If the NFL comes to the Coliseum, it will be on USC's terms...
yep.
Losing the Rose Bowl as an option drove the price up. I'm sure USC is smiling.
Rose bowl saying no is a huge step in the Rams favor.
Only 1 team can come. With the Carson deal, it needs 2 teams to come in at the same time. This is going the Rams way. NFL don't want the Raiders and Chargers fighting on who's coming first. Now I see the Rams deal with Kronkie funding Inglewood with him helping the Chargers and Raiders fun their stadiums with the location fee. The Rams will be alone in LA with the 2nd LA team being a expansion team along with Saint Louis expansion team.
SL and LA expansion teams will come after SL builds its new stadium and Inglewood is about a year old.
I like this guys thinking.^
I agree,i think thats how it will all play out.
Didn't Davis say he doesn't want the raiders playing on dirt anymore? If so, they won't be going to Dodger or Angels Stadium, nor will the Coliseum take them. And no NFL owner will use Stub Hub, it is insanely too small! So that right there knocks theRaiders out of the picture. Which in turn knocks the Chargers out of LA for at least a few years.
As for expansion, I could see LA getting a second team that way, but it won't be for about a decade, in my estimation. Why? Because there will have to be 8 teams added to the league, one in each division, to keep things balanced. The NFL will have to realign the preseason, moving one or two of those games to the regular season, to allow for an 18-game season (with one or two bye weeks), to make this all work. Which means they will have to negotiate this, likely as part of the next CBA, and the players union will fight it tooth and nail. Also, keep in mind this will likely be an International expansion, with at least four cities outside of the US getting teams (London, Toronto, Mexico City, and somewhere in Germany) joining LA, San Antonio, St. Louis, and a US city to be named later with getting expansion teams.
In short, it is going to be a huge headache with the next expansion, and it will take quite some time to get there, thus at least a decade or more in the future. But it could happen, eventually.
The only thing that is certain is that the Rams will be coming home in 2016, first to the Coliseum, and then to Inglewood a couple of years later.
this poster nailed it as well.
