We may have found Mike's new NFL team

Thanks to exchanges on the Facebook page of St. Louis sportstalker Randy Karraker (whose voice has been heard on our podcast a few times), we now know who the two teams were that voted no in that infamous 30-2 Los Angeles vote that unconscionably ripped a team out of St. Louis, gave the Chargers an option (since exercised) to leave San Diego, and opened the door for the Raiders to move to a backup relocation city in Las Vegas.

Team #1: Arizona Cardinals

Team #2: Carolina Panthers

One of these two teams is on Mike's 13-team short list for new NFL teams, and the other isn't.

Here is what Mike has said about both teams in question.  Both are transcriptions from Episode 235 of our podcast:

Arizona Cardinals: "Okay, Arizona, I would consider.  That's another team, of course, they were in St. Louis for a while.  Originally, they were in Chicago - a lot of people tend to forget that they were in Chicago before going to St. Louis and now Phoenix.  The Cardinals are on my short list because, if for no other reason, Mike Bidwill, the current president of the team, is pro-St. Louis.  In fact, I've heard recently that he's picking up the slack where the Rams left off in terms of charity work in the St. Louis area.  It was fairly recently that their current stadium (University of Phoenix Stadium) opened (in 2006).  And, (another) St. Louis connection, they got to a Super Bowl with Kurt Warner at quarterback."

Carolina Panthers: "Absolutely not.  Look, I respect Jerry Richardson for what he tried to do for St. Louis.  But, we had this discussion in our last podcast (Episode 234) about Steve Smith (who, let's never forget, lost a coin toss on our List of athletes who need to STFU to Zlatan Ibrahimovic) being a thug and my overall impression of the Panthers is their players being thugs."

Thanks Randy for making this decision - a long, tough decision - an easy one in the long run.

Mike's new team: the Arizona Cardinals.  We will discuss on the podcast.