re: Chargers and Raiders propose a shared NFL stadium outside of LA

You keep telling yourself that. I have linked two people far more credible than you saying thats well within the realm of possibility.

Im not saying they will or wont but you saying definitively one way or the other shows your ignorance.

Yeah, despite what's being "said", when push comes to shove, it's the Chargers that will be moving.

But one will be moving to the NFC if it's the Raiders and Chargers going to Los Angeles. Anybody arguing that is wasting the energy typing a rebuttal.

It would be the Chargers moving to the NFC if this happened. Damn shame though since both have roots in the AFL and big rivalries in the AFC now.

The more I think about it, the more it pisses me off.

NFL: Raiders and Chargers share a stadium now. Let's dump one off in the NFC. Forget all the history they had previously. It's all about that TV $$$ we can get from the LA market.

That is exactly what they would think about it unfortunately.

Re-align the league divisions??
Put Dallas in the NFC east instead of Carolina.

Schedule too hard to make? NY does it fine. Isn't hard to have Manning vs Brady happen every damn year.

Send teams to England every year? No problem. Hell, let's expand and play games in more countries in the near future.

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Schedule too hard to make? NY does it fine.

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Harder for Los Angeles to double up, at least the way New York does it. If you notice, the Giants and Jets never play at the same time. When neither team has a prime time game, one of them plays at 1, and the other at 4. Doubt that can happen with two Los Angeles teams, who will inevitably be playing the occasional pair of simultaneous west coast, non-prime time games, neither of which will kick off at 10am PST.

Unless they just don't make this an issue, in which case I see no obstacle.

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Both former Los Angeles teams were screwed by this

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Maybe the Raiders but that did not apply to the Rams. Anaheim stadium's max capacity was close to 70K. Their average attendance was never over 60K in any of their last 13 seasons there and even dipped below 50K for a few of them.

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Maybe the Raiders but that did not apply to the Rams. Anaheim stadium's max capacity was close to 70K. Their average attendance was never over 60K in any of their last 13 seasons there and even dipped below 50K for a few of them.

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Funny you should mention Anaheim Stadium, because the only reason the Rams ever moved there in ~1979 was because they couldn't sell out the Coliseum and avoid the blackouts (so yes, the blackout rule screwed both teams). Being that they were 40 miles south of the center of the TV market at this point, they would still be accessible by millions more presumably interested viewers even if they were blacked out. The fact that the Rams never consistently sold out Anaheim Stadium isn't proof that a team failed in Los Angeles; it's only proof that a team failed in Anaheim.

A modern football stadium with 70K occupied by two NFL teams simply won't fail at this point, especially given the inevitable five-year slump to be had by the most popular professional sports franchise in Los Angeles.

One thing a lot of people around here, mostly Saints fans, overlook (and I was no exception until recently) is that there are a few divisions in the NFL filled with teams who are, at this point, inseparable. AFC East, AFC North, AFC West, NFC East, and NFC North are filled with quadruplets that are all joined at the hip. Out of the other three divisions, SF/SL and NO/ATL are the only seemingly inseparable ones.

What happened to the downtown L.A. proposal? I feel that was the best option...