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The District Weekly: NFL STADIUM BESIDE THE QUEEN MARY? DON’T EVEN BOTHER ASKING | The District Weekly

  • A.R. · 1 year ago
    Thank GAWD! The last thing Long Beach needs is a football stadium...could you imagine the gridlock throughout the city on Sundays? It would be like the marathon times 10! Also, I used to go to games at the Coliseum when I was little and L.A. doesn't need a football team...if people really want to go watch a game, a simple drive to San Diego is suggested...it's much safer and the team is probably better than any relocated or expansion team will ever be!
  • Brian · 1 year ago
    What we do need is a Basketball arena. Let's tear down the old arena and auction off Wyland's art to rich old ladies with tacky taste to fund it. Plop down a brand new arena - one fit to house the Clippers (which means we'll only need about 2/3s the capacity of a normal arena) therefore giving Long Beach a professional team, liberating the Clips from the Lakers' shadow, and giving me a reason to go down to the shoreline area more than once a year.
  • drnoe · 1 year ago
    Fine with me, but make it a nice, viewer-friendly arena. The Staples Center and the Honda Center require telescopes for the upper tier seating. Put the luxury suites at the top. A good model to strive for would be based on the U. of Utah's campus arena, which is one of the best for hoops. Even the bleeders aren't bad.
  • A.R. · 1 year ago
    The Clippers? There would be no traffic at all! haha.
  • Andy · 1 year ago
    I'm in as long as they bring back the $2 beer and hot dog nights from the Ice Dogs games. "Pitch-a-puck" was pretty fun, too, but might be more fun as "Blast-a-basketball".
  • JuanPardell · 1 year ago
    As I stated from the onset, an NFL stadium was never going to happen in Long Beach. The concept was just another dog & pony show put on by the new operator of the Queen Mary.
  • LBRez · 1 year ago
    The only way I would support a new stadium for the NFL in Southern California would be if the team were community owned on the model of the Packers. Spending a billion or more of public funds to build a stadium for a private enterprise that can then move the tenant with no recourse at the end of a relatively short lease is asinine. Someone made this comment on a call into Doug "I Only Write About Drunks In Town" Krikorian and he said, "why shouldn't public money be used for a stadium, they use my taxes for libraries I don't go to..." or some comment to that effect.

    Re: #2 Brian: "Clippers" "professional team" ?