National Football League owners set for another round of LA relocation talks

There are ardent backers for both the Rams’ plan for a Hollywood Park stadium and the Chargers’ hopes to build a Carson arena to share with the Raiders. Rams owner Stan Kroenke has proposed a .86 billion, 80,000-seat stadium with a retractable roof on land in Inglewood, while the Raiders and Chargers have jointly proposed a .7 billion open-air stadium in the LA suburb of Carson.

The timing of the “leak” of Goodell report to NFL owners on the failures of St. Louis, Oakland and San Diego is auspicious, as the NFL owners will gather in Houston later this week to vote on two proposals on returning the NFL to the Los Angeles market.

To that end, the Los Angeles News Group has learned Jones forwarded a letter to the National Football League proposing an alternative solution in which the Rams and Chargers team up in Inglewood.

The league is meeting in Houston this week to ideally come to a conclusion on what to do regarding Los Angeles, a market that has been without professional football for 20 years despite the near-certainty of instantly polarizing theater, and the cash that comes with it. Although this week, one owner said he thought the Raiders and Chargers were probably a little closer than the Rams.

On the agenda is whether or not the Rams will move from St. Louis, the Chargers from San Diego or the Raiders from Oakland to the Los Angeles area.

Spanos is seen as having the most support among owners sympathetic to many attempts to get a stadium built in San Diego, while Kroenke is the second-wealthiest man in the sport, and his Inglewood proposal is considered the more lucrative stadium opportunity.

Iger’s addition to the Carson project has been seen as a potential game-changer, and he will speak on the project’s behalf Tuesday in front of the owners.

The Chargers want to partner with the Raiders on a stadium in Carson. Unlike many franchises in the past – more than a dozen have threatened an L.A. move – these teams do not appear to be using L.A.as a negotiating ploy to secure more public money in their current cities.

The momentum for a Chargers and Rams partnership in Inglewood has been building all weekend. They’ll be left with the choice to root for a team that plays a two-hour drive away (like most of the country), or to root for nobody at all. “We’ve had nine different proposals that we’ve made, and all of them were basically rejected by the city”. An NFL spokesman said it was possible a vote could come later in the day, though this remains a fluid situation. There are a number of ways this could go when the full ownership meets in Houston beginning Tuesday. He is the only of the three owners to not make any such effort. Pushing off Kroenke until Davis gets paid, then pushing him off some more until the terms of the agreement are very favorable to the Chargers, knowing that the Rams probably won’t be able to move to Los Angeles without him.

Q: What are the two Los Angeles area stadium plans? The Rams are pursuing a site in Inglewood. If none of the proposals receive the required votes from 24 of the 32 owners for relocation approval the owners will have further discussion and potentially additional votes.