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A neighbor who was born and raised in Brooklyn said she remembers a day in 1957 when drivers of all cars passing in the street were blowing horns, all at one time and continuously. 

Jeanne said, “I asked my mother what they were doing that for. She said the Dodgers were moving to Los Angeles. I said, ‘Why are they doing that?’”

For the same reason the Los Angeles Rams became the St. Louis Rams became the Los Angeles Rams, of course. Greener pastures in the form of millyuns of dollars, as Granny Clampett would put it. The same reason the Chicago Cardinals became the St. Louis Cardinals became the Arizona Cardinals.

These are litigation times, though, and with what seems to be the entire state of Missouri filing suit against the Rams and the National Football League, the move could cost defendants more than to $10 billion (or billyun, Missouri-born Granny would say).

 “If the judge allows the jury to consider the valuation increase along with the $550 million relocation fee, punitive damages — which multiply damages as a deterrent — could surpass $10 billion,” says Front Office Sports, a self-styled “media brand covering the $614 billion business of sports.”

$10 billion from the NFL? Chump change. With higher than ever TV ratings – What’s that? Seven percent decline? Well, you know. Pandemic and everything. This season, all will be forgiven, and fans will flock to stadiums to watch their favorite felons fight for their own muillyuns and tens of millyuns.