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Raiders and Chargers stadium sharing option

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Joint Statement from the Raiders and the Chargers
  • We have both been working in our home markets to find a stadium solution for many years, so far unsuccessfully.
  • We remain committed to continuing to work in our home markets throughout 2015 to try to find publicly acceptable solutions to the long-term stadium issue.
  • We also both understand and respect the NFL’s relocation process, and we intend to adhere strictly to the relocation procedures that the League has set forth for Los Angeles.
  • In particular, we respect the right of the NFL’s owners to decide on all Los Angeles-related relocation issues and understand that any relocation application that is filed for Los Angeles must obtain the approval of three-fourths of the NFL’s owners.
  • Both teams have kept the NFL owners’ committee on Los Angeles, and the Commissioner, fully informed about our joint efforts.
  • We are pursuing this stadium option in Carson for one straightforward reason: If we cannot find a permanent solution in our home markets, we have no alternative but to preserve other options to guarantee the future economic viability of our franchises.
In short, for the remainder of 2015, we intend to move down two tracks simultaneously:
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  • On track one, we will continue to work in our home markets to find permanent stadium solutions that are publicly acceptable.
  • On track two, we will work in Carson to preserve our options, and the future economic viability of our franchises, in the event that our efforts in our local markets fail.
Throughout this process we will respect the rules and procedures set forth by the League and defer completely to the ultimate decision of the NFL’s owners.
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What's next, dogs and cats sleeping together???

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Would one of those two have to move to the NFC? Interesting concept anywho
 
If this stadium comes to fruition it'll be nicknamed "the beach house" by week 1 of the regular season.

(just got my crystal ball back from the shop today) :peek:
 
Inglewood unanimously approves stadium plan at Hollywood Park
Posted by Curtis Crabtree on February 25, 2015, 2:29 AM EST


The push to bring NFL football back to Los Angeles took another step forward on Tuesday night.

According to Nathan Fenno of the Los Angeles Times, the Inglewood City Council unanimously voted to approve the stadium project at Hollywood Park bring championed by St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke.

The vote allows officials to avoid putting the project to a vote and skips potentially lengthy environmental reviews. Kroenke has been behind the efforts to build the $2 billion stadium on the former site of the Hollywood Park horse racking track.

With Carson, Calif. also in the running to develop a stadium to house the Chargers and Raiders if those teams can’t get new stadiums in their respective markets, the options for the NFL to return to Los Angeles are more real than ever.
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Bypassing anything now will place one big target on this project by many groups. Side stepping environmental reviews of noise, traffic and air pollution is going to peave off lots of groups and will involve indirect public taxation. This project has the ear marks of one big Cluster****** that has a chance in Hell for completion in our lifetime.

According to the initiative presented to Inglewood, the stadium project "would be funded entirely with private funds provided by the property owner developing the project. Inglewood residents and the city would pay no taxes or subsidies for stadium construction."

The developers estimate the project would generate at least $25 million in new revenue for the city. Once the city begins collecting revenues from the site, however, "the initiative allows for a contingent reimbursement of public costs advanced by the landowner for public services and infrastructure" -- sidewalks, water and sewer systems, public parks, streetlights, traffic lights and other road improvements, according to the city. The reimbursements will be paid only after the city earns at least $25 million in tax revenue from the project each year.

For example, if the city collects $30 million in tax revenue from the stadium in a year, the city would keep $25 million, and the remaining $5 million would be used to reimburse the developer for public infrastructure costs, according to the city. The reimbursements would continue until all of the developer's upfront costs for public infrastructure have been covered, after which the city would keep all revenue from the project, according to city documents.
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This is how things are purported to work.............no public tax monies........riiiiiight...........in theory........too many steps involved and side steps........too many contingencies to complete as planned............which may not be even appreciated until well into the process.........further potentially jeopardizing the tax payers' pocket books.

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That stadium better, indeed, float or fly.........in other words, be prepared to be portable and transportable at a minute's notice...............
 
I like the look of the stadium.

Does the tram have breast cancer?

I 've heard that the horses at the track died of cancer and other weird diseases. This is why Kroenke did what he had to do to circumvent the environmental studies. This is a case of WalMart heirs throwing their weight around. Money talks, if this deal falls thru you can expect the Rams to play in the new LA stadium.
 
