NFL reaches agreement on return to Los Angeles

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The NFL and city officials have reached a preliminary agreement on terms to bring a team back to the Los Angeles Coliseum.

Commissioner Paul Tagliabue made the announcement Thursday on the steps of City Hall. But he didn't identify a potential tenant or speculate when Los Angeles might get the team.

He also spoke positively about a team playing at a facility proposed for the Angel Stadium parking lot in Anaheim and didn't rule out the Rose Bowl in Pasadena as a possible home field, either.

As Tagliabue entered a limousine, he was asked if he could assess the significance of what he had just announced. He replied, ``I'd rather not try.''

The commissioner did say: ``It's the first time we've had agreement on term sheets. We're one step closer, two or three steps closer. Whether it's 2009, 2010, or 2000-whatever, our goal is to have definitive agreements on all subject matters well before our league meetings in March.''

The Los Angeles area, the second-largest television market in the country, has been without an NFL team since the Raiders moved from the Coliseum back to Oakland and the Rams moved from Anaheim to St. Louis before the 1995 season.

After announcing plans in the spring of 1999 to put an expansion team in the Coliseum, the NFL was unable to reach an agreement with the Los Angeles backers and instead awarded the 32nd franchise to Houston that October.

Meh.. I doubt anyone in LA cares, and if they do it's probably anger since this will mess up their double-headers watching other teams play on Sunday.
 

Syringer

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YES IT WOULD. It's great being able to watch the best games of the week rather than whatever shtty team they're putting here...good thing I'm moving out of LA come Spring back to RAIIIDER land.
 
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Originally posted by: Syringer
YES IT WOULD. It's great being able to watch the best games of the week rather than whatever shtty team they're putting here...good thing I'm moving out of LA come Spring back to RAIIIDER land.

Yeah, cause I mean the Raiders have been doing so well lately...:p
 

BlackAdam

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This is great news. So what if I have to spend the money on NFL Sunday Ticket just to see my Rams play. Please let it be the Saints franchise that comes here (Browns-Ravens style)... they play the Rams almost every year, if not every year.