[ramfaninsd]

the mayor and eric grubman have confirmed the letter was fake. looks like dan sileo got punked.

[Elvis]

the mayor and eric grubman have confirmed the letter was fake. looks like dan sileo got punked.

Thanks, still looking for something i can link to.

You gonna make it up to Oxnard?

[Elvis]

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/new ... ress-acee/

NFL, San Diego inch forward

Kevin Acee | 5:22 p.m. July 28, 2015

If this is progress, it’s glacial.

And we know what is happening to glaciers.

They’re melting, the oceans are rising, we’re all going to drown.

You want to be optimistic that members of the NFL staff came to town on Tuesday to powwow with San Diego officials. But it feels a little like we’re simply turning down our air conditioning a few degrees in an effort to stop global warming.

As in, too little and too late.

That doesn’t mean San Diego officials shouldn’t be trying, just that the rest of us shouldn’t be counting on the efforts begetting a stadium.

Tuesday’s meeting, which lasted more than three hours, featured for the first time representatives from the NFL and the Chargers in the same room with San Diego’s entire negotiating team. Too, State Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins was present.

The NFL heard about how a stadium in San Diego would be paid for, a plan that would include a combined $500 million from the Chargers and NFL. The city also explained the timeline for its expedited environmental impact report.

“It was the outline of a specific plan that has the active backing of the Mayor,” NFL executive Eric Grubman said. “That is progress.

Read between those lines. There simply hadn’t been any appreciable progress, so this represented progress.

Really, though, Tuesday wasn’t much more than a guidepost. The NFL heard from Faulconer and Atkins, et al, and the league representatives gave feedback on what the city should include in its Aug. 10 presentation to the group of six team owners who comprise the league’s Committee on Los Angeles Opportunities.

One significant chip was played by the city. Atkins pledged the same kind of legislative support that other California cities have received in expediting legal opposition on environmental issues for major projects.

The city continues to maintain it can have an EIR done by mid-August. The Chargers’ view that as preposterous inviting years of litigation the team can’t afford.

“I refer you to Chargers for their opinion,” Grubman said. “My view is that litigation and related risks can be projected, analyzed and sometimes mitigated. And I think more will be known about how serious those risks are within a few months.”

The first part of that answer should be a cause for concern that the NFL defers to the Chargers. The latter portion is a reminder that there is time remaining even as it runs precariously short.

After the meeting, Faulconer said: “We’re entering the fourth quarter and time remains to negotiate a fair and responsible agreement for voter approval if the Chargers return to the negotiating table.”

The fourth quarter actually began many months ago.

Kudos to Faulconer & Co. for conserving clock and playing hard until the end, but we’re still in need of a Hail Mary to win this thing.

As it has been for a while, San Diego’s only hope appears to be the NFL for some reason not allowing the Chargers to move in 2015.

For now, understand that, as a movement, Tuesday’s meeting was a ripple in the pond.

[OldSchool]

I simply cannot believe a letter like that came from the NFL to one of it's member cities. I'd bet the house it came from Fabiani or Policy over the NFL.

[BuiltRamTough]

I say Fabiani. He's been saying the same things with the same verbiage. A "quickie" EIR. He always says "quickie".

[TSFH Fan]

He always says "quickie".

I see what you did there

[Elvis]

I guess i'm agnostic till we know for sure:

[Hacksaw]

Elvis called it. The Chargers want downtown SD and have for a long time. SD has been reluctant / hand fisted to offer up that big a deal for a possible number of reasons.
Now CSD backs are against the wall and will be perceived as culpable if the Chargers leave. Slick. Kroenke serving notice on the league gave Spanos (and Davis to a lesser extent) all the cover they needed.

Not sure if these guys masterminded this stuff or not. Not sure if they are in any kind of cahoots at all, but this thing is unfolding now as if perhaps something is being orchestrated. At least manipulated.

According to the writer the Rams are considered a given, with the Raiders.?. Hadn't heard that. This seems like another opinion being like an a hole.

Fabiani could have been the mistaken product of a quickie.

[The Ripper]

Kind of hard now to say that Kroenke must stay in St Louis if they have $400 million of public money when SD has $ 600 million. Plus getting the buy in from Atkins and the support from Faulconer makes it hard to argue that there's no public commitment.

[Hacksaw]

Exactly Ripper. This is why it can't be a letter from the NFL as the OldSchool pointed out. If it is they have an agenda.