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Political discord increased Tuesday between the San Diego Chargers and Mayor Kevin Faulconer over whether the city will build a new stadium to keep the team from moving to Los Angeles.
The two sides exchanged increasingly pointed barbs accusing the other of not dealing in good faith to solve the volatile issue.
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USC to operate, restore Coliseum
Updated: September 5, 2013, 4:10 PM ET
By Arash Markazi | ESPNLA.com
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/college-football/story/_/id/9638471/usc-takes-control-los-angeles-memorial-coliseum
If building and operating a professional sports stadium or arena was profitable, the teams would insist on building their own venues.
Respectfully, the only time the Rams played in the Rose Bowl was in the 1980 Super Bowl.
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Los Angeles Rams (played at) the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum between 1946 and 1979.... Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim from 1980 to 1994.
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Okay. Fair enough. How’s this?
It’s a business looking for a welfare handout.
Let the go if they want to.
Thank you!
“It’s a business looking for a welfare handout.”
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I’m with you. Let them go.
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Raise taxes. Build stadiums. Get campaign contributions. Get access to the owners' boxes for the games. Sounds like it pays pretty well for the politicians.
The citizens on the other hand...
“What makes LA think fans will support a NFL team? They never have in the past.”
Someone who can’t read the census numbers. LA is more than 70% third world immigrant right now. They watch soccer.
The stadium proposal right now is privately funded by the group that bought the old Hollywood Park racetrack. But I think that group includes the owner of the St Louis Rams.
My impression is that the parents watch futbol, whereas the kids watch football.
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It is what the Rams are taking about. And really, the Chargers would build a new stadium in Los Angeles if the option came up. Los Angeles without a team is the owners biggest bargaining chip. The moment that we get a team, all the leverage goes away. No more threats to go to Los Angeles.
And now the Chargers and Raiders announce a joint effort to build a stadium in Carson. Call that a DOA proposal, but wouldn’t surprise me if one or the other got a free stadium out of it.
I stand corrected. For some reason, I thought there were a few seasons at the Rose Bowl. Maybe it was just one of the options that was offered before they left.
Every team in the league has used “give us what we want or we move to L.A.” since the Raiders left. And it has worked.
I was born and raised in L.A. and lived there until 3 years ago. The ONLY thing they consistently did well was demand that he NFL pay L.A. to have a team there, not the other way around.
>>Spanos is just a greedy, rich family that had enough money to buy a franchise when they were only worth 10 percent of what they are now, and now they want every last dollar they can squeeze from their ownership. If that means they have to go to LA to maximize their profits, they are willing to do it, fans be damned.<<
Sounds exactly like the late Al Davis.
Perhaps you were thinking of UCLA ? They moved from the Coliseum to the Rose Bowl.
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