Rams owner Stan Kroenke does battle with Inglewood

Maybe the Rams will be in St. He will return to Louis.

I am joking. (I think.) For now, the Rams’ recent 10-year anniversary return to Los Angeles has been undermined by a legal battle between team owner Stan Kroenke and the City of Inglewood.

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The fight, as Bloomberg.com explains, placement of billboards in the city In and around SoFi Stadium. After Kroenke and his friends lost that round, the battle turned into an allegation that Inglewood owed Kroenke $400 million spent on roads, sewers, other infrastructure, police and fire protection. The city claims that there is no binding agreement requiring the payment of such amounts.

At first glance, this sounds like a grudge case; Something Kroenke made up after losing the billboard case. This is what the ultra-rich tend to do when they can’t get their way; They happily pay hourly attorney fees to prove a point.

Kroenke moved the Rams from Missouri to the privately financed stadium in California, sparking a lawsuit that ultimately resulted in the Rams and the rest of the NFL paying $790 million to settle the claims.

For now, Kroenke and Inglewood have no choice but to find a way to coexist. Unless Kroenke plans to sell the stadium and surrounding developments to the Chargers or someone else, he won’t just buy the shares and leave town.

Again.