Posted on 10/06/2014 10:37:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) LA football fans have been waiting nearly 20 years for a team to call their own.
LA is the second largest TV market, host to plenty of baseball, basketball and hockey franchises, not to mention college teams. But the idea of a pro football team in this area has been nothing more than rumor for decades.
According to a report, one or two NFL teams are on the way, “fairly soon.”
“As the 20th anniversary of the NFL’s departure from Los Angeles, the NFL seems closer than ever to returning,” said the report. “Per a league source, the current plan is that the NFL will send one or two teams back to Los Angeles within the next 12 to 24 months.”
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is also buzzing about NFL in Los Angeles. He told ESPN in July that he believes there will not just be one team, but two teams within the next 2-3 years and that the NFL will return to downtown Los Angeles.
Los Angeles has several locations that would be desirable for would-be franchise movers. The three proposed sites are Chavez Ravine next to Dodgers Stadium, AEG’s downtown LA next to Staples Center and Stan Kroenke’s Hollywood Park. Ed Roski’s stadium proposal in the City of Industry is not a “viable destination,” the report said.
Likely candidates for relocation are the San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders and St. Louis Rams.
On Oct 3, 101 ESPN reported that Stan Kroenke’s St. Louis Rams was close to making the decision to relocate his team back to Los Angeles.
The Rose Bowl or Los Angeles Coliseum could be used as a temporary home until a new stadium is completed.
Why?
Why would one owner of an NFL team do a stupid thing like that - never mind two?
Mexicans don’t like football.
Correct.
They prefer futbol - whatever the heck THAT is....
;-)
They might draw 35,000 paid spectators to a game. Give them a small stadium.
What has changed since the Rams and Raiders left to make LA a viable NFL market?
Raiders, Chargers, and Rams may get into a fight over who gets to move back to L.A. Chargers have the least valid reasons to move, though they are unlikely to get a new stadium in San Diego any time soon.
No they won’t. 2 or 3 will threaten and get new stadiums built, but nobody is actually moving.
Spanos family have been trying for years to get San Diego taxpayers to buy a new stadium for them...no luck. The Chargers have a good shot at going deep into the playoffs this year. If they do, and the Spanos’s then don’t get their stadium, the franchise is gone to LA, guaranteed. By the terms of their current contract, the team already can make a move when and if it wants.
Similar tactic the Padres used to get their stadium at Petco Park.
Please.. don’t let it be the Raiders. When they moved to L.A., their fans wouldn’t shut the $%^& up about it for years. I swear, there could be riots in Oakland if they moved again.
You do know that the Rams used to play in Southern California — don’t you?
The market was always viable, it was the stadium they didn’t like and nobody was willing to fix it. And nobody has managed to put together a deal for a new one.
All 3 teams mentioned have been unsuccessful in getting new or remodeled stadiums in their current cities. All have been rumored to be thinking of moving. We will see.
Just to see CA leftists’ heads explode, I would love to see the Redskins move to LA! My apologies to any Warshington fans for the loss of their team.
The Vikings were on the list of teams that might move to LA until the MN government caved in and wrote a nine figure check to Zygi.
But why would the Chargers want to trade San Diego for Los Angeles?
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