St. Louis Rams Tickets : Nfl Owners Unanimously Approved Stan Kroenke As The Owner Of The Franchise

The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Rams have won three NFL Championships (two pre-merger, and one Super Bowl).

The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland, Ohio. The NFL considers the franchise as a second incarnation of the previous Cleveland Rams team that was a charter member of the second American Football League. Although the NFL granted membership to the same owner, the NFL considers it a separate entity since only four of the players (William "Bud" Cooper, Harry "The Horse" Mattos, Stan Pincura, and Mike Sebastian) and none of the team's management joined the new NFL team.

The team then became known as the Los Angeles Rams after the club moved to Los Angeles, California in 1946, opting not to compete with Paul Brown's Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference. Following the 1979 season, the Rams moved south to the suburbs in nearby Orange County, playing their home games at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim for fifteen seasons (1980/94), keeping the Los Angeles name. The club moved east to St. Louis prior to the 1995 season.

On January 17, 2009 Steve Spagnuolo, formerly the Defensive Coordinator of the New York Giants, was named the new head coach of the franchise. Spagnuolo hired Pat Shurmur and Ken Flajole as his offensive and defensive coordinator respectively. In Spagnuolo's first off season with the Rams, they offered Baltimore Raven center Jason Brown a record contract to come play center for the Rams.

On May 31, 2009, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the majority owners Chip Rosenbloom and Lucia Rodriguez officially offered their majority share of Rams for sale. They retained the services of Goldman Sachs, a prominent investment banking firm, to help facilitate the sale of the Rams by evaluating bids and soliciting potential buyers.The sale price was unknown, but at the time Forbes magazine's most recent estimate listed the Rams' value at $929 million.

In February 2010 it was reported that Shahid Khan, a businessman from Urbana, Illinois, had signed an agreement to acquire the 60% ownership interest of Rosenbloom and Rodriguez, subject to approval by NFL owners. However, a month later, on the final day to do so, then-minority owner Stan Kroenke announced that he would invoke his right of first refusal to buy the 60 percent of the team that he did not already own, which had the potential be complicated by NFL rules prohibiting NFL teams from owning other teams in markets where there is already an NFL team .

On August 25, 2010, NFL owners unanimously approved Stan Kroenke as the owner of the franchise, on the condition that Kroenke eventually divest his Colorado sports interests - a move that was done by transferring ownership of the Nuggets, Avalanche, the Pepsi Center, and Altitude to his son Josh Kroenke.The Rams earned the first pick in the 2010 NFL Draft after finishing the 2009 season with a 1-15 record.

The team used the pick to select quarterback Sam Bradford from Oklahoma. The Rams finished the 2010 season second in the NFC West with a record of 7-9. Rookie quarterback Sam Bradford started all 16 games for the Rams after earning the starting position during the preseason. On October 24, 2010, running back Steven Jackson passed Eric Dickerson as the franchise's career rushing leader.

On January 18, 2011 the Rams hired Josh McDaniels as the offensive cordinator which offers the team a new style of offense. McDaniels has been known to create superstar quarterbacks in league with such players such as Tom Brady, Matt Cassel, and Kyle Orton.On February 4, 2011, Rookie quarterback Sam Bradford was named the NFL's Offensive Rookie of the Year.

Sam Bradford received 44 of the 50 possible from the nationwide panel of media members. Bradford finished the 2010 season off with a 60% completion percentage, 18 touchdowns, and 15 interceptions. The last three quarterbacks to win this award are Ben Roethlisberger of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2004, Vince Young of the Tennessee Titans in 2006, and Matt Ryan of the Atlanta Falcons.