Posted on 10/30/2014 2:15:17 PM PDT by EveningStar
Mayor Eric Garcetti is wrong when he says Los Angeles shouldn't give taxpayer dollars to the National Football League. To the contrary, L.A. would be wise to pay the NFL to stay away from Southern California. Permanently.
Unfortunately, 20 years after the Raiders and Rams left town, the very bad idea of luring the NFL back is gaining momentum. The city of Los Angeles just extended a downtown stadium deal agreement that was expiring. The NFL is surveying rich Angelenos to see if they'd buy season tickets. Garcetti himself says it's "highly likely" a team will relocate here in the near future.
So there's no time to waste in organizing an all-out blitz to stop the drive for a new team before it reaches the goal line. The arguments against bringing the NFL are so strong and numerous that I can't list them all in a short column, but here are some of the all-stars among them:
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It’s the Los Angeles city hall. If you are old enough, you might remember a TV show from the 1950s called Mr. District Attorney (not sure about the exact title). It always showed the LA city hall at the start of the program.
Back in the 1970s and 80s there was a morning talk radio show called Lohman and Barkley. Those two guys created a bunch of fictional characters and voices who referred to city hall as The Pointy Building.
That looks like the LA city hall from Dragnet... oh wait...
That was what they said about returning Major League Baseball to Washington, DC.
They’re.
It is. LA City Hall
Ask Lance Renztla
Los Angeles Galalians.
He blazed the way for today’s NFL players.
I don’t remember DC being used as a threat to get stadiums built, at least not successfully. At least a dozen NFL stadiums have been built under the threat of “or we’ll move to LA”, including the one being build now in Minnesota.
taxpayers funding stadiums is always a bad idea
Chip Hagan would've made a bundle on the construction.
Thankfully it didn't go through, but it was a near thing.
hate to say this I think going be Chargers
Even my San Diego relatives goof on me
SO when you going take our Chargers LOL!
Nooo! Harumph.
It was used many times. The implicit idea was "build me a ballpark or I'll move to Washington."
Two such cases were the White Sox and the Giants. The Giants were ever-so-close to coming. So were the Houston Astros, to the point that a DC radio station had agreed to pick up their games.
Washington was the "threat" city, and it hasn't quite been replaced in that capacity in a decade.
Streets near Houston city center are Third World because we spent all our money on building a train and building stadiums for rick folk. But then we also don’t complain (maybe because we can’t figure it out).
The Rose Bowl is the worst stadium; it’s made to pack in fans and nothing more.
I remember this. Hagan has to go on Tuesday
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