Today’s NFL owners meeting took place one day after the city of San Diego released its response to concerns league executives had with a term sheet for a Mission Valley stadium project proposed by the city and county two months ago. Oakland has made virtually no viable stadium proposals, the National Football League has said repeatedly. Goodell says “no stone will be left unturned” in examining and improving officiating. Kroenke hasn’t spoken publicly about his relocation plans – or anything else – and he repeatedly declined to meet with St. Louis officials.
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Where does San Diego fit in the situation?
None of this bodes well for San Diego.
Any team that wants to relocate requires approval from two-thirds of the league’s 32 owners.
Teams can not submit relocation applications until January 4.
Relocation is the biggest issue before the owners at the Dallas meeting and February is an important date. “That seat hasn’t been removed”.
The first glimmer of a potential compromise has surfaced.
Rams owner Stan Kroenke has been laying the groundwork to move his team to the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood as the cornerstone of a business and entertainment complex. He did not identify a particular team. It reportedly also outlines a full 50-50 partnership on stadium costs and stadium use.
“We want to hear more as we move forward in the next five weeks”, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay said.
To Los Angeles Rams supporters, the meeting could be perceived as Kroenke covering every base before he tells his fellow owners why he should be allowed to walk away from potentially hundreds of millions in public money for a stadium.
“Someone needed to break through this impasse”, one source said. At a minimum, Spanos will need to be persuaded that the two teams will indeed be equal in the project that Kroenke is proposing.
Currently, each side is believed to have the requisite nine votes to block the competition. The Rams and Raiders both moved to their current homes in 1995. “I think there will be a vote (in January)”.
L.A. committee members John Mara of the New York Giants and Clark Hunt of the Kansas City Chiefs voiced a similar target on Tuesday.
Although the clubs aren’t scheduled to make presentations, their competing stadium proposals for Inglewood and Carson are likely to be analyzed at length.
“We still have more work to do on that to make sure we understand fully the certainty of those projects and the viability of those projects in those core markets”. “That’s a core focus”.
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“I’ve lost all my psychic powers”, he said, “especially regarding this subject”.
