Rams owners Kroenke open to second National Football League team in Inglewood

Owners will reconvene on the matter January 12 in Houston, but Goodell couldn’t guarantee any kind of relocation vote will be taken at that meeting.

It teams are allowed to apply to move by then, it signals the league is serious about Los Angeles and it coincides with the Chargers annual escape clause at Qualcomm.

Both teams left southern California after the 1994 season ended, with the Raiders moving back to Oakland and the Rams to St. Louis. With the rest of the league on notice of the existence of the Chargers-Raiders partnership, any owners encouraging Spanos to ditch Davis and to embrace Kroenke could be tortiously interfering with existing business relations.

Goodell didn’t signal an ownership leaning on relocation since the three home markets – Oakland, San Diego and St. Louis – have until December 28 to submit their final proposals to the NFL.

The NFL owners are in Dallas for their winter meeting which normally focuses on labor issues, but this year is different. “Usually when you get a three-quarters vote, you get 24 teams, you really have a good decision, a thoughtful decision made by more than just a simple majority”.

EARTH CITY, Mo. – St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke and Missouri Governor Jay Nixon met face-to-face at Rams Park on Monday afternoon, a source confirmed to ESPN. Plenty happened in the interim; none of it resulted in one shovel of dirt being overturned so far.

A decade ago, a reputable study found the average NFL stadium received 65 percent of its funding from the public, and the league didn’t want to set a unsafe precedent.

The letter called for the Rams and a second team to split construction costs on the $1.86 billion stadium as well as game-day revenue. “Everybody wants to know where are the three markets right now, and where are the two L.A. projects?”

Commissioner Roger Goodell has mentioned those dates to give the teams wanting to relocate a chance to start selling tickets for next year’s season. Nothing less than the future financial health of the National Football League is hanging in the balance. If he gets this decision wrong, those don’t even make the first paragraph of his professional obit.