And that really settled the issue once and for all, didn't it? Someday LA will get an NFL team back at about three times the cost of keeping the ones it had. Meanwhle, they will have gone over a decade without a team. Brilliant.
Wrong. If the NFL wants to play in LA, they can PAY to do so.
The Dodgers built and paid for their own stadium, and own it free and clear. The Staples Center, where the Lakers, Clippers and Kings play was 100% privately financed.
Actually more like three decades. Los Angeles lost the Rams to Anaheim in 1980. I know that is still the "greater LA Market". But when one considers how the LA coliseum commission runs things, anyone would be a fool to sign up with them. Following is a list of teams who have fled the clutches of the worse run stadium organization in world history:
LA Kings
LA Lakers
UCLA
LA Dodgers
LA Rams
USC (Basketball)
LA Raiders
The LA Coliseum commission will also do all it can to prevent an NFL Team from coming into the area, if it is not at the Coliseum
In L.A., you'd get bigger crowds for a futbol game than for a football game.
As if paying off teams to go to your city and then tell you 5 years down the road you gotta pay them off again to stay is a good deal for taxpayers? Orlando had to deal with that after they gave the Magic a sweetheart deal, and the same thing happened with St. Pete's Devil Rays. No free stadium is ever free enough for these corporate hogs at the pork trough. Guess what happens if you go for ten years without a team? You spend money on other stuff that's more important than subsidizing already wealthy owners and spoiled players.
I can't understand how conservatives buy into this 'stadiums-for-the-public-good' crap. Bread and circuses.