain. I'm eagerly awaiting the corrections section of Easterbrook's next column.
Stan's the Rams' majority owner, but Chip Rosenbloom and Lucia Rodriguez still own 30% of the Rams if my homework is right. When Stan took over, it was on a buy half, buy the other half later plan. I've never heard when "later" was supposed to be. If I'm wrong about that, then so are the Rams, whose website and media guide list Stan, Chip and Lucia as owners.
- Finally, the Rams freaking pump the scent of freaking cotton candy into the stadium on gamedays? Who the hell made that decision? This is football! You either pump in the smell of beer, cigars or the smell of grilling brats if you're going to pump in a smell. Preferably all three. And hey, wait a minute. I can't smoke in the Dome (Note: I don't smoke), but they can freaking pump in subliminal scents intended to get me to buy concessions? Now which of those two things is more morally suspect? (Note: I myself have never detected the scent of cotton candy in the Dome. I only notice cotton candy in the Dome when the vendors stand at the bottom of our section and block my view with their stupid freaking candy.)
RamView will doggedly pursue this cotton candy scenting issue with fellow season ticket holders. There oughta be a law, I tell ya!
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