Posted on 01/29/2016 3:25:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Chargers have reached an agreement with the Los Angeles Rams, but the Bolts will play in San Diego in 2016, the team announced Friday.
This newest development in the Bolts’ stadium scramble comes one day after the San Diego Chargers released a statement announcing plans for an interim headquarters and practice facility in Santa Ana, Calif., in the event they move Los Angeles.
At 2:50 p.m., the Chargers released the following statement on Facebook from team Chairman Dean Spanos:
"Today I decided our team will stay in San Diego for the 2016 season and I hope for the long term in a new stadium. I have met with Mayor Faulconer and Supervisor Roberts and I look forward to working closely with them and the business community to resolve our stadium dilemma. We have an option and an agreement with the Los Angeles Rams to go to Inglewood in the next year, but my focus is on San Diego. This has been our home for 55 years, and I want to keep the team here and provide the world-class stadium experience you deserve. Everyone on both sides of the table in San Diego must now determine the best next steps and how to deploy the additional resources provided by the NFL.
I am committed to looking at this with a fresh perspective and new sense of possibility. With deep appreciation for your years of support, Dean A. Spanos."
The NFL had installed a March 23 deadline for the team to make its decision on where it would play the 2016 season so the league could finalize schedules and all the other business of getting ready for the upcoming football season. Following Spanos' announcement, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell released this statement:
"We are very supportive of the decision by Dean Spanos to continue his efforts in San Diego and work with local leaders to develop a permanent stadium solution. NFL ownership has committed $300 million to assist in the cost of building a new stadium in San Diego. I have pledged the league’s full support in helping Dean to fulfill his goal."
Before Friday’s major announcement, it appeared as if negotiations between the Chargers and Rams had stalled. The two teams have been trying to come to an agreement on a move that would allow the Chargers to join the Rams in their new NFL stadium in Inglewood.
On Thursday, when asked if the Chargers had entered into a lease-purchase agreement for the land, Chargers Special Counsel Mark Fabiani told NBC 7 there would be no details released regarding the transaction.
Oakland is their third time zone!
Move the team to the Philippines. Call them the Manila Folders.
falling all over each other,,,
You repeated an often-posted theme around here. Apparently lots of people have neither knowledge of the current situation in Los Angeles not historical perspective of why those teams left.
Hey sweetheart, I know that I haven’t taken you out on many nice dates lately (since 2009: 46-50 record, only one playoff appearance, only one playoff win), but I’m looking around for a new relationship. Now, it isn’t going well for me so far, so let’s keep dating for another year, and if you step up your game, maybe I’ll stay... but maybe not. I’ll let you know.
You understand me,
figured I’d get “Flamed”
Thanks.
I say the Chargettes can stay here if they get rid of Rivers. At least a dollar will always give four quarters. YW.
Fremont, down south. Or Sacramento. Or even out of NorCal entirely. There is zero chance Oakland can scrounge up enough spare change to build them a new ballpark and the Coliseum is a horrible place for baseball.
They will stay in San Diego. The Rams won the “Battle of LA”, and they know in reality LA can only support one team adequately.
Raiders will stay in Oakland, as well.
LA will embrace the Rams, because there is a lot of history already there for the franchise.
It is? I like it better than PacBell Park. They should stay in Oakland, not San Jose. It's bad enough having the 49ers down here.
Then why did they move out of Los Angeles?
Of the three teams, the Chargers are the only team that started in Los Angeles.
They may got to San Antonio or Las Vegas.
If they could, they wouldn't have lost ALL there teams.
Rams should have never moved to Anaheim, and the Coloseum is in a terrible neighborhood.
A nice stadium in a good location and the Rams should flourish.
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