Is L.A. getting an NFL team? (Los Angeles, Anaheim: neighborhood, live in)

[Educatorspeakingtruth]

When will L.A. get an NFL team? How does the nations second most populated city not have an NFL team?

[ibarrio]

Fair weathered city produces Fair weathered fans

Dallas is a real football city. Through thick and thin

Los Angeles...not so much.

Plus Al Davis still claims he owns the L.A. market.

[StriderMatic]

So what pro team do real football fans in LA support?

The Chargers? The Raiders? Someone else? Or nobody?

[kwirk]

The most popular football team in L.A. is USC. But seriously, It seems like the most popular team is still and will forever be the Raiders. I see more and more Chargers fans all the time, and that will continue as long as they have a competitive team or they continue to show all their games on local TV. If the Chargers get their new stadium built in Oceanside you will see more OC Chargers fans, and there's already a fair amount. If the stadium doesn't get built within the next 4-5 years their owner will find a way to move the team up here, either to Anaheim or somewhere around Riverside.

There are a few franchises that probably would like to move to L.A. but there hasn't been an attractive enough stadium proposal yet. There's not exactly a lot of free space left. There were talks of renovating the Colosseum to get it up to NFL standards but I'm not sure what happened with that plan exactly...

[JerZ]

My husband hopes so! He keeps telling me that Ontario should build a stadium, since it has so many wide-open spaces. Obviously this would not technically be LA (it's San Bernardino County) but hubby feels, "close enough". I mean the Jets and Giants did it. I think he'd just like to see a team anywhere at all close to LA.

I feel that the people who live in Ontario might have a slightly different opinion. Most of this area is already getting way built up and Ontario is one of the last bastions of unbuilt land, from what I can see. I just don't think people there would be too in love with the idea of LA-style traffic (when they probably moved there to get away from that in the first place) and "strangers" constantly driving through and being loud, etc. But my husband thinks it would be good for the area's economy. That's probably true.

[RobE]

L.A. doesn't need a pro football team. The last years of the Rams (the Ray Malavasi-Georgia Frontiere) years when they played at Anaheim Stadium (and ruined a nice ballpark) were pathetic and so are the Raiders under the deteriorating Al Davis. And it probably won't be too long before the Chargers go back into the dumper.

So the heck with the lot of them. Baseball is the only sport that matters anyway.

[SandyCo]

I think the reason L.A. doesn't have a football team now is because there's no stadium to support one. No one is willing to propose using public funding to build one, which is the way it should be. With such a huge homeless problem, traffic issues, gangs turf wars, etc., not one dime of public money should be used to lure the NFL back here! L.A. has existed for many years now without a pro football team; it can continue to do so just fine.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by SandyCo

I think the reason L.A. doesn't have a football team now is because there's no stadium to support one.

What about the "Mammoth Los Angeles Memorial" Coliseum (you have to say that with the legendary John Ramsey's booming voice...) and the Rose Bowl?

[EscapeCalifornia]

The only way you're going to get people to go to the Coliseum is if you level the neighborhood around it, turn it into a secured parking lot, and build a freeway on/off ramp straight into it.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by EscapeCalifornia

The only way you're going to get people to go to the Coliseum is if you level the neighborhood around it, turn it into a secured parking lot, and build a freeway on/off ramp straight into it.

Can't disagree with that.

I remember going to Raider games, rooting for the Raiders, with four or five other dudes, in daylight, in the presence of scores of LAPD, after downing several tall cold cylinders of pleasure....

and being scared.