L.A. fans rejoice as Rams ready to return

[yuiyoshida]

The Associated PressHOUSTON (AP) — The Rams are moving back to Los Angeles, maybe with company.

The San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders might end up staying put, although the leadership of both NFL teams didn’t come close to making that commitment on Tuesday. Or one of them could be headed to L.A., too.

A long day of votes and revotes ended with 30 of 32 NFL owners approving Rams owner Stan Kroenke’s ambitious plan to move his team from St. Louis to the site of the old Hollywood Park racetrack in Inglewood, Calif., about 16 kilometers from downtown L.A. The Chargers have a yearlong option to join the Rams, followed by the Raiders if the San Diego franchise declines.

The Raiders and Chargers had a competing proposal to share a new stadium in nearby Carson, but neither option got the 24 votes needed for approval. After another negotiating session on Tuesday afternoon, Kroenke’s $1.8 billion project prevailed.

The decision ends the NFL’s 21-year absence from the nation’s second-largest media market.

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[KamaAina]

1. Bay Area fans breathe a sigh of relief

for now, anyway. Time for Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf and Alameda County officials to get a move on. Getting a new stadium for the A's at the Howard Terminal site or elsewhere would help, as it would leave the Coliseum site open for a modern football-only stadium. (O.co Coliseum is the only baseball-football stadium left! )

[mythology]

11. I really wish local governments would tell the NFL teams to fuck off on paying for stadiums

There is no reason that the NFL should be having stadiums paid for by local governments who can't properly fund schools and public works projects.

[Auggie]

2. This will renew the 49ers rivalry and ease the travel schedule for NFC West teams ...

Rams / Cardinals rivalry will get a big boost too.

[yuiyoshida]

3. If the Rams leave

will this leave St. Louis without football team? If they could expand the league and give St. Louis a chance to have their own home grown team, would the NFL do it?

[hughee99]

4. I think now that the NFL has a setup of 4 team divisions within 4 division conferences,

adding 2 more teams is going to be tough to pull off, and I don't think they want to go back to week 1 and week 17 bye weeks if they have an odd number of teams in the NFL (by adding just one). I think if St. Louis is going to get a team, it's going to be an existing team relocating there.

[madinmaryland]

5. Get ready for the St. Louis Raiders. nt.

[Brother Buzz]

6. They would be closer to their newest best buddies....the Cincinnati Bengals

Orange is the New Black

[El Supremo]

8. No. San Antonio!

[KamaAina]

12. Why? Because that's where people know what picante sauce is supposed to taste like?

[El Supremo]

13. I eat so much of that stuff...

that my tongue is permanently red.

[yuiyoshida]

10. No way that's going to happen

The Raiders stay in Oakland!

[Yavin4]

7. St. Louis can have the Jets, but that may be seen as an act of aggression by the NFL against the

city of St. Louis. Could bring about international economic sanctions against the league.

[madinmaryland]

14. Heh! I was going to suggest the Browns moved to St. Louis, but I don't think anyone

wants the Brownies. Though it would be funny to have the St. Louis Browns back in existence. Just waiting for Bill Veeck to reappear and send a vertically challenged person out to kick a field goal.

[El Supremo]

15. Vertically challenged?

Like:

[tishaLA]

9. how quickly can we get rid of Jeff Fisher?

I swear he will be among the cockroaches that survive the apocalypse .

[Jamaal510]

16. Since the Rams

(and probably the Chargers) are headed there, I wonder what that means for the L.A. Raider fans. On Facebook in the Raider Nation group, they were the main ones telling Bay Area Raider fans "I'm a Raider fan, not a city fan" when some of us were talking about not supporting them if they move again. Since L.A. has those teams again, I want to see if they'll keep their word or jump ship.

[yuiyoshida]

17. Again, the Raiders will be staying in

Oakland. The mayor will build them a stadium, and they will stay, unlike the Santa Clara 49ers.

[Jamaal510]

18. No, I meant

whether the Raider fans from L.A. will continue to root for them (like they've been preaching Bay Area fans to do), or if they will jump ship and root for the L.A. Rams/Chargers.

[yuiyoshida]

19. That's their choice..I guess

I would think the old LA Rams fans will go back to rooting for their Rams, and the Chargers fans will continue to root for the Chargers. There are Raider fans all over the country, so nothing will change there...