Louis Rams approved for relocation to Los Angeles

“History also shows, in places like Baltimore and Cleveland and St. Louis, when you do lose your teams, then you find the money to build a new stadium”. Whatever the case, league owners are eager for the Raiders to improve their situation, given that the team brings in the second-lowest revenues in the league. The St. Louis Rams will be returning to Los Angeles, the city where they spent most of their history.

Raiders fans in Oakland may lose their team again.

The Chargers and the city have been at odds since 2000, when owner Alex Spanos said his team needed to replace Qualcomm Stadium.

“I often said over those 21 years what we need is a great facility”, Goodell said. “We thank fans throughout the Raider Nation for their unrivaled passion and support”.

Kroenke has been eyeing a return to Los Angeles since buying majority control of the Rams in 2010, buying 60 acres of land on the site of the former Hollywood Park in Inglewood and designing grandiose plans for a football complex. The Rams move to L.A.is effective immediately, which means they’ll be playing their 2016 regular season home games in L.A. The Rams are expected to play their seven-game home schedule at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which is operated by USC.

A final decision on the Chargers could wait until a June vote in San Diego on public funding.

Where will the Raiders play in 2016 and in all seasons after that?

The Rams, who won one Super Bowl since leaving Los Angeles in 1995 for St. Louis, will play their home games at the L.A. Coliseum until their $1.86 billion stadium in Inglewood, roughly 10 miles from downtown Los Angeles, is complete.

“The NFL ignored the facts, the loyalty of St. Louis fans, who supported the team through far more downs than ups, and the NFL ignored a strong market and viable plan for a new stadium”, said St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay in a statement. “Today we achieved this goal with the compromise reached by National Football League ownership”.

There are a number of disappointed fans in the St. Louis area.

The Chargers were founded in 1960 as the Los Angeles Chargers before heading to San Diego the following year.

But while the plan approved on Tuesday sealed the Rams’ fate, it left the door open for the Chargers and Raiders to either stay in their current markets or join the Rams in their Inglewood project.

At one point during the day of intrigue and high-stakes pitches, it seemed a deal was close to being struck when the NFL’s six-owner committee recommended the Carson proposal.

The teams are now housed in three of the oldest stadiums in the league.

If they do not act by January 16, 2017, the Oakland Raiders have a year to decide if they want to become the Los Angeles Raiders.

No NFL franchise has moved since the Houston Oilers went to Tennessee in 1997. But the lucrative potential of the Los Angeles market could yet make the new stadium and the extreme relocation fee of several million dollars worth it.