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Report: NFL could move AFC title game from Chargers' stadium

ByReuters

Published 11/01/2019 at 22:25 GMT

If the Los Angeles Chargers beat the Kansas City Chiefs this weekend, and the Indianapolis Colts top the New England Patriots, the NFL will have a decision to make.

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Will the Chargers be allowed to host the AFC championship game at their
temporary home, the 30,000-seat Dignity Health Sports Park in suburban Carson,
Calif., or will it be played elsewhere in a stadium with larger capacity?
CBS Sports reported Friday that the NFL league office will be discussing
contingency plans should the fifth-seeded Chargers and sixth-seeded Colts
advance. That would give the Chargers home-field advantage in the championship
game.
The league discussed the possibility of where the Chargers would host a
potential title game when they were vying with the Chiefs for the No. 1 seed,
but that talk died down when the Chargers landed as a wild-card team, CBS'
Jason LaCanfora reported.
He said that last month, officials had discussed the potential of moving the
game to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, home of the Rams. That could still
be a Plan B, LaCanfora said, but if the Rams host the championship game, both
games could not be played on Sunday. Instead, one of the conference
championship games could be played on Monday night under that scenario, he
said.
--Field Level Media
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