Now the Real Moving Can Begin for Rams : Pro football: Players and employees have been anxious and frustrated while awaiting decision.

The waiting and wondering finally over, Ram employees are planning again.

There are homes to sell, families to uproot and lots of moving. But at least they know where they won’t be working.

Players and support staff at Rams Park were relieved Wednesday upon learning that the NFL owners will allow the franchise to relocate to St. Louis. For better or worse, they said, at least they can get on with their lives.

“I wasn’t anxious about moving, but we’ve been in a state of limbo, so this is better,” said Don Hewitt, the Rams’ longtime senior equipment manager.

“We’ve been on such an emotional roller coaster. We were waiting for that vote to do anything, it was just a holding pattern around here. Now, people can start making plans.”

Ram management doesn’t have a master moving plan, a team spokeswoman said. And employees have not been told whom will be brought along to the new home.

“Nobody’s said anything about who’s going and who’s staying,” said Hewitt, an employee for 29 years. “We’re still waiting as far as that goes.”

Tight end Troy Drayton is concerned about staff who will be affected by the move.

“Some of these people have put in a lot of years with the organization, and now they’re going to have to either move or look for other jobs,” he said. “It might be a fresh start for the team, but they’re leaving a lot of tradition behind, too.”

Owners voted 23-6 in Dallas to OK the move. Approval came a month after the owners initially blocked the move, and it wasn’t a moment too soon for free safety Keith Lyle. A rookie last season, Lyle, like many of his teammates, was frustrated. You wouldn’t believe how annoying it is waiting to learn where you can work.

“It’s been real inconvenient,” Lyle said. “People didn’t know where preseason (camp) would be, people didn’t know where we were going to be playing next year.

“People were trying to sell homes and didn’t know what the deal was. We’ve been talking about this move for the last year. We just wanted to get going.”

Hewitt said it would take a few weeks to properly move the team’s football equipment, let alone all the administrative material. He’s not looking forward to the task.

“We haven’t packed or anything because we didn’t want to have to unpack anything,” Hewitt said. “Hopefully, we won’t have to load all of the stuff in the middle of the night like they did in (Baltimore).”

Times staff writer Lon Eubanks contributed to this story.