Yo, NFL! Here's Your Ultimate Franchise-Jerking Wet Dream
Here's the revenge on Roger Goodell:
Dude's herding cats. Fat ones.
He wants an NFL team in Los Angeles. It seems a fair share of team owners do, too. Los Angeles doesn't rightly care, but that doesn't seem to matter.
And taking it full circle, what the league thinks doesn't seem to matter much, either. At least, to one owner.
Let's set aside the obviosity that waiting to see what happens is an existential reality and acknowledge that a salient point was just made.
Who's to say all the franchise shifts should be to LA?
After this week's meetings of the NFL's Carve Up Los Angeles committees, it still appears that The Commish has some consensus-building to do. The upshot is no team has secured the required 24 votes for its particular plan.
The Kroenke-Spanos partnership would be a rich subplot. At the very least, it would mean a return of the RamCharger.
Kinda.
While it appears the Strange Bedfellows + Cash to the Outcast is the leading option in the clubhouse, there's a spitefully better way to move the pieces on the chessboard:
- The Rams have been part of an ownership swap once. Do it again.
- Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan has ties to St Louis and tried to buy the Rams in 2010.
- Kroenke owns Arsenal of the Premiership, and London's bigger than LA.
- Khan gets the Rams and does a deal with St Louis to stay.
- Kroenke moves the Jags to their second home at Wembley Stadium.
- Let the Chargers return to Los Angeles.
- Let the Raiders twist in the wind for the sin of being Al Davis' son and perpetuating a bad haircut.
What's not to like? Aside from the remaining Charger fans in San Diego making long drives, that is.
Draw up the papers! As only NFL owners can, of course.