A man whose team once fled Baltimore under the cover of darkness sees no solution for a pair of current stadium problems in broad daylight, or elsewhere.
“There just isn’t any opportunity in Oakland or San Diego,” Colts owner Jim Irsay said Wednesday at the NFL’s quarterly meetings, via Nathan Fenno of the Los Angeles Times. “As owners, we’re aware of that. It’s unfortunate. You don’t like to see it. But it’s reality.”
Irsay added that there is “no reason for optimism in either market.”
The man whose father once swapped the L.A. Rams for the Colts seems to believe the Rams will soon be sharing L.A. with the Chargers.
“This process has been going on for a very, very long time in San Diego,” Irsay said. “That being said, to extend it, I think, would be fruitless. I really do.”
With no public money available in San Diego and no other solution for bridging the gap between what the team and league will pay and what a new stadium will cost, it seems like it’s just a matter of time before the Chargers return to the city in which the franchise spent its initial AFL season, way back in 1960.