Friday, February 18, 2011

LA Stadium


If Los Angeles finally builds an NFL stadium, who do you want to play there?

A) Expansion Team

B) Minnesota Vikings

C) Jacksonville Jaguars

D) San Diego Chargers

E) Other

If this all comes about, I'm hoping it's the Jaguars that move here. Out of those three, Jacksonville has the least amount of history and while it admittedly would suck for their current fans, they probably have the least amount of passion from their fan base.

Vikings and Chargers seem to be wrangling for a new stadium and are using moving as a threat to get the new stadium. It doesn't seem the owners (Zigi Wilf and Alex Spanos) really want to move the franchises and moving is a last resort.

Quick, off the top of your head, tell me who the owner of the Jaguars is........... Times up. I bet you couldn't do it could you? The owner is Wayne Weaver and he's one of the more under the radar owners. There have been reports in the last couple years he was selling the team (a report in 08 got a lot of press he'd been in contact with billionaire Dean Metropolis about a deal) but nothings come of it.

I think if the downtown stadium does get built, the Jags would be the team that makes the most sense coming to LA. I don't feel the league can add another team, it's to watered down as it is, so that means moving an existing franchise.

Now about the name. The Los Angeles Jaguars? Do we have Jaguars out here? Probably just as many Jaguars as lakes so I think we're covered there.

Bill

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