Rams Officially File For Relocation

That’s been evident for a while and was confirmed when the team (along with the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders) officially applied for relocation late on Monday evening.

“The applications will be reviewed this week by league staff and three league committees that will meet in New York Wednesday and Thursday – the Los Angeles Opportunities, Stadium, and Finance committees”, the NFL statement said.

Which NFL team will make it in the race to Los Angeles? The Rams released their application Tuesday. The Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers also submitted a proposal.

Rams middle linebacker James Laurinaitis said the demands of the season kept it from being too big of a distraction.

Gov. Jay Nixon responded by calling St. Louis “one of the best sports cities in America, with strong fan support for its professional teams”.

Spanos also made interesting comments in October 2014, where he said that he didn’t want to move to Los Angeles at all with a football team. Many speculate that, if the Rams leave, St. Louis won’t land another. It’s about the team’s performance, on and off the field. It claims that San Diego and Oakland are “significantly more attractive markets than St. Louis”, stating that San Diego is the 12th most attractive metropolitan area in the country and that Oakland’s gross domestic product is expected to rise above neighboring San Francisco’s in 10 to 15 years.

Meanwhile the St. Louis Stadium Task Force is firing back. But this hard core National Football League fan has lots of heart left to move to a new team.

The Rams don’t like it.

And, according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis’ offer of $400 million in city and state funds appears less certain after the president pro tem of the Missouri Senate, Ron Richard, wrote a December 30 letter warning the league that it would be “speculative at best” for the NFL to count on the state’s portion of the funding.

-“The private contribution is the largest of any non-Top 10 market since 2000”. It would also, the report says, cost the Rams 20 times more to rent and operate the space. The Rams’ analysis of the St. Louis plan contains “inconsistencies and inaccuracies”, he said. Otherwise, nothing has changed.

If the Rams do not get approved for their relocation, the stadium could host other special events.

Kroenke has ignored efforts by a St. Louis task force that is proposing a $1.1 billion stadium along the Mississippi River, not far from the Rams’ current stadium built in 1995.

Then, weeks later, the Chargers and Raiders announced they were coming together on a competing project in Carson – a $1.7-billion venue would be built on a 157-acre parcel located on an old landfill adjacent to the 405 Freeway.

The Rams say their plan will make more money for the league.