Chargers reject stadium proposal

[Dolfan3773]

LA bound?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=4213677

 

[X-Pacolypse]

Yeah, it looks like it. The Chargers have been trying to get something done for years. The team and the city can never agree on anything.

 

[GoonBoss]

Chargers ain't going anywhere. The problem with SoCal is the competiton for the entertainment dollar. The NFL desperately wants an NFL team in LA, but, I just don't think it's ever going to happen. LA has had two teams fail there. It's just not a football city. There's just too much to do in LA. There's craploads of stuff in SD, but, the Chargers are ingrained there into the culture. I just don't see that happening in LA.

 

[Mako]

Chargers ain't going anywhere. The problem with SoCal is the competiton for the entertainment dollar. The NFL desperately wants an NFL team in LA, but, I just don't think it's ever going to happen. LA has had two teams fail there. It's just not a football city. There's just too much to do in LA. There's craploads of stuff in SD, but, the Chargers are ingrained there into the culture. I just don't see that happening in LA.

I disagree on the NFL not being a football city.

I vividly remember Ram and Raider gams having pretty large turnouts on a regular basis.

I've seen USC's popularity remain steady through the years.

LA is a football market... They've just got saddled with an outdated stadium and at least one whackjob for an owner. Al Davis never wanted LA to begin with, he used them as the other woman to get what he wanted out of Oakland.

 

[emeraldfin]

This is according to Wikipedia

California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has championed a new football stadium in Anaheim in tandem with a new L.A. Coliseum. There are reports, however, that NFL owners will not approve a return to the L.A. area until two teams commit to play in a single new stadium (similar to the New York Giants and New York Jets in Giants Stadium). Due to worldwide increases in the prices of steel, concrete and fuel some cost estimates for new stadiums have exceeded $1 billion. As a result, it will be difficult for the league to privately finance one stadium, let alone two. In response to rising cost estimates for a new stadium, new NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has said that returning the NFL to Los Angeles will require the league to consider unspecified "alternative solutions. Some observers, however, dispute the $1 billion figure.

Other than Los Angeles, the NFL has returned to every city it vacated in the modern era (Oakland, Baltimore, St. Louis, Cleveland and Houston). The 2008 NFL season was L.A.'s fourteenth year with no franchise, thus eclipsing Oakland for the longest duration in the modern era that a former NFL city has lacked a franchise.