Two final notes.

First, in case you’re wondering, Kroenke and the Rams are not getting a penny in public money from Inglewood, Los Angeles or California, even though the stadium they are building is quite likely to cost more than $2 billion. This may seem astounding, given their demands in St. Louis, but it’s not. The Inglewood stadium has the potential to be far more profitable than any new stadium in St. Louis. And St. Louis never had the real estate possibilities that Inglewood does. In St. Louis, Kroenke was the owner of the Rams. In Inglewood, Kroenke will be the owner of the Rams plus the developer of a retail and entertainment complex that Jones has described as Disneyland for professional football. Kroenke is putting up $800 million in equity. That’s what developers do. Not that he’s going to go broke if it turns out he made a bad bet.

Second, there is the question of what is going to happen to the other two teams vying for Los Angeles, the Chargers and the Raiders. The two teams jointly put their chips on a different site near Los Angeles, in nearby Carson. They lost. One of them will almost surely become a tenant of Kroenke’s in Inglewood; Kroenke envisions having two teams play in his new $2 billion sandbox.

It is not likely to be a pleasant prospect. Kroenke is a tough negotiator, and he will also be able to maximize the value of his stadium in a way that his tenant will not. Dean A. Spanos, the San Diego Chargers’ chairman, in particular finds himself in a terrible spot. For some 14 years, he has been trying to get a new stadium built in San Diego. He’s gotten nowhere, and his constant agitation over the issue has made him a pariah in San Diego.

In the same meeting in which the N.F.L. owners voted for the Kroenke-Inglewood proposal, they agreed to give Spanos up to a year to decide whether he would join Kroenke in Inglewood. The word is that Spanos doesn’t want that; given the Rams’ long history as a Los Angeles team, the Chargers would always play second fiddle. And Kroenke would be his landlord.

His best bet, really, would be to use that year to put together a financing package for San Diego, where the Chargers have played since 1961. Last summer, the city and county said they would put up $350 million, money that they were going to have to spend (over decades) refurbishing Qualcomm Stadium, where the team currently plays. The voters would have to approve it, however, and it might also have to get through a difficult environmental review. Spanos, believing the offer was a delaying tactic meant to keep the Chargers out of Los Angeles, ignored it.