The Chargers have the option to either move to Los Angeles with the now Los Angeles Rams, or stay in San Diego. “But to have a line to the door, any day, I will take it”. What a giant win for L.A. – after not having a football team in over two decades, the city will have TWO NFL franchises to call home, HollywoodLife has learned EXCLUSIVELY! The Chargers were approved for relocation, but not the proposal they submitted in which they were partnered with the Raiders in Carson, but as a partner to the Rams in Inglewood.
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Q. Why did Kroenke prevail, ultimately in a landslide?
The application, proposed by owner Stan Kroenke, will see a stadium built in the southwestern Los Angeles city of Inglewood after a 21-year absence in the country’s second-largest media market.
Commissioner Roger Goodell said he began Tuesday’s relocation meeeting with a warning: This is going to hurt.
Getting approval to move to Los Angeles was the easy part, now the Rams have to make it happen.
Arsenal majority shareholder Stan Kroenke has successfully moved his National Football League team, the Rams, to Los Angeles.
They’ve also got to decide what to wear: The current uniforms or their classic LA blue and gold? “We don’t have a lease right now at the Oakland Coliseum”. “We’ll be working really hard to find us a home”. So for our fans and everything else, don’t feel bad. “I’m very happy, very happy”. “The kind of stadium, the kind of facility that would bring a new kind of fan experience to Los Angeles”.
It’s the stadium where the Rams first played in LA more than half a century ago. Now the team plans on renovating the old Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood, CA, but the stadium will not be finished for the upcoming season and the Rams will likely play in the Los Angeles Coliseum until the stadium is finished in 2019.
The Chargers must notify the league by March whether they intend to move this season.
St. Louis had a plan for an open-air, $1.1 billion stadium along the Mississippi River north of the Gateway Arch to replace the Edward Jones Dome.
As a result, the agreement to give Spanos up to one year to decide whether to join Kroenke in Inglewood or remain in San Diego was put in place. “I’d like to know what the future is”, said a Chargers fan. “When they didn’t succeed, we worked this one to a point”.
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No NFL franchise has moved since the Houston Oilers went to Tennessee in 1997.
