As for Los Angeles, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell stressed the importance of returning to the nation's second-largest market to increasing revenues. But Goodell expressed concern over the ability to get a stadium built at a time when the economy is hurting and a lockout seems likely in 2011. Last month, hopeful developers told the Associated Press the first two teams they would target for relocation to a proposed stadium 25 miles east of Los Angeles were the Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars. "I don't think we can guarantee a team will be there," Goodell said. "I think we are working hard to get a team back into the Los Angeles market because we know there are millions of fans that would love to see NFL football as part of their community, and I think progress is being made. The good news I think is that at least clearance has been given to getting a stadium built, but [the challenge is] financing a facility in this kind of an environment. And with the labor agreement that we have, the cost of building that stadium is almost entirely on the ownership, and that is a big burden to pay, particularly in this kind of environment." Source: ESPN.com
Look, it doesn't matter what team comes to Los Angeles (if at all)... if it's NOT the Raiders, people won't go to the games. Plain & Simple!
Kinda OT but who do the local stations pick up. I was visiting my Aunt in Studio City in 2005 and they had on SD/Dallas
My friends in LA get more Raider games than I do lol. Pretty much every Raider game is broadcast there as there's still a huge fanbase and they don't have to worry about local blackouts.
The NFL needs to build a market there, before they waste time and money putting a team there. With the current budget issues in CA they would likely have to build themselves a stadium. Haven't seen an NFL team do that by themselves in quite a while.
