- ABC News
- January 12, 2016
The St. Louis Rams, San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders are stuck in a figurative bottleneck on the 405 Freeway. Ever since Rams owner Stan Kroenke announced plans to build a stadium in the Los Angeles area in January 2015, the race has been expedited to abandon three of the league's oldest stadiums in search of riches in the nation's second-largest media market. The Rams have been linked to a possible relocation to Los Angeles since at least January 2014, when Kroenke purchased a chunk of land in the city of Inglewood between the Forum, former home of the NBA's Lakers, and the old Hollywood Park racetrack. Speculation the Chargers would move north began in 2000, when the team first stated its desire for a new stadium -- just three years after the city of San Diego spent $60 million to renovate Qualcomm Stadium without putting the plan up for a public vote. The rumor mill heated up when the Chargers held training camp in the city of Carson, just south...