Feb. 1 Deadline Looms in Fight to Keep Rams in St. Louis

As this is written, civic and political leaders in St. Louis are - not to put too fine a point on it - freaking out. Up against a Feb. 1 deadline, city officials are attempting to draft a plan for making improvements to the Edward Jones Dome in an attempt to prevent their NFL tenant, the St. Louis Rams, from leaving the city at the end of the 2014 season. The team's lease with the city, which was crafted and agreed to in late 1994, gives the team the right to break its 30-year lease 10 years early if the stadium isn't a "first-tier" football stadium, defined - necessarily hazily, since the lease doesn't specify - by different spokespeople and newspaper columnists as being among the top eight venues in the NFL in terms of quality.

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