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Chargers, Raiders and Rams all apply for relocation to L.A.
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Posted on 01/04/2016 8:08:47 PM PST by Perdogg

The Chargers made it official Monday night.

The AFC West franchise wants out of San Diego, its home since 1961.

The Chargers, nearly 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.

The Rams and Raiders also applied for relocation Monday night, setting up a three-way race for no more than two spots in the Los Angeles-Orange County market that will likely be decided by a vote of the league’s owners next week in Houston.

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To: Perdogg

Chargers to Mexico City


21 posted on 01/04/2016 9:02:41 PM PST by Cyman
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To: Perdogg

I’m only an occasional football/sports follower, but my memory is that the Rams were in LA, and moved because despite the city’s population, it couldn’t sustain a profitable franchise? Was the stadium never sold out? Fuzzy memory.


22 posted on 01/04/2016 9:05:35 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Impy

Raiders moving alone is the one option that has zero chance. They are not even asking for that.


23 posted on 01/04/2016 9:07:24 PM PST by Defiant (RINOs are leaders of a party without voters. Trump/Cruz are leaders of voters without a party.)
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To: Perdogg

Ruining the old AFL West rivalries.


24 posted on 01/04/2016 9:13:34 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Perdogg

San Diego.

what went wrong?

are the Chargers in am old stadium,
and the city won’t pay-up for a new one?


25 posted on 01/04/2016 9:18:59 PM PST by RockyTx
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Chargers and Raiders and Rams, oh my!

Why I questioned this before: why is it assumed that greater Los Angeles/Orange County really wants the NFL? 10 million people aren't forced into idiotic NFL broadcast restrictions should a franchise fail to assume broadcast "rights".

Qualcomm is a dump, for the record. Al Davis destroyed what was once a beautiful baseball stadium. The two franchises deserve each other, if someone ponies up the stadium. They will be in the same place, alternate weeks.

Works in NY/NJ.
26 posted on 01/04/2016 9:24:32 PM PST by SunLakesJeff (Life)
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To: Perdogg

All three can go to hell as far as I am concerned. Used to be a huge fan of these three teams(and also the San Jose Forty Niners) going back to 1957 when I saw my first NFL game at Kezar, the Niners vs. the LA Rams.

No more.

They have turned a great sport into a ridiculous circus with raving fans to match. It’s Ancient Rome with a little less blood. Serves the same societal purpose too, i.e., distract the masses from their rulers treachery, decadence, and opulence.


27 posted on 01/04/2016 9:31:34 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: EDINVA
I’m only an occasional football/sports follower, but my memory is that the Rams were in LA, and moved because despite the city’s population, it couldn’t sustain a profitable franchise? Was the stadium never sold out? Fuzzy memory.

When Dan Reeves moved the Rams from Cleveland to Los Angeles, they were very popular, and drew over 80,000 fans pretty regularly. When he died, Carroll Rosenblum took over, and the Rams remained popular, with stars like Roman Gabriel, Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen, and Rosey Grier. They also liked the fact that being in LA got them chances at being on television.

When Carroll Rosenblum died, his wife, Georgia Frontiere (married six times, and one domestic partner) took over the team. Over the seasons, interest in the team declined, and they were drawing less than 45,000 fans per game when she worked out a sweetheart deal to move the team to her old home town of St. Louis. This was after the Cardinals split for Phoenix.

Part of the problem was that LA wouldn't pay for luxury boxes and upgrades to the LA Coliseum. Also, her husband got caught scalping Super Bowl tickets and did time. She was about as popular in LA as Bud Adams was in Houston.

28 posted on 01/04/2016 9:31:48 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: TTFlyer


Serves the same societal purpose too, i.e., distract the masses from their rulers treachery, decadence, and opulence.

I like your style.
29 posted on 01/04/2016 9:35:05 PM PST by SunLakesJeff (Life)
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To: Richard Kimball


upgrades to the LA Coliseum

A physical impossibility. Makes a nice college stadium, however.

30 posted on 01/04/2016 9:38:07 PM PST by SunLakesJeff (Life)
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To: TTFlyer
I saw my first NFL game at Kezar, the Niners vs. the LA Rams.

My two favorite memories of Kezar are the Cowboys winning the 1970 conference championship there and Dirty Harry stomping on Scorpio's leg.

That was back when the Cowboys had a real coach.

31 posted on 01/04/2016 9:38:15 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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A physical impossibility. Makes a nice college stadium, however.

Probably true, but I'm an old school guy. I've photographed games in Jerry World, The Phoenix Cardinals Stadium, and over half of the Big 12 venues, and the fancy ones just don't seem right to me. Far prefer a good old real grass high school game:


32 posted on 01/04/2016 9:44:00 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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Far prefer a good old real grass high school game

Even the NFL used to have bands play in advance of a vague kickoff time. College used to be the dominant game, by degrees.

33 posted on 01/04/2016 9:47:58 PM PST by SunLakesJeff (Life)
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To: Perdogg

Wow, just think how big the stadium would have to be if NFL prices had increased the same as inflation! (Roughly $11 per seat for the “coaches section”.)


34 posted on 01/04/2016 9:48:19 PM PST by Paul R.
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To: Perdogg

BTW, is that dude somehow related to somebody with the Patriots? :-)


35 posted on 01/04/2016 9:54:31 PM PST by Paul R.
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To: RockyTx

Correct.

The San Diego Charger ownership want a fixed or new stadium and wish to remain in SD.

The San Diego city people are upset with the ownership and calling their bluff to move.

The San Diego fans are grieving the loss of their favorite team.


36 posted on 01/04/2016 9:59:44 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: MinorityRepublican
Chargers and Raiders get in L.A while Rams are stuck in St. Louis.

I doubt that they would place two AFC teams in one market. Most likely the Rams and Chargers...

37 posted on 01/04/2016 10:00:34 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Defiant

Two teams from the same conference and division both moving to LA and sharing a stadium doesn’t make much sense to me, one of them would have to swap conferences with the Rams I guess.


38 posted on 01/04/2016 10:01:07 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: SunLakesJeff
College used to be the dominant game, by degrees.

Absolutely. Still is in the south. The Chargers designed their uniforms to look like the UCLA uniforms and the Atlanta Falcons original uniforms were modeled after the Georgia Bulldogs.

The Bulldogs average around 87,000 fans per game, the Falcons 70,000. College fans don't have to worry about the team moving if they don't get a new stadium deal.

39 posted on 01/04/2016 10:11:01 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: Falconspeed
The whole thing sucks. Raiders need to be sold to one of the guys who owns Google. Then he can spend one billion dollars to renovate the Raiders stadium.

Regarding San Diego, one of the rich guys in L.A. should buy the team and build a new stadium somewhere in San Diego. It's just a helicopter ride away from L.A. Rams need to stay in St. Louis, apparently they have a deal to build a new stadium.

40 posted on 01/04/2016 10:18:22 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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