It was little more than a week ago when reporters were all but writing obituaries for a proposal to build a $200 million pro-soccer stadium in downtown St. Louis. The state funding backers had counted on ($40 million in tax credits) was dead at the hand of Governor Eric Greitens, who blasted the plan as "welfare for millionaires." And funding from the city of St. Louis ($80 million in new tax revenue) was dead as well, strangled at the last moment in the Board of Aldermen.…