Los Angeles City Council advances plan for new NFL stadium

[Auggie]

August 09, 2011 / CNN

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a nonbinding agreement with a developer Tuesday on the general terms on building a privately financed $1.2 billion stadium to lure the return of an NFL team.

"Send us a team, NFL," Los Angeles Councilmember Paul Koretz said right before Tuesday's council vote.

Despite being the nation's second-largest city, Los Angeles has been without an NFL franchise since the 1994 season, when the Rams and Raiders left town, a city official said. Tuesday's vote marked the latest chapter in the city's saga of trying to regain a pro football team.

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The plan calls for an NFL team to be playing in a new stadium -- to be called Farmers Field -- in downtown Los Angeles by the 2016 season, officials said. The proposed 72,000-seat stadium would be expandable to 76,000 seats, a city official said

LINK: http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-09/us/california.la.stadium.nfl_1_new-nfl-stadium-los-angeles-city-council-perry?_s=PM:US

FYI: There's a competing stadium proposal in nearby City of Industry.

[KamaAina]

1. Again with the competing stadium proposals

That was why the last expansion berth, which was basically targeted to L.A., ended up being the Houston Texans.

[Auggie]

2. They can fight among themselves...

hands off the Raiders and 49ers though

:grr:

[HuckleB]

3. Is the NFL talking about expanding beyond 32 teams?

32 seems like about as big as a league should get.

Or are they thinking they can snag a team from somewhere else? If so, from where?

[Auggie]

4. Snag a team from elsewhere

Teams that have been mentioned in the past have been the Jaguars, Vikings, Raiders, and 49ers, I believe.

[proudlib8134]

5. interesting