Rams, Chargers, Raiders submit applications to relocate

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NFL STATEMENT

Three teams – the Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams, and San Diego Chargers – each submitted applications to our office today to relocate their franchises to the Los Angeles area beginning with the 2016 season. Each team submitted the appropriate documentation in support of its application as required by the NFL Policy and Procedures for Proposed Franchise Relocations.

The applications will be reviewed this week by league staff and three league committees that will meet in New York on Wednesday and Thursday -- the Los Angeles Opportunities, Stadium, and Finance committees. The applications will be presented for consideration at next week’s league meeting in Houston on Tuesday and Wednesday. The relocation of a franchise requires the affirmative vote of three-quarters of the NFL clubs (24 of 32).

https://nflcommunications.com/Pages/NFL-Statement.aspx

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Nothing new but here we go again Rams go from LA to St Louis and now want to go back. Same with the Raiders

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Second largest market in US ... without a NFL team? You knew that would not last.

[augolf1716 22,478]

Crazy it has taken this long to get a team back to LA.

[cooltigger21 0]

Well the NFL doesn't need a team on LA. They haven't been able to get a good stadium proposal lined up with a franchise.

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Not sure how many are following this but I find it interesting ... Some of the latest ...

http://stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/st-louis-stadium-plan-inadequate-nfl-won-t-step-in/article_88e558e6-610d-5061-a366-ab26cdad1dbf.html

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A proposal that would move the St. Louis Rams and a team to be determined to a yet-to-be-built stadium in Inglewood, California, leads 20-12 after the first round of owners' voting, according to a Los Angeles Times report.

Despite the early lead, no official decision has been made, as the necessary threshold of 24 of 32 votes has yet to be reached.

A San Diego Chargers-Oakland Raiders partnership that would put the two teams in a stadium in Carson, California, is the other proposal under consideration.

The vote can either be administered via secret ballot, according to ESPN's Andrew Brandt.

The NFL's six-owner committee on Los Angeles opportunities earlier recommended the Chargers-Raiders project, which would build a $1.7 billion stadium in Carson, sources told ESPN, confirming multiple reports. However, it appears that such a push did not lead to the proposal surpassing the Rams' relocation bid on the first vote.

Rams owner Stan Kroenke has proposed to build a $1.86 billion stadium in Inglewood, California. Earlier Tuesday, a Rams-only proposal was denied by the owners, according to the Los Angeles Daily News.

Also Tuesday, the league made a presentation on the stadium proposals in the home markets of San Diego, St. Louis and Oakland, clearing the way for all three teams to be eligible to move.

The Rams presented their project on Inglewood first, followed by the Chargers and Raiders -- which included Disney CEO Bob Iger, who is a consultant to the group. The NFL made the final presentation.

http://espn.go.com/n...voting-underway

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What's incredible about the NFL relocation situation is that I don't know one person in Los Angeles that's excited for a team much less two.

@PeterBurnsESPN

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I believe London will have a team in 7 years or less

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Well Rams just got approved to move to LA. Charges next I would bet

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Very happy The Rams are coming home! Go LA Rams! Do feel bad for stl they did have the support.

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I say.....

Send the Rams to LA, the Chargers to Oakland and the Raiders to St. Louis.

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Chargers have the option to go to LA. The deadline for that decision is January ,17th of next year If they don't go then the Raiders get the choice. The new stadium will be ready for the 2019 season. They'll play in the Coliseum until then.

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What's incredible about the NFL relocation situation is that I don't know one person in Los Angeles that's excited for a team much less two.

@PeterBurnsESPN

All about the Lakers in LA, I believe.

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Los Angeles to build world's most expensive stadium complex

Los Angeles will welcome the return of NFL football with the construction of a new 80,000-seat stadium complex and "NFL Disney World," expected to become the world's most expensive sports arena.

The 300-acre development in Inglewood, a few miles from downtown Los Angeles, will provide a new home for the NFL's Rams franchise, whose return to their former home city was approved by league officials last Tuesday. The development has an estimated cost of $2.6 billion -- more than $1 billion more than New Jersey's MetLife Stadium, currently the league's most costly venue.

The capacity of the new stadium could exceed 100,000 for special events, say developers. Inglewood Mayor James Butts has already announced ambitions to host the Super Bowl at the arena, which developers say will be the "cornerstone" of a year-round sports, music, and entertainment events district.

