A Country the NFL Can Be Proud Of

[marmar]

from truthdig:




A Country the NFL Can Be Proud Of

Posted on Apr 5, 2011
By Mark Heisler



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Happily, in these troubled times, Americans still have an ongoing engine of progress, now in the process of further revitalizing downtown Los Angeles with a new football stadium.

Issues remain to be worked out in the year or two it will take to get past the Current Unpleasantness (i.e. labor situation) ... with no team there ... and the NFL not about to manufacture one.

Even as the NFL gave the necessary nod and wink to proceed, league VP Eric Grubman noted, “We’re not in an expansion mood so that means you’d have to attract a franchise from another market.”

In other words, it’s a national carpet-bagging initiative, enabling teams seeking public money in Jacksonville, the Twin Cities and San Diego to extort their best deal before someone pulls up stakes and becomes the Los Angeles Chargers/Vikings/Jaguars. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_country_the_nfl_can_be_proud_of_20110405/

[rpannier]

1. I got friends in LA who hope the city never gets an expansion team

The tickets will be too expensive for them to go and right now they get the better games on TV every week

If they move in an expansion team, LA will be stuck with the LA (Team name Here) getting their asses kicked on TV while the game between two quality franchises is blacked out because it conflicts with their crappy team

[leveymg]

2. They can call the team, the LA Smog

If that doesn't work out, maybe Tokyo will consider hosting the franchise and a second mascot:

[90-percent]

3. pro sports

The modern ultra-wealthy team owners ALWAYS shake down the local communities for money in the form of massive tax breaks. tThis tends to leave the local communities even more impoverished than before the big team came to town.

Being a fan of professional sports to me always seemed like getting addicted to the opiate of the masses. We're all so dumbed down the only common subject we can all speak with passion about is pro sports!

When we desperately need a debate about how the people that we elect to represent us screw us over and favor the wealthy and corporate.

I would really like to hear about big sports moving in and making the local community better. Perhaps in Green Bay, where they seem to run the Packers like a public utility?

-90% Jimmy

DISCLAIMER - I am a fan of big league pro nitro drag racing, which is about as corporate as you can get. What's cool about it is that there are still privateers out there that occasionally take on the touring pros with their fleets of 18 wheelers and WIN! for example http://www.bobbode.com/ I also occasionally serve as pit gopher for a nostalgia nitro funny car, owned by a working man that just loves nitro drag racing!

[MedicalAdmin]

4. Pro sports is just one more way for Bilionaires ...

to get the rest of us to pay for thier whims and toys.

Besides NFL football is just about the most boring sport on the planet after Nascar. Run 3 yards, fall down, dog pile. Rinse, repeat. Break for commercial and color analysis as told by some semi-retarded has been with small penis issues.

If the owners want a new stadium they can either build it or go fuck themselves. Better yet I'll be willing to accept a 1/2 percent raise in the sales tax IF and ONLY IF they submit to be gang raped by a pack of sex starved baboons with dildos on live TV for a full week. http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/baboon_dildo

[Kurmudgeon]

5. I used to live in St Petersburg, Fl, Ask someone from there what the stadium did for them. n/m

[Fuddnik]

6. They're trying to get the public to pay for a new one now.