That belief came from various quotes from team owner Stan Kroenke, who said he’d keep the team in St. Louis, only to lead the charge in the move to Los Angeles. The NFL’s additional $100 million kicked in as a consolation prize for losing out on Los Angeles will help, but still leaves a sizable gap to fill. While the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders have for now made a decision to stay put, their leaders didn’t really have a unanimous agreement about that, which means one of them might just follow the Rams in L.A. “There are die-hard fans up there and that’s unfortunate that the seasons have gone the way that they have and they couldn’t build the tradition of winning there”, says Wistrom”.
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A 30-2 vote of team owners Tuesday sent the Rams back to the Southern California city, where they had spent 49 seasons before going to St. Louis in 1994 and where they will play again next season before their new 70,000-seat stadium is completed in 2019.
For more than two decades, National Football League owners seeking to finance new stadiums with public money used Los Angeles as a bargaining chip, threatening to move to the City of Angels if they didn’t get what they wanted. He believes the only missing piece of the puzzle is whether San Antonio can guarantee a new stadium – which is part of the deal wherever the Raiders choose to move.
The owners also approved the Rams’ plan for a stadium in Inglewood, which now is estimated at $1.9 billion. “We have no interest in St. Louis”, said Davis.
The Chargers could go to L.A.as partners.
“I talk to a lot of people there”, he said. If Spanos wants to move to Los Angeles this year, he will have to move relatively quickly.
“Today is an opportunity for a fresh start”, he said.
When it rains it pours for Los Angeles pro football fans, because in addition to the NFC’s Rams coming back to the City of Angels, the AFC’s San Diego Chargers are about to pack up and head north to become the Los Angeles Chargers. So for our fans and everything else, don’t feel bad. “We don’t have a lease right now at the Oakland Coliseum”.
The Chargers play 120 miles south of Inglewood in Qualcomm Stadium.
Most observers assumed they would return to Oakland for the 2016-17 season.
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In 1946, Cleveland Rams owner Dan Reeves uprooted the franchise and moved it to Los Angeles and its new home at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. In fact, depending on how the dominoes fall the next few months, the Raiders will move to the front of the line as a possible partner with the Rams in Inglewood or find themselves the lone coveted free agent on the market with a handful of motivated cities ready to wine and dine them.
