Cowboys offer alternative plan for Chargers to join Rams in Inglewood

Because when the Rams decided to make their move there, this (relocation attempt) was a move to protect our business more than anything.

In the letter, local leaders stated they are “ready to move from our current discussions to more formal negotiations” on a stadium financing plan, but also reiterated that the city is not prepared to contribute large public sums to building a new stadium.

“Everybody’s hope is that we have a vote next week in Houston”, New York Giants co-owner John Mara said.

The NFL just wants to give as much information as possible to the owners so they can vote.

Spanos’ partner in the proposal, Raiders owner Mark Davis, adds what one source referred to as “negative leverage”: His team brings in the second-lowest revenues in the league, according to Forbes, which means the league’s more successful owners – who end up having to compensate for the Raiders’ expenses – are eager to find a solution. While it’s true that all three teams can significantly increase the values of their franchises by moving to L.A., such market value is similar to the market value of stocks or real estate: It’s only realized if and when the owner sells it. We now know that none of the three teams were able to get something done in their home markets which changes the dynamic.

Many Rams fans were angered by the application. Today, Rams owner Stan Kroenke explicitly stated in his application to relocate to LA that St Louis is better off as a two-sport town with the Cardinals (baseball) and Blues (hockey) and is not equipped to support an National Football League team.

From long-faithful adults to 11-year-olds who have never seen the Rams in L.A., the fans brimmed with optimism about the NFL’s impending decision on pro football’s return to Los Angeles. The Chargers and Raiders jointly are proposing a stadium in Carson. This would create double the revenue, with alternating team home games every single week, sort of like how the NY Giants and Jets do. All also lack acceptable or actionable plans to build new stadiums in their current markets. Well, realistically their old stomping ground is still erect, the L.A. Coliseum, but they’d have to contend with field conditions as the USC Trojans would be playing just a day earlier on the same turf.

All three teams are dissatisfied with their current stadiums.

“Well, I don’t like it because Stan Kroenke’s hurting everybody, and people are being not nice to each other.”

The design, construction and planning of the stadium and surrounding area would be the responsibility of an entity designated by Kroenke. Pay blackmail/tribute to the NFL–or lose your team.

But, even if that proposal got the votes needed for adoption – three-quarters of the NFL’s 32 owners – it presents another problem: The Chargers have said they aren’t open to sharing the Inglewood facility with the Rams despite an offer from the latter to do so.

The intent of the report is to establish facts about the home markets, as the league views them, heading into a special meeting in Houston on Tuesday and Wednesday to resolve the two-decade L.A. vacancy.

If it came as a surprise to loyal Rams fans, well, they should have seen it coming.