Could the Rams and Chargers end up in Stan Kroenke’s Stadium?
But all 32 team owners will meet Tuesday and Wednesday in Houston and might vote on which team will allowed to relocate. The Carson proposal, led by San Diego with Oakland in tow, has more support – as many as 20 votes, by some estimates – while the St. Louis proposal has about half that.
However, the report does not think St. Louis, which has a $1.1-billion riverfront stadium plan to replace the Edward Jones Dome, and San Diego, which has a similarly priced plan for Mission Valley to replace Qualcomm Stadium, which is contingent on a public referendum in June, have workable stadium plans to keep their teams. Oakland has not submitted a formal proposal, and San Diego’s plan is contingent on a public vote this summer. Kroenke, who has owned the Rams since 2010, is planning to move the team backed to the Los Angeles area, where they play from 1946 until the St. Louis move in 1994.
This star power should’ve produced a lot more for the Bolts, so the city’s constant disappointment may have played a hand in owner Dean Spanos’ search for what he considers greener pastures just a couple hours north in L.A.
The Raiders and Chargers also were represented at the rally by a few fans of each team and banners towed behind planes.
The riches of L.A. also come with significant expenses – a $550 million relocation fee along with privately financed stadium construction costs exceeding $1.6 billion.
The owners could pick one of the two proposals from the teams or a completely different solution.
The Rams, Chargers and Raiders have all applied to move to Los Angeles.
And, according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis’ offer of $400 million in city and state funds appears less certain after the president pro tem of the Missouri Senate, Ron Richard, wrote a December 30 letter warning the league that it would be “speculative at best” for the NFL to count on the state’s portion of the funding.
Artist’s rendering of a proposed football stadium in Carson.
In a glass-walled room high above Park Avenue, NFL executives and billionaire team owners huddled around a long conference table this week to solve a problem that has plagued the league for two decades: how to get professional football back to Los Angeles.
Earlier this week at league headquarters in NY, the stadium, finance and L.A. committees discussed those applications and met with the backers of each project.
The Los Angeles Times reported that the full contents of the 48-page report were not authorized to be disclosed publicly yet.
Inglewood, which is in the approach path to Los Angeles International Airport, has been negotiating with the Federal Aviation Administration since November to address the agency’s concerns that the stadium could interfere with its radar.
Likewise, the Raiders have no new viable stadium plan in Oakland and didn’t want to forfeit the option of their old market in L.A. So they joined forces with the Chargers in a countermove.