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Wednesday, January 13, 2016
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NFL
Owners approve Rams’ relocation to Los Angeles
League also gives
Chargers option to
join and share
By SCHUYLER DIXON
AP Sports Writer
HOUSTON — The St.
Louis Rams are moving back
to Los Angeles and the San
Diego Chargers will have
the option to join them in a
compromise approved by
NFL owners Tuesday night.
The Oakland Raiders,
who also wanted to move
to the area, could take the
Chargers’ spot if they stay in
San Diego, Commissioner
Roger Goodell said.
The
Chargers
and
Raiders wanted to share
a new stadium in Carson,
California, and the Rams
wanted to move to nearby
Inglewood, but neither
option got the 24 votes
needed for approval. After
a day of negotiations
in Houston, the owners
approved the St. Louis move
30-2, with a ¿rst option for
San Diego to share the $1.8
AP Photo/Pat Sullivan
St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke talks to the me-
dia after team owners voted Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2016, in
Houston, to allow the Rams to move to a new stadium
just outside Los Angeles.
billion stadium Rams owner
Stan Kroenke is building in
Inglewood, California.
The decision ends the
NFL’s 21-year absence from
the nation’s second-largest
media market.
“I often said over those 21
years what we need is a great
facility,” Goodell said. “The
reason the two teams left in
the 1990s ... was they didn’t
have an adequate stadium.
I think what happened over
the last years is we had two
outstanding opportunities,
both of these stadium proj-
ects were outstanding.”
The Chargers and Raiders
can continue to negotiate
with their home cities, and
the league will contribute
$100 million if either team
builds a new stadium in their
current markets.
“I will be working over
the next several weeks to
explore the options that
we have now created for
ourselves to determine the
best path forward for the
Chargers,” chairman Dean
Spanos said.
Ray Perez, a 28-year-old
Raiders fan from Sacra-
mento who goes by the
moniker Dr. Death, traveled
to the Houston meeting in
his usual Black Hole garb,
was cautiously optimistic
after hearing the news.
“I will not be completely,
fully thrilled until the ink
dries on paper and we know
we’re staying in Oakland
in a new stadium,” Perez
said. “I’m very happy, very
happy. But I’m not going to
be overjoyed until we sign
a stadium deal to keep the
Raiders in Oakland with our
own stadium.”
The Chargers play 120
miles south of Inglewood
in Qualcomm Stadium.
The Raiders played in Los
Angeles from 1982-94 and
currently split a facility with
baseball’s Athletics, the
last remaining NFL-MLB
stadium.
“Relocation is a painful
process. It’s painful for the
fans, for the communities,
for the league in general,”
Goodell said. “In some
ways a bittersweet moment,
because we were unable to
get the kind of facilities done
we wanted in their markets.”
The Rams —based in
the LA area from 1946-94
— will play in a temporary
facility — probably the Los
Angeles Coliseum — until
the new stadium is ready for
the 2019 season.
No NFL franchise has
moved since the Houston
Oilers went to Tennessee in
1997. The Raiders and Rams
both left Los Angeles after
the 1994 season.
In a report to all 32 teams
days before the meetings,
Goodell deemed the venues
in all three existing cities
inadequate.
Kroenke has said St.
Louis’ economy makes it
dif¿cult for an NFL fran-
chise to thrive there.
“We understand the
emotions involved of our
fans,” he said. “We made a
decision and worked long
and hard at the various alter-
natives. When they didn’t
succeed, we worked this one
to this point.”
The Chargers and the
city have been at odds since
2000, when owner Alex
Spanos said his team needed
to
replace
Qualcomm
Stadium. That was just three
years after the venue was
expanded to accommodate
the Chargers and Super
Bowls.
Spanos has had the right
to leave San Diego since
2008, but the team’s efforts
became more aggressive
after Kroenke announced
plans for the Inglewood
facility. The Chargers have
played in San Diego for 55
seasons after one year in Los
Angeles when the former
AFL franchise was born.
Oakland is still in debt
from a renovation 20 years
ago when the Raiders
moved back from Los
Angeles. City of¿cials have
said they won’t seek help
from taxpayers with a new
stadium, and asked the NFL
for more time to develop a
project in a response to the
Raiders’ relocation plan.
Football
Seattle-based company unveils new ‘four layer helmet’
By TIM BOOTH
AP Sports Writer
VICIS via AP
This undated photo provided by VICIS, shows there
ZERO1 football helmet. The helmet, unveiled recently
by the Seattle-based company, has an exterior shell
that can absorb hits like a car bumper and has four
layers of protection.
SEATTLE — A new
football helmet with an
exterior shell that can absorb
hits like a car bumper and
has four layers of protection
was unveiled on Tuesday by
Seattle-based VICIS, which
hopes the bene¿t of protec-
tion will offset an expensive
purchase price.
The company introduced
the helmet at the AFCA
convention in San Antonio
this week. The ZERO1
helmet is expected to be
available for testing by
NCAA and NFL teams
this spring with the idea
that it will be available
for purchase and use for
the 2016 football season,
according to VICIS CEO
Dave Marver.
³We¶ve had the bene¿t
of being able to talk to
NFL and NCAA equipment
managers, athletic trainers
and players over the last
couple of years. I didn’t
expect the reaction would
be all that different. The
helmet passes the eye test
or the mirror test so to speak
which for some people is
a surprise because when
they hear it’s a safer helmet
they assume it’s going to
be an ugly helmet and it’s
anything but.”
The four-layer design
includes two separate shells
— the exterior shell that is
designed to absorb impact
and an interior shell that
helps with proper ¿tting. In
between the two shells are
absorbent columns designed
to accept hits from various
angles. The ¿nal layer is on
the interior of the helmet
and features memory foam
to help create individual
¿tting for each player.
The ¿rst practical testing
for the company will
come this spring when the
helmets are made available
to a handful of Power Five
colleges and NFL teams for
additional ¿eld research.
The
top-of-the-line
helmet manufactured by
VICIS will cost about
1,00, which is signi¿-
cantly more than what the
majority of helmets cost.
Marver said there is a more
affordable model being
designed for high school
and youth players to be
unveiled in 2017.
“People understand the
sport needs better equip-
ment. The sport needs better
and different solutions and
they understand we have
taken a very scienti¿c
approach to this,” Marver
said. “We’ve invested
millions of dollars into
(research and development)
in something that is new
and different and better.
And they understand the
importance of head health.”
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