Rams fans sue team, alleging false statements by Kroenke

“I’m confident at this point that the National Football League used excuses to turn down our stadium project”, she continued.

Meanwhile, the city and county of St. Louis will still pay at least $6 million apiece per year until 2021 to pay off bonds sold to construct and maintain the Edward Jones Dome, which opened in 1995.

The most immediate order of business is finalizing a deal with the Coliseum, where the Rams will play until their new stadium is built in Inglewood in 2019.

San Diego Chargers owner Dean Spanos has reached out to the city of San Diego to see what opportunities exist. There is a possibility that the Chargers will move into the Rams’ new stadium in the future, while it’s unclear where the Raiders could head. Should the Chargers decide not to join Kroenke and the Rams, the Raiders would then have the option to move to Los Angeles instead.

The decision will be made soon.

While the Chargers decide whether to stay in San Diego or move to Los Angeles, fans said they are fed up with the stadium saga.

The Chargers play 120 miles (200 kilometers) south of Inglewood in aging Qualcomm Stadium.

Oakland is still in debt from a renovation 20 years ago when the Raiders moved back from Los Angeles.

“I have been in contact last night and today both with the city’s negotiator, Chris Melvin, and with the City Attorney, Jan Goldsmith, so we won’t have any trouble exchanging information”, Fabiani said.

The NFL’s vote Tuesday to let the team return to Los Angeles gives the league a presence in the second-largest USA city for the first time in more than two decades, unlocking billions of dollars for what’s already the richest and most- watched North American sport. If the option expires, the Oakland Raiders will have a chance to become the second team in the greater Los Angeles area.

The Rams organization is no stranger to moving around the country. The San Diego Chargers were awarded the right to join the Rams in Los Angeles, leaving the Raiders without a clear-cut options.

Besides the lawsuit, Rams owner Kroenke is being raked over the coals by civic leaders and the St. Louis press. “In particular, we are interested in their justification for departing so significantly from the NFL’s guidelines after St. Louis had, in record time, presented a proposal for a first-class stadium”.

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.