Pro Football in Los Angeles

Re “NFL Move Apparently Dooms L.A. as Site for New Fcouldn’t be happier that the deal to bring an NFL expansion team to Los Angeles is on the rocks. If the league and owners don’t want to enter the nation’s second largest media market without substantial public subsidies, let them go to Houston. Los Angeles doesn’t need a pro football team to provide an identity, much less to promote a sense of community.

Now the challenge for the city and the state is to reestablish Memorial Coliseum as a premier sports stadium in a manner sympathetic to its architecture and history (that is, not surrounded by multilevel parking garages).

JOHN MALONEY

Orange

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The assertion that there is not enough support for an expansion team in L.A. because there is so much to do here is absurd. I’m sure that in a city with a population of more than 4 million there are at least 60,000 who would love to attend a pro football game.

The Raiders had low attendance at their games because fans had trouble finding parking in a bad neighborhood and/or they were afraid of getting into a fight with rowdy Raiders fans. As for the Rams, who wants to drive to Anaheim to watch a team consistently lose? Georgia Frontiere was too cheap to spend on talent.

The City Council has to realize that pro football is important to L.A.’s economy, especially in South-Central, and no other tenant except for a pro football team (other than USC) is ever going to occupy the Coliseum, much less finance a renovation.

SCOTT SIMON

Hidden Hills