NFL Commissioner Rejects 3 Cities' Stadium Plans as Not Viable

Earlier on Saturday, CBS Sports NFL Insider on a potential Rams-Chargers partnership, which further complicates the picture.

The beneficiaries can expect to boost their revenues by hundreds of millions a year.

Goodell concludes that city leaders in all three of the communities hoping to keep their teams - Oakland, San Diego and St. Louis - have missed their opportunity, said a person who has read the report and spoke to the Post-Dispatch on condition of anonymity.

The winning bid requires 24 votes among league owners.

The Chargers and Raiders have proposed their own joint stadium in Carson, but there won't be two stadiums built. Owners said Goodell had been pushing toward this for months. When the Raiders and Rams both played in L.A., games were often blacked out on local T.V. because the teams failed to sell out tickets, Vrooman said. But all agreed that it was likely to be the deciding factor in the decision. They've tried the L.A. thing already, and it didn't work, so what makes them think it's going to work now? "The question is, when that happens, what kind of influence does it have on the votes?"

In just a few days, the future of the San Diego Chargers could be decided at a hotel in Houston.

"The teams going back to their home markets ... that is a problem", said Marc Ganis, president and founder of Chicago-based sports business consulting firm SportsCorp. Common sense points to another team's relocation fees covering that gap, but we all know how much common sense the National Football League has.

Kroenke's most noteworthy claims in the proposal, though, were about the city's economy, which he said "ranks 490 out of 515 US cities and 61st among the 64 largest USA cities in economic growth in recent years", according to one study.

Blame it on Stan Kroenke. While not as popular as Spanos, his money and his business acumen are widely respected. Pair that with the consensus that the Carson project has surpassed the Inglewood project and it makes St Louis' case a bit stronger to keep the Rams.

But they believed they didn't when Kroenke made his move. "It's very hard to see any deal happening without making peace with him one way or the other".

The team cited data indicating a lagging economy in St. Louis, and suggested an indifferent fan base is more interested in baseball's Cardinals than pro football. The task force projected that a move to the new stadium would propel the Rams from 28th in the league in revenue to "near the top half".

The report says that none of the three teams would be breaking its lease by moving from its current market, and that market research supports the conclusion that the L.A. area is capable of supporting two teams.

"We have not seen the report, nor do we expect to, as that would be a matter between the league office and team owners", the St. Louis stadium task force said in a statement. the Chargers to the mix, and you'd have three teams utilizing one stadium for an unforeseen amount time. "The intent is to resolve the issue in Houston".

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