Deja Vu - Rams, Raiders maybe headed back to LA http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/994...say-relocation-to-los-angeles-is-a-done-deal/ http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...um=referral&utm_campaign=programming-national
Timetable for decision on teams in LA could be moved up The NFL could approve a team move to Los Angeles by the end of the year, with a club playing in the area by the 2016 season. NFL vice president Eric Grubman, the league's lead man on a possible return to LA, said Wednesday the window for such applications that now begins Jan. 1 could be moved "to very late in the (upcoming) regular season." The 32 team owners could vote on a team's relocation "some weeks after that." The team would play in an existing stadium until a new one is built. Grubman said there were several options, though he declined to list them beyond the Rose Bowl and LA Coliseum, which was the Raiders' home before heading back to Oakland in 1995. Anaheim, where the Rams played before leaving for St. Louis that same year, also could be a temporary home for a relocated team, as could Dodger Stadium. http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/05/20/51842/timetable-for-decision-on-teams-in-la-could-be-mov/
NFL Wants Players To Pay For Los Angeles Stadium - Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-25/nfl-wants-players-to-pay-for-los-angeles-stadium The National Football League is asking its players to help finance any new stadium in Los Angeles, a prerequisite to putting a team in the No. 2 U.S. media market for the first time since the Raiders and Rams bolted in 1994. The NFL players union, which confirmed the talks, typically assumes some of the cost of stadium financing through what are called stadium credits, negotiated in the collective bargaining agreement. However, team owners have exhausted the credits approved in the existing contract, which runs through 2020. Any additional money from players -- as for a proposed stadium in L.A. -- must be approved on a one-off basis. Both the NFL and the city are eager to bring a team back to Los Angeles. Officials in Carson, California, about 17 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, approved a $1.65 billion stadium project earlier this year to lure the San Diego Chargers and the Oakland Raiders. As Carson courts those two teams, Inglewood, a city about 13 miles to the northwest, is wooing the Rams, who are owned by billionaire Stan Kroenke. He bought the team in 2010 for about $750 million, and has bought land for an 80,000-seat stadium, the plans for which were approved by the Inglewood city council.
