Summer is nearly upon us, and, in what has become almost a biennial rite, so is L.A.’s professional football season. What, you say we have no pro football team in L.A.?Exactly, folks; the game is about getting a team.Because seemingly every two or three years a bunch of guys with a bunch of bucks gets together to say: “L.A. ought to have NFL football.” The reasoning goes: Here‘s (at least for the pre-secession-vote moment) the second largest city in America. And here’s the largest city without pro football. This bothers this million-billionaire clique because conventional wisdom has it that pro football, big cities and big money all go together. Just look at what a pro team costs. And look what it brings in urban respect. Which presumably departed from L.A. with Al Davis and his Raiders in 1995 and turned Oakland into an earthly paradise.
Source: The Old Ball Game | L.A. Weekly