On Tuesday night, the NFL owners voted to immediately allow the St. Louis Rams to relocate to Los Angeles, gave the San Diego Chargers one year to make a decision on whether to join the Rams and earmarked $100 million for both the Chargers and Oakland Raiders if either chose to stay in their current cities to build a new stadium.
Despite losing out to the Rams and Chargers, Raiders owner Mark Davis is exploring numerous other options to find the best situation for his franchise. There are three main options for Davis: hope the Chargers decide to stay in San Diego and move to Los Angeles, move to San Antonio or move to San Diego if the Chargers leave for Los Angeles.
Citing a convo with Mark Davis, ESPN's John Clayton today mentioned possibility #Raiders move to San Diego after missing out on Los Angeles.
— Evan Silva (@evansilva) January 13, 2016
From the way it sounds, Davis wants nothing to do with the city of Oakland. If you look at the size of the television markets, it doesn’t make sense why he’s so desperate to move. Los Angeles is No. 2 in the United States, San Diego is No. 28, San Antonio is No. 37 and Oakland is No. 6. Any type of move would seem to be hurting his bottom line unless he feels he absolutely can’t work out a stadium deal with Oakland.
It’ll be interesting to see how things resolve themselves.
