Goodell dangles Super Bowl carrot in San Diego

If you build it, they will come.

That was Roger Goodell’s message to the city of San Diego on Saturday.

During a downtown rally for the team’s proposed new stadium, Goodell told the estimated 4,000 people in attendance that the city would likely be rewarded with a Super Bowl if funds for the Chargers’ new stadium gets approved by voters in November.

“I’m confident that if they can get a stadium built here, the owners will want to support it with a Super Bowl,” Goodell said, via ESPN.com. “I think that’s what this community deserves, and we’re all going to work to try and find a solution.”

Roger Goodell with Boltman. My day is done pic.twitter.com/PZuBEqsQ8k

— Marty Caswell (@MartyCaswell) April 23, 2016

San Diego hasn’t hosted the NFL’s biggest game since January 2003 when the Buccaneers beat the Raiders in Super Bowl XXXVII.

The NFL Commissioner was in Southern California to help kick off a ballot initiative for the Chargers’ new stadium.

The team has to collect 66,447 valid signatures by June just to get the initiative on the ballot in …

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