The Rams And The NFL Are Coming Back To Los Angeles

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, left, looks down as St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke talks to the media after team owners voted Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, in Houston to allow the Rams to move to a new stadium just outside Los Ang… The Los Angeles Rams played in the Coliseum from 1946-1979 and at what was then known as Anaheim Stadium from 1980-1994 before moving to St. Louis in 1995.

He pulled it off by announcing plans for a new $1.9 billion stadium in Inglewood, California. If the team wants to join the Rams, it would need to negotiate a deal to relocate to Inglewood, either as a tenant or partner with Kroenke.

In a statement on Tuesday night, Raiders owner Mark Davis said that the Raiders will now turn their attention to exploring all options to find a permanent stadium solution.

“Relocation is a painful process”. Coliseum General Manager Joe Furin said crews will alter a few things to accommodate the National Football League and fans at the 93-year-old facility. “In some ways a bittersweet moment, because we were unable to get the kind of facilities done we wanted in their markets”. “We can not wait to welcome the Rams and perhaps the others soon”, he added.

Although the Rams will begin playing in Los Angeles next season while calling the Los Angeles Coliseum their temporary home, it has yet to come into fruition as to when the Chargers will make the move. They should be furious that an extra $100 million in NFL funding that the league wouldn’t dedicate to their city’s project (which already had $200 million from the NFL) has been offered as a consolation prize to the Oakland Raiders (and, potentially, to the Chargers). We recognize that the Raiders have been understandably frustrated over the years, so we are excited to have this chance to rededicate ourselves to getting a deal done in Oakland that works for the team, the National Football League, our fans and our taxpayers. The city has claimed that the Chargers didn’t negotiate in good faith and had several misrepresentations in their relocation bid.

Architect’s rendering of the proposed City of Champions where the Rams – and maybe Chargers – will eventually play in 80,000-seat stadium in Inglewood.

The question remains whether or not San Diegans will support Spanos should he decide to keep the Chargers in San Diego. “Downtown is a little bit more challenging and we can’t put our city in that position if we don’t know if the Chargers are staying”, Goldsmith said.

“The steps to doing so are simple, however, the team won’t reach Los Angeles until the 2016 season”. San Diego’s mayor also said the city would be willing to entertain new ideas brought forward by the Chargers, but emphasized the proposal would still go to a vote.