Popeyejones":2yn6i6o7 said:
CALIHAWK1":2yn6i6o7 said:
The point I will make with LA is it has been 20 years and no one there cares.
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There are currently three competing stadiums in the works for it. The city wants it, the county wants, the NFL wants it, and multiple private investors are competing over it.
I guess for me, if we're going to question the validity and viability of a team moving to L.A., the obvious question is:
Which location is the counter-hypothesis?
Basically, if we're going to brush aside L.A. which locale getting a team is more likely?
At one point I might have said the Bills moving to Toronto was AS likely, but if that does ever happen, it doesn't seem it will be happening soon (the Bills extended their lease for a decade in '12, and they just pulled the one game a year in Toronto last week).
So if not L.A., where? It either has to be somewhere else, or the belief is that no NFL team will ever move again/no teams will ever be addded.
Well I was born and raised there and just moved from So Cal last year. There is no clammoring from the natives for a team there. Most pledge a allegience to a team already. Many that reside there are transplants. While there are 3 "competing" sites there why are/have none emerged?
The downtown next to Staples site has so many wholes in it, it seems unrealistic. Parking and lack of mass transit being one on top of many. Plus AEG wants a stake and a majority was their demand at one point.
The one out in Walnut is out in Walnut. Youd be way better off building one in Anaheim and moving the Bolts. Anyways, I havent heard anything about that being a legit option since the photo op with shovels almost 4 years ago.
The third stadium Im not really sure which thst is. The 60 acres Kronke purchased near the Forum? He claims its for an MLS team but there are already two teams there that arent drawing like Portland or Seattle could dream of. So I dont see him buying it to move one of them there pIus I do believe he owns a stake in a team already. The Rapids or Real? I do see this as the most viable if its truly for an nfl team and if he is willing with a group fund it but as stated before no one residing there is begging for it. I will say the Rams moving back is better than the Raids although there are likely more local Raid fans.
To say they have three stadiums "competing" is kind of overstating it. Also, reread what I said, "No one there cares." If you will remember the team currently residing in Houston had been awarded to LA and they couldnt get a stadium done because the people there were simply unwilling to a penny for it.
As far as a team getting back to LA it would seem inevitable but a team in London is brought uo way more often then I hear about LA being mentioned. As I also ststed look atvthe Charhers stadium. Thats what the stadium will typically look like on any given Sunday. If its the Raiders count on even less as you count on next to no families showing up and a very limited amount of opposing fans.
Everyone and anyone not a resident of LA can want it but fact is its been twenty years and nothing realistic had materialized.