While the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders have for now made a decision to stay put, their leaders didn’t really have a unanimous agreement about that, which means one of them might just follow the Rams in L.A.
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Instead, the Rams will move to Los Angeles and play in a temporary home until the 2019 season, when their new stadium in Inglewood is complete. He said the relocation process has been “excruciating for everyone”.
Headlines above a front-page column in Wednesday’s Post-Dispatch said, “Feckless Thugs of NFL Leave Us With Just Memories”, and “Black-Hearted Goodell Fronts a Cash-Driven Cartel”, a reference to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. “It’s bittersweet, too, because we were unable to get the facilities that we’d hoped for in their markets”.
ROSENBAUM: It’s unlikely St. Louis will get another National Football League team in the near future, so that may be why even the most ardent Rams fans will probably move on after the anger subsides, especially when baseball season begins later this spring. Rams fans in Visalia were also elated of the news that their beloved team was coming home.
While the Chargers worked closely with the Raiders to develop a proposal that revolved around the two franchises building a stadium in Carson, California, the joint effort fell flat.
At a rate of 2-1, respondents in a pair of polls commissioned by the Chargers said they would vote against a measure calling for $400 million in public funding for a new stadium.
The NFL is helping negotiate fair terms for a second team in the stadium, which is part of part of a larger development including entertainment and retail space covering almost 300 acres.
No NFL franchise has moved since the Houston Oilers went to Tennessee in 1997. “The Chargers have been approved to relocate to Los Angeles, at the Inglewood location, at any time in the next year”.
“I don’t believe that’s going to fill the gap we have right now, but $100 million obviously helps”, Davis said.
Faulconer’s top political strategist, Jason Cabel Roe, has said that if the Chargers resume negotiations, they need to come without Fabiani because he has no credibility with elected officials. Spanos has wanted a replacement for San Diego’s aging Qualcomm Stadium for around 15 years but had been stymied by the city’s fiscal problems a decade ago, the recession and difficulty in finding a suitable site.
The St. Louis proposal calls for an open-air, $1.1 billion stadium along the Mississippi River north of the Gateway Arch to replace the Edward Jones Dome. He purchased a personal seat license when the Rams moved here in the mid-1990s. The rest of the money comes from the state, either through tax credits or bonds. USC athletic director Pat Haden, the former Rams quarterback, plans to talk with the Rams soon about returning to the Trojans’ home, which is managed by the school.
The case is Pudlowski v. St. Louis Rams LLC, 1622-CC00083, Circuit of St. Louis, Missouri.
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If the Chargers don’t exercise the option by January, 2016, the Oakland Raiders would have the option to move to L.A. and become Kroenke’s tenant.
