Chargers, Raiders, Rams File for Relocation to LA

[KamaAina]

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2605072-chargers-raiders-rams-file-for-relocation-to-la-details-comments-reaction

The 2015 season is over for the San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders and St. Louis Rams, and they have now all turned their attention toward a potential move to Los Angeles.

According to Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune, all three teams filed for relocation Monday. As Kevin Patra of NFL.com noted, Monday was the first day the three franchises could apply for relocation. The NFL confirmed the filings in a statement, per NFL Network's Ian Rapoport:...

But HBO's Bill Simmons expressed doubt that Los Angeles—which already has the Dodgers and Angels in MLB, the Lakers and Clippers in the NBA, the Kings in the NHL, the Galaxy in MLS, USC and UCLA for college sports and plenty of other entertainment options—would be willing to support two NFL teams:

Fan support is an issue any relocating team will have to deal with and gradually build, but the squads must first earn the right to relocate. Jason La Canfora of CBSSports.com said an NFL owners' vote is scheduled for Jan. 12-13, while Patra passed along a report from Rapoport that pointed out any owner who moves a team to Los Angeles must pay a $550 million relocation fee.

Rams, please. That gives both the Bay Area and SoCal an NFC and an AFC team.

[tishaLA]

1. much as I hate the Chargers' owner, I want them to be the LA team

I'm not interested in being the Raiders' rent-a-city and I haven't lived in LA long enough to pine for the old days of the Rams, no matter how many times I have watched Heaven Can Wait. Besides, I'd like the Rams' owner to stew in his own juices after dissing TL so badly in his application for relocation.

[KamaAina]

2. Alas, the Raiders and Chargers are a package deal

they would share a stadium in Carson a la the Giants and Jets. And one of them would have to change conferences, along with some other team out there.

[tishaLA]

3. I know. And it sucks.

to be honest, the best proposal IMO is the Rams' Inglewood deal--in addition to everything else, I'd like to see Inglewood get the economic advantages that would come with a stadium. The proposal includes recording studios, tv studio space for NFL Network west coast broadcasting, a concert venue, retail space, etc. But that means taking THAT team, with a coach who hasn't had a winning season in, I think, 7 years (dating back to the Titans). And of all the shady owners in the NFL, the Rams seem to have one of the shadiest.

[charlie and algernon]

6. So what team from the NFC would switch? The Niners?

They're the only other California team.

[KamaAina]

7. No, some random team somewhere else in the country

like the Astros were switched from the NL to AL a few years ago.

[Angleae]

8. Best bet is the Seahawks as they were originally AFC West.

[Yavin4]

9. Wouldn't the Niners have to become a NFL team first?

Right now, they're a fucking joke.

[El Supremo]

4. Ah, the good ole days!

[madinmaryland]

5. Heh! I wonder what Chris Everett would think...

or is that Jim Everett...