No reason to worry any extra over Goodell’s report to teams

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell issued a 48-page report to league owners Saturday informing them that the Raiders, Rams and Chargers had not received credible stadium proposals from their current cities, a source who had seen the report told this newspaper.

The NFL’s owners are scheduled to meet on Tuesday and Wednesday in Houston with a final vote on relocation expected but not guaranteed.

The city of Oakland, while expressing an interest in keeping the Raiders, has not yet made a formal stadium proposal while the St. Louis plan includes a request for league funding that is $100 million in excess of the maximum provided under existing NFL policy. Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones backs the application of the Saint Louis Rams, but most team owners have not made their preference public.

Another outcome could be 24 of 32 owners approving the application of the Chargers and Raiders to move to Los Angeles and build a $1.6 billion stadium in Carson.

“The Chargers created their own uncertainty”, said Chris Melvin, attorney and lead negotiator for the City of San Diego and the County of San Diego. Because when the Rams decided to make their move there, this (relocation attempt) was a move to protect our business more than anything.

Besides that, if the push for Los Angeles was only about increasing revenues and franchise value, then why didn’t the National Football League have a team there for the last 21 years?

Inglewood, which is in the approach path to Los Angeles International Airport, has been negotiating with the Federal Aviation Administration since November to address the agency’s concerns that the stadium could interfere with its radar. The Rams are planning a stadium in Inglewood on the site of the old Hollywood Park racetrack.

“It’s unlikely those franchises considering relocation will all be able to find suitable, workable stadium deals in their home markets”, Carter said.

“We have not seen the report, nor do we expect to, as that would be a matter between the league office and team owners”, the St. Louis task force said in a statement.

“Oh but we can call the jails and maybe the jail owners are gonna know Stan Kroenke was being so mean to everybody”.

The Chargers are the team most likely to get their wish, according to The Los Angeles Times.

One potential compromise is to find an incentive to persuade the Raiders to drop out of the running and to pair the Chargers and Rams in one stadium.

“If the Rams are denied L.A., they could be allowed to move to another market such as London, Toronto or even San Diego – which could siphon fans from all over Southern California”. And according to reports, Jones has already sent a resolution to the owners pushing that “solution” to the logjam of a race to LA.

There are several reasons for that, the most important of which is that Dean Spanos, the president and CEO of the Chargers, and the son of the owner, is widely respected by the other owners.