CloakNNNdagger said:
Bypassing anything now will place one big target on this project by many groups. Side stepping environmental reviews of noise, traffic and air pollution is going to peave off lots of groups and will involve indirect public taxation. This project has the ear marks of one big Cluster****** that has a chance in Hell for completion in our lifetime.

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This is how things are purported to work.............no public tax monies........riiiiiight...........in theory........too many steps involved and side steps........too many contingencies to complete as planned............which may not be even appreciated until well into the process.........further potentially jeopardizing the tax payers' pocket books.

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That stadium better, indeed, float or fly.........in other words, be prepared to be portable and transportable at a minute's notice...............
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It reminds me of the numerous times public education funding was supposed to be a solved problem if we would only vote for gambling. Yeah....riiiight!
 
And so it begins...............
AEG says Inglewood stadium presents terrorism threat
February 27, 2015, 7:10 PM EST


In the Gumball Rally that has emerged as Inglewood and Carson race to build stadiums in the L.A. area, the company that has been trying to build a downtown venue for the past several years has thrown a fistful of nails into the path of the project proposed for the now-defunct Hollywood Park.

Via Sam Farmer and Nathan Fenno of the Los Angeles Times, a study commissioned by AEG concludes that the Inglewood site presents an unacceptable risk of terrorism.

The study, performed by former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, warns that terrorists may try to hijack or shoot down a plan landing at LAX, with the goal of crashing it into the stadium. Ridge calls the possibility a “a terrorist event ‘twofer.’”

The NFL is aware of the report, but it doesn’t seem to be ready to endorse it.

“We feel that the best approach is to look at these things with an independent eye,” NFL executive V.P. Eric Grubman told the Times. “You should assume the NFL has its own experts hired and at work to assess any potential NFL site, in any city, regarding these matters. And it is that advice that we will rely on.”

AEG has a clear bias; it wants to build the stadium in which one or two NFL teams will play. But the concerns shouldn’t be dismissed. The Inglewood site is in the LAX landing path. If/when a Super Bowl is played there, any and every plane that passed by becomes the potential weapon for mayhem and destruction that would rival — and possibly surpass — the events of September 11, 2001.
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Well the NFL certainly doesn't seem to want the Chargers to move:

The NFL would likely contribute $200 million toward a new Chargers stadium in San Diego, an executive with the commissioner’s office told the mayor’s task force during a phone conversation Tuesday.

The financial contribution was among a number of subjects discussed during the hour-long conversation, said stadium task force chairman Adam Day. The conference call with NFL Executive Vice President Eric Grubman was a prelude to an in-person meeting that is scheduled for next Tuesday when he will meet with a smaller group of members.
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chicagotexan2 said:
It makes no sense to me. It's like the NFL is an abusive relationship and has a woody for L.A. and just can't seem to move even after being dumped repeatedly.
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Times have changed and local enthusiasm is less important. 25 years ago lots of "regular" individuals still owned tickets. Any LA stadium now is going to sell out with corporations and Jack Nicholson, et al. And the stadium is less important to revenue. It's all about the TV contracts which are all about markets. Oakland adds little to nothing competing with San Fran. San Diego has its own market so the NFL wants them to stay.
 
infantrycak said:
Times have changed and local enthusiasm is less important. 25 years ago lots of "regular" individuals still owned tickets. Any LA stadium now is going to sell out with corporations and Jack Nicholson, et al. And the stadium is less important to revenue. It's all about the TV contracts which are all about markets. Oakland adds little to nothing competing with San Fran. San Diego has its own market so the NFL wants them to stay.
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Good point. And now that they are relaxing blackout rules, they don't even have to sell out the stadium from week to week.
 
So now it's gonna be Rams and Chargers, back to a Two-LA system?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl...ted-to-move-to-los-angeles-in-2017/ar-AAl1Wj8

Report: Chargers expected to move to Los Angeles in 2017

The San Diego Chargers are set to exercise their relocation option and move to Los Angeles in 2017, ESPN reports.

In January, when the NFL approved of the Rams’ move from St. Louis to L.A., the Chargers were given a deadline of Jan. 15, 2017 to make a decision on their own option. Chargers chairman Dean Spanos has yet to officially notify the league, and has said he will wait until after the season, but according to ESPN, the move is looking like a done deal, “barring a miracle.”.....
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