“The NYC area supports two football teams.
It’s because they too won’t give subsidies to billionaires. A Billion dollars to move. After the Nordiques moved to Colorado in 1995 and the Jets to Phoenix in 1996, this relocation would have been a serious blow to Canadian hockey. But Deano wanted everything handed to him, and San Diego wouldn’t do that (They gave him A LOT, but they didn’t give him everything).
It’s never worked. (The AFC East plays the NFC West in 2020, so the Chargers would need two away opponents there.).
The Light Sockets should go back to Tijuana. Why the media thinks the Chargers should be drawing fans in larger quantities after only a few seasons is incomprehensible. In January 2013, owner Stephen Ross bid to acquire AEG, a firm that was trying to build a stadium in downtown Los Angeles. Ten moments to remember from the Rams' time in St. Louis, Why Chargers fan, 100, is ready to let them go, Former editor at The San Diego Union-Tribune. The Bills had been rumored as a relocation candidate for years based on Buffalo's status as a small media market. Tom Brady's last chance to settle score with Broncos? -- which seems easy enough in the offseason with a U.S. home base or something. A closer look at what's ailing Eagles' Carson Wentz.
In October 2018, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell also made it clear that London might be ready for its own franchise. If not then sales may drop.
(1:58). Having already existed as the Kansas City Scouts and Colorado Rockies, the Devils were close to calling a fourth location home.
While an arena had to be built in Houston, if the city were not ready for the Oilers, the Houston Chronicle wrote that the Oilers would play in an interim city such as Nashville until Houston was ready for NHL hockey. And one aspect of the story continues to really reverberate: potential realignment. "It's Los Angeles' team to lose," Carolina owner Jerry Richardson, chairman of the NFL expansion committee, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times. The Chargers already left San Diego and are moving to London in this hypothetical, so we're not going to get too caught up in their sense of tradition. Call a game from 2,300 miles away? Dome In place , rabid fans, and Texas can support 3 teams! In desperation, he called Pocklington for help. You still need fannies in the seats AND eyeballs on tvs. r8rsfan says: 6-keys: media/spln/nfl/reg/free/stories, at He was actually offered a new stadium in Mission Valley, but he insisted on one downtown, despite it requiring a lot more moving parts. "There is no substance whatsoever to this report," the league said. The Hockey News uses Pocklington’s book to show how the trade would have helped Ballard: "The book points out that the Oilers were league leaders in attendance and were playing in a new building with more seats than Maple Leaf Gardens. Basketball for some reason does well there, but that’s about it. Once Kroenke beat Spanos there, it was over. If ever there were an NFL franchise that could cry about revenue, it would be the Jaguars. Consequently, speculation was rampant for years that the team would bolt for Los Angeles. We'll look at those near misses, close calls, and fervent relocation rumors in times when NHL teams almost called another city home. Hillsborough County voters approved a tax hike in September 1996 that allowed construction to begin on a new venue in Tampa, and the Bucs moved into Raymond James Stadium in 1998.