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Chargers to stay in San Diego for at least 2016

Bolts still have decision to make about whether to move

By Kevin Acee | 1:15 p.m. Jan. 29, 2016

There will be at least a 56th year of the San Diego Chargers.

The Chargers on Friday announced they will stay in San Diego for at least the 2016 season and attempt to get a stadium built.

In a statement, Chargers chairman Dean Spanos said:

"Dear Chargers Fans,

Today I decided our team will stay in San Diego for the 2016 season and I hope for the long term in a new stadium.

I have met with Mayor Faulconer and Supervisor Roberts and I look forward to working closely with them and the business community to resolve our stadium dilemma. We have an option and an agreement with the Los Angeles Rams to go to Inglewood in the next year, but my focus is on San Diego.

This has been our home for 55 years, and I want to keep the team here and provide the world-class stadium experience you deserve.

Everyone on both sides of the table in San Diego must now determine the best next steps and how to deploy the additional resources provided by the NFL.

I am committed to looking at this with a fresh perspective and new sense of possibility."

The agreement with the Rams allows the Chargers to move to Los Angeles.

The question that remains is when that will happen — or if it will.

NFL owners voted earlier this month to allow the Rams to move from Los Angeles and gave the Chargers the option to join them. The sides began meeting the following week and focused on a deal brokered by the NFL in which the Chargers would be a revenue-sharing tenant in the Inglewood stadium, which is set to open in 2019.

The Chargers have until January 15, 2017, to exercise their option to move. If they get a stadium initiative approved this year, that deadline could be extended to 2018 to allow for legal challenges or a second election, if necessary.

So they've got the deal with Kroenke as leverage, and if they need it.

Regardless of their actual plans, they had to say super nice things about San Diego, i mean they are going to play there in 2016, now it can be as a team hoping to stay.

L.A. is all ours for 2016...

That's it. The Chargers are not moving to LA period.

Only open item is what the Raiders do next year.

Even if the Chargers don't move to LA in 17', I really doubt the Raiders end up in LA. The NFL doesn't want them in LA.

And all those media NFL Insiders who said only sure thing was Chargers in LA.

Idiots.

How beautiful is this working out! Chargers staying in San Diego and the Raiders moving to Las Vegas! It's a dream come true!