I've heard all three options mentioned recently.
What are your thoughts? Will LA get an expansion team, have a team move there, or is the deal dead until the end of time as we know it?
2007-01-19 05:39:56 · 14 answers · asked by Gwydyon 4 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
As long as the LA City Council insists on the LA Coliseum, built for the 1932 and smack in the middle of South Central, as the only acceptable site for an NFL team, there will be no franchise in LA.
LA had the Raiders and Rams and failed to support them, so let LA worry about its Bruins and Trojans, who do sell out every week during the college football season
2007-01-19 05:48:32 · answer #1 · answered by mattapan26 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I hope and pray that LA never gets a team. As it is now, we don't have to deal with NFL blackout rules. Also, I'm an 'SC fan, so I like the fact that the Coliseum basically belongs to USC right now. I love the Coliseum! Luxury boxes suck!! And are they actually going to reduce total seating!!!! Blasphemy!
However, the Los Angeles area will eventually get a team. It's too big of a market not to have one. But let me stress the eventually. This is going to be long process. They'll probably announce a new team in 1-3 years. It will take at least 5 before there's a new team in Southern California. Maybe more.
I really hope the team comes to Anaheim. They definitely have the space for a new stadium. Here's my pledge to get season tickets!
Reading your answers, some of you people are ridiculous. First, LA did support 2 teams. However, LA refused, I think rightly, to fork over taxpayer money for a new stadium. This is still a problem. LA won't. They might be willing to help fund the stadium in other ways such as breaks on taxes and permit fees, etc. Second: it's a small point, but the Coliseum isn't "smack in the middle of South Central." I'd call it South Central adjacent. Third, maybe a smaller percentage of people in LA are less interested in football, but there are more than enough fans in this area to support a team. There are 13 million people in the LA metropolitan area.
2007-01-19 05:54:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Expansion won't happen. I don't think the owners want the pie carved up in more than 32 slices. I've heard talk that Paul Allen is flirting with moving the Seahawks to LA, and if his team doesn't improve Al Davis may get run out of Oakland and land back in Tinseltown. The only other likely options for relocation would be the Cardinals or maybe the Bengals.
2007-01-19 05:52:51 · answer #3 · answered by big6boss 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My opinion is that LA will not get an expansion or a team moving to the area. LA fans lost their chance with the Raiders. If you can't keep a team why would they give you a new team? Houston beat them out last time and I don't see them expanding the league anytime soon. You're better off moving to Oakland!
2007-01-19 05:48:48 · answer #4 · answered by mikey 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
They have had football teams named the NFL - Buccaneers (taken), Rams (taken), the 60's AFL Chargers (taken), the AFC Raiders (taken), The AFL I Wildcats, the AFL II Bulldogs, All-American FL Dons, the USFL Express, the AreanaFL Avengers, WFL SoCal Suns, and the XFL Xtremes. Other sports that have been in LA have been Toros, Sol, Lazers, Salsas, Aztecs, Sparks, Slam, Lightning, Amazons, Temptation, Breakers, Jammers, Legends, Angels and Sharks to name a few LA area teams. They had a minor league baseball team called the Hollywood Stars! That would be my suggestion since that is what LA is known for Hollywood stars! They would probably hold a public write in contest or the owner would pick a name, after all he did pay for the team!
2016-05-23 21:57:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is interest in LA but not at the expense of using taxpayer funds to build a new stadium. I mean, corporate welfare for billionaires? I have seen and read the arguments about pro football increasing business in a city which has a team but I don't believe that whatever extra business is generated is woth the expense involved.
2007-01-19 05:50:00 · answer #6 · answered by turkey 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't want one NFL team in Los Angeles. He wants two. The governor will probably have to be satisfied with half of his wish — at least in the near future.
Commissioner Paul Tagliabue and a committee of 11 owners heard presentations Tuesday from officials representing Los Angeles, Anaheim and Pasadena, three cities that want a club. The area has been without an NFL franchise for more than a decade.
