The Chargers were hoping to get the approval of their fellow owners for their own plan to move to Los Angeles yesterday. On the other hand, that announcement stemmed from the fact that neither the Chargers nor Raiders renewed their leases in San Diego and Oakland.
Advertisement
CBS Sports NFL Insider Jason La Canfora has reported that NFL owners officially approved the Rams’ relocation in a 30-2 vote.
When NFL owners looked at the potential revenue boost from a game-changing super stadium in the United States entertainment capital Los Angeles, all the St. Louis Rams supporters and stadium plans meant nothing.
Some St. Louis Rams fans and lawmakers are still digesting the news that the team is headed to the west coast, including Schaaf.
It would appear the most likely choice is joining the Rams in Inglewood, either as a 50-50 equity partner or a tenant.
The gist: Take a straight shoot on I-70 East, drive 240 miles and…in three hours and 48 minutes Rams fans can transform into Colts fans. The Rams are expected to play in the Los Angeles Coliseum beginning in the fall.
The Kroenke family also owns a professional hockey team, the Colorado Avalanche, and one St. Louis Rams fan who helped the Tampa Bay Lightning defeat the Avalanche made it personal. What a giant win for L.A. – after not having a football team in over two decades, the city will have TWO NFL franchises to call home, HollywoodLife has learned EXCLUSIVELY!
The vote would also give the San Diego Chargers the option to move to the city within a year, should they decide to leave their current home. “Today we achieved this goal with the compromise reached by National Football League ownership”, Spanos said.
All I know is San Diego’s mayor Kevin Faulconer put a $1.1 billion stadium proposal on the table.
Slay said it is clear that the plan all along was to get the Rams back to Los Angeles. They were not being truthful with us. They should be furious that an extra $100 million in NFL funding that the league wouldn’t dedicate to their city’s project (which already had $200 million from the NFL) has been offered as a consolation prize to the Oakland Raiders (and, potentially, to the Chargers). It doesn’t matter whether you create an owner or stick with Stan Kroenke.
Advertisement
Well, the World Raiders has a nice ring to it, being a rogue team and playing all your games on the road doesn’t sound particularly beneficial from a business aspect.
