I know if I had the chance to own multiple franchises, I would jump at the chance!

Frank McCourt has made it clear the parking lots and surrounding land at Dodger Stadium can be sold for a higher purchase price. This is a negotiating ploy (smart move by Frank making the lots a seperate entity) to get over $1.5 billion for the Dodgers. You think developers like Rick Caruso ( see the Grove shopping mall in L.A.) and Stan Kroenke would be bidding just for the team? This is about the team, stadium, surrounding land and the billion dollar TV deal.

why did you guys post a picture of Sonny Bono?

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That’s Sonny Bono?

Who knew?

I thought it was Gomez Adams.

Also– McCourt owns Dodger Stadium and the surrounding lots through his real estate companies.

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That is some very profound logic, cliffordco5!

And don’t forget about those two exhib… er… preseason games as well.

He looks like Snidely Whiplash. The Dodger deal is brilliant if it gives Stan the real estate he needs to build his own stadium for the LA Rams. All Stan must do is pay off the principals in the STL dome deal. Give them a few million for the unused two years on the lease and go. How does the Dodger stadium/parking/development look to LA folks? Is this a good place for a football stadium? Just asking.
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First off, any potential buyer of the Dodgers is only buying the team. They don’t get the parking lot nor do they get the real estate in Chavez Ravine.

Secondly, AEG is finalizing a deal to build a domed stadium in Downtown LA, right next to Staples Center, LA Live and the new Ritz-Carlton Marriott. There will be ample parking but better yet, a subway stop exist right near the complex.

The new stadium will not only support at least one NFL team, it will also be the site of Final Four’s and more. There’s hope that someday soon, a downtown baseball stadium is built as well.

Don’t go to LA. They’ve had their shot and failed. Terrible sports town. Just turrible.

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Wow, just another clueless person that doesn’t know anything about the L.A. situation.

Just so you know, the Rams sold out for more than 30 years at the old Coliseum. They had been owned by Jim Irsay but in 1972, Irsay and then owner Carol Rosenblum swapped franchises. After Rosenblum’s death (some say murder), Georgia Frontiere got a “sweetheart deal” from Anaheim and bailed.

When the Anaheim deal went sour, Frontiere got another “sweetheart deal”, this time from St. Louis. Now, there’s hope that Kroenke returns the team to Los Angeles.

As for the Raiders, that was the Raiders.

Cross ownership rules have nothing to do with cities- just leagues.

Kroenke’s family already owns the Colorado Avalanche AND the Nuggets in addition to the Rams.

To circumvent the cross-ownership rule, he “transferred” ownership of the two Denver teams to his son.

It’s the most flimsy, easily gotten around rules in sports and certainly has zero to do with whatever Kroenke’s up to here.

Why are so many billionaires so funny looking?

So, by that argument there should be no NFL teams in:

St. Louis
Baltimore
Cleveland
Houston
Oakland

Those teams all “had their shot and failed”, yet still got another team.

The two teams that “failed” in LA were owned by Al Davis, who was more concerned with poking the NFL in the eye over and over again than with business, and Georgia Frontiere, a night club singer who managed, in her FIFTH MARRIAGE, to land a husband who owned an NFL team, and used to force her front office people to make draft and personnel decisions based upon Tarot Card readings and Horoscopes.

This is a foolish argument based upon little understanding of the facts.

If St. Louis or Minnesota or Jacksonville or even San Diego moved into a new, state-of-the-art, luxury box filled stadium in downtown LA, the value of the franchise would DOUBLE overnight.

That’s why one of these franchises moving there is an absolute foregone conclusion.

The Clippers with Blake Griffin and Chris Paul are selling out games in the 2nd biggest city in the country. Wow. Big pat on the back Los Angeles.

Fun to play, boring to watch.