Barring any setbacks, Chargers will likely join Rams in Los Angeles
Will the Chargers want to compete with Kroenke and the Rams?
The Oakland Raiders could move to Los Angeles if the Chargers do not. The league will put an extra $100 million toward a new stadium if the Raiders don’t move. They awarded LA to the guy with the most money and the shiniest stadium proposal.
“Will L.A. support the Rams?”
“They made the right decision”, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles, California has been without a football team now for over 20 years.
The Rams haven’t formally secured a home stadium for next season, although they appear likely to return to the Coliseum, their home from 1946-79.
Stolze said that the majority of the filing consists of statements made by Kroenke and Demoff themselves.
“I will not be completely, fully thrilled until the ink dries on paper and we know we’re staying in Oakland in a new stadium”, Perez said.
Slay said the loss of the Rams is a “short-term blow” to the city’s ego, but St. Louis will survive.
“65 to 80,000 people a game”, said Danny Hizami, who owns Figueroa Philly Cheese Steak located across the street from the stadium. We won our first Super Bowl there. The solution to the drop in attendance, in Kroenke’s mind, was to blame a depressed economy in St. Louis and move the franchise west to warmer weather and deeper pockets. “I think this would take years to get resolved in court”.
The Chargers must notify the National Football League by March whether they intend to move to Los Angeles for the 2016 season. We will review the NFL’s decision thoroughly before determining what next steps to take.
The moves end the NFL’s 21-year absence from the nation’s second-largest media market. “I sincerely believe that we can create both success for the Chargers’ organization and the San Diego region if we have a honest commitment to work together, the city and Mr. Spanos”.
“Well, this is not a win today for the Raiders”, Mark Davis said following the announcement at the owners meeting in Houston. “America, the world, is possibility”.
Al Cortez, co-owner of an Oxnard home improvement business, predicted the Rams’ return will trigger economic boosts that will ripple to Ventura County. That’s why we’re playing all those games there right? (The Rams paid a meager $500,000 per year to use the dome.) And then there’s the more than $3 million in public funds used to develop a $1 billion riverfront stadium proposal to keep the Rams-a pitch NFL Commissioner Roger Gooddell knocked as “inadequate” and “unsatisfactory”.
Kroenke’s project was selected over a stadium plan that would have sent the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders to LA in a shared venue.
When the Rams spent two days in Oxnard, California, last August for training camp, a widespread rumor claimed the Rams are interested in building a permanent base in Thousand Oaks, the upscale suburb 35 miles west of downtown Los Angeles.