St Louis Rams heading back to Los Angeles

The NFL’s approval Tuesday of the Rams’ move from St. Louis to Los Angeles is going to get the Seahawks’ coach one game for at least the next three seasons in the city where he made his first huge coaching splash.

They know they’re the second team in to Los Angeles but can’t use that against San Diego because Mayor Faulconer and Supervisor Roberts have already said, in no uncertain terms, that they’re willing to work towards a new stadium solution but only if Spanos simply says no to L.A.

This marks the return of the Rams to Los Angeles, a city the team had called home for almost 50 years from 1946-1994. The Chargers have one year to exercise an option to join Rams owner Stan Kroenke in his $1.86 billion retractable roof stadium in Inglewood on the old Hollywood Park site as either a partner or tenant.

The LA Rams will play home games at the 90,000-seat LA Memorial Coliseum until their new £1.29bn ($1.86bn) stadium in Inglewood is built. The Rams are leaving St. Louis and going back to Los Angeles, where they once left (in 1994, when Aeneas Williams broke up that pass, pictured below, to Flipper Anderson) to move to St. Louis.

If the teams stay put, they’ll get $100 million from the league for new stadiums.

The Rams’ roster is full of talent including running back Todd Gurley who played his collegiate football a the University of Georgia just down the road from the Falcons’ complex in Flowery Branch.

Where will the Raiders play in 2016 and in all seasons after that?

Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Ben Bishop grew up in Missouri and was a fan of the NFL’s St. Louis Rams.

There’s even more good news for San Diego: Giants co-owner Steve Tisch said he believes that it’s very “Unlikely” that the Chargers will play in L.A.in 2016. This former L.A. team will have a full year to decide if they will join the Rams in a new market. “It’s bittersweet, too, because we were unable to get the facilities that we’d hoped for in their markets”.

The Rams have a year-to-year lease in St. Louis. The NFL had not had a team relocate since the Houston Oilers moved to Nashville in 1997. We understand the emotions involved of our fans. “The owners also received the recommendation of the league’s committee on Los Angeles: The six-member committee recommended the Carson project”, a report on NFL.com said before the vote. “It’s a hard place to permit a stadium and build something we as a league can all be proud of”.

“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”.

The Raiders are granted a conditional option to accept the second team opportunity with the Rams, effective on the day that the option to the Chargers expires.