Rams Fans Sue Team Saying Move to Los Angeles is Betrayal

Rams owner Stan Kroenke had his relocation plan approved by the NFL Wednesday to move his team to Los Angeles beginning in the 2016 season.

League owners voted Tuesday to allow the Rams to move to Los Angeles starting next season.

Barring any setbacks, it appears that the San Diego Chargers will join the Rams in Los Angeles. Faulconer was flanked by San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith and County Board of Supervisors Chairman Ron Roberts at a packed press conference the morning after the NFL owners met in Houston to decide the fate of three football teams vying for a new stadium in Los Angeles.

The Chargers’ option to pair with the Rams in Los Angeles lasts for one year. When Kroenke originally laid out the plans for his new stadium in Inglewood, the hope was that building could be ready in time for the 2018 season.

Chargers owner Dean Spanos is expected to decide within the next month whether to pursue a deal with the Rams in Inglewood or try to resurrect stadium efforts in San Diego.

Chargers president Dean Spanos said in a statement, “My goal from the start of this process was to create the options necessary to safeguard the future of the Chargers franchise while respecting the will of my fellow National Football League owners”.

During their recent struggles to get a new stadium deal agreed with the City of Oakland the Raiders have continually been linked with a move to San Antonio (although current franchises the Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans may nix that). There have been previous reports that the Rams were willing to have a team share construction costs for the stadium and the revenues produced by it but unwilling to give another team a say in the stadium design or a share of the revenues generated by the project’s surrounding entertainment, retail and housing elements.

“We’ll be working really hard to find us a home and that’s what we’re looking forward to”, Raiders owner Mark Davis said Tuesday.

Kroenke, owner of a sports empire that includes the Rams, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche and Arsenal soccer team, recently shared his thoughts on leaving St. Louis in a lengthy interview with the Los Angeles Times. A precondition to the lease agreement with the Coliseum required the Rams to have at least one African American player.

The suit was filed by James Pudlowski, Louis Cross III, Gain Henry and Steve Henry, and was the first lawsuit stemming from the Rams’ departure. Initially, the $1.7 billion Carson project was recommended by the league’s committee on Los Angeles opportunities. “Don’t feel bad. We’ll get it right”.

The St. Louis proposal calls for an open-air, $1.1 billion stadium along the Mississippi River north of the Gateway Arch to replace the Edward Jones Dome. The Kansas City Chiefs play at Arrowhead Stadium, which is located just over the Kansas border in Missouri. Our source tells us, “They don’t want to wait till 2017, they have waited long enough”. Now San Diegans will have to make a five hour round trip drive to see them play.