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I think it is hilarious that L.A. keeps asking the NFL and teams “how much will you pay us to let you set up here?” while the NFL and teams blink and posture.

The last go-round was with the (now) Texans and it only cost Houston $2 billion.

We don’t do a lot right in L.A., but we have this one down pat.

L.A. “fans” are the most devastating in all of sports. If our teams don’t win - WE DON’T CARE! Even The Lakers. In the years between the Magic era and the Shaq years, the GW Forum WAS EMPTY. WE DON’T CARE!

Only a child thinks the opposite of love is hate. “Hate” means YOU CARE! The opposite of love is INDIFFERENCE!

And the rest of the league play you chumps (anyone from Cleveland reading?) with the constant voodoo threat “we are moving to L.A. if you don’t.. (long list of demands that cost the taxpayers billions of tax dollars).

If the cold-weather climes in the USA would get (or rent) a life, they wouldn’t be such patsies.

In the meantime, the annual “LAWSY! DEY MOVIN’ TO L.A.” stage show provides fun through the entire off-season.

Well said. And from a team owners prospective, yes, he might get more for a ticket in a 20 million population market vs a 3 million market like Minneapolis, but the big money is the TV revenues. In the NFL, tiny Green Bay gets the same TV revenue as Chicago or New York.

It's a beautiful thing that allows the league to be competitive.

Without that, we wouldn't be celebrating the Packers 4th Super Bowl victory. (Actually as a Steeler fan, I'm not really celebrating, but hats off to those Cheese Heads -- younz guys deserved it.)

LA has always been such a city of transplants that it's difficult for someone to get buzzed about a home team, since many people already have home teams. I've also got a little bit of a theory that it's extremely difficult for both a dominant college and pro team to inhabit the same city.

The University of Southern California and UCLA aren't going anywhere, and USC wins a lot. That takes a lot of the edge off of wanting a pro team. You also nailed it that in LA if you're winning, the fans are there, but if you're not winning, they're nowhere in sight.

This could be the first big test of whether the next meltdown will be in pro sports. The NBA has been moving quite a few teams. As you mentioned the NFL has always been good at keeping a slight shortage of teams. Since the last expansion, though, the threat of moving doesn't carry as much clout. The Bills are playing games in Canada. Jacksonville has never had a big following, and the NFL wants to be in LA a lot more than LA wants the NFL. With the roof of the metrodome caving in, the Vikings will need a new stadium one way or the other. If not LA, what city is there that wants a team that could support one? Possibly San Antonio, but I wouldn't bet on it. They have the Alamo Dome.

The thing is, though, the tax bucks ain't there right now, so the Vikings will either play in an existing facility or? Seriously, if they don't work something out in Minnesota or LA, where is there in the US that is big enough for a pro team that doesn't already have one?