[Stranger]

This thing is done and we are all trying to decipher Pandora's Web ,, , , so to speak. I can't turn away but I should.

Truer words were never spoken.

Now, if people could just turn away from the "news" propaganda machine, things might start moving back to some sort of normality. But alas, everyone is hooked.

[bluecoconuts]

I wouldn't be surprised if Carson won.. I don't think it's the smart decision, but the NFL doesn't always make smart decisions. The NFL is just big enough to be stupid enough to think that they can place personal feelings over business and be totally fine.

[Hacksaw]

I wouldn't be surprised if Carson won.. I don't think it's the smart decision, but the NFL doesn't always make smart decisions. The NFL is just big enough to be stupid enough to think that they can place personal feelings over business and be totally fine.

If it turns out that way, they might have lost one fan. They won't care but I hope that their LA decision becomes a nation wide laughing stock right out in front of everyone.

[SWAdude]

My impression has been that those on the Spanos side are not pro Carson. They are pro Spanos. Rams moving to Inglewood is not a pro Spanos position.

If indeed the owners are forced into a decision next month, there are few questions about the Inglewood project. There are many uncertainties about the St Louis and Carson proposals. Kroenke is ready to break ground this or next month. St Louis and Carson are littered with lack of financial and lawsuit possibilities. Kroenke has brilliantly set himself up to win either way. Billions in way of gains on team value, or billions in gains from the lawsuit showing he complied in good faith with the NFL guidelines and was unlawfully not allowed to move his team.

The owners are aware of this and just trying to cover their own so when Kroenke moves the team one way or another, the owners once again, will not favor an anti-trust lawsuit they all but certain will lose.

[Hacksaw]

Very much the concise recap of the situation SWA. And welcome to the board. Glad you are here and your early takes have been spot on.

The pro Spanos spin machine is pro Carson but that has intentionally blurred the lines between what the Chargers really want and what they will agree to do in order to block the evil Kroenke.
I also tend to agree ESK is in control legally and financially. At least from what I've read,, good call.

If the NFL awarded the 2 losers the big prize, I might be irreversibly turned away from the game/team I've enjoyed since the '60s. I can't support anything StLoo anymore. I don't think it will come to that though.
Still,, I wish I was driving the bus.

[dieterbrock]

I wouldn't be surprised if Carson won.. I don't think it's the smart decision, but the NFL doesn't always make smart decisions. The NFL is just big enough to be stupid enough to think that they can place personal feelings over business and be totally fine.

That's where I'm at too.
The NFL doesnt make the correct decision all the time, they miss as much as they make.
I was way more confident weeks ago.

[snackdaddy]

These articles are going to continue to come out for one side or the other/ They'll either be opinion pieces or retreads of what we already know. Look hard the next few days and you'll find one that says Kroenke is ahead. The back and forth will continue until something rock solid is decided. Then every will say "I knew that would happen".

[dieterbrock]

These articles are going to continue to come out for one side or the other/ They'll either be opinion pieces or retreads of what we already know. Look hard the next few days and you'll find one that says Kroenke is ahead. The back and forth will continue until something rock solid is decided. Then every will say "I knew that would happen".

I hear you on that, however the 50/50 investment "opportunity" in Inglewood just doesnt sit well with me.
Can be spun either way, but being impartial I dont feel comfortable with that approach.
IMO that was a move made as a result of some feedback coming from the ownership group, some feedback that Kroeke had to react to.
Inglewood and Rams to LA makes so much more sense than the rest, but like Blue said, the NFL doesnt make smart moves

[bubbaramfan]

I find it curious Kroenke hasn't done as Spans has, and hired a front man like Policy or Fabiani to spin proposed Carson site in a negative way. God knows there's enough to spin. The remediation, the Carson politicians, Carson fund mismanagement, financing, relocation fees, the problems with two teams raising PSL's for the same stadium, two teams in the dame division. I could go on. Why hasn't he done it? Maybe he knows he doesn't need to?

[den-the-coach]

Maybe he knows he doesn't need to?

And that in a nutshell could be correct. bubba you keep me going because you are closer to Carson than anyone and have always gave us fact vs fiction.