In Arena, Controversy Must Be Home Team

How can so few continue to negatively affect so many?

First, both the L.A. City Council and the Coliseum Commission, with their inept legacy of losing teams and promoting the antiquated Coliseum as a legitimate facility, are doing their best to keep the NFL out of Southern California. Now another out-of-touch councilman, Joel Wachs, is doing his best to scrap plans for a state-of-the-art arena for the Lakers and Kings.

A new arena for downtown L.A. would economically revitalize the area, generate civic pride, and provide fans with the kind of venue that can increase attendance and enhance the experience of taking in a game (see the Anaheim Pond).

JOHN FRASER

Aliso Viejo

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Nice try, Mike Downey, about the “politicians out to ruin sports for the rest of us.” But guess what, 99.99% of the “rest of us” don’t get free passes to sporting events! Not only that, we don’t even get free eats and drinks! No perks at all! So maybe we aren’t quite as particular about where any of our teams play.

Since Mike is so generous about spending my hard-earned money to build his new stadium, how does he feel about me spending his money to buy me a new car? A Lexus is fine.

AL LUSHER

Van Nuys