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1 posted on 10/06/2014 10:37:47 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Why?

Why would one owner of an NFL team do a stupid thing like that - never mind two?


2 posted on 10/06/2014 10:41:00 AM PDT by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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The Steelers can relocate there. The Rooneys embrace liberalism, so they will be right at home in LA.
3 posted on 10/06/2014 10:41:11 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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Mexicans don’t like football.


4 posted on 10/06/2014 10:41:54 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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What has changed since the Rams and Raiders left to make LA a viable NFL market?


7 posted on 10/06/2014 10:44:07 AM PDT by C19fan
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Raiders, Chargers, and Rams may get into a fight over who gets to move back to L.A. Chargers have the least valid reasons to move, though they are unlikely to get a new stadium in San Diego any time soon.


8 posted on 10/06/2014 10:45:20 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL-GALT-DELETE])
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No they won’t. 2 or 3 will threaten and get new stadiums built, but nobody is actually moving.


9 posted on 10/06/2014 10:47:46 AM PDT by discostu (We don't leave the ladies crying cause the story's sad.)
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Spanos family have been trying for years to get San Diego taxpayers to buy a new stadium for them...no luck. The Chargers have a good shot at going deep into the playoffs this year. If they do, and the Spanos’s then don’t get their stadium, the franchise is gone to LA, guaranteed. By the terms of their current contract, the team already can make a move when and if it wants.

Similar tactic the Padres used to get their stadium at Petco Park.


10 posted on 10/06/2014 10:48:25 AM PDT by twister881
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Surely, moving the Rams from St. Louis to Los Angeles is Raaaaacist...
11 posted on 10/06/2014 10:51:03 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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Most likely team: the Chargers. The Los Angeles area does NOT want the Raiders given the bad experience with team between 1982 and 1994.
15 posted on 10/06/2014 10:53:45 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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Just to see CA leftists’ heads explode, I would love to see the Redskins move to LA! My apologies to any Warshington fans for the loss of their team.


17 posted on 10/06/2014 10:54:29 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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The NFL is expected to give the NHL's Buffalo Sabres owner (and unrepentant Fracker) Terry Pegula their formal approval for purchase of the Buffalo Bills during a meeting this Wednesday. With his various investments in the community & a prohibitive stadium lease, it's extremely doubtful that the Bills would be one of these teams on the move; whether any Environmental wacko's will be protesting outside the League meetings this week remains to be seen…

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23 posted on 10/06/2014 10:59:53 AM PDT by mikrofon (Fussball BUMP)
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Oh goodie. Instead of footing the bill for one billion-plus dollar stadium the LA taxpayers will have to pay for two.


28 posted on 10/06/2014 11:06:09 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Team name suggestions go here:


30 posted on 10/06/2014 11:08:28 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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I love the Rose Bowl and LA Coliseum, massive structures, classically built, with great histories. I know, perhaps a little outdated, and maybe a bit rat-infested, but classic “Coliseums” of the USA. Unfortunately, people don’t actually go to football games to watch, they go to shmooze clients and go inside to the club seats to check how their fantasy teams are doing on the monitors next to the indoor bar where you can buy a $12 beer.

So instead, they’ll build some $2B soulless structure with 4 giant TV screens, and a hulking hideous structure of luxury boxes taking up one side.


31 posted on 10/06/2014 11:10:45 AM PDT by JacksonCalhoun (Ignoring liberals is the best medicine.)
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Roman Gabriel ping!
32 posted on 10/06/2014 11:12:11 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Shellback pollywogs! U.S.S. William H. Standley, CG-32 1977-80)
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If the Rams or Raiders are moving to L.A., they might consider a mascot name change to suit the local culture:


41 posted on 10/06/2014 11:36:16 AM PDT by ScottinVA (We either destroy ISIS there... or fight them here. Pick one, America.)
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What player in their right mind would want pay those taxes?


52 posted on 10/06/2014 12:20:19 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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Hey Art Modell, are you listening?What an opportunity for a team(s), making money hand over fist, to totally screw their fans

And yes, I know he is dead.


53 posted on 10/06/2014 12:27:04 PM PDT by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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LA has lost 3 professional football teams.

I am a true blue Chargers Fan. I realize they started as the LA Chargers in 1960, and moved to San Diego in 1961. If they “return” to LA, I will get rid of my jerseys, and stop following the team.

Now, if the Rams and/or Raiders go back to LA, I’m fine with that.


57 posted on 10/06/2014 12:57:16 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. ItÂ’s been found hard and not tried')
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Why would a team be viable now, when they left in the 1st place?

Why downtown locations, like the coliseum stuck in the middle of an inner city high crime district?

Wouldn’t suburban locations be better? Why did they leave Anaheim? (Anaheim is the 2nd oldest baseball park, now.....after Chavez ravine, without major renovations)

The Coliseum and the Rose Bowl are ancient. Hollywood Park would be a good location for a brand new park. Likewise City of Industry, serving the Inland Empire better.

Driving into the sh!thole of central Lost Angeles makes no sense to me.


64 posted on 10/06/2014 1:29:22 PM PDT by truth_seeker (oMercedes, BMWs, Audis,)
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