by Daniel Dullum

Both the Oakland Raiders and the San Diego Chargers are both talking about the Los Angeles area of Carson to get a new stadium shared and the timeline is in the neighborhood of three years so both teams could be set up for business by 2019 with ground being broke sometime late this year at the soonest.

It’s all very intriguing because ever since 1994 there’s been an entire generation that has been born and raised that went to school and went to college that never saw an NFL Los Angeles team play. Think about that for a second after the Anaheim Rams and L.A. Raiders left around 1995 about at the same time and the Rams went to St.Louis and the Raiders going back to Oakland.

You would think that L.A. fans would be up and arms but not really, they get the top television games from each network every Sunday so it’s not that bad if your just a casual fan. It’s come time and it’s taken so long for the NFL to seriously look at getting a team into the second largest media market in the country.

Once a new stadium is in place in Carson there will no turning back and the Raiders and Chargers will be there for generations. Before there was no wiggle room because there was always the possibility that the Raiders would have a new stadium in Oakland happen. Alameda County built Mount Davis at the Coliseum that part was okay but the rest of the stadium has mostly been for the baseball Athletics.

The Coliseum hasn’t done much for the Raiders and their kind of antsy about that, the Raiders want their new digs their not interested in sharing space at the 49ers new stadium also they want their own situation with the facilities being a little bit better. As far as the Chargers are concerned the older fans know this and I’ll remind you all anyway they spent their first season in L.A. playing at the Coliseum before they moved to San Diego in 1960.

The stadium that the Chargers play in Qualcomm was built from 1967 to 1968 and the San Diego baseball Padres started their franchise in that stadium with the Chargers and it was fine at the time. As times change there’s different demands team owners want a new stadium. After the Padres got Petco Park downtown the Chargers have been saying “where’s our new stadium” and it’s not happening and so a very willing ally with the Raiders will go in together and share a stadium.

Daniel Dullum is a talk show host for Sportstalk podcasts on http://www.sportsradioservice.com listen to his podcast on the Raiders and Chargers new stadium in Carson below