Rams staying in St. Louis, and here’s how

The Rams are moving from St. Louis to Los Angeles, but tricky contract language could theoretically keep them in the Gateway City. In a report by NBC Sports, it turns out that the contracts being offered to players state that Missouri law controls the relationship as opposed to California.

Long story short, when it comes to potential workman’s compensation claims being referred to Missouri and not California, where such laws are stricter.

Naturally, the NFLPA has cried foul and is working to make it so that the Rams follow California law so long as the team is playing in the Golden State.

“We believe that any reference to the state of Missouri is inappropriate since the Rams have relocated to California as evidenced by the fact that they have changed their name on their website to the Los Angeles Rams, are prepared to hold off-season workouts and training camp in California, and will practice and play their home games in California in 2016,” the union said in a memo.

There’s no other way to say this. The NFLPA is absolutely right. The Rams have willingly moved to California after owner Stan Kroenke made it known loud and clear that he no longer wanted to be in St. Louis unless the city gave him a new stadium. St. Louis didn’t budge, and the move went down.

Thus, since he made the decision to move his teams to a different state, Kroenke should have to pay the piper and thus have all player contracts revised to include California law. To not do so would be just plain wrong.

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