St. Louis Gives Up on NFL After Bitter Loss of Beloved Rams

Bitter's not a strong enough word.

At the Los Angeles Times, "St. Louis giving up on the NFL after loss of Rams":

The NFL may have made its last deal in St. Louis.

Less than 24 hours after the loss of the city's second professional football team in since the 1980s, Mayor Francis Slay said he had no interest in working with the NFL again.

"Their home cities and hometown fans are commodities to be abandoned once they no longer suit the league's purposes," St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay told the Associated Press.

"At this point I'm so frustrated and disappointed with the NFL," Slay said. "Why would anybody want to, in any way, even entertain any suggestions from the NFL after the way they dealt with St. Louis here? I mean, it was dishonest. They were not being truthful with us. There's no appetite that I have to take another run at an NFL team."

That could change, of course, with time, but the wound is still fresh...

Still more.

ADDED: At the Wall Street Journal, "St. Louis Bids Sad, Bitter Goodbye to a Second NFL Team in a Generation."