No NFL team moving to Los Angeles for 2015, report says

[DP]

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.

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.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdo...42639.html

[sekker]

Duh.

This is exactly how the nfl got their new Viking football stadium publicly funded.

[DP]

Even still, I find it amazing that there is no franchise in LA.

[freeradical]

LA really isn't a city anyway. It's just suburbia gone mad. You get all the problems of a big city without the benefits.

[gabester]

freeradical wrote:
LA really isn't a city anyway. It's just suburbia gone mad. You get all the problems of a big city without the benefits.

They can have the Bears. I know that's apocryphal.