An unnamed "owner" is reported in the Los Angeles Times comparing their ambitions for the development to Florida's Disney World theme park. The development's footprint is about twice the size of the original Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, and will also host a 6,000-seat performance venue, more than 1.5 million square feet of retail and office space, 2,500 homes, a 300-room hotel, and 25 acres of parks.

The Rams, who played in the Los Angeles area for almost 50 years, will give the city its first NFL team since 1995 -- the year the Rams left for St. Louis, and the Raiders departed for Oakland.

Rams owner and property developer Stan Kroenke, who has an estimated personal net worth of $7.4 billion, is credited with spearheading the return of NFL football to the country's second largest city.

The new stadium is expected to be complete in time for the 2019 NFL season, with the team playing at their former home at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum, until then. The team's owners have begun courting the San Deigo Chargers and Oakland Raiders to join them at the new venue, on the site of the former Hollywood Park horse racing track.

The Stadium

The 3.1 million-square-foot multipurpose venue will be the league's largest (in square feet.)

International architecture giant HKS have been contracted to design the venue and have announced that it will center on a 19-acre transparent canopy, which will cover the entire stadium and parts of the surrounding development.

The canopy will be made from the same transparent ETFE plastic that coats Bayern Munich's stadium, the Allianz Arena, and the Beijing National Aquatics Center.

Munich's stadium changes color, from red to white to blue, according to which team -- Bayern, second division side TSV 1860 München, or the German national side -- is playing at the stadium that day. The architects have not yet said if similar color indication would occur if two or more teams host matches at the new stadium in Inglewood.

The Rams are urging the Chargers, currently based 200 km south of L.A. in San Diego, to join them at the stadium, and fund a portion of the massive costs, with the Oakland Raiders considered a fallback option.

Kroenke has publicly estimated the cost at $1.86 billion, but the Los Angeles Times quotes unnamed "(NFL) officials and owners" who say the true cost could reach $2.66 billion. The New York Times and others have put the value at nearly $3 billion.

The NFL already claims the world's most expensive stadium. That title belongs to the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, home to New York teams the Giants and Jets, which opened in 2010 at a cost of $1.6 billion. The Dallas Cowboys and San Francisco 49ers are also among a minute group of teams worldwide to play in stadiums costing more than $1 billion.

Outside the U.S., stadiums with budgets exceeding $1 billion dollars are rare. London's home of soccer, Wembley Stadium, crossed the mark in 2007. Tokyo abandoned plans for a $2 billion Zaha Hadid-designed stadium last July amid rising costs, with a cheaper design now underway.

http://www.cnn.com/2...&iref=obnetwork

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I read an article about a week ago, I don't remember which site, that reported the Oakland Raiders (one of my two favorite teams, the other being the cowboys) are considering a possible move to San Antonio.

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I read an article about a week ago, I don't remember which site, that reported the Oakland Raiders (one of my two favorite teams, the other being the cowboys) are considering a possible move to San Antonio.

It's one possibility. Jerry Jones would do everything possible to block that. They could, if the Chargers move to LA, move to San Diego. That seems more likely.

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An interesting twist ... Vegas ...

Las Vegas Sands proposes $1B domed stadium; Adelson to meet with Raiders owner

Casino giant Las Vegas Sands Corp. will lead a consortium of investors planning to build a $1 billion domed stadium on 42 acres near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas that would house the school's football team — and possibly a National Football League franchise.

Andy Abboud, Las Vegas Sands' senior vice president of government relations and community development, said Thursday that Las Vegas needs a modern stadium with at least 65,000 seats to drive additional tourism to Southern Nevada.

Mark Davis, owner of the Oakland Raiders, is scheduled to meet with Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson, and team representatives are expected to tour the site Friday.

The NFL earlier this month rejected a Raiders move to Los Angeles. Abboud said Las Vegas Sands also has had conversations with officials from other NFL teams.

"We are moving forward with the stadium concept with or without an NFL team," Abboud said Thursday. "We see a lot more opportunities — conference championships, bowl games, NFL exhibition football, boxing, soccer, neutral site games, and music festivals. There is an entire segment out there."

The project, so far only a concept, involves Los Angeles-based Majestic Realty Co. and UNLV, which bought 42 vacant acres along Tropicana Avenue east of Koval Lane earlier this month. UNLV wants to move its football program from the aging Sam Boyd Stadium in the east valley to a new facility closer to campus. A donation through the UNLV Foundation covered the $50 million site purchase.

