L.A. relocation could set up clash of titans among NFL owners

The Los Angeles Times ^ | August 11, 2015 | Sam Farmer

[MinorityRepublican]

The NFL's meandering road back to the nation's second-largest market wound through Chicago on Tuesday, with team owners hearing the competing Los Angeles stadium pitches for the first time.

A league that goes to great lengths to avoid pitting owner against owner — revenue sharing, salary cap, and cross-ownership rules that preclude owners from fighting over the sports dollar in the same cities — is now bracing for a clash of the titans.

"I guess you could use the metaphor of musical chairs, and there's a bit of that going on," said Steve Tisch, co-owner of the New York Giants and a longtime L.A. resident. "The home [markets] haven't made their presentations to their respective clubs, so that's still a bit of a moving target. The presentations made today were really well done."

[dfwgator]

I want a team in San Antonio.

Jerry Jones will never allow it.

[sparklite2]

It’s okay. There is no team in the NFL that Cowboys fans hate more than the Eagles. The Rams don’t come close.

[dfwgator]

Yes, LA already has a team that plays their players, USC.

[Pan_Yan]

Cleveland has a football team?

[InterceptPoint]

You mean the Cleveland Rams?

Well you might say so. But stealing a football team from a place like Cleveland and moving them to LA is not really stealing. It's more like Good Samaritan Activity. And, don't forget, we left them with the Cleveland Browns. That was quite a team. Otto Graham, Paul Brown.

It's a lot different for a city famed lately for it's riots. St. Louis taking away our beloved Los Angeles Rams was truly a crime. That needs to be fixed or there is no justice in this world.

[Dr. Sivana]

There is no team in the NFL that Cowboys fans hate more than the Eagles.

I would have guessed Redskins.

[sparklite2]

That was true during the Landry era. The Redskins haven’t fielded many decent teams since then. Other than tossing a funeral wreath into the Cowboys locker room back in those days, the Skins haven’t reached the hoodlum level of Eagles fans. Visiting fans risk assault in Philadelphia nowadays.

[Dr. Sivana]

The best rivalries are measured in generations, not years. Hence the Bears-Packers games are still a hot ticket even when one or both teams stink, same with Broncos-Raiders.

[Fiji Hill]

Yes, LA already has a team that plays their players, USC.

No, they don't.

[hlmencken3]

It’s just for TV mostly anyway, so why not let fans just pay to control their own bots in the stadium?

http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/28/korea-baseball-fan-robots/

[highball]

I don’t see why cities are expected to pay for and build stadiums for NFL teams, just for the prestige of having NFL football in your city.

This is a key factor with the LA relocation talk, the fact that each team mentioned is having difficulty getting a new stadium built with public money in their current city.

The Rams' owner wants to pay for his own stadium in LA. No public dollars for him. He should absolutely be allowed to move the team.

[TruthWillWin]

How can you use the words “ram fan” and “Georgia” in the same sentence? If it wasn’t for her the rams would still be in LA.

[Dr. Sivana]

How can you use the words “ram fan” and “Georgia” in the same sentence? If it wasn’t for her the rams would still be in LA.

I have no use for chorus girl Violet Frances Irwin a k a

Georgia Geiger-Johnson-Hayes-Wyler-Rosenbloom-Frontiere-Weatherwax.

However, it is impossible to describe the Rams illustrious Super Bowl Championship without admitting the fact that it was in fact won in Atlanta, Georgia.