$400 million in penalties if they move, and that number doesn’t change for 7 years. They already have the renovations drawn up (check their site) and are pressing forward with $200 million in improvements.

To those that say they don’t generate the money, that’s because they have by far the cheapest tickets in the league; but they sell out pretty consistently, only 2 black outs this year at a 6-10 team for the second year in a row, that’s pretty awesome.

Likely candidates are: The Chargers (regardless of what they say), The Vikings (they still have no stadium deal), The Rams (because they STILL haven’t finished arbitrations over enhancements), The Raiders (because they share the Bay market with S.F.).

Chargers and Jags are the only competition for LA – but I honestly don’t see either one moving either.

**************

Exceedingly unlikely. The Divisions are perfectly balanced with regard to scheduling, playoffs, etc.

If you added four teams as you suggest (and don’t even get me started on the city’s you mentioned), you would have 36 teams. That’s 18 per Conference. You can’t divide 18 evenly by 4; either you have unbalanced Divisions, or you scrap the whole North-East-South-West arrangement and realign back to 3 Divisions per Conference.

It is doubtful (to say the least) that anyone in a position to effect the changes your suggestion would entail actually wants to do so.

So, no, the League is not going to expand. L.A.’s team is going to come from some city that currently has one, and eventually won’t.

After a decade of selling out practically every game, the fans spoke with their wallets and boycotted this year.

New HC and new GM.

Good work, Chargers fans!

The Chargers have become so irrelevant that they are now completely worthless.

——

Said the Raiders fan! LMAO!

So the city doesn’t want to build them a stadium (which is fair), and the fans don’t want to attend games based on the fact that games are regularly blacked out (which is also fair)….so why doesn’t the team move to LA?

——

“Regularly blacked out”? Cool story, bro! Would be even cooler if you knew what the hell you were talking about!

Games were only occasionally (not “regularly”) blacked out this year due to a conceited effort to BOYCOTT the crappy personnel decisions made by the front office.

And guess what… The boycott WORKED. Noticed how we got a new GM and HC?

Yeah, your apology is accepted. Ignorance is no excuse.

As far as somebody mentioning the Padres stadium, downtown is booming and there has been more people at the games because there is more condos developing. As more homes are built next to the stadium, the more it has been filling up, regardless of teams standings.
Yeah Chargers deserve it more because now we cannot even host a Super Bowl.

I don’t like making excuses but a reason why it seems team gets no local support is nobody is local. Everybody is from somewhere else. I was born in Japan, navy fam, but luckily this is the first city I moved to.
And they run it like a small market team, farm system who always drops their best player because they don’t want to pay them. I think the Chargers mimick the Padres philosophy sometimes. So outsiders are not quick to adopt us. Hopefully new GM and coach will change things

Relocating comes down to two things…bad stadium or bad attendance. Contrary to popular belief neither Jacksonville or Buffalo has the attendance problems the media would like you to think..(they rank 20th and 21st in attendance in 2012).

The bills are putting $200 million into renovations of their stadium.

Jags new owner Shad Khan is also putting millions of dollars into the stadium, state-of-the-art locker and weight rooms, new sound system and is installing new large hd screens in the stadium. Doesn’t sound like someone planning to move a team.

It will more than likely be San Diego at some point. Not only does San Diego have a bad stadium, but their attendance was 28th in the league. It’s a bad combo and will ultimately have them going to LA.

As a Buffalo resident who did not grow up in Buffalo, I am a third party but first-hand witness to fans there who despite their teams shortcomings absolutely love their Bills, and would be devastated to see them go. Then you look at San Diego, who barring the last 2 years, have been a solid franchise the past decade in terms of their success. Sproles, LT, Vincent Jackson- these are incredible talents. Its not as if this team has been a laughing stock. Granted, I understand Norv Turner being hired in place of Marty Schottenheimer after Marty led them to a 14-2 season was a terrible business decision on behalf of SD’s ownership, but still.

Point I’m making is what is the difference here? Why do fans like Buffalo’s blindly support their team no mater what the obstacle, and SD fans dont go to their game despite the fact that, all things considered, their franchise could be in a lot worse shape success wise?

I’d understand the city objecting to its team moving if the city had just recently built the team a stadium or agreed to build one in the future, but the city refuses.

I’d understand the fans objecting to its team moving if they attended games, but fans are staying away.

So why not allow the team to move to a city that *wants* to build the team a new stadium and has fans who *want* to attend games? The team would still be in the Pacific time zone, so Chargers fans could still watch games on TV without being inconvenienced by time zone differences. And it seems like most fans are watching the game on TV (not going to games), so I don’t see why there would be many objections.

The Rams & Raiders are much more likely to be the teams that relocate to LA not the Chargers.