Goodell calls St. Louis, S.D., Oakland stadium plans ‘inadequate’

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

Goodell’s report, according to the source, informed owners that both Los Angeles stadium proposals “were ready for development”, but he made no recommendation as to which stadium should get built or which teams ultimately should call it home.

“His bold move to announce he’s building a stadium in Inglewood is what set off the past year of frenzy”, said Marc Ganis, a sports consultant who helped the Rams and Raiders leave Los Angeles for St. Louis and Oakland in 1995.

At one end of the spectrum is St. Louis, which reportedly submitted a proposal for a new waterfront stadium that included $400 million in public financing.

What they want: After long, unsuccessful fights to secure a new stadium in San Diego, the Chargers have turned their attention to Carson, where they are proposing a $1.7 billion privately funded joint stadium with the Raiders. The Rams make the point that the Inglewood site with its potential 100,000 capacity could generate as much as $50 million more than a stadium proposed in Carson, California, for the Chargers and Raiders.

By contrast, the Chargers are seen as having the most support among owners and the highest likelihood of playing Los Angeles next year, while the Rams boast the league’s second-richest owner.

On Thursday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a dartboard with Rams owner Stan Kroenke’s face as the bull’s-eye.

In Los Angeles, hundreds of “L.A. Rams” fans showed up Saturday at the Coliseum to voice support for the team’s possible return to the city.

With neither stadium plan expected to receive the necessary 24 votes, a Chargers and Rams pairing, either in Carson or Inglewood, has been gaining traction.

There is still a lot yet to be decided and no one really knows how the 32 National Football League owners will vote on January 13. The report was obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

The Oakland Coliseum is a shit-hole (quite literally…they have major sewer back-up issues), their late owner couldn’t run the team to save his life (no pun intended…I hope that wasn’t too soon), and they’ve been a bit of a laughing stock over the last decade.

League owners will gather for a special meeting in Houston on Tuesday and Wednesday to resolve the uncertainty.

None of these teams want to lose out like that. Moreover, the report indicates that the Los Angeles area is capable of supporting two teams.

And unless they do right by the Raiders after excluding them – cue laughter – the Rams and Chargers will be carving up the LA market and the league will have again gotten over on the ghost of Al Davis.

“Any NFL Club that signs on to this proposal in St. Louis will be well on the road to financial ruin, and the League will be harmed”, the Rams’ application said. In this case, losing out doesn’t just mean getting shut out of a lucrative new stadium in L.A.