Carmen Policy, a former NFL GM and team president who worked for legendary owner Eddie DeBartolo with both the 49ers and current Browns franchises, was hired by the joint Raiders-Chargers group to promote the Carson project, and presented it to NFL owners.
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San Diego city and county leaders have presented a plan to a group of NFL owners for a new, $1.1 billion Mission Valley stadium meant to keep the Chargers from leaving for L.A. There are lots of shiny drawings of a new building, and ohbythewaytaxpayersareonthehookforathirdofit. While the Raiders and Chargers publicly laid out plans for the Carson project, Demoff was less specific about the Rams’ Inglewood based project.
Added Grubman: “If a proposal is made at any stage, and it’s not actionable…it’s really not something the club could act upon”.
According to a Twitter post from the NFL network, Policy said, “We are absolutely certain that we will be in the stadium and playing football for the 2019 season”.
With all three of these teams looking to move to Los Angeles and there only being space for two teams, at best, the NFL is going to have to make some big decisions, and at least one team will not be happy.
“There is not a possibility that’s being taken off the table”, Goodell said when asked about different permutations in the three-team, two-stadium game of musical chairs.
At most, one stadium will be built. The local communities that are about to lose their football franchises are trying to keep their teams, but the NFL is on objective putting up incredible demands and hard obstacles just so it won’t happen.
“They also went through their strategy for dealing with various risks and threats – it could be a litigation threat over environmental permitting and certifications, there could be threats from the standpoint of obtaining the necessary public support that the mayor has called for, and so forth and so on”, Grubman said. “You really need four or five people in house who are sought-after development experts, and I don’t know if the Raiders had the ability to take on that level of cost at the time they needed to get the ball rolling”.
The Rams are one of three teams, along with the Chargers and Raiders, that could move to L.A.as early as next year. Goodell said he expects the amount of the relocation fee to be determined “sometime this fall”. The Chargers played their first season in Los Angeles in 1960 before moving to San Diego.
It was an explosive morning at Hollywood Park Racetrack, where a 75-year-old grandstand was demolished on the site of a proposed NFL stadium. Back at St. Louis, the executive was also optimistic about the chances of the Rams staying but would not elaborate further.
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In addition to sporting events, they talked about the potential to host the Grammys, Golden Globes and Academy Awards. A St. Louis city task force made a presentation to the league for a new venue in April while no such measure has come forth in Oakland, the only city where an NFL and Major League Baseball team share the same field in September.
