Should the Raiders have to tell the world why they want to leave Oakland?
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At most, two teams will be allowed to move to Los Angeles and only one stadium be built.
Mara is among the owners attending meetings Wednesday and possibly Thursday, a gathering of the stadium, finance and L.A. committees.
“We believe an Inglewood Super Bowl could generate as much as $50 million more in league revenue than the Carson proposed stadium based on increases in seat capacity, premium seating and total number of suites”, the application said. The Rams’ analysis of the St. Louis plan contains “inconsistencies and inaccuracies”, he said.
The application said Kroenke has made “significant investments” since taking control of the Rams in 2010, yet attendance is well below average.
Spanos also hasn’t released the Chargers” relocation bid, even though the league’s relocation guidelines state that teams must publish notice of their intent to leave in local papers and that the notice “must be accompanied by a “statement of reasons’ in support of the move”. The Jones Dome is among the worst stadiums in professional sports, Kroenke said, and the team has negotiated with the stadium authority for years to get improvements. There was no elaboration on the change for the $1.86-billion project that the Rams describe as “shovel ready”. The Rams veteran said that other than the commercial he was plugging, he was focused on rehabbing from his shoulder injury and helping coach the younger guys on his team to fill in after the rash of injuries the team had this season. For one thing, it notes that the “rent and operating structure are 20 times what the Rams pay now”.
For the Rams, the situation became problematic only in recent years, when the lease required that St. Louis upgrade the stadium to the top 25 percent of league, the team and the city went to arbitration regarding their competing proposals, the team won, and the city thereafter did nothing to upgrade the stadium.
The St. Louis Stadium Task Force strongly disagreed with the Rams’ findings.
“Look no further than the St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis Blues”, he said.
However, we all know what Kroenke is really doing here. “All of that contributes to the fan interest”. Mayor Slay plans to write the National Football League, making his case to show why St. Louis deserves and can sustain an National Football League team.
– Heading, in bold: “St. Louis is not a three professional team market”.
The Rams moving back to Los Angeles has always been thrown in the air with their poor attendance and stadium deal, but Kroenke is going all out.
Kroenke’s application takes aim at St. Louis, saying the city “lags, and will continue to lag, far behind in the economic drivers that are necessary for sustained success of an National Football League franchise”.
Rams owner Stan Kroenke has officially filed for relocation to Los Angeles.
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