Re: The NFL - National Football League
Very well aware down here RiverCat. Our baseball team will always struggle unless they get lucky in the farm system and trades, due to the disparity in revenues.
The Spanos family, owners of the Chargers, are too many fingers in the pie folk too. City of Industry is jonesing for a stadium with a team in LA, offering a sweet deal on a new stadium for a team. Our stadium is old, in need of repair and the Chargers have been angling for a new one, of course paid for by the city. The NFL has stated that a Superbowl will never again be played at Jack Murphy. We paid for extensive upgrades to get the last one here. The NFL then raised the ante and said the former upgrades weren't good enough for a future event.
San Diego, because of the year-round outdoor availability of public, free areas like the bays, lakes, huge parks and beaches with mostly perfect weather, is a hard town to sell pro sports in. San Diego loves a winner and shuns a loser. San Diego, like many cities in California, is broke and there is not majority support for a new facility. I see them going in the next few years.
Rick
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