Goodell: Oakland, San Diego, St. Louis stadiums inadequate

Goodell made the comments in a 48-page report sent to the NFL’s 32 owners, reports by the Times.

It’s also possible that one team could get approval to move, either the Chargers or the Rams, with the possibility of the other team heading to Los Angeles later if no stadium deal can be reached in their home market. The Rams, tenants of St. Louis, MO since 1995, were particularly scathing in their relocation application, calling the Gateway to the West “incapable of supporting three teams”.

Goodell in another memo to the league’s teams on Saturday said new stadium options presented by officials in Oakland, St. Louis and San Diego are “inadequate”.

San Diego and St. Louis each have $1.1-billion plans to keep their franchises, while Oakland has yet to make a formal proposal.

The Chargers’ stadium saga turned nasty in the past year as Fabiani attacked Faulconer and his proposals to keep the team in San Diego.

Rams owner Stan Kroenke hopes to return the franchise to the area where it spent 49 seasons from 1946-94. Under Kroenke’s proposal, the stadium would be owned by both teams as part of a stadium company.

The Rams aren’t staying in St. Louis, that’s increasingly clear. All three have filed for relocation.

As reported on @THENFLTODAY, Cowboys have proposed a measure for ownership vote that would send the Chargers with the Rams to Inglewood…

On Friday, Melvin emailed Eric Grubman, the NFL’s point man on Los Angeles, to say that he had heard nothing back on his request to Mark Fabiani, who represents Spanos.

– Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) January 10, 2016The Chargers, Rams and Raiders have until Mon AM to sign final economic term sheets on relocation. The Rams are planning a stadium in Inglewood on the site of the old Hollywood Park racetrack.

Last month, Chargers owner Dean Spanos affirmed the “strong partnership” between his team and the Raiders in a letter to the league’s L.A. committee dismissing an offer to share the Inglewood venue with the Rams.

“L.A. has definitely been for the National Football League what Washington D.C. used to be for baseball – a bogeyman that you use to scare city councils”, said Neil deMause, editor of Field of Schemes, a website that tracks stadium subsidies.

In a written statement Saturday, the St. Louis stadium task force said it is “confident our proposal will speak extremely well” for the city as owners deliberate in Houston.

However, Georgia Frontiere, a former chorus girl whose sixth husband was then Rams owner Carrol Rosenbloom, inherited the team when Rosenbloom mysteriously drowned in 1979. And the task force asked for $300 million in league stadium funding, $100 million “in excess of the maximum provided under current policy”, the source said, again citing the report.