St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke is moving the team to Los Angeles because he grew exhausted of being a victim. In fact, depending on how the dominoes fall the next few months, the Raiders will move to the front of the line as a possible partner with the Rams in Inglewood or find themselves the lone coveted free agent on the market with a handful of motivated cities ready to wine and dine them.
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“I have been in contact last night and today both with the city’s negotiator, Chris Melvin, and with the City Attorney, Jan Goldsmith, so we won’t have any trouble exchanging information”, Fabiani said.
They should have a far tougher time accepting the National Football League and Commissioner Roger Goodell’s outright dismissal of a 400-page stadium plan containing $477 million in initial public funding that followed the NFL’s relocation guidelines to the letter. Until then, the Rams will play at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The Rams have an incredible amount of work to do before they can truly call Los Angeles home again.
At the Save Our Bolts party at the Tilted Kilt, Chargers fans expressed their frustration and asked the team to just make a decision already.
And as he digested the long process that delivered the Rams from St. Louis back to Los Angeles, the significance was apparent. He later said in a statement that with the Rams’ planned return, “Los Angeles cements itself as the epicenter of the sports world”. Days before the Houston meeting, he issued a report to all 32 teams that deemed the venues in all three existing cities inadequate and questioned the stadium proposals.
So it finally took an estranged child of the city to say it wants to come home for the people to get their once beloved team back.
The NFL schedule usually isn’t finalized until mid-April, and the Rams will have only seven regular-season home games in 2016, playing the eighth in London against the New York Giants. So either that first season in St. Louis can be played through as normal or it can be simulated so as to reach the 2016 season immediately.
“St. Louis is a world-class city deserving of a world-class National Football League team”. The San Diego Chargers were awarded the right to join the Rams in Los Angeles, leaving the Raiders without a clear-cut options.
Kroenke: It truly is bittersweet. That also means that there’s still a chance a stadium plan could happen in San Diego, depending on a public vote in June or November. That’s actually less than 10 miles from Los Angeles.
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With the news of the Rams relocating to Inglewood, California beginning to surface late Tuesday evening, the Chargers were awarded the option to join their counterparts per a vote by the league’s owners.
