Louis Rams Stadium Latest News 2016: Team Headed Back to Los Angeles

The decision ends the NFL’s 21-year absence in Los Angeles. “With the passage of time, people might give them a little bit of a pass on how it played out 20 years ago”. The NFL owners voted 30-2 to allow Rams owner Stan Kroenke move to land he controls at the old Hollywood Park racetrack.

For now, unless the Chargers decline the option to join the Rams in Inglewood and they take up the same option, the Raiders seem destined to remain where they are — which is where they have said they want to be. “There will be life without the Rams here in St. Louis, I can assure you that”.

The Chargers play 120 miles south of Inglewood in Qualcomm Stadium.

The Chargers were also given a second date of March 23, 2016.

“As for the phone call, yes, of course, Dean will call the mayor back, probably just as soon as Dean has decided the direction he wants to take”, Fabiani said. “What we need and have needed is someone in a chair on the other side of the table willing to negotiate in good faith”, Goldsmith said.

LOUIS | The NFL is abandoning St. Louis again, and this time, the mayor has no interest in trying to bring pro football back. “I don’t know where we’ll be”.

The Raiders lost out on the opportunity to move to Los Angeles this week, but that does not necessarily mean the team will be playing in Oakland next season. “We don’t have a lease right now at the Oakland Coliseum”. While the Chargers received the first option behind the Rams, the Oakland Raiders – who also applied for relocation – received the third option if the Chargers were to stay put.

Barring a last minute change of plans, the Chargers will accept the deal and move to Los Angeles. They can get extra money to stick in San Diego, which is unlikely. San Diego voters would have to approve those funds though, something that could now happen. A vote on whether the public funding can be used would occur in June. Public financing for sports stadiums is increasingly controversial, and the plan floated in St. Louis would have added at least $350 million to the taxpayers’ tab.

Chargers owner Dean Spanos released a statement on Tuesday that didn’t eliminate the possibility of returning to San Diego.

The Rams organization must treat these important moments leading up to the start of the 2016 National Football League season much like a startup company. We are overwhelmed with Chargers this, Chargers that. According to current negotiations, the San Diego Charges will have an option to share the facility, located in the L.A. suburb of Inglewood.

San Diego is not that far away from the new Inglewood stadium, noted Victor Matheson, a professor at College of the Holy Cross in MA.

The Rams’ ticket office was closed Wednesday, but it will have plenty of work to do after a temporary venue is chosen.

While the Chargers worked closely with the Raiders to develop a proposal that revolved around the two franchises building a stadium in Carson, California, the joint effort fell flat.