Goodell critical of St. Louis, Oakland, San Diego proposals

In a 48-page report sent by Goodell to all 32 NFL teams, details of which have been obtained by the NFL Media Insider and the LA Times, the commissioner outlined facts about the respective home markets but did not make any recommendations about which franchises should be green-lighted for relocation.

The league’s 32 owners will gather in Texas on Tueday and Wednesday to decide between the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers joint stadium bid in Carson and the St. Louis Rams stadium proposal in Inglewood.

When NFL owners meet next week to vote on which teams to move to Los Angeles they will tell us it is merely to satiate the overwhelming mass of fans who have spent the previous 20 years pleading for a franchise. He did declare, however, that all three had “ample opportunity but did not develop their proposals sufficiently to ensure the retention of its National Football League team”.

“We have not seen the report, nor do we expect to, as that would be a matter between the league office and team owners”, the St. Louis stadium task force said in a statement. Perhaps the biggest is the agreement between the Chargers and Oakland Raiders to build their own stadium in Carson. Jones has been a longtime ally of Kroenke and has outlined a proposal placing the Rams and Chargers both in Inglewood in a stadium backed by the Rams owners, according to Reid. No franchise has moved since the Houston Oilers went to Tennessee in 1997. The league has been rumored to want a team in the city for years, with this being the closest anyone has come in the 22 years since professional football left the City of Angels.

According to The Los Angeles Times, Goodell called their current stadiums “unsatisfactory and inadequate”. The Los Angeles metro area boasts the second-largest number of television households in the USA, with more than 5.5 million, Vrooman said. The Raiders, Chargers and Rams and two stadium plans are competing for approval which would change the face of sports in L.A.

And Mark Davis is going to be stuck out on the cold street corner with nothing but an empty book of matches, an intolerable stadium situation, a city that will not work with him, and a dream that’s dead.

“We were not prepared, however, for the cruel attack and false claims made by our local team owner, to his league peers, in an attempt to punish and embarrass St. Louis”, the letter said.

St Louis has undoubtedly proposed the most appealing project of the current host cities, but they also have an owner hellbent on getting to LA. The letter said the team overstated the owner’s costs, including rent, while understating the amount of public funding for the project.

On Monday night, the Chargers released a video in which chairman Dean Spanos contended the team made nine proposals for a new stadium that the city rejected.