and I vote in midterm elections and primaries

Does the GOP really think they can win by alienating everyone but idiot white racist men?

The scary thing is that he likely truly believes himself to be enlightened and pro-woman.

We know the other owners like Spanos, but I don’t think anyone likes him enough to say “forget about that $18 million you owe me”.

Kroenke was required to let either owner buy into the project as a partner. But that full equity will cost either owner a billion dollars plus the $550M to the league, so it seems doubtful either could come up with the scratch without outside financing.

That’s already been negotiated. Kroenke is fronting the infrastructure costs (roadworks, utilities, etc). The project will be reimbursed for some of these costs by Inglewood after the project starts generating at least $25 million a year in tax revenue for the city.

I believe so, yes.

Allow him to pay it off over a few decades, sure. But waive it outright? No chance.

That’s exactly what LA did.

The Rams’ owner didn’t want to stay in St. Louis. The Chargers and Raiders’ owners do want to stay in their cities.

This is also the sort of bullshit to entice Chargers fans to watch games next season even though the team has already said it’s going to move.

I for one think the sport might benefit from “different observations and evaluations of certain aspects of the game”.

You mean the Bengals, and according to their owner he voted for it.

you guys figure out who wants to be second banana in LA and we’ll give the other guy an extra $100 million to try to get a stadium in their current city or somewhere else.

No, it was reportedly Mike Brown, the owner of the Bengals (confusing, I know). But he later confirmed that he voted for the Inglewood proposal.

No, in the end I think they voted for it as well, since they negotiated the final agreement.

It was too late by that point - they had been lowballing for years. Not to mention that the public payments they promised might yet get yanked by the state, and even if they went through there was still a $100M hole in the financing.

I’m surprised Deadspin hasn’t emphasized this point.

Agreed. This relocation is a good thing.

Sucks to be St. Louis, but they never should have signed that awful deal in the first place.

Presuming for a moment that’s true, then it betrays an even bigger incompetence on the part of the St. Louis city fathers.