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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