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Something like 30-40% of the Bills season tickets are in the Toronto area, so it makes sense.

The NFL wants a team in LA because of the TV market, that doesn't necessarily mean that LA wants a team. Business does, the majority of the people are indifferent. It's a basketball town. When the Raiders and Rams were there before, they struggled to attract a crowd. There are still a large amount of fans of both teams in the area, but not enough to be sustainable.

Have the LA council not just approved the building of a new stadium?

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Something like 30-40% of the Bills season tickets are in the Toronto area, so it makes sense.

The NFL wants a team in LA because of the TV market, that doesn't necessarily mean that LA wants a team. Business does, the majority of the people are indifferent. It's a basketball town. When the Raiders and Rams were there before, they struggled to attract a crowd. There are still a large amount of fans of both teams in the area, but not enough to be sustainable.

Saying its a basketball town is so cliched. The baseball teams were drawing well at the start of the year, with both playing shit, infact the Dodgers were 1st in attendance. USC and UCLA football draw good crowds. The Raiders were an NFL team playing in a college standard stadium. The Rams done fine until Georgia Frontiere began dismantling the team getting rid of Dickerson and Jim Everett and then started auctioning off the team to the highest bidder, first Baltimore, then St. Louis, where shes from ironically. A team in LA now will do absolutely fine. The town has never had a purpose built pro football stadium. If a team went there to play in a shithole like the coliseum that wasn't up to NFL standards in the eighties then it would be doomed. It'll be a different story in Farmer's Field or the City of Industry.

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