NFL fans seek ticket info for LA stadium

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INDUSTRY, Calif. (AP)—NFL-starved fans in Los Angeles are already signing up for ticket updates, even though there’s no stadium or a team to play in it.

John Semcken of Majestic Realty Co. said Monday that the stadium Web site has received more than 105,000 requests about general admission tickets, 36,000 about club seats and 3,200 about luxury suites. About 75,000 seats are planned.

Majestic began gauging demand and seeking support about a year ago. Semcken says demand spiked after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill last month clearing the way for construction in the Los Angeles suburb of Industry.

Semcken says tickets won’t be sold until Majestic convinces a team to relocate to the area.

Los Angeles hasn’t had an NFL team since the Rams and Raiders left in 1994.

On the Net:

Los Angeles Stadium Web site: http://www.losangelesfootballstadium.com/

Updated Nov 23, 12:20 pm EST
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  1. Rob S
    651. Posted by Rob S Wed Nov 25 7:27pm EST

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    At least the proposed stadium is next to an existing rail line so commuters wouldn't have to be stuck in God-awful LA traffic on gameday. I was a Rams fan for 30 years before they left, but I don't see them coming back. Vikings aren't going anywhere and the Bills seem like a longshot. Both will just use LA as a bargaining chip. Niners? No way. And no one in the Roski camp is stupid enough to even call Al Davis. Chargers could be a possibility, but I hope they stay in SD. Smart money is on the Jags. If the league really wants 2 teams here, maybe the Rams or Chargers later.
  2. SCSF- LA where repeats and 3-peats happen!
    650. Posted by SCSF- LA where repeats and 3-peats happen! Mon Nov 23 2:17pm EST

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    Bring LA's only real team......Rams
  3. javier
    649. Posted by javier Thu Nov 5 2:34pm EST

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    ok i am on the fence on this topic, especially since i have an essay on the topic. is it possible anyone can send some links or reply with pros and cons. i could really use the help. btw my essay is a argumentive and persuasive one. thanks
  4. Robert
    648. Posted by Robert Tue Oct 27 2:27am EDT

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    Los angeles rams sounds sick
  5. Julio
    647. Posted by Julio Sun Oct 25 8:02pm EDT

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    Los angeles aztec jaguars!!!.... do it
  6. Julio
    646. Posted by Julio Sun Oct 25 7:58pm EDT

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    Los angeles aztec jaguars!!! 2 sick
  7. Hombre Lobo
    645. Posted by Hombre Lobo Sat Oct 24 6:04pm EDT

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    L. A. RAMS.....sounds good to me!
  8. Ray
    644. Posted by Ray Sat Oct 24 8:22am EDT

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    It will be the Jaguars. It's already public knowledge that none of Wayne Weaver's kids want to take over the franchise when he steps down (or kicks the bucket), and there isn't any known local group interested in taking over the franchise who might have loyalty to Jax to keep the team in Jax. The next owner of the Jaguars will be someone from outside of the area who's looking to maximize their investment - a shiny-new stadium with lots of money-generating skyboxes, a huge metro area which will definitely sell the place out just on the "new team buzz" effect, and the ad revenue from televised games and a stadium-naming deal - Cha-ching, Cha-Ching, Cha-Ching. Bye-bye Jacksonville Jaguars - it was nice while it lasted. And a note to Jax Jags fans - If you don't want to lose this franchise, you better start rallying around it. You're definitely in LA's crosshairs now. And if small-market Jacksonville DOES lose this franchise, Jax will NEVER get another shot at the NFL after seeing how fast the support fizzles out in down years.
  9. Jenney
    643. Posted by Jenney Sat Oct 24 4:25am EDT

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    I just moved back to cali and a L.A team would be cool to see..i dont no why alot of you guys are cryin about it...if u dont live here then dont worry about it..inless your worried.
  10. <i>jescera10</i>
    642. Posted by jescera10 Sat Oct 24 3:27am EDT

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    the Rams are coming back to cali, it makes sense they are still in the nfc west,....they were the first pro team in L.A.,...thats were they belong,..the history is there,...besides STL. will always be a baseball city......win or lose.......RAMS 4 LIFE.....like it or not cali still has alot of REAL RAM FANS......welcome home boys...i'll be there to support you!...
  11. <i>spadasahomo</i>
    641. Posted by spadasahomo Sat Oct 24 12:02am EDT

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    "Majestic has guaranteed that the parking lot attendants, concession stand workers and other stadium employees would be paid middle-class wages."

