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Friday, December 30, 2005 |
Pickoff Moves
Megalomania In Chavez Ravine
Not content with owning the Dodgers (and having questionable finances to pull it off), Frank McCourt has been talking to the NFL about putting a football team in Chavez Ravine, according to the Boston Herald. Details are starting to trickle out in a story in today's Times, and among them:- Rather than the NFL granting a new franchise, the Houston Texans were expected to relocate.
- The Dodgers proposed building a 65,000-seat football stadium — too small by NFL standards for a Super Bowl — for about $600 million, using revenues from naming rights, personal seat licenses and concession contracts so as to "effectively spend other peoples' cash" to finance construction.
- McCourt has long been concerned about his image within the community and last season hired Sitrick and Co., a public relations firm best known for crisis management. An internal memo claimed McCourt could bask in the "psychic benefits of being the guy that brought football to L.A.," and an advisor told McCourt the project would so wow the NFL that the proposal would be "largely a sales effort which we should achieve very easily."
Update: More on this from LAist, who says "McCourt's efforts, as defined in the memos, make him look like a weirdly insecure jerk" without any concern for one of the city's nicer green spaces.
Goodnight, Gracie: Halosphere Shrinks
The Rev points out that both FutureAngels and Purgatory Online have shut down for good. It's a good time for it; I finally closed down my energy blog after a year of depression and unremittingly bad news on that subject; the psychic toll gets too great. Not so for baseball bloggers, but I must say I can understand the sentiment.Gary DiSarcina For The HOF?
I didn't think so, either.
Comments:
So the NFL wants to move the Texans? Why didn't they just award the expansion franchise to L.A and not Houston in the first place?
Bastards. They can stick their league.
Bastards. They can stick their league.
# posted by 
: 12/30/2005 09:01:00 AM
: 12/30/2005 09:01:00 AM
I think the reason for a relocation rather than an expansion team is that an expansion team would owe the league millions upon millions of dollars. A relocating team wouldn't.
Sorry to hear about your other blog, Rob. The whole peak oil deal really pushes people's buttons. I guess that shows how important it is.
# posted by : 12/30/2005 09:24:00 AM
: 12/30/2005 09:24:00 AM
Supercollider fusion instead of oil.
In our lifetimes.
Except in India.
In our lifetimes.
Except in India.
# posted by : 12/30/2005 09:32:00 AM
: 12/30/2005 09:32:00 AM
The NFL strongly tries to avoid allowing it's owners to own other major sports teams, so McCourt would have to sell the Dodgers to even have a realistic shot. As far as the Texans moving, that has got to be B.S. And the NFL won't expand anytime in the next few years because they just finally got their divisions lined up properly. If any team is likely to move to LA right now it would be the Saints.
Frank McCourt forced to sell the Dodgers AND Reggie Bush returns to LA?
Sounds too good to be true. Must not be.
Sounds too good to be true. Must not be.
# posted by : 12/30/2005 10:09:00 AM
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