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Why Did St. Louis Get Hosed by the Rams? We're Clueless Yokels, Exec Says
A new Deadspin article that calls the Rams' deal with St. Louis "possibly the most sweetheart lease of all time" asks a question city boosters would be wise to ponder:
"Why on earth," author Neil deMause asks, do city officials working on stadium deals keep "negotiating themselves into corners?"
The answer comes from St. Louis' tortured history on this stuff — courtesy of an expert in that torture: John Nagourney, a former sports management executive who helped the Rams get one over on St. Louis.
As DeMause writes of city negotiators: "They don’t know what they’re doing, and they won’t ask for help."
https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2019/05/01/why-did-st-louis-get-hosed-by-the-rams-were-clueless-yokels-exec-says