Comments on: Potential L.A. NFL teams still in limbo https://calwatchdog.com/2016/01/02/potential-l-nfl-teams-still-limbo/ Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:32:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: Rex the Wonder Dog! https://calwatchdog.com/2016/01/02/potential-l-nfl-teams-still-limbo/#comment-119879 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:32:28 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=85415#comment-119879 “…but at the end of the day, it’s all about running a business to earn a profit. No, at the end of the day it is all about corporate welfare and ripping off the public for as much as possible.

]]> By: Bill - San Jose https://calwatchdog.com/2016/01/02/potential-l-nfl-teams-still-limbo/#comment-119877 Sun, 03 Jan 2016 07:33:08 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=85415#comment-119877 Several thoughts: The stadium just built in Santa Clara for the Niners is going to succeed like gangbusters. It is making up the bonds and loans much quicker than anticipated.

Oakland is nowhere near the area that Santa Clara is so both teams should leave as fast as possible. The Raiders should be playing in Santa Clara with the Niners (they’re closer to that stadium than the Niners are). Two $1B stadiums 35 miles apart is a ridiculous thought.

The A’s have a self-funded solution but the assholes in SF are holding that up due to “owning” San Jose. Whatever that means, its craps.

San Diego and Oakland are both screwed by small markets and a lack of serious corporate support for luxury boxes in two aging stadiums. The move back to LA would suck for those communities but at the end of the day, it’s all about running a business to earn a profit.

]]> By: Mountain Goat https://calwatchdog.com/2016/01/02/potential-l-nfl-teams-still-limbo/#comment-119875 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 22:08:49 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=85415#comment-119875 In reply to Rex the Wonder Dog!.

Rex the Wonder Dog is right on target. Taxpayer subsidies for sports extortionists have to end. That goes for the NFL, NBA, and MLB.

]]> By: Rex the Wonder Dog! https://calwatchdog.com/2016/01/02/potential-l-nfl-teams-still-limbo/#comment-119872 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:46:50 +0000 http://calwatchdog.com/?p=85415#comment-119872 “According to Rishe, Rams owner Stan Kroenke has “indicated to the NFL’s relocation committee that he would be willing to take on an equity partner — a reluctant move made when Kroenke concluded he wouldn’t get the necessary 24 votes of support without it.”

#1- He does not need ANY “owner approval” from the NFL, Al Davis proved that, in court, in 1982.

“Although Schaaf’s Tuesday letter to the league offered “no plan for replacing the crumbling, 50-year-old Coliseum.”
#2-Every stadium in the entire USA that has a pro sports team in it “is crumbling” according to the NFL and other corporate welfare queens. If they WANT a new facility, THEY can PAY FOR IT, themselves.

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