The Los Angeles Rams agreed to pay personal seat license holders $24 million in a class-action settlement, but they don’t want to fork up the entire amount. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Rams want the city of St. Louis to pick up half of the tab.
The team says the St. Louis Convention & Visitors Commission should pay $12 million of the settlement, which the Rams previously agreed to pay this past winter. Apparently, the franchise didn’t intend to pay the full amount of $24 million.
It will now take the commission to arbitration in an attempt to get out of half the settlement.
“Not surprisingly, the Rams have found yet another way to be ungrateful for all the support they’ve received from St. Louis, the greater community and the fan base that once supported them so enthusiastically,” convention commission President Kitty Ratcliffe said in a statement.
The settlement stems from lawsuits filed by fans who were left without season tickets to purchase after making a 30-year deposit for a PSL in 1995. When the Rams left for Los Angeles in 2016, fans weren’t given refunds for those deposits.
The lawsuit aims to get PSL holders either a refund for the lost nine years because of the Rams’ departure, or the chance to buy season tickets in L.A. According to the Post-Dispatch, the $24 million settlement is about one-third of the cost of the PSLs.
