Commission Killing Time, or the Other Way Around?

Is it asking too much of our Coliseum Commissioners to take time out of their national campaign to see the Coliseum as a world-class facility? In doing so, they might discover that the product they are selling is seriously flawed.

Forget luxury boxes, how about a working time clock? Only six seconds into the nationally televised Florida State-USC game, the clock ceased operating. For almost an entire quarter, TV analysts, coaches, players and fans were pretty much kept in the dark as to how much time was left. The solution, of course, was to periodically announced the time remaining over the PA system. A decent gesture, except the PA system on the north side was barely audible (a problem that has existed for years).

Gee, and they had only nine months since the last game to get this “world-class” venue ready.

DICK PECK, Calabasas

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Attention, NFL:

USC-Florida State: 72,783 in the old Coliseum.

UCLA-Tennessee: 62,619 in the Rose Bowl with bench seats in the end zones.

Who says Los Angeles is not a football town?

It is the product, not the facility.

RON D. CHANDLER, Rolling Hills Estates

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Before last Saturday night, I would have thought Randy Harvey had a viable argument in his Sept. 9 article. After leaving an exciting and very pleasant afternoon at the Rose Bowl, we arrived at the Coliseum a little late. After paying $10 for parking and enjoying a second football game, we returned to our car to find out it now cost us a radio, three doors, the hood and the trunk of our car to park (about $5,000 damage).

Naively, we assumed it was members of the Coliseum neighborhood who vandalized our car with a crow bar. Now I realize it was just Raider fans gearing up for Monday night’s game.

WENDY GOLDMAN, Los Angeles

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In Randy Harvey’s discussion of the problems of the Coliseum area, a Los Angeles Police Department sergeant declared: “The biggest problem we have is with people who don’t want to pay for parking. They find a spot on a side street, and when they get back, they find their cars have been broken into.” Is that the kind of logic the police learn? It seems to me that the problem is with the people who break into the cars.

DAVID W. HASSLER, Pasadena