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The Chargers have a 20 year lease with two 10 year options and owe $200 million for the construction of the stadium on top of the $650 million dollar relocation fee.
San Diego has already destroyed The Murph and the residents will not, under any circumstances, allow additional hotel and car taxes to be implemented towards funding a new football stadium.
Jeff Bezos would be the absolute worst possible owner for the NFL, as his net worth and income literally dwarf the entire NFL's yearly revenues. It would take nearly 20 years of the NFL's total revenues to match Bezos' net worth at this point in time and the other 31 owners would become his puppets, so I just cannot see that happening. Those owners enjoy the spotlight and treasure being one of 32 of the most powerful men in all of sports. All of that would disappear if Bezos bought the Chargers.
Maybe the NFL can find another person willing to eat almost $1.5 billion in relocation fees while spending another $2 billion on a stadium and at least $2.5 billion on the team itself but I find that to be unlikely as well.
The bottom line is that the Chargers franchise is royally ****ed for the foreseeable future.
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