The NFL in L.A.: The Wait Continues

The other night I had the wildest dream! I dreamed that a bunch of multimillionaires from the NFL approached L.A. Mayor Jim Hahn and told him they wanted to bring a football team to Los Angeles.

“Sure,” Hahn replied, “how much will you pay us for the right to play here?”

Rich Varenchik

Valencia

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I am a rabid NFL fan who can’t wait for the new team to arrive in Los Angeles. Can you please tell me where the line forms for season tickets? I want to get in line before the politicians get all the best seats.

Kevin Park

North Hollywood

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I have an idea: Instead of building a new football stadium, which will lose money, why not let the losing team (Chargers, Cardinals, Saints) play in the convention center? It already loses money, so we could put two money losers together, and cut our losses.

Nobody will go to watch them anyway.

Frank Robinson

Ridgecrest

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Pity poor Bill Plaschke [May 17]. It seems he has never grown up enough to develop interests in the real world. Among other things he misses “feeling connected to the neighbors on winter Monday nights.” I presume he’s referring to the “Monday Night Football” TV broadcasts. (Just how does watching TV connect one with the neighbors? How does he connect the rest of the year?)

Those rooting for the return of NFL football in a new stadium represent a minuscule minority of Los Angeles area residents--sportswriters such as Plaschke, whose perks and job opportunities would doubtlessly expand enormously, and slick millionaires seeking to make more millions by gulling the citizens into approving a $100-million bond issue for the stadium that I’m sure they’d find a way not to repay (as other football team owners have done).

Talking about small percentages--what percent of the Los Angeles area population does the 64,000 seats in that proposed $450-million stadium represent? And that’s assuming that there are that many people rich enough to afford to buy a ticket to a game.

Harold D. Watkins

Studio City

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After reading about the new stadium, I think it’s time for The Times to print one of Larry Stewart’s analyses of how one, or two, NFL teams in this “media capital” will drastically reduce the number of football games actually televised to the million-plus L.A. viewers.

As viewers will recall from the Ram/Raider days, L.A. rarely had a televised doubleheader, which we now have weekly. This looks like a lot of lost televised football for the convenience of a few thousand corporate execs and drunkards.

Also, if Bill Plaschke misses the NFL presence so much, why doesn’t he spend the next year in San Diego and then tell us his thoughts? I think T.J. Simers is right about him.

Michael Aiken

Santa Clarita