National Football League wins a fixed game against St. Louis, San Diego and Oakland
The suit alleges that Kroenke and chief operating officer Kevin Demoff made false and misleading statements over the years indicating the team had no intention of leaving St. Louis, violating Missouri’s Merchandising Practices Act. The Rams are headed back to Los Angeles, from whence they came in 1995.
The vote means that Kroenke can get started nearly immediately on his $1.86 billion stadium project in Inglewood, California.
The Chargers have a one-year option to join the Rams in Inglewood, followed by the Raiders, should San Diego decline. Yet, somehow, Dean Spanos thinks he can still squeeze San Diego, especially now that he knows he has an open invitation in Los Angeles.
As for the Raiders, they had been viewed by some as an albatross the Chargers needed to carry to have any chance of being the first choice for L.A.
Of course, the Chargers could also stay in their current home, Qualcomm Stadium, Matheson said.
Could it be the Rams – a franchise trapped in a baseball city that is no stranger to losing its football team?
“My guess is they try to do a deal in Oakland with the extra $100 million available from the league”, Ganis said. “In some ways a bittersweet moment, because we were unable to get the kind of facilities done we wanted in their markets”.
A US senator has begun drafting a bill created to reclaim public money from professional sports teams that prematurely leave their cities, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
No better way to send a clear, direct message to everyone is he ready to make Los Angeles the new home of the Chargers. National Football League owners voted on Tuesday to move the Rams from St. Louis to Los Angeles starting with the…
There were the moments after every home game, win or lose, as I was making the trek to my auto with the family that we would have to wade through the sea of blue and gold.
Maybe the better play is for Spanos to turn the page on San Diego, trust the process, his colleagues and new partner, and close the deal. “With the passage of time, people might give them a little bit of a pass on how it played out 20 years ago”.
That prompted owner Mark Davis to withdraw his application to relocate to the Los Angeles market, an action leading to a resolution that moves the Rams back to L.A. The Chargers have an option to join the Rams in Inglewood as early as next season, an option earned after legally dissolving their partnership with the Raiders.
Tuesday’s vote could end up being good news for the city of San Diego. San Diego voters would have to approve those funds though, something that could now happen.
The question remains whether or not San Diegans will support Spanos should he decide to keep the Chargers in San Diego.
For Chargers owner Dean Spanos, the approval of Inglewood was a blow to the gut.
Asked whether the league had any preference for two teams over one, NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said: “That is up to the 32 owners”.