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Cooler heads probably realized that going from no LA teams to 2 LA teams while abandoning another market is a Dumb Idea™.
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The San Diego market is very small, smaller then Indy. They need a very flashy car.
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Jan 11, 2017 16:39
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Jesus Christ the owners are like little kids near a hot stove
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v2vian man posted:Jesus Christ the owners are like little kids near a hot stove Well that would explain how Al's face got so hosed up
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BREAKING NEWS The Chargers deadline has been extended from Sunday the 15th to Tuesday the 17th
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a neat cape posted:BREAKING NEWS What is the point? Like is there a team of owners trying to shame Spanos into taking that $1 a year lease deal or something?
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Putting the final touches on a financing plan? I dunno. The Chargers aren't even at the meeting
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It was moved because that's a three day weekend. MLK Day.
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:It was moved because that's a three day weekend. MLK Day. They couldn't have looked that up when they set the deadline in the first place?
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Are you surprised a bunch of old white billionaires forgot about Martin Luther King day?
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:Are you surprised a bunch of old white billionaires forgot about Martin Luther King day? I'm surprised they care enough to move the deadline
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Jan 11, 2017 18:33
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a neat cape posted:BREAKING NEWS i lust for death (of the chargers)
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:It was moved because that's a three day weekend. MLK Day. So why didn't they move it one day? Or did they not realize the 15th was a Sunday, either?
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Could be they are trying to work out some kind of financing, and they may need another business day or two. MLk is a federal holiday so the Fed wires are closed. Wouldn't stop them from signing a contract though so who knows.
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Nail Rat posted:So why didn't they move it one day? Or did they not realize the 15th was a Sunday, either? Maybe they don't want the deadline to hit at the same time/short after the playoff games, as if they would somehow affect any word from getting out...
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Jiminy Christmas! Shoes! posted:Cooler heads probably realized that going from no LA teams to 2 LA teams while abandoning another market is a Dumb Idea™. The big mistake is not giving LA a team that will win its division immediately and compete for Super Bowls.
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First off, gently caress Dean Spanos and the Spanos family. I think that the Chargers are going to stay in SD but not because the league wants them to. They'll stay because they're pathetic and incompetant. You have to remember that the Spanos family doesn't have much money compared to other owners. Alex Spanos (Dean's father) did well in real estate and bought 60% of the team in 1984 then proceeded to buy out minority owners over the years to eventually end up with 97% ownership of the Chargers. Dean inherited the team and the real estate fortune and hasn't really done anything to expand the empire. So, you have the Spanos family who's livelihood and legacy are linked almost completely to the Chargers. Dean has two options, move or stay. If Dean moves the team to LA the value of the Chargers would skyrocket but it would be a bigger mess than it is now from a football standpoint. Basically, if Dean wanted to sell the best option would be to move. The problem with this is that once he sells he no longer has anything to show for his lifetime of work and his kids no longer have jobs. So, Dean wants to continue to run the Chargers like poo poo but he needs to stay in SD (because he can count of SD fans) and he needs a new stadium. Unfortunately he isn't rich or savvy enough to figure out how to raise the funds or compromise to get a stadium done in SD. The NFL will decide, after seeing the Rams struggle, to support Dean's decision to stay. They won't just give him time, they'll also give him the funding he needs to close the gap for a stadium (probably through loans which they had previously approved for the relocation fee). So, SD gets a stadium, the Spanos clan gets to continue running the Chargers like poo poo and the fans get to watch the Chargers lose in SD and get to pay for a portion of the new stadium. Yay football!
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If they sell the team they'll get like a billion dollars, I think they could start up a new job with that money. Or not, and just retire!
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Akileese posted:A few questions since I'm not from the area and haven't been following this mess since it got hilarious. The first is where the hell is Mission Valley and why the gently caress is Spanos so angrily against building a stadium there? Also, is the money really approved for that site? I thought someone said that but I wasn't able to find anything of the sort on Field of Schemes.
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got any sevens posted:If they sell the team they'll get like a billion dollars, I think they could start up a new job with that money. Or not, and just retire! That's true but for people that have always had money and will always have money it doesn't have the same value. Legacy, prestige, and purpose aren't always things that money can buy especially if all you want is to run an NFL team (into the ground) with your family. .
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NFL VP said today at the NFL owners meetings that Vegas' progress towards hosting an NFL team has been extremely impressive. Congrats Vegas Raiders
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Hahaha on my lunch break listening to the radio they said that Spanos is about 200m short and there is word he could get a loan to cover the remaining cost to stay in San Diego... ...from Kroenke.
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i read some article earlier about money for renovating qualcomm i literally started laughing at my desk
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kiimo posted:Hahaha on my lunch break listening to the radio they said that Spanos is about 200m short and there is word he could get a loan to cover the remaining cost to stay in San Diego... Makes sense. Kroenke doesn't want to share his stadium
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I mistaking said "loan" I think the idea is he is just going to loving give it to him and write it off as the cost of having sole control of Los Angeles. Also they said that if the team moves to LA Stan is going to let his kids take over the team but if they stay in San Diego Stan is going to continue running it. Sorry, San Diego citizens.
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Chris James 2 posted:NFL VP said today at the NFL owners meetings that Vegas' progress towards hosting an NFL team has been extremely impressive. The NFL was never going to turn down $700 million of civic money. Especially with the Chargers situation lingering.
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I'm surprised Krunky isn't loaning Oakland money instead. Vegas is going to suck Raider fans from LA. Are there no deranged tech billionaires or oligarchs in SD (or from SV that like warmer beaches) that can buy the team from Spanos at gunpoint?
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Keyser S0ze posted:I'm surprised Krunky isn't loaning Oakland money instead. Vegas is going to suck Raider fans from LA. Spanos doesn't want to sell. And Kroenke isn't going to build the Raiders an entire stadium.
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a neat cape posted:Stan? excuse me for living! dean
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Ron Jeremy posted:Vegas will fail unless the raiders win a super bowl. You should probably pay more attention to what's going on in the real world.
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Being in Vegas is going to be the biggest home field advantage when half the visiting team gets blitzed the night before and the other half arrested.
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kiimo posted:excuse me for living! Yeah, I thought so. Little inaccurate though. Dean has already passed on control to A.G. Spanos and John Spanos as of last year. The last thing that Dean himself is involved in is the stadium situation
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Chinatown posted:i read some article earlier about money for renovating qualcomm Installing several tons of dynamite at carefully selected points and then detonating it is technically a renovation when you think about it. Qualcomm is worse than The Stick ever was except for access and parking.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Installing several tons of dynamite at carefully selected points and then detonating it is technically a renovation when you think about it.
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The parking actually makes it own tho because the tailgating is a v. fun experience unlike most stadiums these days
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https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/819376593734946816 Schefty bombs
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