Chargers file for relocation to Los Angeles suburb of Carson

Oakland and San Diego’s teams also lived up to longtime rumors and filed the same application to play in L.A…. starting this coming season.

And the end may be in sight: Key NFL owner committees are meeting Wednesday and Thursday in New York City to review the two applications, plus competing proposals to keep teams in each home town. The applications will be considered at the NFL league meeting in Houston on January 12.

A team relocation requires a “yes” vote from at least 24 of the 32 National Football League owners.

Needless to say, there is a lot to discuss and decide if the National Football League wants to get back to Los Angeles in time for the 2016 season, as hoped.

Personally, I think it’s a longshot that we’ll see all three of these teams move to Los Angeles, but we could definitely see two and one seems like a given.

The Rams have a year-to-year lease with the Edward Jones Dome. Rams officials will update the owners on a $1.86 billion stadium project on the former site of Hollywood Park in Inglewood.

All three teams have been angling for a move to LA and they unsurprisingly notified the NFL of their relocation request on Monday, the first day the organisations were eligible to petition the league.

Jim Lackritz, founder of San Diego State University’s sports MBA program, said while the fee was steep, it would still not deter any of the three teams from relocating. The NFL has been absent from the country’s second-largest market since the Rams and Raiders left in 1994.

An artist rendering of the proposed stadium in the city of Carson, Calif. The Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers now plan to share the estimated $1.7 billion stadium. Policy described the Oakland’s O.co Coliseum and Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego as “the oldest and most run-down facilities in the league”.

“I shared with the team today, I’ve been through this experience before”, Fisher said earlier Monday.

The Rams have not made the postseason since 2004, the Raiders’ last trip was in 2002 and the Chargers punched a playoff ticket in 2013 but were the worst among the trio this past season, finishing 4-12. “We suspect the Raiders will be one of those teams, and we have to consider opportunities that have been put forward by the markets in Oakland, St. Louis and San Diego for their teams to stay”.

“Having played there and really having great memories there from those five years, and really those were big growth years for me as a person and as a professional, before coming here, it would be hard to envision (the Chargers) anywhere else”, Brees said.