Rejoice, LA Angels fans! Kroenke as good as an owner can get | Opinion

While there is something about one person owning so many multibillion-dollar sport franchises that feels a little … icky, if someone is going to do it, best it be Stan Kroenke.

Kroenke added the Los Angeles Angels to his collection of teams Tuesday, Sept. 1, and the sound you heard was Angels fans everywhere rejoicing at being freed from their misery and despair. There might be worse owners in sports than Arte Moreno — we see you, Dee and Jimmy Haslam! — but few have been so inept for such a long period of time.

Kroenke is the opposite of that. The man’s teams collect titles like they’re members of a royal family. In the last six years alone, his teams have won:

Meanwhile SoFi Stadium, which Kroenke paid for himself, hosted eight World Cup games, a Super Bowl and a College Football Playoff title game. SoFi also is going to be one of the marquis venues for the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Kroenke was one of the first Women’s Super League owners to move his team full-time to an EPL stadium, and the Arsenal women led the WSL in attendance last year. By a wide margin.

So, yeah…

Original source: https://www.usatoday.com/sports/