Questions and answers about the Rams’ move to Los Angeles

Eventually, the two teams hammered out an agreement to share the Inglewood facility – much like the New York Giants and Jets do with Metlife Stadium – and the Chargers now have until January 2017 to decide if they will leave San Diego, the city they’ve called home since 1961.

On Tuesday, NFL owners voted 30-2 to approve St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke’s proposal to relocate the team to a state-of-the-art, $3 billion facility on the site of the old Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood, California – about 10 miles from downtown Los Angeles. This will be most magnificent sports entertainment complex in the country.

Kroenke’s project was selected over a stadium plan that would have sent the San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders to LA in a shared venue. In 1948, the Rams became the first NFL team to place an insignia on their helmets and employed Pete Rozelle, a savvy team executive who later presided over the NFL as its longest serving commissioner during the period when the league surpassed baseball in popularity. For Inglewood, however, the decision is a major economic leap forward.

Q. The Inglewood stadium is not expected to be completed until 2019.

The city and county are offering $350 million to replace aging Qualcomm Stadium in Mission Valley.

The Chargers, who have played in San Diego for 55 years, contend that 25 percent of their business comes from Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire. It’s possible the team could remain in San Diego, but that would require reaching a deal for a new stadium that has proved elusive for years.

“I had high hopes but we have a nationally prominent commercial developer waiting for us in the wings and we now turn our focus to finalizing our negotiations with them for the development of this shovel ready, strategically located, highly valuable property”.

By returning to Los Angeles, the Rams will end a football drought in the nation’s second-largest market that has lingered since the end of the 1994 season.

The Cardinals left for Arizona in 1987, and St. Louis was without football until the Rams arrived from Los Angeles in 1995. The league gave the Chargers a one-year window to decide if the team wants to play in Inglewood with the Rams, and if the Chargers take a pass, the Raiders would be given a chance to move.