The Chargers were given until January 16, 2017, to settle lease terms with the Rams.
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The San Diego Chargers will have the option to relocate to Los Angeles as well and share the new facility.
“The NFL owners tonight approved the return of the Los Angeles Rams to the market, starting with the 2016 season”, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell told reporters. “But it sounds like when the new Los Angeles stadium opens in 2019, it will be the home of both the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers”.
For the Rams, the obvious advantage to sharing the stadium is splitting the costs – in this case, the cost of the most expensive stadium in league history.
College of the Sequoias head football coach Irv Pankey is all too familiar with the L.A. Rams. I think there are certain rivalries and certain traditions that are important in this game.
After two decades of false starts and wrong turns on the NFL’s road back, Los Angeles wasn’t exactly filled with citywide joy – but true Rams fans celebrated.
“There’s a high location premium for Los Angeles”, Ganis said.
The current offer on the table calls for the city and the county to contribute $350 million toward a new $1.1 billion stadium.
CBSSports.com’s Will Brinson writes that “the city of St. Louis is distraught – fans are understandably quite angry – and the political leaders around St. Louis are pretty infuriated as well”. Reaching two Super Bowls and winning one are things all St. Louisans should always treasure….
They ended a long quest to give the nation’s most popular and prosperous professional sports league a presence once more in the country’s second-largest market, sending the Rams back to Los Angeles beginning next season after an absence of 22 years. We can fill that National Football League void. It’s unclear where the Chargers would play if they move. “I know it’s important to Pat Bowlen, I know it’s important to our fans”. We still need to clarify once and for all that this executive overreach can’t happen.
What will the Chargers decide?
The unique dynamic sets up a fresh round of brinkmanship involving the Rams, the Chargers and San Diego that could drag on another year. He said that if the Chargers move in with the Rams, they will most likely retain their San Diego fan base.
“We have enjoyed a longtime positive relationship with the Raiders and of course we’d love for that to continue”, said Robb Felder, NVUSD board of education president.
“Kroenke’s really got an incentive now to sit down and see of there’s a deal with Spanos because clearly it would be in his interest to be able to get out into the marketplace and start to market the naming rights, the PSL’s, suites”, Bruvold added.
A stadium that could top out at $3 billion to construct without the aid of public financing. However, that recommendation did not appear to sway the owners.
One NFL insider familiar with the playbook from the owners meetings in Houston that yielded Los Angeles’ new toy described the competing presentations for Kroenke’s Ingelwood stadium and Spanos’ and Davis’ Carson City building as “the Taj Mahal of sports emporiums vs. Legos”.
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Some Rams fans have filed a lawsuit after the team left for Los Angeles. Then go to “Change Role” and choose owner.
