They won’t, however, be looking for a new NFL franchise: Mayor Francis Slay told reporters Wednesday that the city is turning its back on the league, once and for all.
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Here is the original breakdown of the financing for the proposed stadium in San Diego, before the extra 100 million was added.
It’s unclear whether the Chargers will move to a temporary home in Los Angeles in 2016, as the Rams plan to do, or if the Chargers could stay in San Diego this year.
The final vote was 30-2 for Inglewood and the Rams, with the Chargers having a one-year option to join them.
They could pursue an uncertain path to a new stadium in San Diego, where they’d face a ballot measure at risk of failing. Chargers owner Dean Spanos was incommunicado and that is unacceptable. In the simplest terms, what are those options? The NFL has given the Chargers until January 2017 to negotiate a partnership with the Rams in Inglewood.
The suit alleges that Kroenke and chief operating officer Kevin Demoff made false and misleading statements indicating the team had no intention to move. They will then be moving to a new stadium in 2019, once construction is completed for them.
The Chargers could go to L.A.as tenants. “The performance venue can serve as a home for the NFL Draft, NFL Honors and other NFL-themed events such as NFL Films premieres”, the Rams’ proposal states.
Spanos has wanted a replacement for San Diego’s aging Qualcomm Stadium for around 15 years, a quest stymied thus far by the city’s fiscal problems of a decade ago, the recession and difficulty in finding a suitable site. This is the riskiest option for the Chargers.
“I will be working over the next several weeks to explore the options that we have now created for ourselves to determine the best path forward for the Chargers”, chairman Dean Spanos said. The question is generally asked outside L.A. UCLA basketball, USC football, the Angels, the Lakers, the Kings, the Ducks and the Galaxy have all won championships since the Rams and Raiders fled in 1994. “The stadium is ready to build”. The dilemma for the Chargers here is that their leverage is waning.
They must find or build a training complex to be their home for the other six days of the week, and their players and coaches must find homes close to it. They’ve got to move tons of equipment from their current base in Earth City, Missouri. Coliseum General Manager Joe Furin said crews will alter a few things to accommodate the National Football League and fans at the 93-year-old facility.
In the light of day, there are still no clear answers on which way the Spanos are leaning.
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After the NFL vacated Los Angeles – the second-biggest media market in the country – after the 1995 season when the Rams moved to St. Louis and the Raiders moved back to Oakland, many wondered if the league would ever return.
