Three teams, the Rams, Chargers and Raiders, are vying to relocate to Los Angeles. The Rams, one of the long shots to earn that right, are making a last-ditch effort to partner up with the Chargers to get the job done, according to NFL.com’s Ian Rappoport.
Progress: #Rams propose making a second team in Inglewood a full partner in the stadium. The proposal was made to the committee, source said
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) December 2, 2015
As Rappoport said, the Chargers and Rams partnership would center around a stadium in Inglewood, while rumors had sprouted up involving the Raiders and Chargers based on a proposed stadium in Carson. Los Angeles’ bid for the 2024 Olympics could come into play in this three-way race to Hollywood, because an Inglewood stadium would be much closer to the proposed Olympic hub -- near the Staples Center -- than a stadium in Carson would be.
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Positioning a new stadium as a chip to attract the 2024 Games could also be crucial to securing support for public funding of the stadium. The obvious spin would be that the stadium would pay for itself because of not only the boost an NFL franchise would give to the city and its economy, but the prestige and bump of hosting the Olympics. The city and owners would have to creatively paper over the long history of Olympic games providing no benefit for the host cities, or even pushing them into debt, but it would not be the first time the Games were sold as an economic boon.
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