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Commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday that the NFL can't "guarantee a team" will be in Los Angeles. |
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Posted by salaamallah@hotmail.com on Sun Feb 7 06:57:24 2010 Commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday that the NFL can't "guarantee a team" will be in Los Angeles.Speaking at the commissioner's annual news conference before Sunday's Super Bowl, Goodell acknowledged that local billionaire Ed Roski Jr.'s 75,000-seat stadium proposal in Industry had clearance to be built but noted that questions remained. "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," he said. But financing the $800-million stadium in today's economy will be a challenge, Goodell said. "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," he said. Roski and Majestic Realty Co. Vice President John Semcken, who oversees the project, are in Miami for the Super Bowl. star news |
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