Raiders, Chargers, Rams file for relocation to Los Angeles area

“It’s really been the inability of the city at the political level to get any kind of public funding or any kind of a vote to help subsidize a stadium”. The Rams owner, Stan Kroenke, wants to build a stadium on the site of the former Hollywood Park race track in Inglewood, next to the Forum where the Lakers and Kings played before Staples Center opened. In fact, it is probably more than it would cost for the team’s portion of a new stadium in their current hometowns.

Team owners will meeting in Houston next week and the committee on Los Angeles will met in New York City Wednesday and Thursday to evaluate the latest stadium plans and make its recommendations on a stadium site and possibly which teams meet the relocation guidelines.

If the Chargers’ application is approved and they move to Los Angeles next season, Saints quarterback Drew Brees, who was drafted by the Chargers and spent five seasons there, will have never returned to San Diego as a Saint.

It’s not a total surprise that the Raiders and Chargers would set their sights on LA.

The next step is a league vote – three quarters of the 32 teams must vote yes to gain approval. The franchise officially filed for relocation on the first day of eligibility with the hopes of moving to the Los Angeles area in the near future.

You can’t move an National Football League team if you don’t ask, so that’s what three teams, including the Raiders did Monday night. The $1.86 billion development would not only include a stadium, but also a hotel, housing, and retail.

Just because the Raiders are seeking to return to Los Angeles does not mean they will get their wish. “The applications will then be presented for consideration at next week’s league meeting”, which takes place in Houston Jan. 12 and 13.

The Chargers, almost seven months after breaking off negotiations with San Diego city and county officials, formally submitted relocation documents with the NFL on Monday, the first day of the league’s window for franchises to apply to move.

“There’s still a lot of information we need to look at”, Hunt said shortly before his playoff-bound Chiefs played Oakland in a regular-season finale.

The downtown project – which would have been unusual for the National Football League where most venues are in suburbs instead of city centers – appeared to gain new life in October 2014 when the developer asked for and received from the city a six-month extension for its deadline to attract an National Football League team for the project but when no team showed interest it shelved the stadium.

“Anybody who tells you they know how this is going to come out, is lying to you”, Ganis says. Policy described the Oakland’s O.co Coliseum and Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego as “the oldest and most run-down facilities in the league”.