A stadium currently being built in Los Angeles which will be the shared home of the Rams and Chargers is being funded by a similar model. Stadium seat licenses (SSL) at the future home of Los Angeles’ professional football teams are selling for as high as $100,000 for the Rams, and $75,000 for the Chargers. Fans who purchase SSLs will have that money refunded in fifty years, according to a Los Angeles Times report.Flexible Policy
While that might seem like a gesture of goodwill, it’s far from the norm across the NFL. Earlier this year, Forbes reported that a fan of the New York Jets who was required to pay a PSL fee for the right to purchase season tickets is now suing the team after the Jets announced they would no longer require PSLs. The man’s claim is that the Jets did not operate in good faith by requiring some people to purchase PSLs, but then waiving it for others.
The team might have some difficulty convincing fans to fork up anywhere between $20,000 and $75,000 just for the right to buy tickets, but they’ve already persuaded their biggest skeptic the National Football League itself by making the move to Las Vegas at all.
The NFL has long held the belief that betting on football is bad for the sport. For that reason, Las Vegas was always a pariah in the eyes of the league. Just months before the Raiders finalized plans to relocate, addressed the league’s concerns about having a team there.
“We’ve seen changes in the culture around the country in gambling,” Goodell told Fox Sports’ Colin Cowherd in January 2017. We’re obviously very sensitive to that, but we’re also going to evaluate the Raiders case on the relocation application in what’s in the overall best interests of the league.
But one thing we can’t ever do is a compromise on the game. That’s one of the things we’ll do is make sure the policies we’ve created, if we did in any was approve the Raiders, I don’t see us compromising on any of the policies,” Goodell added.
In May just 15 months after the Raiders’ relocation from Oakland to Las Vegas was made official the United States Supreme Court struck down a federal ban on sports betting, opening the door for legalized sports betting in all 50 states.
