League owners meeting in Houston will use that nonbinding recommendation as they consider whether to end a two-decade hiatus in the nation’s second-largest media market.
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The National Football League’s 32 team owners voted Tuesday to give the Rams approval to move to Los Angeles for the 2016 season, and the Chargers the option to join them within the next year, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced Tuesday night. The Chargers want nothing to do with the Rams Inglewood-Hollywood Park proposal, but that might be the only one that gets the 25 votes.
The NFL’s six-owner committee on Los Angeles opportunities earlier recommended the Chargers-Raiders project, which would build a $1.7 billion stadium in Carson, sources told ESPN, confirming multiple reports.
The Raiders and Chargers had agreed to share a stadium in Carson, California. Even so, Rams owners Stan Kroenke was able to amass enough support among his fellow owners to advance a new proposal that lined up St. Louis with San Diego.
After one round of voting, the Inglewood project was leading 20-12 over a proposal to put two teams in a stadium in Carson, Calif., according to the Times. The Los Angeles Rams played in the Coliseum from 1946-1979 and at what was then known as Anaheim Stadium from 1980-1994 before moving to St. Louis in 1995.
That led to speculation of a compromise in which the Rams are allowed to move to Los Angeles, and the Chargers have the first option to partner with them in Inglewood. Currently, the Inglewood proposal has received the most support.
Clay says the Cardinals have shown Saint Louisans what a winning franchise looks like and tastes like, while Kroenke’s Rams have failed to do the same.
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New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch made the announcement after a full day of meetings by owners in which speculation ran rampant over whether the league would choose the Rams’ Inglewood proposal over the joint plan in Carson proposed by the Chargers and Raiders.
