NFL to LA: Chargers Agree To Deal With Rams; Will Play In San Diego For 2016

As reported in an ESPN article, the latest NFL to LA news tell us that the Chargers have made a deal with the Rams.

Despite the agreement with the Rams regarding Los Angeles, the Chargers will remain in San Diego for at least next season.

The agreement reportedly states that the Chargers will have until January 2017 to be the other team in Inglewood.

While this doesn’t mean that the Chargers are relocating right away, it’s hard to imagine that their San Diego fan base is going to be very thrilled.

For obvious reasons, it’s not really fair to them because now they all have to wait an extra season in anxiety wondering whether or not their team is going out of the city.

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Chargers chairman Dean Spanos claims that the deal with the Rams is basically a back up plan if a long-term deal with the city of San Diego cannot be reached.

Stan Kroenke is definitely in the driver’s chair at this point, seeing that he now controls the flow of things whether it’s just his Rams in Los Angeles or the Chargers decide to join them.

Seeing as how Los Angeles has a thing for two teams per sport, it wouldn’t be nearly as shocking if the Chargers joined forces with the Rams to create a new kind of NFL powerhouse.

Professional football hasn’t been back in Los Angeles since the mid-1990’s, but that hasn’t stopped other sports from blooming with the two-team idea from LA.

For baseball, it’s the Angels and Dodgers.

For basketball, it’s the Clippers and the Lakers.

For hockey, we even have the Ducks and the Kings.

If anything, two teams seems like the more allowable option with more long-term implications.

For the Rams, popularity wouldn’t be an issue or main point of concern if the Chargers came to town.

In fact, a second team would probably help their popularity boom just that much more in Southern California.

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One final way this news applies to the Chargers is that it’s a way to wait and see the reaction for Philip Rivers now that things are most set in stone than they were not too long ago.

At least if you compare it to where we were with all this news just a year ago, even.

Rivers signed a contract extension last year and the last thing they’d want to do is make a move that would jeopardize their stability at the quarterback position.

While the Rams have a lot of everything else figured out, the quarterback consistency is the one factor that the Chargers have a potent edge.

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If they let that go, there isn’t much winning for them that could happen in another city.