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The NFL's Return to Los Angeles Is a Terrible Idea
Zócalo Public Square ^ | October 30, 2014 | Joe Mathews

Posted on 10/30/2014 2:15:17 PM PDT by EveningStar

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To: Dilbert San Diego
It is LA City Hall. Seen on the LAPD badges (esp. Joe Friday's)


21 posted on 10/30/2014 3:05:18 PM PDT by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

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.


22 posted on 10/30/2014 3:19:17 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: Dilbert San Diego

That looks like the LA city hall from Dragnet... oh wait...


23 posted on 10/30/2014 3:41:08 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: discostu

That was what they said about returning Major League Baseball to Washington, DC.


24 posted on 10/30/2014 4:01:02 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: rwoodward

They’re.


25 posted on 10/30/2014 4:02:33 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

It is. LA City Hall


26 posted on 10/30/2014 4:05:26 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: MUDDOG

Ask Lance Renztla


27 posted on 10/30/2014 4:14:58 PM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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To: EveningStar

Los Angeles Galalians.


28 posted on 10/30/2014 4:15:25 PM PDT by RGT
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To: al baby

He blazed the way for today’s NFL players.


29 posted on 10/30/2014 4:17:43 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: TBP

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.


30 posted on 10/30/2014 4:25:44 PM PDT by discostu (YAHTZEE!)
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To: discostu

taxpayers funding stadiums is always a bad idea


31 posted on 10/30/2014 4:26:34 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL
About 15 years ago, Kay Hagan's husband had a "soak the taxpayers" scheme to build a major-league baseball stadium in Kernersville (a small town between Greensboro and Winston-Salem) to be funded with an additional restaurant sales tax, to try to lure the Minnesota Twins to move to Kernersville.

Chip Hagan would've made a bundle on the construction.

Thankfully it didn't go through, but it was a near thing.

32 posted on 10/30/2014 4:34:45 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Dilbert San Diego
It needs the globe from the old P-I building in Seattle...


33 posted on 10/30/2014 5:14:38 PM PDT by stormer
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To: EveningStar
Why does LA need an NFL team when we have the Occidental College Tigers?


34 posted on 10/30/2014 5:38:55 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: married21

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!


35 posted on 10/30/2014 6:31:14 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: SevenofNine

Nooo! Harumph.


36 posted on 10/30/2014 7:54:58 PM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: discostu
I don’t remember DC being used as a threat to get stadiums built, at least not successfully.

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.

37 posted on 10/30/2014 8:00:16 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: EveningStar

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).


38 posted on 10/30/2014 10:39:34 PM PDT by BobL (Don't forget - Today's Russians learn math WITHOUT calculators.)
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To: discostu

The Rose Bowl is the worst stadium; it’s made to pack in fans and nothing more.


39 posted on 10/31/2014 5:35:56 AM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberalism cannot survive without conservatives to fund it.)
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To: MUDDOG

I remember this. Hagan has to go on Tuesday


40 posted on 10/31/2014 8:34:05 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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