Goodell: Oakland, San Diego, St. Louis stadiums inadequate

All three teams submitted relocation applications to the league on Monday, the first day they were eligible.

Well, not quite. There has hardly been a groundswell in LA for an National Football League team and many locals are of the mind that they are better off without the civic extortionists masquerading as National Football League owners.

The Rams, Raiders and Chargers have all applied to relocate to Los Angeles. Saint Louis and San Diego have seen concrete plans on the table, whereas Oakland has not put forward any plans for a new stadium. The Chargers and Raiders jointly are proposing a stadium in Carson. Both the Hollywood Park site in Inglewood and the site in Carson are ready for development. From the time I’ve spent in SoCal, there are still tons of fans of each in the city, with the Rams spending the most time there – five decades’ worth.

One 3-year-old Rams fan just wants people to stop being not nice. “What could you possibly have to gain by alienating an entire city?” And according to reports, Jones has already sent a resolution to the owners pushing that “solution” to the logjam of a race to LA. The league has been rumored to want a team in the city for years, with this being the closest anyone has come in the 22 years since professional football left the City of Angels.

However, Georgia Frontiere, a former chorus girl whose sixth husband was then Rams owner Carrol Rosenbloom, inherited the team when Rosenbloom mysteriously drowned in 1979.

Goodell’s memo clears what until recently appeared to be a potential major obstacle to Kroenke’s relocation plans: a viable stadium option in St. Louis. Instead, it is generally considered among the worst, the Rams said, and 12 years of negotiations to rectify that were unsuccessful.

With neither stadium plan expected to receive the necessary 24 votes, a Chargers and Rams pairing, either in Carson or Inglewood, has been gaining traction.

The Rams said the stadium is doomed to failure, noting the “rent and operating structure are 20 times what the Rams pay now”.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has looked over the proposals from Oakland, San Diego and St. Louis to keep the Raiders, Chargers and Rams in their respective home cities.

The report says that none of the three teams would be breaking its lease by moving from its current market, and that market research supports the conclusion that the L.A. area is capable of supporting two teams.

Earlier this week a Los Angeles relocation committee discussed the Rams, Chargers and Raider’s applications.

Leaders of the stadium task force defended their plan, and their region.

Co-chairman of the St. Louis’ NFL Stadium Task Force, Dave Peacock, tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he had heard the news and wouldn’t comment. Attempts to land a team in L.A. have never gotten this far.

In a separate letter, Mayor Francis Slay questioned the Rams’ claim that they’ve made a good-faith effort to stay in St. Louis.