Talks between San Diego, Chargers are all but dead

For two decades, NFL owners in search of public funding for their stadiums have often played a trump card: They would threaten to move their teams to Los Angeles.

The city of San Diego released some renderings on what the new stadium in San Diego could look like if the Chargers were to stick around.

The goal of the meeting is to update the timelines of stadium situations in L.A. and in cities trying to keep their teams.

Sam Cooper of Yahoo Sports found a job listing from the Chargers posted in July stating that applicants must be “willing to relocate to the Los Angeles area, if necessary”.

But he said the financing framework and environmental impact report released Monday could become key factors if the NFL allows St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke to move to Los Angeles ahead of the Chargers. That process begins officially Tuesday.

But Ganis says St. Louis has to get into the end zone, “They can’t become the Seattle Seahawks of 2015”. Holding up a checking account filled with season ticket deposits makes the specter of L.A. that rather more imminent, and would definitely improve the strain on these cities to for a brand new stadium.

The Chargers and Raiders believe their Carson site can deliver all of the same things – save for a Final Four – and that the easy freeway access, ample parking and open-air concept fits perfectly with the needs of Los Angeles. To convince the NFL that the city wants the team to stay, he assembled a task force that recommended that a stadium be built next to the Chargers’ current home on city-owned land.

The owners will be discussing the direction of projects of all three franchises, and Cisneros says the Raiders may turn out to be the odd man out, and if that is the case, San Antonio remains an option.

Chargers special counsel Mark Fabiani reiterated Monday his criticisms of the city’s accelerated approach. “The Chargers can’t stand idly by and pass on a certain opportunity in the LA market while the city of San Diego insists on a plan to skirt California’s environmental laws that will ultimately be thrown out by the courts”. A group of civic leaders backed by Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri has been working on a plan for a $998 million stadium downtown near the Mississippi River.

Last week, a judge voided a St. Louis ordinance that would have required voter approval for tax dollars used for a new football stadium.

Why? The task force had the Chargers paying big annual rents. “This could get nastier before it gets better”.