NFL.com wire reports LOS ANGELES (May 19, 2006) -- The Los Angeles City Council voted to spend $25 million on improvements around the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in hopes of luring an NFL team back to the city. Under the plan, the city Community Redevelopment Agency would issue $25 million in bonds for street widening, site clearing and other work near the Coliseum, which would be paid for by expected tax revenue from the stadium. In coming years, the city estimates it could spend up to $121 million more for additional transit and other improvements, which would also be funded by stadium taxes. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has said public funds will not be used for a proposed $800 million renovation at the Coliseum. The city-funded improvements approved by the Council amount to incentives to make the city's NFL pitch more attractive. "The dollars will be limited to improvements around the stadium, not the actual construction," said Villaraigosa spokesman Joe Ramallo. City officials hope NFL owners, who meet in Denver next week, will bring a team to the Coliseum by the 2009 season. Under the city plan, the Coliseum would be extensively renovated with money from the NFL. The Coliseum is used by the University of Southern California football team. It hasn't hosted a professional team since the Raiders left after the 1994 season.
To be honest I couldn't care less whether or not Los Angeles gets a football team. The L.A. Coliseum would be an amazing place to play if they fixed it up a little though.
san Diego should move there, then they should switch back to their old unis, powder blues=nice:drunk:
The LA Coliseum would be a terrible place for an NFL team. It's smack dab in the middle of one of the worst parts of the city. LA is only doing this as a last ditch effort. The NFL already bought land in Anaheim. I wonder if the team will be called the Los Angeles Saints of Anaheim. That would be too funny.
Los Angeles Colts of Anaheim/Greater Baja California/Lower Orange County/Far western San Bernadino County Sounds about right.
