NFL Deadline May Be Past, but No One’s Getting Tense

I have just read Bill Plaschke’s Sept. 16 column concerning Los Angeles football, TV networks and the NFL. If Bill’s words were intended to stir up the local troops to get a move on about Los Angeles acquiring an NFL team regardless of cost to taxpayers, it flat failed with me.

It seems to me we have a “win-win” situation here. TV executives don’t care. The NFL doesn’t care. And we in Los Angeles don’t care. Nobody cares, Bill! So let it rest.

We are doing just fine. No blackouts. No Al Davis to cuss out. No inept expansion team to be angry at. We’ve got it made.

INMAN MOORE

Pasadena

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Summer is over and Christmas is fast approaching. A perfect time to revisit recent years.

Mark Ridley-Thomas is infatuated with the flawed idea of bringing pro football back to the Coliseum. Somehow he sells Mayor Riordan on the idea. The mayor asks Peter O’Malley to back off on his dream of pro football at Chavez Ravine. O’Malley complies, but then sells the Dodgers. Fox takes over and quickly dumps franchise player Mike Piazza. Pro football says no to the Coliseum idea. Los Angeles is left with no pro football, the dream of trading back for Piazza, and lackluster Dodgers.

Is it too early to nominate Ridley-Thomas for Scrooge?

PAUL CARTER

Pasadena