After another negotiating session in the afternoon, Kroenke’s $1.8 billion project prevailed. “If the Chargers don’t accept an option to be (L.A.’s) second team, that option goes to the Raiders”.
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The Rams haven’t formally secured a home stadium for next season, although they appear likely to return to the Coliseum, their home from 1946-79. If that can’t be worked out by next January, then the Oakland Raiders might make the move. “For them to be gone, the city not to have a football team, there is going to be a giant hole there”.
“Stabililty is something that we take a lot of pride in”, Goodell said. “They want a new stadium, they want to make lots of money with the new stadium and in the LA market they will be able to get everything that the owners want in that department”. That’s what we’re looking for, for our fans and everything else.
The front pages of newspapers in Los Angeles and St. Louis definitely convey different emotions, but it is impossible to measure if the joy of Los Angeles residents is greater than the sorrow of St. Louis fans. By Wednesday, large banners featuring Rams players were still up outside dome and on the interior rafters.
Now one of those teams could join the Rams as a co-builder or tenant in the megastadium that the National Football League sought for a return to LA.
The following two tabs change content below. The NFL also agreed to allow the Chargers to relocate to Inglewood with the Rams, but Spanos will have to reach agreement with Kroenke.
The NFL announced the San Diego Chargers have a yearlong option to come to Los Angeles with the Rams. Over the summer, the city laid out plans for a .1 billion stadium that would require $121 million in contributions from both county and city taxpayers. The city is hoping to hold a vote in June.
Fabiani said Spanos was studying his options, which include moving to Inglewood to share a future stadium with the Rams, or pursuing a stadium project in San Diego.
“If the Chargers within two weeks are actively engaged with the city trying to craft something, really focused on making a deal in San Diego, I think it will be a pretty clear sign they can’t live with the initial terms from Inglewood”, Bruvold said.
My “Ram-ily” out here wouldn’t let the dream die, and now we’re waking up to a new reality. We are overwhelmed with Chargers this, Chargers that.
The manager says they’ve been here for the last 26 years when the Raiders were still in L.A. and when the Lakers played at the sports arena.
The overwhelming point permeating all the reactions is the hate toward owner Stan Kroenke. Stadium construction is expected to be completed by the 2019 season. That means the Rams will be spending the next three seasons at the Coliseum.
Wistrom, who now owns Crossfit Springfield, was a first round draft pick by the St. Louis Rams in 1998.
Sherman grew up in Compton, just outside Inglewood where the new stadium will be located.
This has been an eventful week for Ram fans.
Dave Peacock, co-chairman of the St. Louis stadium task force, wasn’t as adamant, but seemed resigned to life without the NFL. The only thing we know for sure about the Raiders is that they won’t be playing in L.A. in 2016.
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Raiders owner Mark Davis was equally noncommittal about Oakland, which has a more troubling situation because the city isn’t even close to a proposal for a new stadium. “I don’t know where we’ll be”, he quipped. “America, the world is a possibility for the Raider Nation”.
