Three NFL Teams File For Relocation To Los Angeles

“The Rams have exceeded any good faith requirement to engage with St. Louis and the RSA under National Football League relocation guidelines”, the application reads.

But so far, the Raiders have refused to follow suit, and the league is backing them up, saying its policy doesn’t say what it seems to say.

In the final section of that document, which was filed to the NFL on Monday, the Rams indicate stated, “No NFL club would be interested in the RSA’s New St. Louis Stadium”.

Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf said in a statement that the city is working to keep the Raiders despite the application to move.

All teams, including the Raiders, were expected to apply for relocation. If that were the case, the Chargers might argue that San Diego should be left vacant so they could recruit fans from San Diego and Orange County.

Though perhaps the funniest part of the Rams/Stan Kroenke document is the statistics they used to show they are the team most people want to come to Los Angeles (over the Raiders and Chargers). “I think that is what really was the catalyst that got this whole thing going because when the Rams chose to make their move there, this was a move to protect our business more than anything”.

Taxpayers funded construction of the Edward Jones Dome, which opened the year the Rams arrived. Out of 21 seasons in St. Louis, they’ve fielded four winners, including the 1999 Super Bowl title team and 2001 team that lost to Patriots in the Super Bowl.

The Chargers and Raiders have proposed a joint stadium in Carson, while Rams owner Stan Kroenke is proposing a stadium for his team at the former Hollywood Park racetrack location in Inglewood.

“It does not call for publication of the Statement of Reasons or supporting material”, Grubman wrote, declining to state the league’s legal rationale. They will be reviewed by league staff and three committees of owners that will meet in NY on Wednesday and Thursday. To assuage concerns about hypocrisy, the Rams state that the three million square foot stadium would provide ample space for both home teams to operate freely, complete with identical locker rooms, offices, and owner suites. It allows the owners broad discretion in ruling on relocations.

All three teams are dissatisfied with the aging stadiums in their current markets and lack actionable or acceptable new stadium plans in their current cities.

And the owners must consider whether the “league’s collective interests” would be advanced by a team move. “The relocation would be effective for the 2016 NFL League Year”, said the Rams, who were previously based in the Los Angeles area from 1946 to 1994.