    Is that all it takes to be middle-class these days. Are those jobs middle-class wage worthy?
  12. Danny S
    640. Posted by Danny S Fri Oct 23 6:15pm EDT

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    L.A. Dosent deserve a team....They dont appriciate them......
  13. Kevin M
    639. Posted by Kevin M Fri Oct 23 6:04pm EDT

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    Arkbow... WTF man!?
    Lay off the drugs...

    Are you quoting out of a collection of Nostrodomus writings and applying that to the NFL...? or what...?
  14. Ben
    638. Posted by Ben Fri Oct 23 5:49pm EDT

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    OK, this "discussion" has lasted far to long.
    Here's the final word;
    No new team should move into LA or any other part of California -ever.
    All current professional sports teams (not including soccer
  15. alan g
    637. Posted by alan g Fri Oct 23 4:41pm EDT

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    To all of you L.A. haters, get your facts straight. Southern California supports two MLB teams, two NBA teams, two NHL teams, two MLS teams, one WNBA team, and USC and UCLA in football and basketball.

    The ONLY reason we do not have the NFL in L.A. today is because of the rotten ownership of the Rams and Raiders. The Rams sold out for years in L.A. and would have been just fine in Anaheim if the late Georgia Rosenbloom Frontiere actually gave a damn and spent some money on the team instead of on herself. When St. Louis rolled up two or three armored cars full of cash, of course, she left. Al Davis has just plain lost it, but he was actually lied to, and instead of going to Anaheim when the Rams left, which would have made all of the sense in the world, he instead threw a tantrum and went back to Oakland. He and his team should stay there.

    Here's what is actually going to happen, people, so learn to accept it. The Rams will return and the Jaguars will be joining them. Because L.A. is a two-team market, and the NFL wants both the NFC and the AFC to have a team here. If the Jaguars get stuck in Jacksonville, then it will be the Bills, only because Ralph Wilson's family apparently does not want to continue on after he dies.

    While Toronto would be a good place for an NFL team, it would kill the CFL. The NFL would have to buy the entire CFL just to have a team in Toronto, and what would they do with the remaining teams? Besides, the NFL Players Association wants the CFL to continue so that there is an alternate place for players who can't make it in the NFL, or get suspended from the NFL for bad behavior. So, the CFL has to survive for those reasons alone, at least in the view of the NFL.

    It makes no sense for the 49ers, Chargers, or Raiders to move there, and still help the state economy. Even Schwarzenegger can figure that one out, so it will be teams from other states. Besides, the Chargers really seem to want to stay in San Diego, at least according to their spokesman, and the 49ers would NEVER move to L.A. That's like the Giants moving here, or the Dodgers moving there. Hell would freeze over. The Raiders will probably try to come back, but if they do, Al Davis must be made to sell the team by the rest of the league.

    Still, after being fooled and led on for 15-plus years now, I will believe the stadium gets built when the construction crews arrive in Industry. But when the stadium is done, there will be TWO teams playing there.

    And for the East Coast fools out there who think they run the world, think again. Without California acting as ANY candidate's ATM from EITHER party, no one gets elected to serve in DC. We produce the TV and movies you watch, we create the technology you use, and all your women wish they could be California Girls!

    Just because we have to start our playoff games 3 hours early to appease you does not mean that you all always do not die 3 hours earlier than you should!
  16. <i>arkbow</i>
    636. Posted by arkbow Fri Oct 23 3:45pm EDT

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    The reason these corporate weazels are able to keep getting the gravy and leaving the bones for the rest of the people is because there's not enough people with knowledge and the power to cast down the "MAGNOIDS" from the Bottomless Pit. "Magnoids"= Beings or their substance of power that will bustforth thru the crust or covering of protection and devour evrything in their or its fiery path (as like magma)......
  17. <i>xtradloffx</i>
    635. Posted by xtradloffx Fri Oct 23 3:34pm EDT

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    Vikings to L.A. LMFAO do you retards really think you even have a shot they will be building there new stadium before LA is done with theirs
  18. Robert W
    634. Posted by Robert W Fri Oct 23 3:15pm EDT

