EDITORIAL TENNIS, ANYONE? WITH SO MANY GAMES TO PLAY IN L.A. WHO HAS TIME TO ATTEND AN NFL GAME?THE best thing about 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. is that it's summer 12 months a year. You can just as soon play tennis on a Sunday afternoon in February or June or November. The same goes for soccer, softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' , golf or in-line skating. You can't say the same thing about Green Bay, Buffalo, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden or even Houston, where the humidity forces everyone inside in the summer. With so many activities from which to choose, why would anyone want to spend a minimum of $60 to sit in a pro football stadium watching an expansion team get trounced by teams from Detroit, Cleveland or Indianapolis? Does anyone really care that Gov. Gray Davis' quarterback on the National Football League expansion talks fumbled the ball? Wasn't the primary concern not to turn over the public treasury to the greedy NFL NFL abbr. National Football League NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga owners who were more interested in trying to extort To compel or coerce, as in a confession or information, by any means serving to overcome the other's power of resistance, thus making the confession or admission involuntary. To gain by wrongful methods; to obtain in an unlawful manner, as in to compel payments by means of threats of millions more out of taxpayers than bringing football back to the nation's second-biggest TV market and media capital of the world? Well, with L.A.'s chances for a football team all but dead, there is no evidence anybody much cares. Parents this weekend are out shuttling their kids from baseball games to soccer practices. And within a few weeks, pro football fans will be enjoying up to four NFL games every Sunday without any blackouts - and they will usually get games with playoff-quality teams. While we would welcome the NFL back to Los Angeles, the $150 million in public financing that wasn't good enough for the greedy owners was already too steep for the taxpayers of Los Angeles and California. It is good to know so much public money is available for sports for the few. Without an NFL deal, we are sure the governor will allocate the same amount of money to an investment in parks and sports fields where boys and girls boys and girls mercurialisannua. can play to their hearts' content. It would be an investment that would generate a tenfold tenfold Adjective 1. having ten times as many or as much 2. composed of ten parts Adverb by ten times as many or as much Adj. 1. return to the taxpayers. |
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