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LOS ANGELES -- Billionaire developer Edward P. Roski Jr. has made a commitment to build the kind of stadium an NFL team needs to thrive in Los Angeles. Now, he's hoping one will commit to play there.

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Edward Roski

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Developer Edward P. Roski Jr. unveiled plans Thursday for a 75,000-seat facility that could be finished in time for the 2011 season.

Roski, a part-owner of the Kings and Lakers who has spent years trying to lure the NFL back to this area, unveiled plans Thursday for a 75,000-seat facility in the City of Industry he said could be finished in time for the 2011 season.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3351752
>> Anonymous
Expansion would be cool but things are so perfect right now, two conferences, four divisions, four teams.
>> Anonymous
>>66092

Yeah, which is why L.A. is going to jack a team from somewhere. Chargers are first, and the Jags are prolly second.
>> Anonymous
The reason NFL football will never be popular in LA is because it will be quicker to walk from Long Beach to the City of Industry than it will be to drive there on Sunday.
>> Anonymous
As an outsider it's always seemed really strange that the biggest sports league in the US hasn't got a team in the second biggest (is that right?) city in the country.

Sucks how they're going about it though, stealing another city's team...
>> Anonymous
>>66132
L.A. has taken a hardliner stance of not giving public money to finance any new stadium, and the one thing the NFL wants is free money. There's no free money in L.A.
>> Anonymous
>>66080
INVISIBLE NOTESHEET
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>>66132

The logic is that people in L.A. will more likely fork over 50 some-odd dollars to watch a more capable franchise than waste their time with a shitty-from-the-start expansion. Of course, on rare occasions, you get teams like the Titans in their first year.

It does suck, though. The only team probably passable enough to play in a shithole like Los Angeles are the Raiders. I'd count on Crazy Al to start poking around at the possibility of shipping his team back.
>> Anonymous
L.A. won't get a team because everyone there is an egotistical bastard. Group 1: "BAWWWWWW we have the Coliseum!", Group 2: "BAWWWW what about the Rose Bowl?", Group 3: "BAWWWWW you're stupid, Dodger Stadium is the bessed choyss!!!!!11."

And that, my friends, is how we got the Houston Texans.

If L.A. douchebags could actually unite, you could probably snatch up the Arizona Cardinals for about 93 cents and a hug.
>> Anonymous
>>66143
That's 94 cents and a hug too expensive.
>> Anonymous
>>66140
The Titans were not an expansion team. Forgot about the Oilers?
>> Anonymous
Fuck yeah.

LOS ANGELES RAIDERS OF SAN DIEGO

I fucking love the construction
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