Posted on 05/19/2015 5:27:11 PM PDT by chrisinoc
SAN FRANCISCO - The Chargers, Raiders and Carson city officials completed a land deal Tuesday morning that will enable a $1.65-billion stadium to be built next to the I-405 freeway that eliminates another hurdle for the NFL's return to the Los Angeles-Orange County market.
The deed for 157 acres was transferred to the Carson Reclamation Joint Powers Authority Tuesday. Following a model used to develop and finance Levi's Stadium, the 49ers' new home in Santa Clara, the CRJPA will lease the land to a stadium authority, likely made up of Carson City Council members who in turn will rent the facility to the NFL teams.
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There are 16 regular season games in the season, 8 at home and 8 on the road. For this situation both teams combined would play 16 games in that stadium.
It wasn’t ‘too many things going on’ in LA that was the problem. LA is a third world country. NFL is uniquely American. No mystery. Soccer and cricket fans aren’t much interested.
The league may be just thinking of this as a kind of television studio.
I’m not sure where you’re getting your facts, but LA never had three NFL teams. There were only two- the Rams and The Raiders.
The reason the Raiders left was the Coliseum Commission, which is about the worst of the worst when it comes to government bodies, since it represents city, county, AND state interests. The fact is that Raider attendance was better in LA than in Oakland after the team’s return to the Bay Area. It’s sunk so low in Oakland that they’ve had the smallest crowds since the early NFL days.
The Rams left LA because the Coli Commission too. They left Anaheim because of Georgia Fronteriere, who never put a dime into trying to field a good team and was able to get the City of St Louis to bend the taxpayers over to get the team to move. She was originally from Missouri too. Attendance in St Louis has fallen too as the team slid back into mediocrity.
No are uniformed as to why the Rams and Raiders left.
Raiders were 20 years ago. Different place now.
VERY well said. The Owners are dismantling the game one brick at a time.
Yup, different economic model of stadium revenue too.
In post 19 you said “The. Chargers started in LA.”
That’s why I said three instead of two NFL teams.
I remember seeing, on TV most games, never a full stadium for most LA Rams and Raiders games when Los Angeles was their home.
The excuse, at the time, was there is too much going on in Los Angeles. That’s why they can’t sell out most NFL games.
I do remember hearing about the old stadium. No one wanted to invest in a new stadium for teams that had trouble selling out games in the second largest city, population wise, in the U.S..
I bet the same thing will happen again. There are cities like Las Vegas, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Antonio and Oklahoma City that would love an NFL team.
The NFL needs to stick a fork in LA it’s done.
“The late Carroll Rosenbloom is probably still rolling over in his grave from when his idiot wife, Georgia of the perpetual mink coat took the Rams to St. Louis.”
Georgia aka Ma-Damn Ram. They broke my heart.
Plus it’s also in the backyard of Long Beach aka LBC. The original plan was to place the stadium in Industry which was better as there’s almost no public transit going there. And I agree with dragnet that it’s an instant magnet for crime and idiots. Just check out Dodger Stadium pre-Stow.
Before Jerry Jones built the new Cowboy Stadium ALL the old NFL attendance records were set by the Rams in LA. The Coliseum seated upwards of 100,000 in those days. A half full stadium would have been the same as the Raiders’ average attendance in Oakland right now.
I’m not going to go through it again because I posted the details here before, but Raider attendance in LA was HIGHER in LA than Oakland. Al Davis moved because he wanted the revenue of luxury boxes and he gave up on the Coli Commission. He never got the promised improvements in Oakland either, hence they might move back.
A sad day for LA NFL fans. Football is best watched on TV. With all the stoppages, the game is almost unwatchable at the stadium, but in front of a large screen HD TV, it is amazing. When LA had no NFL teams they got all the best games on TV. Now, they will be forced to watch only the hometeams, and with a possible three of them, there might be no room for the big out of town matchups. DirectTV might be the real winner in the LA market.
Yes the Torrance PO area is an LA strip of danger.
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