The league’s 32 owners will gather in Texas on Tueday and Wednesday to decide between the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers joint stadium bid in Carson and the St. Louis Rams stadium proposal in Inglewood.
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The application also said the city’s new stadium proposal is not appropriate for either the Rams or another NFL team, stating “No NFL club would be interested in the RSA’s New St. Louis Stadium”.
The intent of the report is to establish facts about the home markets, as the league views them, The Times reports.
The task force said the Rams’ application was riddled with wrong information about the proposed $1 billion riverfront stadium near the Gateway Arch, a plan the Rams suggest would lead any team to “financial ruin”.
The document cites the NFL’s previous approval of the Inglewood site for an NFL stadium; Rams’ ownership purchase of approximately 300 acres for the stadium and additional development to house NFL Network studios and to build an entertainment district; and surveys of NFL fans in Los Angeles showing greater demand for the return of the Rams than any other team.
Rams owner Stan Kroenke has offered a 50/50 equity partner deal with either the Chargers or Raiders, but Jones is now stepping up in proposing a deal between the Chargers and Rams specifically. The Los Angeles metro area boasts the second-largest number of television households in the USA, with more than 5.5 million, Vrooman said.
Part of that is with the idea of a move back to L.A.in mind, however.
– Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) January 10, 2016The Chargers, Rams and Raiders have until Mon AM to sign final economic term sheets on relocation. Former Raiders CEO Amy Trask said just the day before, on the same radio program no less, that the league has “made it clear that Los Angeles is where it wants to be” and that “they have invested heavily in a plan for a stadium” there.
One potential compromise is to find an incentive to persuade the Raiders to drop out of the running and to pair the Chargers and Rams in one stadium.
Goodell says in the report that city leaders in each town agree that their current stadiums don’t work.
National Football League owners are expected to vote on relocation at a meeting in Houston next week. The two teams now play in the league’s oldest stadiums. In its response to the Rams’ application to move to Los Angeles, it bemoans the way owner Stan Kroenke besmirched the city’s reputation.
Chargers officials don’t think the plan will be approved by voters and don’t want to spend another season in again Qualcomm Stadium.
“The Raiders have no obligation to allow another team to step into the Raiders’ shoes on the deal”, another source said, “so Mark Davis will hold a lot of cards under this scenario”. It marked the first time any team had formally requested to fill the L.A. vacancy since the Raiders and Rams left the area in 1995.
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Kroenke also neglects to mention that while the St Louis Rams ranked 29th in valuation at US$1.45 billion, more than double what he paid to buy the remainder of the team six years ago, the valuation will increase by at least a billion dollars in LA and who leaves a billion dollars on the table?
