Are There Any Answers to All These Questions?

From a Southern California native living in Northern California:

Does anyone care about anything down there? Isn’t anyone in politics or business interested in keeping the Rams in Anaheim? Does anyone recognize the psychological impact of a top-notch sporting franchise to the community? How long has it been since any team in Southern California won anything?

Does anyone see a correlation between the general breakdown of discipline and a lack of winning teams in Southern California? I don’t blame the Rodney King fiasco on the Dodgers, Lakers or Rams, but didn’t we used to have a collective pride in our community when things were going well with our sports teams. Maybe it was coincidence, but isn’t it just possible that we could better identify with each other when Smokey Alston brought us another World Series championship and ditto for the Lakers? Weren’t we happier when John Wooden was bringing us our annual NCAA championships and USC was going to the Rose Bowl just about every year?

Did we care more back then or is it just my imagination?

CHARLES O. MONTAGUE

San Ramon