Seahawks Relocating to Southland

Consider the following scenario: A person comes to your home, uninvited, and announces that he is moving in. In addition, he states that he expects you to pay him for the privilege of allowing him to live with you. Wouldn’t you show him the door and perhaps give him a swift kick in its direction?

Seattle Seahawks owner Ken Behring has done just that to the citizens of Southern California. I think we need to show him the door and perhaps give him a swift kick on the way out of town.

All Southern Californians, football fans or not, should inform their elected officials that if one cent of tax money is spent on this interloper, they will have to answer for it at the ballot box. If Behring does manage to play NFL games here, we should boycott them.

ROBERT PAUL COLE

Paramount

If Behring moves the Seahawks to a permanent location in Anaheim or some other Orange County site, then Seattle’s loss is also Los Angeles’ loss. Orange County is not Los Angeles, as Orange County residents are so quick to point out.

The best possible scenario is for Behring to sell the Seahawks to a person loyal to Seattle who will keep the team where it belongs and for someone loyal to Los Angeles, like Peter O’Malley, to build a stadium and a true Los Angeles football team from the ground up.

Behring is holding Los Angeles, Seattle, Anaheim and Pasadena hostage for his own personal aggrandizement. The gutless NFL is letting him get away with it. We in Los Angeles should not.

DENNIS BRYSON

Tujunga

As a Seattle transplant, having lived in Los Angeles now for 10 years, I believe that the Seahawks situation truly seems to underscore the differences in character of the two cities.

In a sense, regardless of what any person from Seattle will tell you now, even in the worst of times (once Behring took over the team), the Seahawks were as much a part of Seattle as the Space Needle.

In Seattle, most people really couldn’t care less about flash and glamour, or in Behring’s case, how much money you have. Unfortunately, Behring did not take the time to learn the essence of the city, which was a mistake that he never could recover from, and was his cause for failure in Seattle.

Although Behring wants to strip the Seahawks of all reminders of their former city, he will never be able to do that. Seattle is as much a part of the Seahawks organization as the organization is a part of Seattle.

In a city that is known for “show time,” and fans that will only support a winner, it will be interesting watching the team’s transition to L.A. It somehow seems like trying to put the Space Needle in the middle of downtown Los Angeles--it just doesn’t fit. But, for the sake of the players and coaches, not Behring, I’m sure that most Seattl- ites will wish the Seahawks, or whatever they will be called in Los Angeles, the very best of luck.

TRACY R. HILL

Sherman Oaks

I propose that we rename the Seattle Seahawks the California Surfer Dudes. Thus, when the misguided politicians and the few remaining fans, people P.T. Barnum would have loved, discover that Behring is the long-lost evil stepchild of Al and Georgia, the name can be shortened to Serfs or Duds.

DONALD F. REEVES

Rancho Palos Verdes