Looks like the Oakland Raiders will remain in Oakland
The NFL's LA Committee working now to sort out these matters and potentially dissolve the Raiders/Chargers pact.
— Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) January 12, 2016
If you’re from the city of Los Angeles and thirsty for the Oakland Raiders to move to your city, don’t shoot the messenger! But it’s starting to look a lot like the Raiders won’t be making the move to L.A. It all started yesterday with Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones submitting a plan that has St. Louis Rams and San Diego Chargers to sharing a stadium in Inglewood.
That picked up steam coming into today and it showed up big in the NFL’s first round of votes today. Despite the biased L.A. committee recommending the Carson project, Kroenke’s Inglewood project with an open slot for another team is more favored 20-12 over Spanos’ Carson project with the Raiders.
If you take the teams out of it, Kroekne’s 2.6 billion project with the NFL office space, NFL Network studios, ect is just better. The votes that came in for San Diego Chargers were because they wanted to take care of owner Dean Spanos. Plus there’s the fact that the owners don’t want the Raiders in L.A under any circumstances.
Spanos knew this when he brought Raiders owner Mark Davis on board after Kroenke declared his intent to move to L.A. He’s a good friend of Davis and knew that if they created a log jam to get to L.A., the NFL would have to take care of Davis and help him build a new stadium in nation’s second largest market.
So if you always wanted the Raiders to stay in Oakland and get a stadium built there, you just became a big fan of Spanos. Davis stating his first intent was to get something done in Oakland was was in honesty. He had to go through with filing for relocation, otherwise, he would have to continue playing in a baseball stadium.
Now, according to Jason LaCanfora, the NFL is sifting through legal matters to dissolve the partnership between the Chargers and Raiders in Carson. As soon as that’s done, the Chargers and the Rams will likely take their seats in L.A. at the Inglewood site. Everyone wins here as Davis gets his stadium in Oakland while Spanos and Kroenke take the NFL back to the city of Angels.
Enjoy your Rams and Chargers, L.A.!