selfish teams

To Wisconsin?

As it’s being reported today, the St. Louis Rams are now planning to convene their Training Camp in a suburb of Milwaukee (WI) on the campus of Concordia University.

Why?

Well, a student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, which was a possible site for the Rams’ camp, reports that the relatively cool temperatures of Wisconsin during July and August was part of the pitch to get them up North.

In an article by Andrew Munger, the Advance-Titan quotes an Oshkosh administrator who played in the NFL as saying:

“We put together sort of a temperature grid, if you will, and showed them the average temperatures of the months they would be here versus St. Louis and there are significant differences there.”

Phew.

We know that global warming can contribute to the intensity of hurricanes, melt glaciers, and ruin ski seasons in the Lower 48 (to cite a few examples).

But it can make an NFL franchise decide to turn tail on their home state and run for the North?

Well, apparently, that’s part of the picture.