Posted on 12/16/2015 9:14:41 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Don't be surprised if NFL moving trucks show up in Oakland and San Diego next year.
According to Texans owner Bob McNair, sending those two teams to Los Angeles is slowly starting to turn into the NFL's most likely relocation scenario.
All 32 NFL owners are set to meet in Houston on Jan. 12-13 with one big goal: Figure out who's moving to L.A.
To make the move to Los Angeles, a team needs to get approval from 24 of the league's 32 owners, and thanks to a last ditch effort by the city of St. Louis, McNair doesn't see the Rams getting approved.
"St. Louis, they have come up with a proposal that is getting pretty close, in my opinion, to being an attractive proposal, and if they do come up with an attractive proposal, then in my view, my personal opinion, I don't think the Rams will receive the approval to relocate," McNair told the Houston Chronicle this week.
If the Rams don't get approved for L.A., that opens the door for the Chargers and Raiders.
"That would mean then you'd have two teams, San Diego and Oakland, that would be going into Carson, [California]," McNair said. "They have a partnership to build a stadium."
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Just uproot the Raiders from Oakland and have them play all 16 games as a visiting team in other stadiums. They can be called “Raiders of the Lost Park”.
Actually football is fairly popular with Mexicans. They have a good college system and every time the NFL plays a game down there, a 100,000 fans show up.
Problem is, they’re all Dallas fans.
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Thank you for the corrections. I did not know both Rams and Raiders had reasons for moving.
The same reason. Stadium improvements. The Coliseum Commission was inept. They ran the Rams off to Anaheim and the Raiders back to Oakland. Georgia got a sweet deal from St. Louis and it was adios California.
Thanks for the clarification. I admire your understanding of sports business.
When I lived in Berkeley in 1990’s I would visit the Hyatt hotel in Oakland during Raider away games and join the Black Hole Gang and Raider fans at the hotel. Huge 6’6” guys with tattoos and their dates.
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