[Hacksaw]

http://kplr11.com/2015/12/01/kroenke-ta ... um=twitter

DALLAS, TX (KTVI) – NFL owners are in Dallas for two days of meetings that include discussion on the 3 teams wanting to move to Los Angeles.

Rams owner Stan Kroenke met with Missouri Governor Jay Nixon Monday at Rams Park ahead of the meeting in Dallas. Some are speculating that Kroenke's uncertainly of his Inglewood stadium project to gain NFL owners support was a topic at Tuesday’s committee meetings. But dominate topic was the Rams, San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders desire to move to Los Angeles.

FOX 2’s Andy Banker is in Dallas and confirmed that Kroenke spoke with Los Angeles Opportunities Committee about his plans for a stadium in LA., and an update on St. Louis Riverfront Stadium project financing.

The meetings will go into Wednesday with all of the NLF team owners discussing the potential move of one or more teams moving to Los Angeles.

It’s expected no decision will be made at this owners meeting, and that another meeting to be scheduled in January may actually name the team or teams to move to LA."



So is this what ESK met with Nixon about?

[Hacksaw]

The most interesting development for me is the idea that the LA committee might not make a suggestion, or that the owners may go into the vote blind.

The later is pretty hard to imagine, the NFL is inept, but that would be an entire new level... My guess is that a blind vote would be more likely to favor Kroenke though, simply because he has the money.

LA committee not making a recommendation is an interesting take, especially since there's been discussions that most of them are in favor of Carson. One would expect Carson to get the nod from them, unless they felt that it was very unlikely, and they didn't want to put their names behind the project that isn't going to happen, and cause animosity.

BC this should be a concern for Spanos if he doesn't play ball with ESK. ESK spoke of StL financing today during his pitch too. Rams are looking solid for LA unless we aren't getting all the legit owner and big media input / tweets and such In LA it's seldom about the ram with the slight exception in the last few days..

[bluecoconuts]

The most interesting development for me is the idea that the LA committee might not make a suggestion, or that the owners may go into the vote blind.

The later is pretty hard to imagine, the NFL is inept, but that would be an entire new level... My guess is that a blind vote would be more likely to favor Kroenke though, simply because he has the money.

LA committee not making a recommendation is an interesting take, especially since there's been discussions that most of them are in favor of Carson. One would expect Carson to get the nod from them, unless they felt that it was very unlikely, and they didn't want to put their names behind the project that isn't going to happen, and cause animosity.

BC this should be a concern for Spanos if he doesn't play ball with ESK. ESK spoke of StL financing today during his pitch too. Rams are looking solid for LA unless we aren't getting all the legit owner and big media input / tweets and such In LA it's seldom about the ram with the slight exception in the last few days..

I haven't seen anything that really went into specifics of what was said today, I would be interested in them though.

[Elvis]

[moklerman]

Does Spanos REALLY want to walk away from San Diego? No way the NFL leaves that city vacant and even if they did, San Diegans would HATE Spanos for taking their Chargers away.

I just don't understand the math on this. Spanos apparently thinks he's going to keep all of his fans from San Diego as well as gain whatever fans there are in LA. I mean, that's his main gripe, right? That a new team in LA will hurt his overall fan base. But I think he'll lose a lot more fans from SD than he'll gain from LA if he moves the Chargers.

If nothing else, it seems that Spanos is going to play this out to the end but I still don't think the Chargers are actually going to move.

[Hacksaw]

Does Spanos REALLY want to walk away from San Diego? No way the NFL leaves that city vacant and even if they did, San Diegans would HATE Spanos for taking their Chargers away.

I just don't understand the math on this. Spanos apparently thinks he's going to keep all of his fans from San Diego as well as gain whatever fans there are in LA. I mean, that's his main gripe, right? That a new team in LA will hurt his overall fan base. But I think he'll lose a lot more fans from SD than he'll gain from LA if he moves the Chargers.

If nothing else, it seems that Spanos is going to play this out to the end but I still don't think the Chargers are actually going to move.

Not to mention his teams popularity. Rams will dominate the market share here at first and if the 2 teams stay on an even par (unlike when the Raiders were winning Superbowl's in LA while GF was dismantling our team) it will always stay that way. I guess these owners are really removed from the daily fans to not consider this.

[max]

I think its quite possible that Spanos just wants the $$$ from LA. And he may rebrand the team and jettison the Chargers moniker.

It doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. It would be like LA getting a virtual expansion team they can name themselves and call their own. And why not? The Chargers have been playing like an expansion team this year.

I think an expansion team would give the Rams more competition for the fan base than the Chargers in LA. LA does like things that are shiny and new, especially ones that are fake. And the Chargers rebranding fits that mold perfectly.

Now, I think the plan should be similar to what the Oilers did in Tenn. The Chargers can play in LA until the stadium is ready, then when the 2 teams move into Inglewood in 2018, the Chargers become the LA Hollywood Knights or whatever.

[BuiltRamTough]

[OldSchool]

Everything I've seen from Chargers fans is the team would lose 75% of their fan base by moving to LA.

[SoCalRam78]

If Kroenke offers Spanos a 50/50 split deal and he balks and pushes Carson, then you know his desire to move to LA is complete bullshit. I've never bought his Carson rationale as a better site. Just posturing.