NFL in Los Angeles

[Mojo]

Are you the one that lives next to me? We gotta get together and catch a game sometime

Yeah mos def. the next sunday i dont have to work im down.

[LA_Panther]

whatever they do, building a football stadium accross from staples is a disaster .... can we make LA traffic any worse?

[Kevin Greene]

 

 

Until we have some actual progress involving an NFL team moving to Los Angeles, maybe it's best to stop the breathless speculation about which teams will move there.

 

There won't be a team moving to Los Angeles in 2015. ESPN.com's Adam Schefter saidcommissioner Roger Goodell told the Oakland Raiders, San Diego Chargers and St. Louis Rams – the three hottest candidates to move to L.A. if that ever happened – that there will be no team in Los Angeles next season.

This news shouldn't surprise you, because the NFL has a clear strategy for Los Angeles. The league lets the market stay open (no team has been there since 1994), does nothing to discourage numerous reports which say that this is the year a team is coming to L.A. (there were reports this year that two teams might even come, which the NFL must have enjoyed tremendously) and then the NFL can use that negotiating power to get cities to publicly finance new stadiums.

This is what the league has done repeatedly for two decades. And it's working, so why change now?

If the NFL, which makes so much money despite not being in the Los Angeles market that it gave Goodell a bonus of more than $40 million in 2013 just to get rid of its cash, wanted to be in L.A. it would have been done years ago. Quit with any other discussion about that market and an NFL team. Again: If the incredibly profitable NFL thought it was important to have a team in Los Angeles, there would be a team in Los Angeles. Period. That's it. Anything that runs contrary to that statement is intellectually dishonest.

Maybe the NFL will finally change its agenda and put a team in Los Angeles one of these years, but nobody should be pretending it's a priority for the league. The Raiders don't even have a home yet for next year because their stadium lease is up, they might be playing their last game ever in Oakland this weekend, and already the NFL has ruled out them returning to L.A. If that doesn't tell you how little the NFL cares about getting a team in that market, nothing else will.

So next year, when there are more reports that an NFL team going to L.A is really, really, reallygoing to happen this time, you might want to remember that the NFL doesn't care if it happens or not. Though, it does care that there are reports saying it might happen. It's probably better for the league if that market remains vacant, but we should all understand that by now.

 

 

Same ol', same ol' in LA.

Until ground is broken on a stadium in LA it ain't happening.

 

 

[davos]

Same ol', same ol' in LA.

Until ground is broken on a stadium in LA it ain't happening.

 

The likely team IMO is the Chargers if they still can't manage to work out a stadium deal.  Plus, they have an even more mixed bag home crowd than the Panthers.  

[pstall]

Will be Rams.

[h0llywood]

I still believe it will be the Rams as well. I can't wait for the team to move here since the interim place to play will probably be the Rose Bowl which is in my neighborhood.

[Mad_Scientist_565]

it needs to be the jaguars

[Mol3m4n]

L.A. will always be a Lakers city and I doubt the nfl does much. The Rams would be the only team I could possibly see making more revenue.

[Goondal]

The Rams would at least be good logistically.  They are already in the NFC West so I move would put the entire division in the Pacific Time Zone.  If they moved Jacksonville then they would have to do something with the divisions, likely moving KC somewhere else I guess?

 

I have heard that it would only be considered if the stadium could house two NFL teams, so a second would have to come at some point.  My guess is San Diego and St. Louis are eventually the two.

 

I do not like expansion.  The division set-up and schedule works too well right now.

[KSpan]

So the third time is the charm for LA, right?

[Anybodyhome]

The Thug gang mentality in LA that is Raider Nation in SoCal makes the Raiders unsavory to any corporate investment I would think.

Don't know if they still do it but the Raider fan and the fights etc was so bad when Oakland came to San Diego to play the Chargers they would not sell Raider game tickets as singles. You could only buy Raider tickets as a non Season Ticket holder if you bought a group of games.

Anything they could do to keep the Raider fan out of the stadium.

Most local Sports bars will not show Raider games here in Ventura as the problems with the fans out weighs the money Raider fan would spend in their establishments.

 It's that bad.

 

Virtually any other Franchise would thrive in LA with a proper stadium, although I would prefer expansion. I don't want any city losing their team.

 

I'm a 59-year old white guy who grew up in San Diego as a Raider fan and when they moved to LA I purchased season tickets. One of the worst NFL experiences in my life was attending a San Diego Charger v. Los Angeles Raider game in Jack Murphy Stadium in 1983.

 

In my hometown of San Diego, land of beautiful beaches, beautiful women and great weather, I had beer dumped on me, food thrown at me and I had to protect the 65 year old man who I took to the games as he walked with a cane.

 

The same group of people who bitch about the number of opposing fans who invade BOA are the ones complaining about Raider fans. Just a little hypocritical, don'tcha think?

 

And, by the way, it appears the Forum and Hollywood Park are on their way to being demolished, if I'm reading the real estate trade mags correctly.

 

[Monday Night Shyamalan]

Yep, seems it would be around Hollywood Park area. I remember Stan Kroenke recently snatching up 60 acres in Inglewood. 

 

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/kroenke-641407-sports-louis.html

[camycamcan]

If the rams go its like the 5 cali team so stupid

[JawnyBlaze]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/05/silent-stan-shakes-up-st-louis-l-a/

 

 

News of Rams owner Stan Kroenke’s plan to build a new stadium on all that land he has been buying wasn’t leaked.  It was announced.

Yes, the man known as “Silent Stan” has broken his silent by dropping a bombshell on St. Louis and Los Angeles.  Unless Kroenke plans to own the stadium but not the team(s) that play in it, Kroenke will be trying to move the Rams to L.A.