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Old 01-14-2011, 10:26 AM
 
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Reasons for this strange situation?

 
Old 01-14-2011, 10:27 AM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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No professional football teams and maybe three pro basketball teams

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Old 01-14-2011, 10:32 AM
 
Location: Declezville, CA
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Reasons for this strange situation?
 
Old 01-14-2011, 10:32 AM
 
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Soccer stadiums are cheaper to operate you also have a large Latino population in LA and many of them love soccer. USC and the Lakers are the only two teams most people are about down here.
 
Old 01-14-2011, 04:37 PM
 
Location: California
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Soccer stadiums are cheaper to operate you also have a large Latino population in LA and many of them love soccer. USC and the Lakers are the only two teams most people are about down here.
I agree with this. I would add the Dodgers, though. The Lakers, Dodgers, and Trojans are the teams L.A. sports fans love. Plus, the NFL has been gone so long most people don't care anymore. I know I don't. The NFL doesn't care about the L.A. market. We are just a pawn they use to scare other cities into building expensive tax payer funded stadiums. If the NFL really wanted a team in the Los Angeles area we would have had one a long time ago.
 
Old 01-14-2011, 05:20 PM
 
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The NFL has been gone for 15 years now. I've long since stopped caring.

All kids in high school now won't even remember NFL teams in LA and OC.

Also, at some point youth football leagues like Pop Warner became less popular than soccer leagues like AYSO with the parents in the suburbs. Less injuries, I suppose.

Most of the major local universities don't have football teams either: UCI, CSUF, CSULB, CSUN, CSULA, Loyola Marymont, Pepperdine, and CalTech (LOL), for example.
 
Old 01-14-2011, 07:24 PM
 
Location: Las Flores, Orange County, CA
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I agree with this. I would add the Dodgers, though. The Lakers, Dodgers, and Trojans are the teams L.A. sports fans love. Plus, the NFL has been gone so long most people don't care anymore. I know I don't. The NFL doesn't care about the L.A. market. We are just a pawn they use to scare other cities into building expensive tax payer funded stadiums. If the NFL really wanted a team in the Los Angeles area we would have had one a long time ago.

It's hard to believe the economics permits the NFL not to have a team here.
 
Old 01-15-2011, 02:40 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles, Ca
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It still seems mind boggling to me that LA does not have a football team.

It'd be like london not having a football (soccer club), or a major city in cuba or the dominican republic not having a baseball team. The NFL (an american creation) + the 2nd largest city in America = No football team. For 15 years?? Doesn't seem real.
 
Old 01-15-2011, 10:41 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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It's hard to believe the economics permits the NFL not to have a team here.
What do you mean? They have been gone for 15 years and seem to be doing quite well.
 
Old 01-15-2011, 10:50 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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It still seems mind boggling to me that LA does not have a football team.

It'd be like london not having a football (soccer club), or a major city in cuba or the dominican republic not having a baseball team. The NFL (an american creation) + the 2nd largest city in America = No football team. For 15 years?? Doesn't seem real.
It is kind of crazy. Of course, 15 yrs ago we were just getting over riots, earthquake, crime/gang epidemic, etc.

As CaliDude1 said, the NFL is happy to play cities off each other and fool them into spending taxpayer dollars to build stadiums.

For all of LA's problems, we seem to have been smart about this one issue. No subsidies for the NFL. We have more serious problems to fix.
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