Public gets $16.2 million bill for Rams retention effort

And they include the Chargers and Raiders.

As a former St. Louis Rams fan, I am happy the team is returning to Los Angeles.

The Rams are expected to play the 2016-18 seasons in the ancient Los Angeles Coliseum and then move into the new stadium in 2019.

BERGMAN: Kroenke has likely looked at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey as a model.

As with marketing and branding, and not to antagonize any Chargers fans who may read this blog, but I have a feeling that San Diego will pull a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim branding fiasco out of their rear end and call themselves the Los Angeles Chargers of Southern California or something like that.

The feel-good event took an unexpected turn when Demoff mentioned the likelihood of sharing the stadium with another team.

“This is the opportunity of a lifetime to come home to these fans and begin the 50th season of play for the Los Angeles Rams”, Demoff said.

That doesn’t mean a deal will happen in the next two weeks.

“(Kroenke) said, ‘Make sure you don’t ever lose sight of what we are trying to do here, ‘” Meany recalled.

The League gave the Chargers and Rams until January 2017 to make a deal. Now in limbo, the Chargers organization quickly must obtain certainty and clarity regarding its 2016 location; with employees who need to know whether they’re moving and other employees who won’t be making the move at all (and thus will be looking for other work), owner Dean Spanos needs to make a decision sooner than later. However, the team continues to doubt the ability to get a ballot measure calling for public financing passed in San Diego. It’s a market the NFL absolutely wants to be in, and one the league is comfortable the Raiders would dominate. Stay in San Diego and there’s $100 million less Spanos has to spend, plus whatever he can con the city out of in future negotiations. “My husband and I would fly to St. Louis for games, and we still can’t believe they’re coming home”.

The St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority, which spent more than $16 million on plans for a new riverfront stadium that the National Football League eventually deemed unacceptable, could also sue.

The man overseeing construction on the 298-acre site, Hollywood Park Land Co. development manager Chris Meany, noted that “Los Angeles will have a new landmark”.

The unique dynamic sets up a fresh round of brinkmanship involving the Rams, the Chargers and San Diego that could drag on another year.

“This has been the most hard process of my professional career”. It was a plan that was originally thrown together in 60 days after Nixon first appointed Peacock and Blitz to oversee the stadium project. But those on Twitter obviously didn’t see it that way. But San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer doesn’t seem terribly inclined to offer much more than is on the table now. So there will be ample motivation.

The grand vision for the new riverfront stadium included an arena with plazas and gardens, bridges and bike trails, soaring glass sides, a wall of public at, a three-story brew pub and a 30-foot-wide observation deck stretching over the Mississippi River flood wall. The Giants’ and Jets’ MetLife Stadium, opened in 2010, cost $1.6 billion.

Kroenke’s loan may not even cover half the amount necessary to build the stadium. Those who are more interested in Brentwood and the Pacific Palisades will face price tags closer to $20 million.