Stan ain’t the man.

In fact, over the course of the past few weeks, ‘Stan’ has become a four-letter word in St. Louis when mentioned in a football context. Named after two Redbird legends, Enos Stanley Kroenke successfully burned every bridge possible in half the state he grew up in and spat in the face of the people that brought him up.

All things considered, the people of St. Louis are hardly to blame for the Rams’ departure. They see their team’s deplorable record (Since Kroenke took full ownership in 2010, they’ve gone 36-59-1, the worst record in the NFL.), know their owner hasn’t addressed his fans since 2012 and know that he’s never made a single community-related or charity-related appearance in St. Louis. Ever. Us midwesterners don’t support that. For Kroenke to say St Louis isn’t a three-team city is laughable, considering a place like Cleveland, which has two mediocre-at-best teams and Lebron James. Not to mention, the Wall Street Journal recently named St. Louis as America’s top sports town.

But despite the awful product we, as St, Louisians, have become accustomed to on Sundays, and contrary to the rest of the country’s belief, we showed. It’s a good thing St. Louis is such an admirable sports city, otherwise attendance at every Rams game would’ve been Orioles-Yankees during the Baltimore riots.

So to the true Rams fans, the ones that prayed for five matching numbers on the Powerball just for a chance to buy their team back, or to hire a hitman, put down the Budweiser. Let’s think this through.

Had the Rams not fled this year, their relationship with St. Louis would have been like a significant other always shopping around for a ‘better’ option until they found it. For your own health, I implore those of you still holding on to let go. There are plenty of ways to fill the void left by a man with an empty heart and a furry critter on his upper lip.

I mean, you could remain a fan at heart. They’re gone, but what difference does it make what city they’re in? Watching from the Lazyboy makes the fact that Case Keenum is your best option at quarterback easier to deal with.

If you’re ready to move on, you could sleep in, go to 11 o’clock mass on Sundays and pray for a winning NFL team to land in St. Louis. No, not the Raiders.

You could actually watch football that doesn’t cause chronic illness, since there will no longer be Rams games only on local TV.

But, if you miss those depressing displays, you could support St. Louis’s own professional indoor soccer team, the Ambush, who currently sit below the Central Division with a lackluster 1-9 record (as of press).

You could take up a new NFL team altogether. I hear the Chiefs bandwagon is looking for new members.

You could relive the past and reminisce watching old highlights of the “Greatest Show on Turf.” The catch. The tackle. The title. Unfortunately for fans younger than 17, you weren’t alive.

You could give up on the NFL completely and up your support for the two remaining pro sports franchises in St. Louis, both perennial playoff contenders. Both of which also have fantastic relationships with their community and whose owners have actually met the mayor of St. Louis.

You could flick on the tube, watch any of Denver’s pathetic sports teams and notice how Kroenke owns four of them, despite the NFL’s previous rule (which they amended for Kroenke) against owning a pro sports franchise in more than one city with a pro football team.

You could support your local businesses, so as to (somewhat) ease the burden of one less crowd-drawer to the city’s enterprises. St. Louis is very much a tough, industrial city, a commuter city, so the loss of the Rams arguably stings worst in that regard.

Most of all, you could, and will, continue to pay off the publicly funded garbage can the Rams called their building for 21 years. Yep, St. Louis city and county still owe $36 million, respectively, and the state of Missouri owes $72 million to the lease on The Edward Jones Dome.

And yet, Roger (Fidel) Goodell refused to lend a dime of the NFL’s money to the stadium proposal in which the $400 million in public dollars put forth would have been the fifth-highest public contribution to a stadium in NFL history. Meanwhile, San Diego and Oakland put forth zero effort to create a plan for a new stadium, but Goodell had no problem dishing out $100 million apiece after he appeased Kroenke’s pleads to leave the “barren wasteland” of St. Louis’s market.

Rams fans must face the unfortunate reality that money. Is. Everything.  And for those lacking an excess of green, moving on never gets easier, whether it’s from your high-maintenance middle school girlfriend or the team you’ve adored since childhood. I just hope Rams fans remember all of this when ‘The boy’ asks us to take him back.