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    Neither the Rams Nor the Raiders were willing to stay without huge stadiums being built for them with taxpayer money solely. Those owners were not willing to contribute to staying in L.A. They wanted to use and exploite the taxpayers. The new stadium is primarily privately financed and will bring jobs and tax revenue to the area. If a team wants to leave a brand new stadium in ten years, then they were not the right fit and they should leave. The stadium would be a draw for another team immediately. The stadiums we were trying to work with previously are not capable of sustaining an NFL team. There needs to be a financial draw for an owner to want to be in a city. L.A. has that draw, but not with dilapitated stadiums that do not generate the revenue need to bring talented players to a team.

    Al Davis has exposed himself as the money grubbing, no commitment whore that he is. He would probably love to come running back to his old lover because we would have the money he craves.

    L.A. would benefit greatly from a new stadium.
  19. Big G
    633. Posted by Big G Fri Oct 23 3:14pm EDT

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    Arnie & union workers together, what a joke. How much faith can we put in a man who can't say California? They should just beat this guy up. He has screwed the Union workers & his own underpaid regular people in the Union, while the Upper Mgmt who created the mess this state is in. Arnie cannot be trusted to do what is best for all of Californians. He has been the worst Governor we have ever had & that includes the biggest destroyer of the common man in Ronald Reagen
  20. <i>arkbow</i>
    632. Posted by arkbow Fri Oct 23 3:11pm EDT

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    Anyone who thinks this project will absolutly be privately funded without TAX PAYER money is just totally in a "DELUSIONAL STUPER", The BOLD print will look like that, but the fine print will take ya all to "cleanersville" All the "DUPED SHEEP" all over the country that keep believeing The Politoids & Corporate SCHEMERS & LIARS, when will U WAKE up to the truth that they have U under their power & they enjoy rubbing "APOLLYON'S TURDS" in your faces! Just go look into the archives of all the projects allover the country where they promissed various benefits to the communities, especially check out other stadium projects & Casinos....and to the ones not DUPED by the RATS stand strong There time is comming. Just look @ still very little lesson learned from this last huge rape of the Nation (not Radah) we took from these "VILLIANS OF ECONOMIC TYRANNY". Well they can keep laughing and everyone better be prepared for the next one for it will be "100 FOLD CUBED" which means not just 2 demenisonal but 3 demensional so the volume of the corruption will not allow even the "FAT RATS" to escape it. Be prepared only the WISE will understand & be able to move through the cataclysm...Have an excellent century!
  21. Bay Area
    631. Posted by Bay Area Fri Oct 23 2:45pm EDT

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    not the 49ers please!!!
  22. River R
    630. Posted by River R Fri Oct 23 2:27pm EDT

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    The King is in the house!!! Amen there Elvis- good post!
  23. Robert W
    629. Posted by Robert W Fri Oct 23 2:00pm EDT

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    The Los Angeles Jaguars!!!
    They are undersold and underappreciated in Jacksonville.

    www.averagejoefootballfan.blogspot.com
  24. elvis
    628. Posted by elvis Fri Oct 23 1:56pm EDT

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    California is flat broke and yet you want to build a stadium? LA didn't support the RAMS they Didn't support The Raiders. So what you'l have in 10 years is an empty stadium. that the tax payers of California will be paying for. Arnold I thought you were smarter than that
  25. Senor Pibb
    627. Posted by Senor Pibb Fri Oct 23 1:53pm EDT

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    What's that? Construction jobs? Stadium jobs? Money earned from merchandising revenue? Broadcasting revenue? All being generated by the prospect of an NFL team in LA?

    Nah, screw that, we gotta save the environment!!!! (Sarcasm)

    I like the environment as much as the next person, but really, the tree huggers can go bite on this one.

    Jacksonville would seem like a good fit for LA, seeing as how no one really cares about them in Florida...that and the fact that I'm sure a lot of Floridians will be more than happy to see the Dolphins as opposed to an undersold Jags TV blackout.

    As for the drunkeness, what 32 other cities don't have this problem? It gets dealt with (security jobs, maybe more traffic cops....are the environmentalists so stuck up in their self-important ways that they can't see the multiple benefits here? Good Lord!)
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