Build It and They Will Come

by Laurence M. Vance
Oct. 05, 2015

The city of Los Angeles is the country’s second-largest media market. Yet, the city has not had an NFL football team to call its own since the 1994 season, when the Rams and the Raiders each played their last games there. After beginning in Cleveland, the Rams called Los Angeles home from 1946 to 1994 before moving to St. Louis in 1995. The Raiders played in Oakland from the team’s beginning in 1960 until 1981, relocated to Los Angeles from 1982 to 1994, and moved back to Oakland in 1995.

But the lack of a Los Angeles NFL franchise did not deter the City Council of Inglewood, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, from approving plans earlier this year to build the most expensive stadium in U.S. sports history near Los Angeles International Airport, the nation’s fourth-busiest airport.

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