The Chargers hope to have a report from the San Diego committee exploring options for a new stadium within three months. The Raiders are operating on a much shorter timeline.
Via Phil Matier and Andy Ross of the San Francisco Chronicle, talks between Oakland and the Raiders could end within a month.
“If we don’t have significant progress within the next 30 days, I’d say one party or the other will call an end to it,” an unnamed source close to the negotiations described the situation to Matier and Ross.
Public money continues to be the sticking point in Oakland; with the city and county still paying $20 million per year from the deal that brought the Raiders back to town in 1995, that could be the sticking point that causes the Raiders to tell Oakland to stick it.
This doesn’t mean the Raiders immediately would move. The joint proposal with the Chargers to build a privately-financed stadium in Carson, California hinges on the Chargers moving to L.A., too. If a new stadium is built in San Diego, the Chargers won’t be moving.
The Raiders could always move in with the Chargers in San Diego. I mean, if the two long-time arch rivals plan to get weird, they may as well get downright freaky.
