OT: Rams and possibly Chargers to Los Angeles

Could go either way. They get 100 Mil if they don't go. Owner said he is going to take couple months to decide. I bet he goes. Wish they wouldn't though. SD is big enough to support a team and needs to have one imo.

 

I doubt this ever happens, but if we were to get a team, I think Autzen would make logical sense as a home while their stadium is built. The Chicago Bears played for a season in Champiagn, IL, home of University of Illinois, while Soldier Field was being renovated. And it's similar, about 2 hours south of Chicago.

 

I'm sure you could find a way to add a few thousand seats to Providence. If not, then Corvallis or Eugene.

 

Would LOVE to see a team in Portland. A Portland-Seattle NFL rivalry would be the best in the NFL in a matter of years.

 

I always thought the spot just north of the Ross island bridge would've been perfect for a stadium. Then they built that damn science building and max station

 

Switch the LA Rams to the AFC west and our Portland team to the NFC west!

 

Yup easily. There's only like what? 8 home games a year ? And games are once a week, the drive to Eugene would be easy for these die hard Portlanders.. Autzen would be perfect it's the biggest stadium in the state

 

Green Box = Field
Red/White Box = Stadium
Gray Boxes = Parking Garages
Orange Box = Some type of Concourse
Green Lines = Roads (Some are already there)
Yellow Lines = On/Off Ramps for Bridge

 

Make the Orange box a parking garage and the small gray box at the bottom a concourse that combines with Moda Center and you have a beautiful rose quarter.

 

Those are going to have to be some tall parking garages. Not nearly enough parking

 

You can also use the Moda Centers. Plus, I blew the stadium up a little to big. There'd be more space.

 

But not much. Especially looking at the location. You wiped out Broadway, so traffic in general around that area NOT on game nights is going to be a huge clusterfuck. It already is with the rose quarter, cutting off Broadway and rerouting it like that off of Interstate would be a nightmare. On Sundays...ugh

 

True, but you could figure out some sort of way to route Broadway through south of the stadium. Raise it up and over a parking lot type of thing.

 

I thought Dodge built Rams and Chargers in Detroit?

 

I-5 would be a nightmare if we put a stadium there lol I mean let's think the average Blazer game when they're good has what 18k fans? Times that by 4 and we have the average NFL attendance for a bad team. Top that with how portlanders drive... Ugh. if Oregon were to ever get a team it would not be in the city, have to put it in the outskirts somewhere. (Wilsonville?)

 

In the 2035 plan the area north of the RQ is slated to become a "parking district."

The Rose Quarter MLB stadium proposal had a solid plan in place for the traffic FWIW.

 

Fixed Broadway, Moda Center road structure unchanged. Adds more close parking for Blazer Games, theres a raised concourse overseeing the river (whatever major road that is could go under, or push it out. Would have to try to widen I5 somehow. But since parking is to the north and west instead of south (where a lot of Blazer parking is) traffic would take the right part of the onramp, which moves through faster.

 

Who cares. Football is a pathetic sport.

 

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