A SIDEWAYS GLANCE : L.A. LURES AN NFL TEAM TO THE AREA . . . 53 YEARS AGO.Byline: Tom Hoffarth As the year 2000 approaches, this space will highlight important dates in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. sports history over the last century: Jan. 12, 1946: Less than a month after winning their first NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga title, the Cleveland Rams are given permission by the league to move the team to Los Angeles. Take note: The Rams are the first major professional sports The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. team on the West Coast, a place they eventually vacated for that garden paradise known as St. Louis. Cleveland fans quickly embraced a new team, the Browns, of the All-American Football Conference (some teams of which merged into the NFL in 1950). The Browns, of course, eventually left Cleveland also. Spot a trend here? Jan. 15, 1967: In the first Super Bowl - it's called that now but wasn't at the time - the NFL's Green Bay stomps all over the AFL's Kansas City Kansas City, two adjacent cities of the same name, one (1990 pop. 149,767), seat of Wyandotte co., NE Kansas (inc. 1859), the other (1990 pop. 435,146), Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties, NW Mo. (inc. 1850). 35-10 at the Coliseum before 61,946 fans and two TV networks. Jan. 17, 1994: The Northridge Earthquake forces postponement of the Lakers' game at the Forum against Sacramento. The Clippers eventually have to move games against Cleveland and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of to the Pond in Anaheim. Birthdays this week: Tuesday: Former Dodgers outfielder Mike Marshall (39); Thursday: former UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX basketball player Swen Nater (49); Friday: Former Angels second baseman Bobby Grich (50); Saturday: Former UCLA star and Simi Valley High standout Don MacLean (29), major-league pitcher and Van Nuys native Jack McDowell (33). |
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