OT: Raiders/Chargers Potentially Making Joint Stadium... in Carson
http://www.chargers.com/news/2015/02/19/joint-statement-raiders-and-cha…
So....2 division rivals... 1 stadium... this is going to go over well if it comes to fruition. Al Davis is probably rolling over in his grave at the thought of it. Not to mention what are the Chargers' owners thinking? There's no way the Raiders are less popular than the Chargers in LA.
LA Raiders straight outta Compton/Carson?
LA Chargers of San Diego by way of Carson?
February 20th, 2015 at 12:17 AM ^
Feel for SD fans if this is true.
As for the Raiders? Whatever. They can't seem to pick a city.
February 20th, 2015 at 12:49 AM ^
February 20th, 2015 at 12:20 AM ^
Giant market with no NFL. Now the race is officially on between the Rams, Chaaargas, and Raaidaas. Should be fun to watch.
Aaannd the Cardinals should have never left Chicago, IMHO.
February 20th, 2015 at 12:33 AM ^
February 20th, 2015 at 12:42 AM ^
This ain't Moscow man.
(For those who do not know, there are 5 top flight soccer teams all based in Moscow that play in the Russian Premier League)
February 20th, 2015 at 9:00 AM ^
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February 20th, 2015 at 9:34 AM ^
Chelsea, Tottenham, Arsenal, QPR, Crystal Palace, and West Ham currently. I forget but I think there's one or two others that are either in the next division down or were in the Premier League within the last 10 years.
February 20th, 2015 at 9:48 AM ^
Fulham, Millwall, Charlton Athletic, Wimbeldon, Brentford, Leyton Orient, Dag and Red - a lot of teams
February 20th, 2015 at 11:35 AM ^
Because they notoriously moved to Milton Keynes a few years ago.
February 20th, 2015 at 12:59 AM ^
There would never have been four MLB teams in NYC. The Mets were created as a replacement for the two lost NL franchises.
February 20th, 2015 at 1:55 AM ^
And while we're at it, why not send the Pistons away from The Palace and Auburn Hills--- but not to Detroit. Instead, back to Fort Wayne. Even the building that once was home to the Fort Wayne Pistons from 1952-57, The Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, is still in use. 13,000 seats should be plenty, as poorly as the Pistons have been drawing at The Palace the last few seasons.
February 20th, 2015 at 12:23 AM ^
Negotiating ploy.
February 20th, 2015 at 12:29 AM ^
Mark Davis is probably trying to get Oakland to toss in some free hair cuts so the Raiders will stay.
February 20th, 2015 at 12:52 AM ^
February 20th, 2015 at 12:53 AM ^
All will be well in Raider-land.
February 20th, 2015 at 12:24 AM ^
The Raaaaaagers
February 20th, 2015 at 12:29 AM ^
If the Raiders want to move to LA they should have to leave the name behind.
Yeah, people will say "They BELONG in LA!" Well, they have actually been back in Oakland longer than they were in LA. LA was the original home of the Chargers, so that could work. If the Raiders want to move back there they should be forced to chose between being the Raiders and being a LA team. The precident has been set. The Raiders are the team of Oakland as the Browns are the team of Cleveland (as the Colts should be Baltimore.)
To think, San Francisco and Oakland could both be without teams.
February 20th, 2015 at 12:32 AM ^
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February 20th, 2015 at 9:58 AM ^
February 20th, 2015 at 10:54 AM ^
I seriously think they're trying to find the worst possible location for this thing. At one point, it was going to be Farmer's Field downtown (great location, right next to Staples and LA Live). Now it's all Irwindale, Inglewood and Carson. Just awful.
February 20th, 2015 at 12:39 AM ^
Los Angeles Rams
St Louis Cardinals
Baltimore Colts
February 20th, 2015 at 12:48 AM ^
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February 20th, 2015 at 12:59 AM ^
Cleveland Rams
February 20th, 2015 at 12:51 AM ^
Let St. Louis have the Jaguars -- they deserve each other. Stupid St. Louis.
February 20th, 2015 at 12:41 AM ^
Matter of fact...
Buffalo to Toronto
Jacksonville to San Antonio and change the nickname
Change "Tampa Bay" to "Florida" and play 1/2 the season in Orlando
Oakland to Los Angeles
San Diego stays in San Diego
St. Louis to Los Angeles and change the nickname
...make it happen Goddell.
February 20th, 2015 at 12:47 AM ^
Buffalo stays in Buffalo. Toronto wants football - drive an hour.
Jacksonville moves to St. Louis. Rebrands as the Cardinals.
Tampa Bay stays in Tampa (but no more Lovie Smith)
Oakland stays in Oakland. They are the fucking RAIDERS......
San Diego stays in SD (but the powder blue uni's are required. Those are AWESOME)
St. Louis to LA and KEEP the nickname. They were the LA Rams way before the St Louis Rams my friend.
