What’s a Stadium Without a Team? Foolish

Finally, someone has had the nerve to call L.A.’s stadium travesty, whoops, I mean plans, for what they are: a pipe dream. Nicolai Ouroussoff’s commentary on the proposed downtown stadium (“Stadium Plan for Downtown L.A.: It’s Clearly a Fumble,” June 10) made clear one crucial element: The clowns running the show don’t know what the heck they’re doing!

For months, I’ve been suffering in quiet agony over the simple reality that why on earth should the city lay out major funds for a stadium when it doesn’t even have a football team? Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse? Los Angeles has far more serious issues to contend with than building a stadium for a team it doesn’t even have.

JOHN McELLIGOTT Jr.

Fullerton