NFL EXPANSION

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in an interview with Bob Costas indicated that the league would entertain expansion to two additional teams if LA gets a stadium proposal settled.

The league would not want to go from 32 to 33 teams, since one team a week would be off, along with a bye and a 5-team division. The scheduling problems are an issue enough so you are compelled to go to still another city.

“We probably don't want to go to 33" teams by adding just one new team if a suitable stadium is built in the Los Angeles area.” Goodell said. There is even talk that the city would get two expansion teams.

What I don’t understand is why the NFL would even go to LA. It is a lousy place for a professional football franchise, once having the Raiders along with the Rams, in which both teams moved away.

Los Angeles is a football town, but it’s college football. UCLA, USC control the stage. Bruins and Spartans football is what it is all about.

I think that LA is a great climate for football in the winter, the temperatures are ideal for the fans to see the game live, but the history is otherwise. LA supports two baseball teams, two basketball teams, all professional and even a hockey team. But professional NFL football didn’t take, what makes anyone think it will now?

Maybe what they need to do is get some fans from around the league and import them into LA.

That's all I wrote, folks!