I am happy for local government to do whatever it can to help them stay. Make land available, give them tax breaks, create special economic zones. But forking over taxpayer money because Jerry Jones gets to sell sky boxes for millions and Dean Spanos doesn't? Boo hoo. The economic benefit of an NFL team is not sufficient for the amounts that would be spent on a stadium.
Fabiani is Clinton's old consigliere. He is lower than pond scum, and he is just as dirty. I do not trust anything he says. I believe the Chargers have been trying to find a way out of SD for 10 years, but the league won't let them move to LA. Now, the Rams owner has a good deal for a stadium, and he may get permission to return to LA, and suddenly, the Chargers are frantic. If anyone gets to move to LA, they want it to be them. I don't think they are negotiating in good faith with the city for a stadium, I think Fabiani is intentionally pissing everyone off so that he can go to the NFL and say that they have done all they could, now please let us move to LA. In their minds they are already gone.
It would be sweet, sweet justice for the Rams to be allowed to move, but not the Chargers. If the NFL says no, suddenly, Fabiani and Spanos will be so conciliatory to the city that it will be like they have been rapped on the head by an angel and learned to love all mankind. They will be "stuck" in that terrible place to live and make tens of millions of profits, year after year, that is San Diego.
That's my rant for the day.
One reason why I am and always will be a Green Bay Packer fan...and Owner! And I lie in Gnu Yak and NEPA!!!
>>Spanos is just a greedy, rich family that had enough money to buy a franchise when they were only worth 10 percent of what they are now, and now they want every last dollar they can squeeze from their ownership. If that means they have to go to LA to maximize their profits, they are willing to do it, fans be damned.<<
Sounds exactly like the late Al Davis.