Raiders, Chargers, and Rams file to relocate to Los Angeles

Three football teams — the San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders, and St. Louis Rams — have all filed to relocate to the Los Angeles area for the 2016 season, the NFL announced Monday.

The Chargers and the Raiders want to partner together on a stadium in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, NBC Los Angeles reports. The Chargers have played in San Diego for 55 seasons, and in a video posted online Monday, the team's chairman, Dean Spanos, said they want to relocate because of "the inability of the city at the political level to get any kind of public funding or any kind of vote to help subsidize a stadium."

In order for a franchise to relocate, it must receive a three-quarters vote of NFL clubs. A vote bringing the Chargers, Raiders, or Rams to L.A. could come as soon as next week, when NFL owners meet in Houston.

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