Schwarzenegger went first. After meeting with the owners, the actor-turned-politician emerged to say he was there to make sure "we're getting not only one NFL team to the Los Angeles area, Southern California, but to actually get two teams. That's why I came. Why limit it?"
New York Giants chairman Steve Tisch, a longtime Los Angeles resident who is on the committee, said that was highly unlikely.
"I'd be shocked if the suggestion internally to recommend two teams ever comes up. I think the numbers are too big. I think it would be an overwhelming suggestion," Tisch said.
Added Tagliabue: "One team is our immediate goal. Long term, I think two is a realistic goal."
The 11 owners spent six hours listening to California politicians and deemed it a significant step in getting the NFL back to nation's second-largest television market. Tagliabue has made that a priority since both the Rams and Raiders left after the 1994 season.
"The fact that we're here and doing what we're doing is better than anything I could say," Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said. "This is the strongest effort I've seen on the league's part."
Los Angeles plans to construct a stadium within the shell of the existing Los Angeles Coliseum. Anaheim is offering a 53-acre tract of land for the stadium and economic development. Pasadena, considered a longshot, provided an update on the Rose Bowl.
"Everybody came away feeling it was some of the best time they've spent on NFL business in recent months," Tagliabue said. "For our owners to get this type of firsthand dialogue and a firsthand opportunity to speak to the political leadership of these communities, and the governor, gives us a lot (of information) to digest."
The owners' committee, which includes Dan Rooney of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Bob Kraft of the New England Patriots, didn't have an opportunity after the presentations Tuesday to talk alone as a group. They planned a conference call next week.
The committee will meet again at the NFL spring meetings in Denver May 22, and make a presentation to the rest of the owners the following day. It is unclear whether they will be able to make a recommendation at that point.
"I think there's a possibility. I don't know if there's a real possibility," Denver owner Pat Bowlen said.
"I'm not going to rush," said Tagliabue, who has announced he will retire this summer. "I've also emphasized that this is the year for us to make some decisions up or down. We're not going to keep moving sideways."
The estimates for $800 million for the stadium projects, which the NFL is expected to finance, are considerably higher than previous price tags.
When the NFL expanded in 2002, the new team went to Houston after Los Angeles leaders couldn't agree on a suitable site for the team.
Los Angeles officials showed conceptual artist renderings of the plans for the Coliseum, host of the 1932 and 1984 Olympics and home to the Rams from 1946-70 and the Raiders from 1982-94.
The 67,000-seat reconstruction includes 15,000 club seats, 500 luxury boxes and state-of-the-art amenities. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the City Council has already agreed to allow for up to $25 million in local tax revenues generated by a stadium renovation to be earmarked for redevelopment projects around the Coliseum.
"It's a deal they can't refuse," Villaraigosa said. "Los Angeles makes the absolute best sense."
Anaheim's plan calls for a new facility near Angel Stadium, which was converted to a baseball-only complex. The Rams and the Los Angeles Angels once shared that stadium.
Beside a new stadium, Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle said his city's proposed site includes room for more than 750,000 square feet of commercial and office development, a 500-unit hotel and residential areas. Plus, the land in Orange County would be owned by the new NFL franchise.
2007-01-19 05:53:31 · answer #7 · answered by Brite Tiger 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
No way. That bunch likes their basketball too much! There's so much pro sports there as it is, that they can't support a DECENT team. A CRAPPY one, maybe, but with all the money flowing into the Dodgers, Angels, Ducks, Kings, Clippers, Lakers and etc., where are they going to get the MONEY for a BILLION DOLLAR football team?
2007-01-19 07:29:17 · answer #8 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dead deal! People in LA don't seem too interested in football.
Fight On: I'm in LA, Westwood here! There's people that are interested, but not enough to maintain one.
2007-01-19 05:45:28 · answer #9 · answered by c00kies 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The better question is do people in LA want a team?? Sure seems like they don't and nobody seems to miss it or do they?
2007-01-19 05:58:55 · answer #10 · answered by berta44 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