Plan C just meaning don't move another team there
Quote:Plan C just meaning don't move another team there
I wish. Historically speaking, that is the plan that makes the most sense, but the networks want a team in LA, and they're going to get their wish.
IMO, the more I think about it, the plan that makes the most sense is the Chargers moving to LA alone, and that might be the plan C that Khan is referring to. It's been speculated upon as a possibility, but no one in a position to know has addressed it that I'm aware of. Moving two teams into a market that has supported zero over the last 20 years (and arguably supported zero for a decade before that) seems like an incredible risk to take, and if one or both of those teams ended up moving again within a decade or so, it'd be a huge egg pie on the face of the league. By moving the Chargers up the coast, you're importing a team that is already based in SoCal, so no splintering the fan base, and you're resolving arguably the longest-standing stadium dilemma in the NFL. There have been proposals floated over the years, albeit not as many as southern sites, to build a Chargers stadium in or near Oceanside, which is practically halfway to LA from downtown SD anyway.
I get the sense that Mark Davis doesn't really want to move the Raiders, but he'd do it if he had to, and that might mean San Antonio. The wild card is Stan Kroenke, who clearly bought the Rams with intent to move them to LA.
Quote:Plan C just meaning don't move another team there
That's basically been the plan for 20 years.
We've been hearing since 1996 that a team moving there is inevitable.
Quote:That's basically been the plan for 20 years.
We've been hearing since 1996 that a team moving there is inevitable.
It amazes me that no one will speak up about what exactly are the reasons that LA can't get a team there. It just seems like it's a major money grab and once folks get that idea the line for getting their share goes around the block.
Quote:It amazes me that no one will speak up about what exactly are the reasons that LA can't get a team there. It just seems like it's a major money grab and once folks get that idea the line for getting their share goes around the block.
Its probably the City of Los Angeles who cant get their [BLEEP] together.
The same thing that happened in 2000 when the Texans were awarded to Houston.
Everything was set up for LA to get that expansion team, however the powers that be in Los Angeles could not get there act together and finalize a deal.
To much political stuff going on and........
Its a damn shame.
This doesn't sound like anything to worry about. Maybe Khan is trying to take the fans focus off the teams dismal play.
Yes please move the team and put me out of my misery
Quote:Yes please move the team and put me out of my misery
Nobody is forcing you to watch them. See how that works?
The more I think about this, the more I feel like he is saying that the plans that are out there just won't work. This falls in line with
the news that St. Louis has secured a $158 million naming rights deal that may have effectively torpedoed Kroenke's plot to move to LA.
Quote:It amazes me that no one will speak up about what exactly are the reasons that LA can't get a team there. It just seems like it's a major money grab and once folks get that idea the line for getting their share goes around the block.
LA refuses to support a team, either financially or from a fan base perspective. The move to put a team back there is entirely TV-driven. The networks want a team in LA, and the NFL recognizes that the price of those TV deals will jump pretty significantly with the nation's #2 TV market in the mix.
Quote:Its probably the City of Los Angeles who cant get their [BAD WORD REMOVED] together.
The same thing that happened in 2000 when the Texans were awarded to Houston.
Everything was set up for LA to get that expansion team, however the powers that be in Los Angeles could not get there act together and finalize a deal.
To much political stuff going on and........
Its a damn shame.
I thought the Texans were given to Houston as a consolation prize for losing the Oilers, or was that deal for Cleveland only.
Quote:The more I think about this, the more I feel like he is saying that the plans that are out there just won't work. This falls in line with the news that St. Louis has secured a $158 million naming rights deal that may have effectively torpedoed Kroenke's plot to move to LA.
If the NFL tells Kroenke that there will be a team in St. Louis, he'll almost certainly point to the land he owns in LA and push for the Raiders or Chargers to be relocated to STL instead.
It is starting to look like St. Louis will emerge from the game of musical chairs with a team, but the question is which one they get. I think the deck is stacked strongly against the Rams remaining in St. Louis, which means that relocating one of the two California teams in play to St. Louis seems likely. The third team would then either move to LA with the Rams, secure a new stadium deal where they are (unlikely) or pursue relocation to somewhere else (San Antonio?).
I'm thinking that the most likely scenario at this point is Rams and Raiders in LA, Chargers in STL. If Mark Davis pulls out, Dean Spanos won't have the capital to build the Carson stadium by himself, and given that Davis' addition to the deal was almost an afterthought, I don't think it would be that difficult for the Rams (or the NFL) to talk him into signing on with Kroenke's plan.
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It is starting to look like St. Louis will emerge from the game of musical chairs with a team, but the question is which one they get. I think the deck is stacked strongly against the Rams remaining in St. Louis, which means that relocating one of the two California teams in play to St. Louis seems likely. The third team would then either move to LA with the Rams, secure a new stadium deal where they are (unlikely) or pursue relocation to somewhere else (San Antonio?).
I'm thinking that the most likely scenario at this point is Rams and Raiders in LA, Chargers in STL. If Mark Davis pulls out, Dean Spanos won't have the capital to build the Carson stadium by himself, and given that Davis' addition to the deal was almost an afterthought, I don't think it would be that difficult for the Rams (or the NFL) to talk him into signing on with Kroenke's plan.
The way I understood the implications of the naming rights deal, it basically shuts down Kroenke moving the Rams because now he cannot say that he put forth a good faith effort to keep the team in town. Now, that premise is up to a vote by the Owners so who knows how that will go.
One thing that I just can't get sold on is for a team to play in LA. It's just been proven false too many times in the past for me to believe it without seeing it.
I think Plan C includes vollyball nets..
Quote:The way I understood the implications of the naming rights deal, it basically shuts down Kroenke moving the Rams because now he cannot say that he put forth a good faith effort to keep the team in town. Now, that premise is up to a vote by the Owners so who knows how that will go.
One thing that I just can't get sold on is for a team to play in LA. It's just been proven false too many times in the past for me to believe it without seeing it.
The definition of "good faith" is always up for debate in cases like this. I really believe that Kroenke is hell-bent on moving the Rams, with or without NFL assistance, and he'll sue the pants off of anyone who tries to stop him.
LA has always been a basket ball and baseball town. nfl teams just cant seem to stick , if the rams cant make there then who can ? certainly not the jags
Just throwing this out there. What if "plan C" is something like the overseas games where teams would play a "home game" in LA? After all, LA is pretty foreign to most people.
i got a lung infection just driving through L A last year . what a polluted city !
Quote:Other than the fact that they asked Khan about it, there was no reference to the "Jaguars to LA" in the article or the tweet.
That's all the MSM clowns need to start the "Los Angeles Jaguars" rumor train up again if they want to. I mean, come on, the league is trying to figure out what combination of the Rams, Raiders and Chargers ends up in LA, what to do with the loser(s) of that game of musical chairs, and now the owner of the Jaguars, a team rumored to be on its way to Los Angeles since roughly 1995, comments on a mysterious "Plan C"? I'm not saying there's anything there, but I am saying that if Jason Silver realizes that it's been at least a few days since the last gratuitous shot he took at Jacksonville, he's got his ammo now.