On Tuesday, the NFL owners voted to relocate the Rams franchise to Los Angeles, returning the team to the city it had called home from 1946 until after the 1994 season. In doing so, the league’s owners handed a major financial windfall to owner Stan Kroenke, who outright owns the stadium site in Inglewood that will be the Rams’ home as soon as 2019.
The other two teams in the NFL’s chase to LA – the Raiders and Chargers – were essentially sent back to their markets with an “option” to try LA relocation later in a sharing or tenancy arrangement with Stan Kroenke.