"There are any number of ways that land could be used," UNLV President Len Jessup said. "It has good potential as a stadium site. But we've said all along that we'd look at any opportunity. If we can get a stadium built at little or no cost to the university, we're interested in it."

Abboud said the project would be a "public-private partnership" in which Las Vegas Sands or the Adelson family would contribute an unspecified large portion of the financing. He said the company, which operates The Venetian and Palazzo, as well as casinos in Macau, Singapore and Pennsylvania, also could raise financing for the project.

Abboud said Las Vegas Sands may seek legislative approval for diversion of hotel room tax revenues that now support the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority to the project. The company plans to present its idea in February or March to the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee, which is tasked with finding ways to further grow the tourism economy.

"Nothing will move that needle like a new world-class stadium," Abboud said.

Las Vegas Sands has been critical of the authority's plans to redevelop the former Riviera site as part of a $2.3 billion Convention Center District improvement program, which would also seek public financing. Venetian-Palazzo President George Markantonis has said he considers spending public money on the Las Vegas Convention Center inappropriate because it would take business away from his company's Sands Expo and Convention Center. In the late 1990s, Sands officials advocated elimination of the convention authority.

Convention authority CEO Rossi Ralenkotter said he's anxious to learn more about the stadium proposal and will evaluate it when it is presented to the infrastructure committee.

"It's the perfect forum for talking about this stadium proposal, and I want to see what they have to say," he said.

Ralenkotter was less enthusiastic about diverting room tax money for a stadium.

"The LVCVA has many responsibilities in its mission to bring visitors here," Ralenkotter said. "We always need to make sure we are adequately funded to fulfill that mission."

A decade ago, the convention authority fought a plan to spend room tax revenue on Nevada Department of Transportation projects considered beneficial to tourism. Room tax revenues now support Interstate 15 improvement bonds.

Majestic Realty Executive Vice President Craig Cavileer said a public-private partnership is necessary for a stadium, and that financing would dictate its design.

"Design will follow structure. That's what is required," Cavileer said. "We're making a significant investment and its takes a consolidated approach."

Majestic was involved in a similar effort to bring a stadium to the university campus as part of the $800 million UNLV Now project in 2013, which was a partnership between the university and the hospitality industry. That proposal included a 60,000-seat stadium adjacent to the

Thomas & Mack Center, a basketball arena remodel and other new facilities. It never won approval from the Nevada Legislature.

"We have always thought a stadium would provide another measure to draw tourists," said Cavileer, whose company owns the Silverton

through its president, Edward Roski Jr.

While the initial proposal focuses on the Koval-Tropicana site, Jessup said UNLV would be open to other locations near campus.

Jessup noted there's precedent for college teams sharing stadiums with pro teams. Before the University of Phoenix Stadium was built in Glendale, Arizona, the NFL's Arizona Cardinals played at Sun Devil Stadium on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe.

Gerry Bomotti, UNLV's senior vice president for finance and business, said moving the Raiders to Las Vegas might be challenging, since the NFL is "highly regulated" in determining team moves.

"The NFL has never been high on Las Vegas as a location," Bomotti said. "I think they are concerned about our betting, legalized gambling."

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An interesting twist ... Vegas ...

Las Vegas Sands proposes $1B domed stadium; Adelson to meet with Raiders owner

Casino giant Las Vegas Sands Corp. will lead a consortium of investors planning to build a $1 billion domed stadium on 42 acres near the University of Nevada, Las Vegas that would house the school's football team — and possibly a National Football League franchise.

Andy Abboud, Las Vegas Sands' senior vice president of government relations and community development, said Thursday that Las Vegas needs a modern stadium with at least 65,000 seats to drive additional tourism to Southern Nevada.

Mark Davis, owner of the Oakland Raiders, is scheduled to meet with Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson, and team representatives are expected to tour the site Friday.

The NFL earlier this month rejected a Raiders move to Los Angeles. Abboud said Las Vegas Sands also has had conversations with officials from other NFL teams.

"We are moving forward with the stadium concept with or without an NFL team," Abboud said Thursday. "We see a lot more opportunities — conference championships, bowl games, NFL exhibition football, boxing, soccer, neutral site games, and music festivals. There is an entire segment out there."

