National Football League votes – Rams headed to LA

Disney CEO Bob Iger presented the case for the Carson stadium project on behalf of the Chargers, Raiders and Raiders owner Mark Davis Tuesday morning.

The Chargers played at the Coliseum in their inaugural 1960 season before moving to San Diego in 1961. The Rams move to L.A.is effective immediately, which means they’ll be playing their 2016 regular season home games in L.A. The Rams are expected to play their seven-game home schedule at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which is operated by USC. After another negotiating session in the afternoon, Kroenke’s $1.8 billion project prevailed.

The city of St. Louis, Missouri is losing its National Football League team and the city of Los Angeles is gaining one, maybe two.

To no one’s surprise, Eric Dickerson is extremely excited about the Rams returning to Los Angeles in 2016. “I’m going to look at all of our options”.

The Chargers and owner Dean Spanos had been in a partnership with the Raiders for a proposed stadium site in Carson, California, but NFL Media’s Judy Battista reported that there was “strong opposition” for a Silver & Black return to Los Angeles. The NFL gave it to them.

“We know what we’re talking about when it comes to elections”, Roe said. “It’s bittersweet, too, because we were unable to get the facilities that we’d hoped for in their markets”. The window creates the possibility – however slight – that the Chargers could remain in San Diego. “We’ll get it right”.

Ray Perez, a 28-year-old Raiders fan from Sacramento who goes by the moniker Dr. Death, traveled to the Houston meeting in his usual Black Hole garb, was cautiously optimistic after hearing the news. The Chargers would then seemingly have a lame-duck season at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium. It has been home for Major League Baseball’s Oakland Athletics since 1968.

That option would leave the Raiders out of Los Angeles, meaning such a proposal is likely to include significant concessions to Oakland, and perhaps even relocation to a new stadium or new city.

The same cannot be said of the Chargers, should they choose to take the option to move.

“This process has gone on since 2002”, Kroenke said of stadium negotiations with St. Louis. We tried to get something done on various alternatives (in St. Louis). In particular, we are interested in their justification for departing so significantly from the NFL’s guidelines after St. Louis had – in record time – presented a proposal for a first-class stadium. in St. Louis, there’s a feeling of resignation, but also for many fans, both sadness and anger. They are purposely hard. “When they didn’t succeed, we worked this one out”.

The last two moves were the Oilers from Houston to Tennessee in 1997 and the Browns from Cleveland to Baltimore in 1996.

But while the plan approved on Tuesday sealed the Rams’ fate, it left the door open for the Chargers and Raiders to either stay in their current markets or join the Rams in their Inglewood project. “It’s painful for the fans, for communities, for the teams, for the league in general”.