February 20th, 2015 at 12:52 AM ^
Who would have thought that the Bay Area would not have a single team after all this is said and done.... (Santa Clara 49ers LOL)
February 20th, 2015 at 1:37 AM ^
February 20th, 2015 at 2:11 AM ^
True, but a 49 mile drive on a California highway to go see a team in an expensive ass venue a county and half away? Yikes.
February 20th, 2015 at 2:53 AM ^
unless you're also arguing that Silicon Valley is not in the bay area.
February 20th, 2015 at 3:10 AM ^
I was making light of the fact that the new stadium is a huge inconvenience apparently for many Niners fans I know.
Maybe I should have just said San Fran and Oakland. My b.
February 20th, 2015 at 10:56 AM ^
What you're ignoring is that a lot of the fans (and a lot of the money) actually lives closer to Santa Clara than to where Candlestick was. This goes double of the Raiders move.
February 20th, 2015 at 11:15 AM ^
For some data: There three counties on the West/South part of the Bay Area - SF, San Mateo and Santa Clara. Their poulations are:
SF: 837k
San Mateo: 747K
Santa Clara: 1,862k
San Mateo residents are essentially uneffected by this since it's about equidistant South as it was North. But there are more than twice as many people in Santa Clara County as there are in SF County so it's actually a lot closer to more people. Santa Clara County is also growing more quickly, which possibly played a part in the decision.
February 20th, 2015 at 11:44 AM ^
There's people in SF County that are closer to the stadium then people in Santa Clara County. Santa Clara County extends to the northern border of the Central Valley.
February 20th, 2015 at 3:09 PM ^
If you're going to nit-pick, then worth pointing out that the overwhelming majority of the population in Santa Clara county is very close to Santa Clara. You've got 50,000 people down in Gilroy, 40,000 in Morgan Hill, and pretty much the remaining 1.75 million between Palo Alto and San Jose.
February 20th, 2015 at 12:55 AM ^
February 20th, 2015 at 1:08 AM ^
As a kid growing up I LOVED when the Chargers were on TV. They had seiously bad-ass uni's
February 20th, 2015 at 2:36 AM ^
How many Lions fans know that John Hadl, pictured above, was a first round pick of the Lions in 1962? He was picked in the third round of the AFL draft and signed with the Chargers. The Lion's ineptitude goes back a loooooooong way.
February 20th, 2015 at 9:33 AM ^
I actually asked a spartie/charger fan last season if he knew who John Hadl was and he had no clue. What ignorance we find among us.
February 21st, 2015 at 7:55 AM ^
February 21st, 2015 at 2:08 AM ^
Those colors are closer to Michigan's official colors of maize and azure blue than the highlighter yellow and navy tint.
February 20th, 2015 at 1:04 AM ^
Toronto has football already. It's just played on an 110-yard field with 12 players, and rouges.
February 20th, 2015 at 9:38 AM ^
Gray Cup? No, Coupe Grey.
February 20th, 2015 at 1:05 AM ^
The Phoenix Cardinals? Should they become the Ravens, freeing up Baltimore to take back the Colts?
I remember when the Browns were moving to Baltimore & in their "Penn State" uniform phase before any colors or name were chosen, there was a push to bring the name "Colts." The story I read was that Irsay (the original dick, not the current one) said $20m he would give the name up. Modell refused to pay for it, despite the fact that he would make that the first day Baltimore Colts gear went online.
February 20th, 2015 at 12:09 PM ^
That's because Modell was a moron. He was the guy who gave Andre (Bad Moon) Risien a huge contract when he was almost out of cash--and, IIRC, a fur coat for his wife/girlfriend when he was "recruiting" him. For all that cash, he got a problem player and virtually no production. And shortly thereafter skipped town when he found a moneybags to bail him out. Hard to tell if Irsay Sr (stealth move in the night) or Modell (I can't run my business sanely, so screw you, I found someone to bail me out) was the bigger jackass, but both easily qualify for the finals in any sports owner jackass competition. Other nominees?
February 20th, 2015 at 9:23 AM ^
I was joking...
I really couldn't care less about the NFL. My post was in response to the endless complaining and speculation. Buffalo doesn't support their team and their owner wanted to move. Tampa Bay doesn't support their team and Orlando is getting bigger by the second. JAX is a dump and they're talking about moving them to fucking London every year. St. Louis...Oakland...San Diego...
It's like conference realignment in CFB only the talk happens EVERY single year.
But if your idea will make all of this speculation go away, I'm all for it.
February 20th, 2015 at 12:47 AM ^
February 20th, 2015 at 12:51 AM ^
As an Eagles fan, I shudder at the mere thought of it.
February 20th, 2015 at 1:22 AM ^
Hey, Dover City could build a staduim to hold the Eagles, Giants and Redskins. Apparently a little traveling is ok, according to the San "Francisco" 49ers, where we finally found out what a real 49er is: It's the fans who travel 49 miles each way to Santa Clara!