The report is also a signal that NFL executives expect owners to vote on relocation at a league meeting Tuesday and Wednesday in Houston. The San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders want to move to the Los Angeles area, too, proposing to share a stadium planned in Carson, California.
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Each privately financed stadium proposal is believed to have at least the nine votes needed to block the other. The report was obtained by the Los Angeles Times. The application even questions whether St. Louis can support three professional sports teams. It’s a huge week for the NFL as the future of three franchises could be decided, but it’s also possible that the league could decide to delay it’s decision. And they would be leaving a stadium that is widely considered one of the league’s worst. The owners can’t force him to accept new St. Louis’ stadium deal, and the city has not abided by its original agreement with the franchise when it moved from L.A.in 1995 about stadium upkeep.
“Now that we know the disparaging sentiments Uncle Stan had for STL, one can only wonder what Deano had to say about SD”, Jason Cabel Roe, a political consultant to Faulconer, said in an email to the AP.
The Rams, Chargers and Raiders all have submitted applications to relocate to Los Angeles in 2016.
The teams formally applied this week for relocation, the league’s version of serving divorce papers. The idea of either the Chargers or Raiders working something out in their home cities and the other team moving in with the Rams has always been an option.
That’s partly why the Chargers pursued a more certain path to a new stadium in Carson, an L.A. suburb where the city council already has approved the project.
Though Dean Spanos and Mark Davis have been married to a joint project in Carson, and Spanos has said numerous times that he’s “all in” on that project, the league’s owners can vote to break up that relationship.
Inglewood, which is in the approach path to Los Angeles International Airport, has been negotiating with the Federal Aviation Administration since November to address the agency’s concerns that the stadium could interfere with its radar.
“We have painstakingly followed protocol while assembling a stadium plan that would be well-received by the Rams and National Football League”, the task force concluded in its response to Kroenke. Instead, teams will use Goodell’s findings to help them reach a decision on the matter.
San Diego was the first city to fire back. He says that he supports the Chargers and Rams sharing the Inglewood stadium. The Rams called their hometown market economically stagnant and said plans for a billion-dollar stadium were a recipe for financial disaster.
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Which is where the veterans come in: almost a year ago, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell formed a committee made up of six powerful owners: Pittsburgh Steelers owner Art Rooney II (who serves as committee chairman); Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson; New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft; Houston Texans owner Robert McNair; New York Giants owner John Mara; and Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt.
