Now that his stadium task force has issued a plan — a plan that nobody really likes, mind you, but a plan nonetheless — San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer plans to talk to Chargers execs about it. Or, as the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Tom Krasovic puts it:
The start of negotiations in San Diego is a victory for both sides.
Start with Faulconer. San Diego mayors before him never got this far on plans for a new football stadium.
As for both the NFL and the Chargers, negotiations with San Diego could strengthen their hand in Carson and opposite Rams owner Stan Kroenke should he decide to go rogue, a la former Raiders owner Al Davis, and move his team to Inglewood without NFL approval.
Soooooo, it’s a victory for the city when your mayor is proposing one of the largest public NFL stadium subsidies in history with no certainty that it’ll even be accepted, and it’s a victory for the Chargers because they can use it to leverage a better deal in Carson, or something? This must be one of those other kinds of victory.
In related news, Mick Jagger thinks the Chargers should stay in San Diego, marking a victory for the rock legend, who has never before managed to get involved in football stadium negotiations.
Falconer is an inexperienced mayor and Spanos is using pseudo-leverage mixed with crude deception. In other words an exercise in amateurish and recklessness.
@ Neil
I saw a twitter post from the NFL meeting that the NFL increased G-4 funding to $250 million for new construction and dropped the relocation restrictions.
Any chance you can ask around?