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NFL option to buy 50 acres of land in L.A. (1 Viewer)

I may have been wrong to completely dissmiss the NO to LA stuff....

Saints | Team a candidate to move to Los Angeles

Wed, 24 May 2006 21:17:10 -0700

John Clayton, of ESPN.com, reports the New Orleans Saints are a possible candidate to move to Los Angeles. Barring a bail-out move to an interim site, it is unlikely a team will move to the Los Angeles area before 2010. The team recently sold over 55,000 season tickets, and that type of commitment from the fans keeps the idea of staying in New Orleans alive in the short term.

Course, they also mentioned the Bills and Chargers - and I can't see the Bills moving.

 
I may have been wrong to completely dissmiss the NO to LA stuff....

Saints | Team a candidate to move to Los Angeles

Wed, 24 May 2006 21:17:10 -0700

John Clayton, of ESPN.com, reports the New Orleans Saints are a possible candidate to move to Los Angeles. Barring a bail-out move to an interim site, it is unlikely a team will move to the Los Angeles area before 2010. The team recently sold over 55,000 season tickets, and that type of commitment from the fans keeps the idea of staying in New Orleans alive in the short term.

Course, they also mentioned the Bills and Chargers - and I can't see the Bills moving.
Old man Wilson is a little lost without Mara around to talk about NY sports. While I feel Buffalo and NY City/East Rutherford are so different they should be different states, he had been known to listen to the other owner in NY. He's not making much $ (relatively) in Buffalo yet there is about as much interest in the team as any area has. Fans should equal money with the games popularity so high. He needs someone to lend a hand. It is possible he could be desperate by 2010 I suppose.
 
And now Sports Illustrated adds Eddie DeBartolo to the mix, speculating that he is jockeying to buy any one of several teams (including the Raiders) and moving them to LA. The Raiders deny that Evil Al is ailing and add that he made provisions to keep control of the team within his family long ago.

 
I may have been wrong to completely dissmiss the NO to LA stuff....

Saints | Team a candidate to move to Los Angeles

Wed, 24 May 2006 21:17:10 -0700

John Clayton, of ESPN.com, reports the New Orleans Saints are a possible candidate to move to Los Angeles. Barring a bail-out move to an interim site, it is unlikely a team will move to the Los Angeles area before 2010. The team recently sold over 55,000 season tickets, and that type of commitment from the fans keeps the idea of staying in New Orleans alive in the short term.

Course, they also mentioned the Bills and Chargers - and I can't see the Bills moving.
Old man Wilson is a little lost without Mara around to talk about NY sports. While I feel Buffalo and NY City/East Rutherford are so different they should be different states, he had been known to listen to the other owner in NY. He's not making much $ (relatively) in Buffalo yet there is about as much interest in the team as any area has. Fans should equal money with the games popularity so high. He needs someone to lend a hand. It is possible he could be desperate by 2010 I suppose.
Given the strength (if not the size) of that team's fan base, there's no reason why they should be struggling. I have to wonder about their owner's competence in running the team given the reports about them not making money.
 
And now Sports Illustrated adds Eddie DeBartolo to the mix, speculating that he is jockeying to buy any one of several teams (including the Raiders) and moving them to LA. The Raiders deny that Evil Al is ailing and add that he made provisions to keep control of the team within his family long ago.
I wondered about this when I heard it since this is how I thought the whole Oak to LA and back happened:- Oakland wouldn't build a new stadium so Al moved the team to LA

- LA backed out of a deal to build a stadium

- Oakland offered to make improvements to the stadium so they moved back

Don't they have some agreement to stay in Oakland?

 

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