Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke was not so quiet this past weekend as he spoke to the Associated Press about his football team. “We’re competitive,” he said, his Barclays Premier League soccer squad Arsenal (“I’m there every month”) and what occupies his time these days (“How do I spend my time? I spend my time on my businesses and my family”).
In 2010, the NFL approved Kroenke’s bid to become principal owner of the Rams. In 2014, he became sole owner.
And after last season, the team moved to Los Angeles. Asked what he would say to Rams fans after relocating the franchise from St. Louis to L.A., he responded:
“We’re building a team, and we’re excited for the future of the Rams. The response in receiving the team back to Los Angeles was absolutely fantastic. It’s been a great experience.”
“We’re young,” Kroenke said. “I think it’s the fifth year in a row we’re the youngest team in the NFL. We’ve been building this team.”
On the new stadium front, Kroenke said developers appear on pace to open the 70,000-seat, clear-roofed football stadium in Inglewood, California, in August 2019.
The stadium will serve as the main attraction of a sprawling campus that includes a 6,000-seat theater, about 2,500 residential units, 895,000 square feet of retail space, a 300-room hotel and office space. There will also be at least 25 acres of parks, playgrounds and green space.
“We’re building a small city to the centerpiece of which is a great, big stadium,” said Kroenke, whose name, E. Stanley, is an ode to baseball icons Enos Slaughter and Stan Musial.
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