Monday was the first day organizations were eligible to petition the league, as required by the NFL Policy and Procedures for Proposed Franchise Relocations. Both sides have been lobbying fellow owners for more support…The high-stakes emotional, financial and political nature of the L.A. conundrum is uncomfortable for the National Football League, which typically takes pains to avoid pitting owner against owner.
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Three NFL teams filed for relocation Monday night – the Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams and San Diego Chargers are all aiming to move to the Los Angeles area. There’s a growing sense among owners that leaving teams in limbo is damaging to the league and that the matter needs to be resolved in time for the 2016 season. They will be reviewed by league staff and three committees of owners that will meet in NY on Wednesday and Thursday. The NFL requires 24 votes to approve a team’s relocation proposal.
Spanos said that over 25 percent of their business comes from Riverside County, Orange County and the Los Angeles County area and another team in that area would have a significant impact on them.
Just a few weeks after Kroenke unveiled his plans, the Raiders and Chargers surprisingly announced that they would share a stadium in Carson, next to the 405 Freeway. What happens next is in the hands of the NFL’s owners, who will meet in Houston on January 12-13.
“The St. Louis Rams informed the National Football League today that the Rams propose to relocate to the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area”.
One is choosing Inglewood or Carson as the best stadium site, another is which teams can move.
As it stands, there is not even the broad outline of a compromise – or grand bargain – to satisfy all three teams. “The relocation would be effective for the 2016 NFL League Year”.
The mayor of San Diego, Kevin Falcouner, had his own words for the Chargers.
Last week, the cities sent the league their final stadium proposals, except for Oakland which sent a letter on its latest efforts to get a stadium.
“We’ve anticipated this filing from the Rams for more than a year”, the St. Louis stadium task force said in a written statement.
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“We are sad to have reached this point”, the Chargers said in a statement. But Kroenke has received opposition from the city of St. Louis, which has put forth a $1.1 billion stadium proposal on the city’s north riverfront.