The project, so far only a concept, involves Los Angeles-based Majestic Realty Co. and UNLV, which bought 42 vacant acres along Tropicana Avenue east of Koval Lane earlier this month. UNLV wants to move its football program from the aging Sam Boyd Stadium in the east valley to a new facility closer to campus. A donation through the UNLV Foundation covered the $50 million site purchase.

"There are any number of ways that land could be used," UNLV President Len Jessup said. "It has good potential as a stadium site. But we've said all along that we'd look at any opportunity. If we can get a stadium built at little or no cost to the university, we're interested in it."

Abboud said the project would be a "public-private partnership" in which Las Vegas Sands or the Adelson family would contribute an unspecified large portion of the financing. He said the company, which operates The Venetian and Palazzo, as well as casinos in Macau, Singapore and Pennsylvania, also could raise financing for the project.

Abboud said Las Vegas Sands may seek legislative approval for diversion of hotel room tax revenues that now support the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority to the project. The company plans to present its idea in February or March to the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure Committee, which is tasked with finding ways to further grow the tourism economy.

"Nothing will move that needle like a new world-class stadium," Abboud said.

Las Vegas Sands has been critical of the authority's plans to redevelop the former Riviera site as part of a $2.3 billion Convention Center District improvement program, which would also seek public financing. Venetian-Palazzo President George Markantonis has said he considers spending public money on the Las Vegas Convention Center inappropriate because it would take business away from his company's Sands Expo and Convention Center. In the late 1990s, Sands officials advocated elimination of the convention authority.

Convention authority CEO Rossi Ralenkotter said he's anxious to learn more about the stadium proposal and will evaluate it when it is presented to the infrastructure committee.

"It's the perfect forum for talking about this stadium proposal, and I want to see what they have to say," he said.

Ralenkotter was less enthusiastic about diverting room tax money for a stadium.

"The LVCVA has many responsibilities in its mission to bring visitors here," Ralenkotter said. "We always need to make sure we are adequately funded to fulfill that mission."

A decade ago, the convention authority fought a plan to spend room tax revenue on Nevada Department of Transportation projects considered beneficial to tourism. Room tax revenues now support Interstate 15 improvement bonds.

Majestic Realty Executive Vice President Craig Cavileer said a public-private partnership is necessary for a stadium, and that financing would dictate its design.

"Design will follow structure. That's what is required," Cavileer said. "We're making a significant investment and its takes a consolidated approach."

Majestic was involved in a similar effort to bring a stadium to the university campus as part of the $800 million UNLV Now project in 2013, which was a partnership between the university and the hospitality industry. That proposal included a 60,000-seat stadium adjacent to the

Thomas & Mack Center, a basketball arena remodel and other new facilities. It never won approval from the Nevada Legislature.

"We have always thought a stadium would provide another measure to draw tourists," said Cavileer, whose company owns the Silverton

through its president, Edward Roski Jr.

While the initial proposal focuses on the Koval-Tropicana site, Jessup said UNLV would be open to other locations near campus.

Jessup noted there's precedent for college teams sharing stadiums with pro teams. Before the University of Phoenix Stadium was built in Glendale, Arizona, the NFL's Arizona Cardinals played at Sun Devil Stadium on the Arizona State University campus in Tempe.

Gerry Bomotti, UNLV's senior vice president for finance and business, said moving the Raiders to Las Vegas might be challenging, since the NFL is "highly regulated" in determining team moves.

"The NFL has never been high on Las Vegas as a location," Bomotti said. "I think they are concerned about our betting, legalized gambling."

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Well it would be a cool move. A lot of the interest in the NFL comes from people gambling. That's what the injury reports are for. Whay not go ahead and put a team in Vegas.

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Well this thing has more twists than a soap opera. The Chargers are going to play in San Diego dor 2016. With that being the case the probability of them working out a deal to get a new stadium there increases greatly. Q vote on proposed taxpayer contributions will still have to take place, likely this summer. Should they end up staying in San Diego, the Raiders would jump at the chance to move to LA. http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25466606/chargers-staying-in-san-diego-for-2016-still-need-stadium-solution

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Well now it seems that the Chargers are closer to staying in San Diego. They just released a rendering of a stadium. http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/25563390/look-the-chargers-release-renderings-of-a-new-san-diego-stadium