Looks Like It Will Have To Be Jacksonville or Buffalo......

[shmessy]

Oakland will be keeping the Raiders.

[Post edit: Forgot to include link]:
New stadium deal for Raiders gives team land, pays off debt - SFGate

The hunt for the next LA team continues.......

 

[BradyFTW!]

Living in LA, it's kinda weird to see how few people even care if the city gets a team. All of the transplants keep their old allegiances, and there's a lot of transplants here: I've befriended enough New Englanders here that we could practically consider ourselves a colony. All of the locals are either a) Chargers fans, b) Raiders fans, or c) USC fans who don't care all that much about the NFL. I've heard rumors of UCLA fans being a thing, too, though you never really see them outside of the areas immediately adjacent to UCLA.

Personally, I thought that the Raiders were the best option if LA was going to get a team. Most of the guys in their mid-30s around here are already Raiders fans dating back to their childhoods, so it'd be a pretty seamless transition. Would also maintain the sensibility of the current divisional alignments. If the Bills or Jags suddenly moved, though? Well, LA generally doesn't root for losers--they even turned on the Lakers this past season--and those teams both suck. At least in the Raiders' case, there's a local history here. But if it's just some other team with no history in LA that also sucks... who knows. Maybe it wouldn't matter, maybe in the grand scheme of things nobody cares because good teams don't stay good for long anyway.

Also, if the Jags or Bills moved, they would clearly have to switch divisions, which would create a domino effect where KC probably moves to the AFCE/AFCS, depending on which team moves to LA.

Lastly, I don't honestly believe that the NFL wants a team in LA. LA is most valuable to them as a bargaining chip to extort more public funding out of whatever city is currently in danger of losing its team. I really wish the city would just tell the NFL to get bent, because it isn't fair to the taxpayers of LA, Buffalo, Jacksonville, Minneapolis, St. Louis, etc.

 

[Kontradiction]

The Jags just sunk millions of dollars into Everbank Field by putting in poolside cabanas and the largest LED screens of any stadium in the NFL on each end of the stadium. Anyone that watched Hard Knocks last night saw the pools and cabanas. That said, given the amount of money Khan sank into the stadium on top of how much he's reportedly been willing to invest in downtown Jacksonville (which is a ****hole for anybody that didn't make the Super Bowl trip), it's hard to see the Jags moving to L.A.

 

[TruthSeeker]

The Raiders belong in Oakland, period. It was crime that Davis took them from Oakland and was in LA all that time. They are Oakland's team.

 

[Gronkandez]

Oakland will be keeping the Raiders.

link?

 

[Deus Irae]

link?

 

[captain stone]

The Jags just sunk millions of dollars into Everbank Field by putting in poolside cabanas and the largest LED screens of any stadium in the NFL on each end of the stadium. Anyone that watched Hard Knocks last night saw the pools and cabanas. That said, given the amount of money Khan sank into the stadium on top of how much he's reportedly been willing to invest in downtown Jacksonville (which is a ****hole for anybody that didn't make the Super Bowl trip), it's hard to see the Jags moving to L.A.

I don't disagree, but I'd still rather see Jax move to LA. They never should've been awarded a franchise
in the first place.

 

[Huckleberry1]

If the league has their way my guess it would be the Bills so that they can slide a London based franchise into the AFCE.

Not what I want but it would suit their intentions perfectly.

 

[Joey007]

If Jacksonville didn't put in so much money into Everbank field, they'd be the perfect team. Buffalo moving to LA would seem wrong in every sense of the word.

 

[shmessy]

link?

Oops, sorry, forget to include that!

New stadium deal for Raiders gives team land, pays off debt - SFGate

Obviously, still not a done deal, but a LOT closer than before.

 

[SB39]

Not having a team in LA (so that owners could threaten to move there) has proven far more valuable to the league than having a team in LA. This isn't baseball or basketball where having a big market team sells more tickets or gets you significantly higher ratings. While those leagues pray for LA, NY or Chicago to make the playoffs/finals to please the networks, the NFL doesn't care. People watch no matter what.

 

[Fencer]

I grew up a UCLA fan, but then my mother and I each attended the university for a while, and we also each lived close enough for it to be an easy commute.

For me, this was back when the Rams were in town (Roman Gabriel/Jack Snow/George Allen era), so to me they were just another local team. At that point, baseball/Dodgers was my big sports interest.

 

[PATS16N0]

L.A. is a basketball city. It's been tried. They don't care enough about football to warrant a team.

 

[PATS16N0]

I can maybe see a team in Canada but I have to wonder how taxation would work. It would be hard for a Toronto team to sign talent if they were going to be taxed on their earnings by two nations, state, federal, and whatever. I'm not sure how that would work but I can see it being a huge problem.

 

[SB39]

I can maybe see a team in Canada but I have to wonder how taxation would work. It would be hard for a Toronto team to sign talent if they were going to be taxed on their earnings by two nations, state, federal, and whatever. I'm not sure how that would work but I can see it being a huge problem.

The only way Canada gets a team is if Buffalo moves there. That whole Eastern Great Lakes region is already full of teams that can't sell tickets so they aren't going to force another in.

 

[Froob]

The Raiders belong in Oakland, period. It was crime that Davis took them from Oakland and was in LA all that time. They are Oakland's team.

They deserve each other.

 

[AzorianPats]

If it's not the Raiders, expect it to be either the Rams or Chargers.

 

[captain stone]

The SD Chargers did begin as the LA Chargers, so I can see a return as a distinct but sad possibility.

 

[SB39]

The SD Chargers did begin as the LA Chargers, so I can see a return as a distinct but sad possibility.

Just out of curiosity, why do you say a "sad" possibility? I couldn't care less if the Chargers played 1 one city or the other. SD can't exactly be seen like a big football town that lost a team like Baltimore was when they lost the Colts or Cleveland losing the Browns.

 

[captain stone]

I agree that SD losing the Chargers wouldn't be on the same level as Baltimore losing the Colts
(thanks horse-mouth Elway & drunk liar Irsay) or Cleveland losing the Browns (thanks Modell),
but at least SD has some history of success, both in the AFL & AFC. Jax, OTOH, outside of the
Tom Coughlin years hasn't done a goddamned thing.